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Germany, in the form of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, is making a bit of a fool of itself over its intransigence on letting its Leopard 2 tanks be sent to Ukraine. These tanks are widely available across European armies and some countries which have them, Poland for example, are keen that

There has been a bit of a feeding frenzy this week over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement that Britain is to send “proper” tanks, self-propelled guns, and other armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) to Ukraine. The promise to send fourteen Challenger 2 tanks is, as I have written elsewhere, more political

Sticking with tanks at the moment, but this time with Russian ones, there is speculation that Russia is preparing to deploy its newest main battle tank (MBT), the T-14 Armata, to Ukraine. It has been reported that this latest model has been seen in training establishments near the Russo-Ukraine border.

Ukraine suffered a body blow this week when a civilian helicopter on its way to the front line near Bakhmut crashed in the outskirts of Kyiv, apparently killing all nine on board and others on the ground. Amongst the dead were Ukranian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy, and several

   w/c 23rd January 2023 Ukraine is doing the fighting for us. Chancellor Scholz needs to grow a pair and get on with it Philosophically, I don’t think we can pretend any more that the Russo-Ukraine conflict is anything other than a proxy war between NATO and Russia. If the

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The present British MBT, the Challenger 2, had its origins in the Chieftain Replacement programme of the 1980s, when I was a staff officer at the Headquarters of the Director of the Royal Armoured Corps (HQDRAC) at Bovington Camp in Dorset. My personal previous experience of tanks had been primarily

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In the first significant action of 2023, carried out on New Year’s Day, Ukrainian forces attacked Russian troops in the occupied region of Donetsk using the HIMARS rocket system supplied by the west. The strike hit a building in the city of Makiivka where Russian soldiers were housed with four

The current cold snap has caught the UK out once again, as it seems to do every winter, with widespread travel disruption, increased pressure on health services, and so on. The situation has hardly been helped by the wave of strikes that has happened at the same time, as disgruntled

Lt Col Stuart Crawford is a Defence Analyst and a former Army officer, author & broadcaster – sign up to his podcast at defencereview.uk  Have you signed up for the Defence Review Podcast?  https://open.spotify.com/show/4vHJsYgxfrDyTkKgMpGlqs  Lt Col Stuart Crawford’s latest book Tank Commander (Hardback) is available for pre-order now http://www.DefenceReview.UK @peoplemattertv @509298 Like

  We learned this week that Iran is now allegedly the biggest external supplier of arms to Russia as the latter continues to prosecute its illegal and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine. Last summer, Iran started to supply drones to Russia to replace those being rapidly used up as the fighting

What’s going on behind the scenes with the recent news that Ukraine has attacked three airfields in mainland Russia? According to widespread media coverage the Russians have lost a couple of aircraft damaged and a few military personnel killed at bases well away from the Russo-Ukrainian border. The clever money

At the end of last month the UK’s prestigious military think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), published a report titled “Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February-July 2022”. The report runs to an impressive sixty-six pages or so and is an important piece of

Disturbing tales continue to come out of Ukraine about the systematic sexual abuse and rape of Ukrainian women and girls at the hands of the Russian invaders. The first reports of this particularly unpleasant and criminal aspect of the Russo-Ukraine war arose in April this year, after the Russian defeat

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that Russia was “failing on the battlefield” in Ukraine as he headed into a summit meeting of foreign ministers in Bucharest on Tuesday. He suggested that Russia’s continuing attacks on civilian infrastructure showed that it was being unsuccessful militarily and that it was

There is much speculation from the usual suspects on what the next stage in the Russo-Ukraine war might be. With the Russians cleared out of the western bank of the Dnipro and Kherson, there has been a pause in proceedings there, whilst fierce fighting seems to be continuing in the

  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made an unannounced visit to Kyiv last Saturday to meet Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his first visit to the country since taking office. He followed in the footsteps of his predecessors Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and became the third British PM to