![]() ![]() ![]() Its initial appeals encountered resistance from the United States and some NATO allies, who feared a Russian escalation. Even so, Putin’s euphemistically labelled invasion was only a couple of months old before Ukraine realized it needed better tanks. Ukrainian forces, with a large inventory of their own Soviet-era legacy tanks, have demonstrated their continued effectiveness and the importance of tanks in modern warfare. ![]() While there’s no gainsaying the tanks’ historical vulnerability, especially to increasingly sophisticated anti-tank munitions, western MBTs, with their more modern armour and other countermeasures, essentially have been designed since the end of the Cold War to defeat Russian tanks. In an era of staggeringly effective long-range precision artillery and other evolving munitions, missiles and drones, some countries are phasing out tanks on a premise that massed armour is archaic. Much of the ground campaign is riding, literally and figuratively, on the effectiveness of more than 1,500 armoured vehicles, including at least 230 main battle tanks (MBT) donated or promised by NATO allies and several non-aligned states. Its outcome will depend on how well the defenders deploy and use billions of dollars in donated western weaponry. As the Canadian Army prepares to deploy a tank squadron of about 130 personnel, 15 Leopard 2 tanks, two armoured recovery vehicles and fuel, supply and other supporting vehicles to Latvia by the spring of 2024, contributing editor Ken Pole speaks with members of the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) about their work to deliver eight Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks and one armoured recovery vehicle to Poland, and to train Ukrainian soldiers to operate the tank.Īs Russia’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine stretches into its 16-month with no end in sight, the arrival of summer across eastern Europe accelerated plans for the long-anticipated counteroffensive. ![]()
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