The war also makes for a great testbed for weapons - this holds true both for US and China. Look at the Abrams M1A1, a tank with cold war genesis and constantly updated has proved to be vulnerable under certain conditions. That's a feedback that you cannot get on a test track but you can in a real war. Now General Dynamics will take that data and make further improvements or incorporate it in their next generation tank. The cost of this trial? Few thousand dead Russians and Ukrainians.
This war suits everyone - the Chinese because they get to keep the west engaged in Ukraine while they prepare for Taiwan invasion, the Iranians as they get $$ from Russia and get to test their homemade weapons, the US and entire NATO because the war continues to bleed Russia economically, politically and militarily, and Russia because it can even in its weaken state show that it still has some fight left in it. The only loser in all this is Ukraine.
That is why, after the victory, we will present a big bill to the remnants of Russia. Abrams didn't perform very well, although this is debatable. During the time when three Abrams were lost, the Russians lost more than a dozen (11 un.) T-90M.
In general, tanks do not have a major role in this war. It’s not for nothing that the Russians make a barn-tank. FPVs are almost useless against him; ATGMs had to return.
Strikers are not suitable for us. There is no such word in English, but I’ll try: too many technical frills.
But Bradley performed well.
I’m talking about American weapons now, although the Swedish IFV showed itself to be the best armored vehicle here.
But Europeans have little surplus. Therefore, there will be more emphasis on American weapons stockpiles.
That year, 12 new brigades were created (less than 50 thousand) and two of them did not have enough armored vehicles, so they do not take part in the war. Only six months later they began to receive it.
We haven’t heard about Excalibur for a long time, as well as about other correctable shells. This year of war was the year of drones.