Western Tanks in Ukraine Rendered Ineffective by Drone Warfare

Ukrainian military personnel operating tanks face increased casualty risk from drone-based attacks, limiting their operational deployment.

For decades, the tank stood as the defining symbol of ground power — the machine that moved armies and broke lines. Ukraine fought hard to obtain the West's most advanced armor, and the West eventually delivered. But the battlefield that received those tanks was not the battlefield that had been imagined: Russian drone systems have turned open terrain into a surveillance grid where large, slow, heat-emitting machines cannot hide, and the weapons meant to liberate territory have instead become expensive vulnerabilities. The war in Ukraine is quietly settling a question military theorists long d

Western Tanks in Ukraine Rendered Ineffective by Drone Warfare

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