The Russians have formidable rail logistics, but are shitty on the road. That's why Popasna is important for them. Major railyard.

I've great admiration for the conduct of the UAF. Fundamentally using same designs as the Russians, but obtaining operational results far beyond the normal operation envelope, in direct contrast to the Russians. Shows the importance of doctrine, logistics, and training. The MiGs are being used exactly as they were designed for, which is short field take off from rough, dispersed airstrips and they have denied Russia air superiority consistently for 9 months. The planes are clearly being operated close to their engineering limits and are still operating fairly well it seems. The Americans will be studying them for years after this I imagine.

Their ability to jerry-rig US HARM missiles onto MIGs is really clever.

Testament as well to the original American designers' thinking. I think they used the autonomous targeting capability built into the missile's design. Would not have been possible if the Americans didn't consider the scenario when they first designed the missile.

Western armies train with combined arms doctrine to overcome this weakness. Deployed tanks are always supported by infantry which help screen those threats. Would be interesting to see how these tanks fare in Ukraine.

Our weakness is the relatively under performing economy and civilian government tendency to "steal" money from the budget to fund more populist priorities. Historically I think it has always been that way.
If we had a GDP 3x what it is today, i think we can easily buy any toys our soldiers need.

so we have to fix governance and the economy to have a really strong defence.

Looks like a tank, moves like a tank, shoots like a tank. Why tf won't they call it one?
At that weight class I think our army could use something like that.

A Sturmgeschütz III doesn't have a moving turret. I'm guessing the US military's refusal to call the Booker a tank has more to do with procurement politics.

It's still a light tank by any other conventional definition. This one is in the same class as a CV90120-T and that one is classified as a light tank. In the end we just have to accept whatever US wants to call it.