Chief of Staff Mark Millie, the highest military post in the United States, officially announced the number of anti-tank weapons and air defense systems that the United States and other allies have delivered to Ukraine as part of anti-tank wars. – Russian invasion aid.

According to him, there are about 25,000 anti-aircraft systems and 60,000 anti-tank guns, according to Reuters.

To understand the scale of the transferred weapons, the total number of tanks in the ranks of the entire Russian army, in all units and troop branches from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok – about 3300 units, according to Military Balance 2021. From this figure, as of March 8, 700 units destroyed or captured by the Armed Forces since February 24 should be subtracted.

At the same time, to these 60,000 anti-tank guns should be added the stock that Ukraine had before February 24, including ATGMs of its own production – “Stugna” and “Corsair”. It is also likely that the anti-tank weapons that Mark Millie mentions mean both anti-tank guided missile systems such as the Javelin and NLAW, and anti-tank grenade launchers such as the Panzerfaust 3 or AT4.

Also, for the impartiality of the assessment, it should be clarified that for these systems, in addition to tanks, other armored vehicles – infantry and amphibious combat vehicles, as well as armored personnel carriers are a fair target. Their total number in the ranks of the entire Russian army: according to Military Balance 2021, about 16 thousand all types of infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and reconnaissance vehicles. Of this number – “minus” 1890 units were destroyed after February 24.

In any case, if we take the number of all armored targets in the Russian army at the beginning of a full-scale invasion and are transferred only by Allied anti-tank guns, the ratio is 3.27 1 target per anti-tank gun .

In reality, this figure is higher and could be somewhere in the territory of 4-5 exclusively infantry anti-tank guns for one purpose. And this is without taking into account all the other equipment and weapons that can destroy enemy armored vehicles.

As for the 25,000 anti-aircraft systems, these are most likely portable anti-aircraft missile systems such as Stinger, Polish Piorun, as well as additional missiles and MANPADS and missiles for Soviet systems, which were in the warehouses of the former Warsaw Pact. agreement. Given these figures, the Ukrainian army is currently one of the largest infantry and anti-aircraft infantry systems among all armies in the world. Source