Tank battles of the kind the Abrams was built for are rare in Ukraine, where tanks aren't often killed in fights with enemy armor

• US-made M1A1 Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine, but the war may not give it the opportunity to do what it does best.
• The Abrams was designed to defeat Soviet-built armor. 
• But the war in Ukraine has seen few tank duels, with land mines and drones killing far more tanks, Ukrainian officials told The Wall Street Journal.

American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine, but these powerful tanks with a combat-proven ability to defeat Soviet-built armor may not see much of the tank-on-tank combat for which they were built.