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It's not even so much about age as it is about design. As Zachowon said, they are basically light tanks. When Leopard 1 was being designed, belief was that no amount of armor would be enough to defeat antitank weapons, so the idea was to focus on mobility instead. Yeah.

And even when Leopards were lost, crews generally survived. Meanwhile, Russian tanks...

Have Ukrainians considered raising the Kamchatka? Or that would constitute a war crime?

Looks like future air defense systems will have to seriously take a step towards ECM + MOAR DAKKA.

Yeah, this war has basically turned into World War 1 redux.

Video on why Russia didn't invade in 2014 and why it was a mistake:

Well, at least among all the war crimes, Russia did some service to Ukraine there. Still, fact that Russia is still managing to strike cities shows either that a) Ukraine has limited SAM capability or b) missile defense intercept rate is much lower than the 90%+ that media have been touting...

Basic lessons of war in Ukraine: Basic Lessons of War in Ukraine So Far I wager that doesn't cover half of it, but eh... still an OK overview.

https://historyandwar.org/2023/02/09/how-many-tanks-have-been-lost-in-ukraine/

So Poland went full IKEA mode, huh? Anyway: https://historyandwar.org/2023/01/26/lessons-of-air-war-in-ukraine/ Considering the above, what are the chances of Ukraine buying Gripen post-war?

Lessons of war in Ukraine: https://ecfr.eu/publication/defend-resist-repeat-ukraines-lessons-for-european-defence/ https://historyandwar.org/2023/01/19/how-territorial-defense-forces-saved-ukraine/

It is not a question of "conscripts or no conscripts", it is a question of motivation. Majority of Ukrainian "conscripts" are territorial defense units, and these can be incredibly effective: https://icds.ee/en/ukraines-territorial-defence-on-a-war-footing/...

Some articles about Russian tanks' turret popping championship: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/critical-design-flaw-causing-russian-tanks-to-explode/ https://eurasiantimes.com/russias-headless-tanks-us-army-major-explains-why-putins/...

Well, of course it is. PGMs mean that any sort of movement in the open is incredibly risky, and modern weapons are so expensive that you'll be running out of them in short order. In any sort of World War 3 scenario, you'd have two weeks of modern warfare at best and then it would be back to...

Eh, that is normal for guided missiles. From what I remember, US missiles didn't perform any better.

To me, it looks like they are trying to carve up something so that Putin can establish a proxy state and say "job done" and withdraw without losing face.

I'm not so certain West is completely blameless. Anyway, a bit of what I found on the causes of war in Ukraine...

This is one of the best analyses of the conflict I had found on Youtube:

I hope this wasn't posted already: