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14-11-2024, 04:58 PM
This is Ukraine’s one of the best Elite 47th Mechanized Brigade Fighting For 15 Months Straight, as U.S. is senting more than 300 M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. This brigade is finally getting a chance to rest and reset. Ukrainian forces can launched their much-heralded—and later much-maligned—southern counteroffensive in June 2023.
Ukraine army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade was out in front, struggling through dense Russian mine fields in its ex-Finnish Leopard 2R breaching vehicles, ex-European Leopard 2A6 tanks and ex-American M-2 infantry fighting vehicles.
This NATO-trained 47th Mechanized Brigade. In this few month of difficult attacks, it lost almost all of its Leopard 2Rs, several of its Leopard 2A6s and dozens of its M-2s—not to mention potentially hundreds of its 2,000 troopers.
But at least, now the 47th Mechanized Brigade finally left front line in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast & redeployed to relative safety of Pavlohrad, 60 miles west of Pokrovsk, current focus on the Russian offensive in Donetsk. There, 47th Mechanized Brigade apparently inducting fresh troops repairing battle-damage dequipment —perhaps most critically has prepare to take on
delivery of fresh M-2s from US. One of the Ukrainian army’s best brigades is getting more of its best vehicles.
Surely no coincidence around, same time 47th Mechanized Brigade finally departed the Pokrovsk front, U.S. govt announced a $250-million package of military aid for Ukraine includes an unspecified number of tracked, 33-ton M-2s, which carry up to 10 people—3 crew & seven infantry pack powerful 25-millimeter autocannons plus TOW anti-tank missiles & reactive armor blocks to boost their protection.
It’s unclear how many of the 1990s-vintage Bradleys are in the latest American aid package. Previous packages included, in total, around 300 of the multi-million-dollar IFVs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the recent aid includes dozens of M-2s. The Americans can certainly spare them: thousands of surplus U.S. Army Bradleys are in storage in the U.S. Big Grin
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-vehicles/
Ukraine army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade was out in front, struggling through dense Russian mine fields in its ex-Finnish Leopard 2R breaching vehicles, ex-European Leopard 2A6 tanks and ex-American M-2 infantry fighting vehicles.
This NATO-trained 47th Mechanized Brigade. In this few month of difficult attacks, it lost almost all of its Leopard 2Rs, several of its Leopard 2A6s and dozens of its M-2s—not to mention potentially hundreds of its 2,000 troopers.
But at least, now the 47th Mechanized Brigade finally left front line in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast & redeployed to relative safety of Pavlohrad, 60 miles west of Pokrovsk, current focus on the Russian offensive in Donetsk. There, 47th Mechanized Brigade apparently inducting fresh troops repairing battle-damage dequipment —perhaps most critically has prepare to take on
delivery of fresh M-2s from US. One of the Ukrainian army’s best brigades is getting more of its best vehicles.
Surely no coincidence around, same time 47th Mechanized Brigade finally departed the Pokrovsk front, U.S. govt announced a $250-million package of military aid for Ukraine includes an unspecified number of tracked, 33-ton M-2s, which carry up to 10 people—3 crew & seven infantry pack powerful 25-millimeter autocannons plus TOW anti-tank missiles & reactive armor blocks to boost their protection.
It’s unclear how many of the 1990s-vintage Bradleys are in the latest American aid package. Previous packages included, in total, around 300 of the multi-million-dollar IFVs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the recent aid includes dozens of M-2s. The Americans can certainly spare them: thousands of surplus U.S. Army Bradleys are in storage in the U.S. Big Grin
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...-vehicles/
