17-11-2023, 04:03 PM
Putin Miscalculated is not only a self-inflicted...
Russian engineers reportedly spent some time inspecting the upgraded BMPs before parking them somewhere. 15-years later, Kremlin recovered some or all of captured Georgian IFVs, assigned them to a front-line Russian army unit (military farce) when, earlier this month, at least one of the ex-Georgian ex-Ukrainian vehicles joined a near-suicidal direct assault on Ukrainian positions in and around Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
The panicky crew of one BMP-1U, perhaps correctly sensing it was about to eat a Ukrainian missile, backed up and over Russian infantry sheltering behind the 13-ton, nine-person vehicle, likely severely injuring if not killing at least one soldier.
Seconds later, a Ukrainian anti-tank missile struck the BMP-1U. The explosive punchline to a tragic wartime joke. Of course the universe would focus its dark humor on the BMP-1U, a vehicle that is as much a symbol of war’s cruel irony as it is a battlefield taxi for mechanized infantry.
The Ukrainian armed forces inherited more than 2,500 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles from the Soviet army as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The type still is Ukraine’s second-most-numerous IFV after the better-armed BMP-2. The BMP-1 has flaws. Big ones. Not only is BMP-1 lightly-protected with steel armor, just a quarter-inch thick, its low-pressure 73-millimeter gun lacks power, to improve firepower of BMP-1s and make surplus vehicles more valuable on the export market—the Scientific and Technical Center for Artillery and Small Arms in Kyiv swapped out BMP’s old turret for a new one much powerful 30-millimeter autocannon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...lew-it-up/
Russian engineers reportedly spent some time inspecting the upgraded BMPs before parking them somewhere. 15-years later, Kremlin recovered some or all of captured Georgian IFVs, assigned them to a front-line Russian army unit (military farce) when, earlier this month, at least one of the ex-Georgian ex-Ukrainian vehicles joined a near-suicidal direct assault on Ukrainian positions in and around Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
The panicky crew of one BMP-1U, perhaps correctly sensing it was about to eat a Ukrainian missile, backed up and over Russian infantry sheltering behind the 13-ton, nine-person vehicle, likely severely injuring if not killing at least one soldier.
Seconds later, a Ukrainian anti-tank missile struck the BMP-1U. The explosive punchline to a tragic wartime joke. Of course the universe would focus its dark humor on the BMP-1U, a vehicle that is as much a symbol of war’s cruel irony as it is a battlefield taxi for mechanized infantry.
The Ukrainian armed forces inherited more than 2,500 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles from the Soviet army as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The type still is Ukraine’s second-most-numerous IFV after the better-armed BMP-2. The BMP-1 has flaws. Big ones. Not only is BMP-1 lightly-protected with steel armor, just a quarter-inch thick, its low-pressure 73-millimeter gun lacks power, to improve firepower of BMP-1s and make surplus vehicles more valuable on the export market—the Scientific and Technical Center for Artillery and Small Arms in Kyiv swapped out BMP’s old turret for a new one much powerful 30-millimeter autocannon.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...lew-it-up/