Russia’s last 1,000 tanks are 50 years old—but Ukraine should still worry

In a war where drones rule and tanks function as glorified artillery pieces, 50-year-old steel kills just as effectively as billion-dollar armor. This is bad news for both sides of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. “Tanks are tanks, considering they [the Russians] mainly use them as up-armored APCs lately,” Jompy wrote. Tanks aren’t always tanks anymoreJompy isn’t wrong about the changing role of tanks. Instead of using tanks as tanks, the Russians—and the Ukrainians, to a lesser extend—tend to assign them to two disparate secondary roles.