Ukraine’s Anti-Tank Missiles Could See Russia Shift War Tactics
Kyiv: The flood of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine has the potential to change the direction of war, placing pressure on Russia to find enough troops for tiring urban battles that are now more likely.
For some military analysts, the latest generation of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine in the last few weeks are amazing, giving the Ukrainian army as this warehouse that might have never happened before in the main modern war.
England himself said he had sent 3.615 from the short-generation of short-generation anti-tank missiles (NWAW), with launchers; Germany said it sent 1,000 anti-tank weapons from the inventory; Norway 2,000; Sweden 5,000 and US amounts that are not published from the Javelin missile system. Others have also sent weapons. Many are not the latest technology, but the threats they represent are quite large.
The Javelin feature is between $ 3.5 billion, the US government has just been guaranteed from Congress to refill stocks because they are sent to Ukraine. According to the Pentagon’s annual budget request, 10 Javelin launch units and 763 missiles purchased in 2021 costs $ 190.3 million.
The troops that send these things will of course have less per soldiers than Ukraine have been promised,” said Phillips O’Brien, a strategic study professor at St. University. Andrews Scotland. “Basically people seem to disarm themselves almost naked to get this to Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin invasion will not plan, mostly because of the resistance of Ukraine and Russian calculation errors. The latest generation anti-tank weapons flowing to Ukraine is also a factor.
Even the most modern Russian tanks have proven vulnerable to “St. Javelin,” as Ukrainian memes have dubbed US-made weapons, according to Pavel Felgenhauer, a Moscow-based expert on the Russian military for the Jamestown Foundation, an American tank. Russia did not make the third generation anti-tank weapon itself, he added.
Both Javelin and Nlaws crashed into the tank from above, where the zirah clothes were weakened. They were also called fire and forgetting missiles, allowing attackers to move immediately after a shot was taken. Which reduces the risks they will press by counterattacks with their position revealed.
Oryx, a project that recorded independently verified losses during the conflict, has so far calculated the six most sophisticated Russian tanks, T-90 among 76 which were destroyed by the Ukrainian military. In total, Russia has lost 214 tanks to attack, capture, or abandoned, and a total of 1,292 vehicles, according to the ORYX calculation.
Ukraine claims the loss of higher Russian tanks, while the Russian defense ministry does not release numbers. Ukraine has lost 65 tanks, 22 of them destroyed, between 343 vehicles in total, according to Oryx.
In addition to supply from abroad, the Ukrainian military already has the Soviet era and, recently, anti-tank weapons produced domestically. Although it is less sophisticated than Javelin and Nlaws, this remains effective against most other armored vehicles.
What all implies clearly from some of the broadly shared Ukrainian videos on social media, including one drive to the outskirts of Kyiv from Brovary last week with dozens of Russian tanks and other armored vehicles. Ukrainian troops destroyed several before the backward column.
The Russian Commander will learn from such experiences, just like Israeli defense forces must adapt during the Arab-Israeli War Yom Kippur, according to Felgenhauer. Facing losses caused by the new anti-tank missiles obtained by Egypt, then the state of art, the Israelites move their infantry from behind their tanks into their front, so they can first clean the potential threat area.
