Ukraine is facing an invasion from the east. The second biggest country on our continent with an area of nearly 604 thousand square kilometers is being conquered by the Russian army from several directions. The breadbasket of Europe has been turned into a giant warehouse of military equipment of all kinds.
Due to their shared history, both sides are using similar technology from the Soviet era. Howitzers, for example, often face each other, which differ only in the varying degrees of modernization and, most importantly, the much-publicized markings on Russian vehicles.
While Russia (so far) dominates the skies and wins in destructive missile power and quantity, the Ukrainian defences are nevertheless bolstered again by anti-aircraft and anti-tank small arms complexes from the West, Turkish drones and, undoubtedly, by military intel from NATO and the US. Let’s take a look at some of these weapons in the following few chapters.
The Russians also used BM-21 Grad salvo rocket launchers in the fighting (not only) near Kharkiv, which can launch 40 rockets with a range of up to 20.4 km in just 20 seconds. Fortunately, the Ukrainians managed to destroy and confiscate a bunch of them.
As Grad is one of the infamous celebrities of the fighting in Ukraine, we prepared a separate article for him.
