Tanks or APCs Packed with Explosives to Breach Positions: Belbas Predicted the Future of the Front

Territory seizure requires the presence of military personnel. Therefore, the next phase of the war may involve new means to breach enemy positions, in particular tanks packed with explosives.

This was said in an interview with 24 Channel by Vladyslav Belbas, CEO of Ukrainian Armor.

What the next iteration of the war might look like

According to Belbas, the experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war shows that relying solely on high-precision pinpoint strikes is unwise. The thing is, remote attacks will not allow you to retake territory — you need to physically occupy it.

Missile strikes by themselves do not deliver decisive effectiveness: we will not reclaim territory until we go in there. The next iteration is means to breach positions,

he said.

In Belbas's view, such a means could be either traditional armored vehicles or ground robotic complexes.

It could be a tank, an armored vehicle, or a ground robotic complex — mined, packed with explosives, that would enter positions and detonate them. I think we will move in that direction,

he explained.

Note that shortly after our interview, a similar tactic was used during operations near Novyi and Katerynivka. Troops of the Third Assault Brigade packed Soviet BTR-60 with TM-62 anti-tank mines, then remotely launched them toward Russian positions. The occupiers expected Ukrainian personnel to be inside the vehicles, so they allowed the BTR to approach closer.