26. Russian Advances
Battleground
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The Great Tank Battles of the Second World War
Tanks were originally used that flair during the Battle of the Somme. They can give you a breakthrough in an offensive sense, but you need to support them with infantry and ideally with air power. And that's exactly what the Ukrainians will be intending to do - which is also what the Russians have done before. But there has been cautionary notes sounded about the fact that there are three tanks with three different supply chains,. Three different maintenance regimes, three different operational sets of skills needed to make them effective.
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