Ukraine’s claim that its forces have destroyed more than 300 Russian tanks and more than 1,000 armoured personnel carriers should be taken — like all wartime estimates — with a grain of salt.
But Ukrainian forces have surprised the Kremlin and the world with the ferocity of their resistance. One major factor in that success has been the FGM-148 Javelin shoulder-launched anti-tank missile, being supplied to Ukraine by the U.S. and the U.K.
U.S. President Joe Biden this week announced the shipment of 9,000 more of the anti-tank systems, which he described as “portable, high-accuracy, shoulder-mounted missiles that Ukrainian forces have been using with great effect to destroy
