Light armoured vehicles arriving in Ukraine are good fit for tactics Kyiv has been deploying against Russia
French troops on an AMX-10 during a training exercise in France. Ukraine’s military have successfully emphasised speed and mobility – not least in its successful counteroffensives in both the east and south against Russian forces.French troops on an AMX-10 during a training exercise in France. Ukraine’s military have successfully emphasised speed and mobility – not least in its successful counteroffensives in both the east and south against Russian forces.Last modified on Fri 6 Jan 2023 13.
While Kyiv has been pushing hard for its allies to supply main battle banks, such as the US M1 Abrams and the German Leopard II, demands so far resisted, the armoured vehicles now pouring into Ukraine are in many ways a better fit for the kind of war and tactics that the Ukrainian military has been using againstFaced with a shortage of armour at the beginning of the war, and – on paper, at least – heavily outgunned, Ukraine’s armed forces rapidly turned those shortcomings into advantages.
Vehicles such as the French tank destroyers, sometimes called a “light tank”, are a good fit for the way Ukraine has been fighting despite not having the heavier armour and battlefield capabilities of a main battle tank. The anticipated delivery of the US Bradley fighting vehicles will hugely bolster Ukraine’s mechanised infantry capabilities, which Kyiv has used highly effectively in its counteroffensives in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kherson provinces last year.
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