Yes, the tank has layers of explosive reactive armor. But the steel underneath the ERA is just a couple hundred millimeters thick at its thickest.
In one sense, Ukrainian commanders were right. In the south, the 47th Mechanized Brigade has teamed up with the 33rd Mechanized Brigade, which operates the all 21 Leopard 2A6 tanks Portugal and Germany donated to Ukraine. The Leopard 2A6 in places has protection equal to a whopping 1,400 millimeters of steel. Even so, the battalion operating the 69-ton tanks has lost at least two of them. Another nine have suffered damage.
But if commanders were hoping to keep the M-55Ss away from the most intensive fighting, they miscalculated—. Because it’s west of Kreminna that the Kremlin chose to concentrate its best available forces for a countercounteroffensive the Russians clearly hoped would spoil Ukrainian operations farther south.
Russian brigades have advanced a few miles west of Kreminna. But Ukrainian forces—not just the 67th with its M-55Ss, but alsowith its arsenal of cutting-edge Swedish-made vehicles—have prevented major advances. Spoiling the spoiler. The Ukrainians may have tried to save the M-55S battalion from a direct clash with some of the best Russian forces. But the attempt to spare the unit ironically placed it directly in the path of ... some of the best Russian forces.
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