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.
Leading the Russian casualty statistics, next to the men, is armored vehicles of all kinds. It is mainly infantry fighting and armoured vehicles of all types whose photos often fill social networks.
The basic one is the good old BMP-2 Bevelepe (crew: 3+7), fitted with a 2A42 automatic cannon of 30 mm calibre, a PKT machine gun of 7.62 mm calibre and the 9K113 Konkurs mentioned above anti-tank missiles. This vehicle is well known in our country because Czechoslovakia obtained a licence for its production under the designation BVP-2.
Many modifications of the BMP served on the Ukrainian battlefield. Besides the most common Two, there are also BMP-1, BMP-3, BMP-2K, BMD-2, BTR-82A, etc.
