[Skybird]

Pushing an offensive under fire needs armoured mobility. The Ukrainians need to carry their troops into battle and artillery fires in - technicals, pickups and cars.


Tanks are great for fast spearhead attacks - and the, with infantry, digging in and holding that terrain.

The Russians prove to be bad at identifying individual targets like cars and tanks so far. The lack the modern AT drone weapons that the Ukrainians have gotten.

Many of the BMPs and T-72 the Ukrainians were given, have been updated with plenty of Western hightech components to bring them closer to NATO standards. They are more ffective than their Russia n coutnerparts. So one could argue that some NATO members altready deliver modernised MBTs.

Delivering MBT imo should be a main task of the Europeans, and Germany as one of the main MBT producers. The Leopard, Chaöllenger and Leclerk all have one thign in common with Russian amde tanks: they burn Diesel. The Americna abrams is a gas junkey and runs jet fuel with its very thirsty gas turnbine. Ukrainian logistics are not designed to now service another newly opened needed suppy line for that new gas, and in significant quantity, it is a needless complication, even mroe so under war logistics conditions.

German industry could deliver Leopard-1s and Leopard-2A4s in significant quantities, as well as Marder-3s. The Bundeswehr would suffer no loss there. They have them stockpiled in their parking backyards.

Poland is so fed up with the Germans that it now refuses to buy more German armour, and instead buys South Korean MBTs. Not every Polish quarrel with Germany is justified, much of their noise is just that: nationalistic noise. But regarding the military support for Ukraine they are right.



Ukraine depletes its Sovjet-made ammo stockpiles for Sovjet made weapons and artillery. It needs to switch to Western systems to get ammo available. Russia will not deliver it any ammunition for Sovjet era weapons. The deliveries of a newly reopened Russian ammo factory somewhere in Eastern Europe or Scandinavia, I forgot where it was, seems to not be able to compensate the need in ammo supplies. Media reported already months ago that Russia has brought military production in the Ukraine to a standstill by bombing according factories.