British Army source: It appears from modern war that Russian tanks open like cans of beans with cheap missiles.
Western defense experts analyzed the Ukrainian forces' destruction of the 4th Guards Tank Division, considered one of the elite in the Russian land force, as evidence of Moscow's lack of the military strength they thought before the war it had. In World War II, their easy defeat in Ukraine surprised them.
The tank column of the division had penetrated last Sunday into the Trostyanets administrative district in the eastern Ukrainian region of Sumy, and had been occupying it for 25 days after a week-long battle. In Ukraine, the entire division tanks and liberated the region.
Then the brigade broadcast a video showing the charred remains of tanks, mostly T-14 Armata, described as the pride of Russia's main battle tank industry, and long considered a "game changer for Moscow" but they were the opposite of all on the real battlefield of Ukraine.
The tank, manufactured by the Russian company Uralvagonzavod, is the fastest, most advanced and technical of the tanks of the defunct Soviet era, according to what "Al-Arabiya.net" summarizes what I read about it in the British newspaper "The Times" today, because it contains an unmanned turret, with a main gun that is controlled remotely. After, with a fully automatic loading and the ability to launch laser-guided missiles, it was designed to protect the tank's crew of 3, the driver, gunner and commander of the tank housed in a compartment inside an armored capsule at the front.
Russian forces lost 597 tanks
The latest update issued on Tuesday by the Ukrainian forces to the losses of Russia since its military campaign began on February 24, was published by the English-language newspaper The Kyiv Independent, and its picture is below, in which 597 tanks were destroyed, with an estimate that 40% of them were hit by an NLAW guided missile. , which is Swedish-made donated by Britain, and led to the removal of Russian tanks from the battlefield easily, so analysts question the effectiveness of the Russian military force, especially armored units.
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| Tank T-14 Armata, and the table of losses in 33 days of Russian-Ukrainian fighting |
And one of those who analyzed the destruction and defeat of the Russian 4th Guards Tank Division on a real battlefield is James Rogers, known as a defense expert and one of the founders of the Council on Geostrategy for geostrategic research, telling the Times that the Russian military power was "exaggerated... The army is technically advanced as many thought, and despite what has been modernized in it, the bulk of its equipment was manufactured during the Cold War,” as he put it.
He also considered that the Russian army: “was not designed to counter the modern Western weapons that the Ukraine now possesses, weapons that were specifically designed to annihilate such equipment. In addition, the viability of Russian tanks and armor is unclear, and as Russia withdraws more of its reserves, it becomes obsolete and overpowered.” Rust". While a British army artillery source, who was asked to remain anonymous, stated that the war showed major problems with Russian tanks in modern warfare, "they open like a can of beans with portable and cheap missiles," he said.
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