Ukrainian resiliency and Russian ineptness aside, are we witnessing a revolution in military affairs (RMA) moment? As the combat continues, the Ukraine Defense Ministry recently reported they have inflicted 34,430 casualties and destroyed 1,504 tanks, 3,632 armored personnel carriers, 756 artillery pieces, 240 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, 216 aircraft and 183 helicopters. These defensive weapons, supplied by the United States and NATO, are dramatically altering the battlefield and providing a much-needed shot in the arm to a president in Kyiv unwilling to “take a ride.” Ukraine has marginalized the once vaunted Russian War Machine. Neither composite armor, explosive reactive armor, nor countermeasure suites have been effective against the modern weapon systems designed to destroy them. Their turrets litter the Ukraine landscape. Russian tanks - the much-heralded T-72, T-80 and T-90 - are no match for the Javelin, Next-generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW), Baykar Bayraktar TB2 and Switchblade drones. President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Ukrainian warriors have unleashed a “ Red Dawn”-like response against Russian troop advances in nearly every part of the country.
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