Há alguma razão para serem os páras Ingleses (primeiro gajo da direita para a esquerda com a boina vermelha) a apresentarem o material de cavalaria?
Ukraine’s Paratroopers Are Getting Heavy, Slow Challenger 2 Tanks. That Could Force A Change In Tactics.
The United Kingdom so far has pledged to Ukraine 14 Challenger 2 tanks. Now we know which units will operate the 70-ton tanks: the 25th and 80th Air Assault Brigades.
It’s an interesting choice. Ukrainian air-assault brigades currently operate the fastest Ukrainian tank—the turbine-powered T-80BV. But the diesel-powered Challenger 2 is perhaps the slowest Ukrainian tank. The British tanks could compel the paratroopers to revise their logistics and tactics.
We safely can assume the 25th and 80th Air Assault Brigades will be the first Challenger 2 operators, as Ukrainian soldiers wearing the patches of those units were present when Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and British prime minister Rishi Sunak met at the British Army’s training facility at Lulworth Ranges in Dorset on Wednesday.
Also present: instructors from the Ukrainian army’s 199th Training and Education Center, which trains the service’s airborne units.
Ukrainian army paratroopers aren’t necessarily like paratroopers in other armies. As they’re fighting a mechanized war inside their own country’s own borders, they pretty much never parachute from airplanes—and only rarely travel by helicopter. And unlike airborne forces in, say, the British and U.S. armies, the Ukrainian air-assault brigades each have a company of around 10 tanks.
But these brigades train to move quickly, so it makes sense that they operate a tank with what is, in essence, a jet engine. The 42-ton, three-person T-80BV has a 1,000-horsepower turbine that normally burns aviation fuel but can, in theory, burn any liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Even kerosene.
The 70-ton M-1 tank—31 of which the United States has pledged to Ukraine—can pull the same trick.
The United Kingdom so far has pledged to Ukraine 14 Challenger 2 tanks. Now we know which units will operate the 70-ton tanks: the 25th and 80th Air Assault Brigades.
It’s an interesting choice. Ukrainian air-assault brigades currently operate the fastest Ukrainian tank—the turbine-powered T-80BV. But the diesel-powered Challenger 2 is perhaps the slowest Ukrainian tank. The British tanks could compel the paratroopers to revise their logistics and tactics.
We safely can assume the 25th and 80th Air Assault Brigades will be the first Challenger 2 operators, as Ukrainian soldiers wearing the patches of those units were present when Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and British prime minister Rishi Sunak met at the British Army’s training facility at Lulworth Ranges in Dorset on Wednesday.
Also present: instructors from the Ukrainian army’s 199th Training and Education Center, which trains the service’s airborne units.
Ukrainian army paratroopers aren’t necessarily like paratroopers in other armies. As they’re fighting a mechanized war inside their own country’s own borders, they pretty much never parachute from airplanes—and only rarely travel by helicopter. And unlike airborne forces in, say, the British and U.S. armies, the Ukrainian air-assault brigades each have a company of around 10 tanks.
But these brigades train to move quickly, so it makes sense that they operate a tank with what is, in essence, a jet engine. The 42-ton, three-person T-80BV has a 1,000-horsepower turbine that normally burns aviation fuel but can, in theory, burn any liquid hydrocarbon fuel. Even kerosene.
The 70-ton M-1 tank—31 of which the United States has pledged to Ukraine—can pull the same trick.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/02/09/ukraines-paratroopers-are-getting-heavy-slow-challenger-2-tanks-that-could-force-a-change-in-tactics/?sh=7e60b566fc42