For The First Time Since 2022, Ukraine May Have A Tank Advantage Over Russia
For the first time in Russia’s 35-month wider war on Ukraine, the Ukrainians may have a tank advantage over the Russians. But only only along certain stretches of the 800-mile front line.
“Our tanks can only operate from covered positions,” one Russian blogger complained in a long missive translated by Estonian analyst WarTranslated.
Reduced to firing from camouflaged positions miles behind the front line, Russian tanks are essentially inaccurate howitzers—and not the assault-leading combat vehicles their designers intended.
By contrast, Ukrainian tanks operate “more freely,” the blogger claimed.
It all comes down to drones, as is often the case in a war that is increasingly dominated by robotic systems of all types. “The enemy has achieved sufficient scale and variety in its drones and has honed its tactics for their use,” the blogger explained.
Anywhere along the front line where the Ukrainians have managed to deploy two company-sized drone groups, each with a few dozen operators, Russian tanks “simply don’t reach the line for launching an attack,” according to the blogger. They get droned miles behind the line of contact.
Ukrainian tanks enjoy safer air space, the blogger claimed. “Our drone operations are much weaker” owing to intensive Ukrainian radio jamming and poor quality control in drone manufacturing overseen by corrupt Kremlin bureaucrats.
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For the first time in Russia’s 35-month wider war on Ukraine, the Ukrainians may have a tank advantage over the Russians. But only only along certain stretches of the 800-mile front line.
“Our tanks can only operate from covered positions,” one Russian blogger complained in a long missive translated by Estonian analyst WarTranslated.
Reduced to firing from camouflaged positions miles behind the front line, Russian tanks are essentially inaccurate howitzers—and not the assault-leading combat vehicles their designers intended.
By contrast, Ukrainian tanks operate “more freely,” the blogger claimed.
It all comes down to drones, as is often the case in a war that is increasingly dominated by robotic systems of all types. “The enemy has achieved sufficient scale and variety in its drones and has honed its tactics for their use,” the blogger explained.
Anywhere along the front line where the Ukrainians have managed to deploy two company-sized drone groups, each with a few dozen operators, Russian tanks “simply don’t reach the line for launching an attack,” according to the blogger. They get droned miles behind the line of contact.
Ukrainian tanks enjoy safer air space, the blogger claimed. “Our drone operations are much weaker” owing to intensive Ukrainian radio jamming and poor quality control in drone manufacturing overseen by corrupt Kremlin bureaucrats.
For The First Time Since 2022, Ukraine May Have A Tank Advantage Over Russia
Ukrainian drones keep Russian tanks away from the front line.
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