Large casualties of mechanised vehicles in both recent conflicts have reignited the debate of whether the age of tanks has come to an end. Russia says detained US embassy 'informant' on Ukraine US announces $250 million in new military package for Ukraine Most casualties on the Armenian side were due to UAVs employed by Azerbaijan. These figures cannot be verified, though inputs confirm that there was immense loss of mechanised vehicles on both sides. Armenia claimed to have destroyed 137 Azerbaijani tanks while Azerbaijan announced the degradation of over 130 armoured vehicles of Armenia.
Russia was compelled to alter its tactics post which reduced its losses.Ī similar scenario emerged in the 44-day Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in 2020. It projects a sad state of operational planning by a nation which considers itself a superior military power in Eurasia.
Rarely in history has armour been moved as causally and non-tactically as in the initial stages of the Ukraine conflict as the Russians did. Subsequently, effective employment of suicidal drones added to Russian concerns. Tanks were targeted by a collection of anti-tank weapons held by Ukrainian troops in organised ambushes as also employing airpower, as Russia initially failed to attain air supremacy nor provided their mechanised columns with dedicated air support. There were also reports of mechanised groups outrunning their logistic trains resulting in tanks being abandoned for lack of fuel, as also of them being bogged down in mud. It was overconfident in its strategy of capturing Kiev that resulted in it moving its armoured columns on roads in a single file, making them sitting ducks once leading elements were targeted and destroyed. Over 50 per cent of armour casualties were in the first seven to eight weeks of the war when Russia attempted to seize Kiev in a short and swift operation, which failed. The Moscow Times, in an article of 6 September, stated that Russia has thus far lost over 1,000 tanks in its Ukraine operations.
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