CNN: US using Ukraine as testbed for Western weapons
Ukraine has become a laboratory for testing Western weapons, which do not always live up to expectations, and after the lessons of the conflict, they can completely become a thing of the past – as noted by an informed CNN source
The channel’s interlocutor said, “This is real-world battle testing.”
Moreover, he said that ‘none of this equipment has ever actually been used in a war between two industrially developed nations’, so Ukraine has become ‘absolutely a weapons lab in every sense’.
According to CNN, which cites a US military operations officer with knowledge of the battlefield, as well as a recent British think tank study, the Ukrainian conflict has become an incredible source of data on the utility of the American systems for the US Department of Defence. It is noted that some high-profile systems have turned out to be less effective on the battlefield than anticipated. According to an unnamed Pentagon official quoted by the TV channel, military leaders will study information from Ukraine for years.
