Ukraine withdrew American Abrams tanks from the battle. Shock them to kill the drones

ATthe country has still withdrawn from the battle the American Abrams M1A1 tanks, which proved to be vulnerable when a drone was deployed, wrote the AP agency with reference to the representatives of the American army. After months of Ukrainian pressure, the USA agreed last January to send 31 of these machines. Kiev claimed that the tanks, priced at about ten million dollars a piece (roughly K235 million), are the key to breaking through the Russian lines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced on Telegram that the Abrams had arrived in Ukraine.

But fear has changed significantly in the meantime, mainly because of the ubiquitous reconnaissance drones and the deployment of “hunter drones” and “killer drones,” according to AP. It is to protect the tanks once the drones have detected them. Then either kill them or fire other weapons at them. Five of the 31 American tanks were lost to the Russian tanks.

Ukraine’s counter-offensive took hold of Oekvan Losk, and the deployment of Abrams on the battlefield began to be considered a necessary step to break through the fortified Russian defenses. However, Ukraine deployed them only to a limited extent, and American-style combined operations are not part of Ukrainian operations, the Pentagon official said. Several tanks were lost during the recent advance from Avdijivka, the place at the entrance to Ukraine, which was fought over intensively for several months, the Pentagon official added.

The proliferation of drones on the Ukrainian battlefield means that “there is no underground space that you can just walk through without fear of detection,” a high-ranking Pentagon official told the newspaper.

For the time being, American tanks have been removed from the front line, and the US will work with the Ukrainians to develop new tactics, said the deputy chairman of the non-member corps, Admiral Christopher Grady, and a Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“When you think about how the fight has played out, deploying armor en masse in an environment saturated with drones should be risky,” Grady told the AP this week. He stressed that tanks are an important weapon, but it is necessary to cooperate with the Ukrainians and other partners and develop a new way of deploying tanks.