Challenger 2.
1200 koní, 75 tun, 52 střel. Jeden z nejnovějších a nejmodernějších tanků světa. Británie jich Ukrajině posílá 14. Rusové ve výzbroji nic srovnatelného nemají. Na špatně oblečené a vyzbrojené ruské mužiky se řítí stovky tun nových problémů.
Nova uvaha od Coopra. Pise to, co som sem pisal pred par dnami o tom co v skutocnosti UA potrebuje.
All of this means: such ‘human-wave onslaughts’ like on Soledar are going to become the norm of warfare in this year. Whether in regards of the Russian offensives, or in regards of their defensives.
They are going to remain the norm even if, say, NATO would now re-equip Ukraine with no 12 or 14, but 120 to 400 Challenger 2 MBTs and no 40 but 400 Marder IFVs.
Why?
Because even 400 Challengers or 400 Leopards would never have the same fire-power like 400 artillery pieces. They are no artillery and thus can’t hurl a comparable amount of HEs like artillery can. Result: they can’t cause the necessary — massive — amount of damage to the VSRF. At most, they can cause ‘lots of needling’; at worst, their formations are just going to offer plentiful of excellent targets to the Russian artillery — because Ukrainian artillery is going to remain unable to suppress that of the VSRF.
12-14 Challengrov nema pre vyvoj bojov ziaden vyznam. A Cooper rozbera aj hlbsie preco nie a preco ani stovky tankov nezmenia vyvoj vo vojne.