The Russian military is armed with various ingenious tricks, giving them serious advantages on the battlefield. Some of them relate to countering enemy tank units..
David Ax talks about it, columnist for Forbes magazine.
The Western press writes about the ability of the Russian army to arrange dangerous "traps", "ambushes" for Ukrainian tanks. Ex believes, that in a hypothetical war between Russia and Ukraine, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in some cases will use special tactics to repel enemy counterattacks, described in the book "The Russian Way of Warfare", Written by Lester Grau and Charles Bartles. In his opinion, in the event of an invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, Armed Forces of Ukraine will use "active defense", which involves the application of counterattack strikes to deter the advancing enemy.
In this way, says the author, During the offensive, defensive tactics will also come in handy for the Russian army.
He claims, that in each battalion tactical group of Russian troops there is a special platoon for luring enemy tanks into ambushes, each of which is armed with three tracked infantry fighting vehicles or three wheeled armored personnel carriers. He starts retreat, when neighboring areas firmly hold the defense. enemy tanks, who is sure, that he managed to break through the defensive positions of the Russians, rush into the gap. There they are ambushed, where they are fired on from three sides. The strikes are carried out by anti-tank complexes "Kornet", Rapira rifles, other artillery, tanks, BMP and BTR.
In other words, the author in the Western press is trying to consider something similar to a classic tank battle, without considering the possibility of destroying tanks even before they reach attacking positions.
And although the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian army have common Soviet military traditions, American columnist believes, that such “trap” tactics can be quite successful against Ukrainian tank units.
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