Originally Posted by
NutLoose
It’s 12 initially straight away with 8 to follow on so 20, I would imagine the 8 follow ins are drom storage so will need to be brought back into service for them,
That immediately makes one wonder if training has already been carried out or will it be done on the 12 before they ship them, or even on the ones in Poland.
or is it? another post says
The first four tanks will immediately be sent to Ukraine, and the remaining eight tanks will soon follow.
Ukraine has shown it can be extremely inventive. Maybe they can use Challenger 2s alongside other MBTs and the rest of their combined arms. Not conventional, but I can see an option for using one or two Challengers in a mix of other MBTs etc. They could use TOGS to provide fire control solutions for targets in range of Ukrainian T72's, BMPs, or whatever. The Challenger guns could be used against the longer range stuff. Challenger 2 has the capability to take out most Russian armour we've seen in Ukraine at a range where the risk of it taking a hit would be low. Also its own armour is significantly better. If they can keep them running and fed with ammunition then there are some specialist roles that the Challengers could excel at.
Getting them where they need to be could be difficult. Ukraine has no experience with 70 tonne MBTs. They don't have bridging kit for MBTs of this weight either. One certainty is that Ukraine has the ability to surprise when it comes to adapting kit to make best use of it. I still think that giving Ukraine loads of Bradleys and Marders would give them a real boost. The tactics for using them effectively are the same as they are used to with their BMPs, just with a better capability than their older kit.
Wouldn't like to be a Ukrainian logistics bloke. Keeping supply chains going for a liquorice all sorts array of kit will be a complete bugger.