After losing more than 1,000 tanks, many of them to Russian drones, Ukrainian leaders have accepted that the heavy, powerfully armed fighting vehicles need to operate differently if they’re going to survive on a battlefield where tiny drones are everywhere all the time. Some of the hundreds of tanks freed up by this reform—including potentially scores of Leopard 1A5s and Leopard 2A4s, out of 240 of the tanks Ukraine is getting from its allies—will cascade to new 30-tank battalions belonging to infantry and mechanized brigades and the new multi-brigade corps that the Ukrainian ground forces are organizing. Ukraine’s tanks are dispersing on the battlefield—spreading out and hiding to avoid detection by drones—and also dispersing within the Ukrainian military’s force structure: playing more of a supporting role than a lead role in a war increasingly shaped by tiny, lethal robots.
Author: David Axe, Forbes Staff, David Axe, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/
Published at: 2025-05-13 21:29:19
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