Re:President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in R...
by tatersolid on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:33PM
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I don’t think any NATO nation will send much in the way of tanks. Tanks are a giant target on a modern battlefield. As superior as the latest Abrams might be to most other tanks, anti-tank weaponry is far better and fairly cheap these days.
The Russians are “fighting the last war” again, expecting numerical superiority in armor and artillery to win. It isn’t working.
Re:President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in R...
by KptMarchewa on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:48AM
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> I don’t think any NATO nation will send much in the way of tanks. Tanks are a giant target on a modern battlefield. As superior as the latest Abrams might be to most other tanks, anti-tank weaponry is far better and fairly cheap these days.
Latest Ukrainian offensive disproves your notion. Maneuver warfare still works and can be employed by capable troops. And this was with done with relative parity of equipment - situation would look way different if Ukraine had order of magnitude better western tanks.
Ukrainian equipment is getting better with western donations while russian one is effectively running out of it. The newly mobilized units won't have anything better than soviet-era versions of T-72 and T-80, BMP-1 and D-20 howitzer, not even talking about T-62M. Ammo, missle and protective equipment already is getting really low.
Meanwhile, there are serious signals from US to provide M1A1 Abrams sooner than later.
This measure rather aims to prevent looming crushing defeat.