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Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets

Thirty-one get a Belgian turret the crew doesn't sit in. Others become radar-guided drone killers, built in Rome and paid for with frozen Russian money.

byDavid Axe

cost-effective steel-screen ukrainian solution outperforms russian turtle tank protection army's leopard 2 covered protective steel cages

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Ukraine’s Leopard took 52 hits and kept going. This is armor upgrade that made it possible

The tank survived because it had been transformed into something closer to a fortified position than a vehicle.

byOlena Mukhina

3 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russian infiltrators near Pokrovsk are about to get the tank treatment

Ukraine is rushing heavy armor toward Pokrovsk. The tanks could help roll back a dangerous Russian incursion.

byDavid Axe

4 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine deploys Leopard 1A5 “sniper tanks” with 7 brigades

Fitted with layered armor, these aging tanks are surviving drone strikes, even on Ukraine’s most dangerous front lines.

byDavid Axe

5 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s 60-year-old Leopard tank switched from sniper mode—and Russian troops never saw it coming

They’re old. But Ukraine’s Leopard 1A5 tanks are back in the fight—because when you’re defending a place like Kostyantynivka, you use whatever still shoots straight.

byDavid Axe

6 minute read

Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Belgium sends Ukraine a single tank — it could revolutionize the entire drone war

Its automated turret could give Ukraine’s Leopard 1 tanks the winning hand against deadly FPVs

byDavid Axe

Leopard 1A5

Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets

Ukraine’s Leopard took 52 hits and kept going. This is armor upgrade that made it possible

Russian infiltrators near Pokrovsk are about to get the tank treatment

Ukraine deploys Leopard 1A5 “sniper tanks” with 7 brigades

Ukraine’s 60-year-old Leopard tank switched from sniper mode—and Russian troops never saw it coming

Belgium sends Ukraine a single tank — it could revolutionize the entire drone war

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