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.
Suppose you head to Ukraine alongside the infantry fighting vehicles. In that case, you will also come across many multi-purpose amphibious armoured vehicles – unless the villagers have already towed them to their barns on tractors.
One of these is the MT-LB armoured personnel carrier (crew: 2 + 11). Hopefully, by independent research of photographs, ( hopefully) Russia has lost at least fifty of these machines. MT-LB is indeed a multi-purpose machine. It can serve as a crew transport, a command vehicle, be equipped with a radar, a 9K35 STRELA-10 anti-aircraft complex, a howitzer… And it can also be a repair vehicle or an armoured ambulance.
In this case, too, you will find a bunch of other abandoned or destroyed transports around the roads. BTR-80, BTR-D, BTR-MDM, etc.
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