{"id":260197,"date":"2026-08-13T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:31:56","slug":"ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year\u2014but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get \u201crespawn\u201d attempts while learning from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>The semiannual military exercise, called Combined Resolve, gave the US military a firsthand taste of how modern drone warfare has evolved on the battlefields of Ukraine. The Ukrainian drone operators participating in the exercise were easily able to spot and destroy US armored vehicles by mimicking the actions of dropping bombs from above or moving close enough to simulate a kamikaze strike, according to US officials and a participant who spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/u-s-and-ukrainian-forces-went-head-to-head-in-an-exercise-ukraines-drones-won-cc3663d5\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US armored vehicles were being destroyed so quickly that they were \u201crespawned\u201d and sent back into the simulated fray, a US official told The Wall Street Journal. The US troops who participated in the exercise\u2014held in Germany from April 9 to May 10\u2014were on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7atc.army.mil\/Portals\/17\/Documents\/News\/PR_7ATCHostsCbR2607.pdf?ver=ndf62qkG9OcAM7B-PoOYTw%3D%3D\">rotational deployment from Fort Hood, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/08\/ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/08\/ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year\u2014but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get \u201crespawn\u201d attempts while learning from the experience. The semiannual military exercise, called Combined Resolve, gave the US military a firsthand taste of how modern drone warfare has evolved on the battlefields of Ukraine. The Ukrainian drone operators participating in the exercise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ukrainian-drones-wipe-out-entire-us-tank-brigade-in-live-war-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year\u2014but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get \u201crespawn\u201d attempts while learning from the experience. 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