shortly receive counterbattery fire
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Except the UA is very bad at counter battery and have only a few units.
It’s not the Ukrainians that I expect to be dishing out counterbattery.
My points: The Polish-donated Leopard 2s, like most NATO tanks, do not have APS. Some of the Russian tanks do, and they might be able to weather an artillery barrage, especially if dispersed - an APS like Trophy (and one assumes Afghnit) can be set to defend only direct threats to the individual tank, so most of a “to whom it may concern” area artillery barrage might not saturate or deplete the APS’ ammo stores before Russian counterbattery can express its displeasure with the artillery shelling their tanks. The Leopard 2s don’t have that option.