The tank is no longer the king of the battlefield.
In Finland, 18 miles from Russia, NATO watched Leopard 2 tanks get “destroyed” by anti-tank teams, drones and artillery in a simulated war game.
This is Ukraine’s lesson becoming NATO doctrine — The Telegraph. 1/
Russia has lost 11,974 tanks and almost 25,000 armored vehicles. Ukraine has lost around 5,700 tanks and armored vehicles to drones, mines and missiles.
Armor still matters, but alone it dies fast. 2/
In Ukraine, drones reportedly account for more than 90% of battlefield casualties, mostly tanks and armored vehicles.
A cheap drone can now find, track and help destroy a platform worth millions. 3/
Russia is learning from Ukraine faster than many European armies are rearming. Latvia’s military chief warned Moscow could exploit Europe’s slow pace and threaten the Baltics by 2028. 4/
Finland is now one of NATO’s most important laboratories.
It has an 830-mile border with Russia, forests, narrow roads and terrain where tanks can be trapped, ambushed and destroyed.
This is where NATO is rehearsing a possible future war. 5/
Russia is also rebuilding near Finland.
Petrozavodsk, about 100 miles from the border, is being revived as a military site. Finnish intelligence says after Ukraine, Russia’s military development will clearly look toward Finland. 6/
NATO’s answer is a new eastern flank deterrence line from Finland to Romania.
The idea is simple: use drones, AI-enabled targeting and autonomous systems to turn the border into a kill zone for Russian troops and vehicles. 7/
But Europe has a scale problem.
The British Army has around 6,000 drones. In a war with Russia, that stockpile could be gone within a week.
Modern war consumes drones like ammunition. NATO needs factories, not boutique procurement. 8/
Tanks must become part of a larger system: drones, infantry, artillery, electronic warfare, camouflage, AI targeting and mass production.
Ukraine already proved this. NATO is trying to catch up. 9X
Source:
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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