‘Extremely expensive tractors’: Drones push Ukraine’s Leopard tanks into hiding

Leopard tanks Ukraine received after lengthy negotiations with Western partners now sit camouflaged in Kharkiv Oblast forests, emerging mainly to tow damaged equipment, according to soldiers from the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade cited by the New York Times. The $10 million vehicles have proven largely ineffective against cheap drones now dominating the battlefield.

About half the brigade's tank battalion has retrained as drone operators, and new recruits join without ever touching a tank, instead repairing ground drones. Some commanders still see a future for armor, but only if it becomes unmanned.

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