03-01-2023, 09:59 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spring-thaw-c...25455.html
Mud season is early this year. Good timing. I don't share the writers optimism that Ukraine will field a tank brigade by the end of March. They MIGHT have one that has some offensive capability by 1 May. I expect that, baring exigent circumstances, we won't see it in action until late May at the earliest. I expect Ukraine wants it to hit real hard when it is employed, and going before it is truly operationally capable risks a damp squib. They really don't want that to happen.
Mud season is early this year. Good timing. I don't share the writers optimism that Ukraine will field a tank brigade by the end of March. They MIGHT have one that has some offensive capability by 1 May. I expect that, baring exigent circumstances, we won't see it in action until late May at the earliest. I expect Ukraine wants it to hit real hard when it is employed, and going before it is truly operationally capable risks a damp squib. They really don't want that to happen.