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Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello, welcome to angry planet. I'm Matthew Galt. My co-host,

my co-host Jason Fields is stuck on the road at the moment. The tank is an iconic

weapon of modern war, but the truth is that it's more than a century old.

And when we think of tanks, we think of the battles of World War II, the Tiger and the Sherman

squaring off the relentless push of the Soviet T34s into Eastern Europe, or maybe you think of the

beige ones driving through the deserts of Iraq, keeping its crew snug and safe.

But how safe is a tank, really? In in Ukraine Russia is losing many tanks. It's hard to know how many exactly and

what is wartime propaganda and what is the truth as of this podcast the open source intelligence researchers at Orix have documented the loss of

345 Russian tanks, 155 of which were destroyed.

So is the tank no longer an important part of war? Is it as outdated as the

cavalry charge in the face of the Maxim gun? Here to answer the question is Nicholas Drummond. Drummond

is an ex-British Army officer, a defense

industry analyst, an advisor to the House of Commons Defense Committee. He also

writes at UKlandpower.com where he has a really great article answering this question from about a year ago,

but we wanted to have him on to talk about the Ukraine of it all.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Good afternoon, Matthew.

Thanks for having me. It's a great pleasure to be with you.

Thank you. It's a great pleasure to have you on the show.

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