A video that appeared on social media on Friday depicts around 30 Leopard 2A4 tanks apparently belonging to a single Ukrainian battalion.
The tanks are lined up in tidy rows in broad daylight, flying a variety of pendants including the Ukrainian flag. Their crews amble around the 61-ton, four-person tanks—unworried, unafraid. It’s obvious the tanks, together comprising an entire armored battalion, aren’t within range of Russian artillery.
We don’t know where or when the video was shot, but it seems to be from somewhere in southern Ukraine—and recent. Ukrainian technicians gradually have been fitting the Leopard 2A4s with blocks of locally-made Kontakt explosive reactive armor. The ERA explodes outward when an incoming shell or missile strikes it, thus partially deflecting the blast.the tanks in the video are A4Vs.
Ukraine received 40 of the 1980s-vintage Leopard 2A4s with their 120-millimeter smoothbore main guns just this spring. Donor and sponsor countries include Canada, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain. The Ukrainian general staff reportedly assigned most of the tanks to the army’s new 33rd Mechanized Brigade, which in the first three months of Ukraine’s long-anticipated southern counteroffensive has lost just two of the A4s—alongside three of 21 newer Leopard 2A6s—while supporting the 47th Mechanized Brigade.
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