Despite estimates that the Russian army will quickly take over Ukrainian cities, in reality, a different picture emerges. Sources in the IDF believe that Russia's use of tanks is incorrect, and their advantage becomes a disadvantage, mainly due to their exposure to Ukrainian attacks. 

At the end of a day of airstrikes against hundreds of military and strategic targets throughout Ukraine, the Russian military decided to launch armored columns into the war to encircle the Ukrainian cities, in order to occupy them in stages.

Sources in the West, including in Israel, estimated that the Russians would suffocate the cities and destroy the Ukrainian defense systems relatively quickly if they deployed a mass of tank and anti-aircraft forces with the addition of artillery fire and fighter jets.

The Russian tank was found to be very vulnerable and became an easy target for a variety of anti-tank missiles delivered by Western countries to the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainians may have also disrupted Russian command control systems. 

The professional and technical gaps discovered in the operation of the Russian tanks raised sharp questions about the tank's status in modern combat, but on the other hand also harsh criticism of the Russian army. "The tank was and remains the battle queen," declares an officer in the land forces, "the firepower of one tank is equivalent to an infantry company. It moves rapidly to enormous distances with high offense capacity. The chariot tank, for example, is one of the few in the world capable of crossing the basalt rocks of the Golan Heights. "While an infantry company occupies an area of ​​500 square meters, a tank occupies an area ten times larger."

"So why is the tank not winning in Ukraine?", The advantage of the tank became a disadvantage in Ukraine. It became exposed because it was used incorrectly. Infantry and armor must work together. This is not happening in the Russian army which is in the midst of a classical advance. I have never seen such a skill. The Russian army must send a force to remove threats. Do not rely on drones or skimmers that will see where Ukraine's anti-tank ambushes are. How did the British beat Rommel in World War II? With commando forces of the SAS unit ambushed in the field. The Russians are wrong in the use of force, in the location of the tanks, in the reciprocity between the tank and the infantry, "he concludes.

IDF officers warn that the desire to rely on the active defense system of the Mark 4 type windbreaker tanks is also problematic, because it, like any system, has weaknesses. "The position of the tank on the battlefield is critical. "It requires high-level training, intensive training, and full coordination between infantry and armor. The professional level of the Russians is not impressive at all."