Galeotti, Mark/Rodríguez, Felipe (Illustr.) Tanks in Ukraine 2022

With the invasion of Ukraine, mechanized warfare has returned to Europe in full force. While Western tanks and training have made up a large part of the Ukrainian army since 2023, in the first year of the war, both the Russian invaders and the Ukrainians fought with their existing mechanized armies in the most devastating and grueling war in decades. That year, Moscow's newest tanks (with the exception of the still-unready T-14 Armata) faced off against Ukraine's modernized and adapted Soviet-era tank fleet. Russia specialist Mark Galeotti draws on rare Russian and Ukrainian sources to present a comprehensive account of the Russian and Ukrainian tanks that fought that year before the first Western tanks arrived. He explores the rival tank armies, their deployment, and the ways in which they were modified in response to the new challenges of war, presenting readers with ORBATs and deployment data that are new to the English-speaking world. As the war in Ukraine revolutionizes our understanding of modern warfare, this book offers an expert assessment of how Ukrainian tanks fought the Russians to a standstill in 2022 and how the lessons learned influenced the course of the war.