Tanks or APCs packed with explosives to breach positions: Belbas predicted the future of the frontline

Capturing territory requires the presence of military forces. Therefore, the next stage of the war may involve new means to breach enemy positions, including tanks filled with explosives.

This was said in an interview with Channel 24 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 impractical. The point is that remote attacks will not allow you to retake territory — you need to physically occupy it.

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

he said.

Belbas believes that such means could be traditional armored vehicles as well as ground robotic complexes.

It will be a tank, an armored vehicle, or a ground robotic complex — booby-trapped, packed with explosives, that will 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 reported used during operations near Nove and Katerynivka. Troops of the Third Assault Brigade rigged Soviet BTR-60 APCs with TM-62 anti-tank mines, then remotely launched them toward Russian positions. The occupiers expected our personnel to be inside the vehicles, so they allowed the APCs to approach closer.