MOSCOW, 7 Apr. Russian anti-tank missile systems will burn Ukrainian «Leopards» and «Abrams» in the event of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor, on his YouTube blog.
«The Russians have several missile launchers. One of these «Cornet. The range of its missile is about five thousand meters or more. As soon as you have fixed the target, you fire a shot and forget about it. If the warhead reaches the hull of a tank, any tank, it hits armored vehicles,» the officer said.
The colonel recalled that the German-made Leopard had already encountered a Russian anti-tank system in Syria, but could not survive a duel with a domestic ATGM.
Earlier, Reuters reported that Ukraine had prepared eight assault brigades for the offensive. Ukrainian and Western military experts called the Zaporozhye region one of the strike directions in order to reach the coast of the Sea of Azov and cut the land corridor to Crimea. .