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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that, after so many discussions, both the US and Germany are sending tanks to Ukraine. i was just surprise to learn that apparently the US is sending 31 tanks, and Germany initially 15 if I am correct. I knot nothing about war and combat but I thought that tanks are used in the hundreds on the battlefield and I am not sure how such a small number of tanks is going to make any difference. Can anybody who understand this stuff explain to know-nothing like me who would like to understand? TIA[/quote]

It's complicated.  Our tanks are objectively better than the Russians' tanks, ours, and the Leopards and some of the other Western ones now making their way to Ukraine were specifically designed to hunt and kill the Russians best tanks, and to be resilient against them.  They are much more sophisticated, they are faster, more accurate, computerized, and so on.  Each one of our tanks is worth several of theirs on the battlefield.
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They might be, but how will ~50 western tanks fair against the 10k or so tanks that Russia still has left.[/quote]

Russia already lost a significant percentage of its operable tanks in this war. A large percentage of those 10k tanks in reserve are not operable, are rusted out, were stripped for parts, stolen and sold, and so on, non-functional due to lack of maintenance, poor storage, most of which due to extreme corruption.  Many of the newer of the tanks, T-72, T-80 and others have not been able to be repaired for lack of electronic components due to sanctions.  It has been documented that Russia has resorted to deploying antiquated T-62 tanks, which are much more vulnerable to anti-tank weaponry.  And even there, Russian attempts to retrieve those functional cold war tanks from storage is optimistic if it is in the hundreds, far short of the 10k.  All of this also begins to leave Russia vulnerable relative to self defense or its ambitions on the global stage.  [/quote]

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