UK is sending 14 tanks, and other countries may soon send more but experts say Kyiv needs about 100
The Challenger 2 is the British army’s main battle tank.Last modified on Mon 16 Jan 2023 16.27 GMT
Only tanks have the “protection, mobility and firepower to maintain momentum even once they make contact with enemy forces in strength”, said Nick Reynolds, a land warfare expert at the Rusi thinktank. The question, however, is what number will give Kyiv chance to mount its own offensive.
What all that makes clear is that the UK donation of 14 Challenger 2s is not itself enough and that even if Britain wanted to go further from its nominal stock of 227, it could not provide anything like the volume required in isolation.
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