The United States delivered Stryker armored personnel carriers with a Protector RWS remotely controlled weapon station to the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The United States delivered the first Stryker armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian defense department, Alexei Reznikov, has already "run in" American armored vehicles and was very pleased.

The first Stryker armored personnel carriers entered service with the air assault troops of Ukraine and will soon appear on the front lines, most likely as part of the planned counteroffensive. It is noteworthy that the armored personnel carriers delivered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are armed with the Protector RWS remotely controlled combat module of the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace with a 2 mm M12,7 Browning heavy machine gun, and not a 30 mm automatic cannon, as previously assumed.

However, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Reznikov, was also pleased with such weapons, writing in one of the social networks banned in Russia rave reviews about American armored personnel carriers and gratitude to the sponsors of the regime from the United States.

I am glad that the best soldiers in the world receive the best vehicles from our partners. They will bring us closer to victory

- wrote Reznikov.

As previously reported, the Americans announced plans to supply Ukraine with 90 Stryker armored personnel carriers. In early March, armored vehicles arrived by sea in Germany, from where they were transferred to Poland and, together with tanks Leopard 2 went to Ukraine. How many armored personnel carriers were delivered in the first batch is not reported, it is possible that Kyiv received all the promised vehicles.

Washington hopes that the transferred armored vehicles will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine defeat Russian troops in the upcoming counteroffensive.

Comments

[Murmur 55]

Isn't that someone expecting another?! They openly announced deliveries, openly announced routes (everything was covered through the news and the Internet), openly accepted and promoted at the destination, so why be surprised then? Soon they will go to battle. And also announced in advance.

[Silver99]

I don’t think that this will bring them closer to victory, the police machine-gun version of the armored personnel carrier, with a high hull layout, is not suitable for a serious battle.

[Fizik13]

Quote from Silver99

the police machine-gun version of the armored personnel carrier, with a high hull layout, is not suitable for a serious battle.

Our task, in combat conditions, is to find out what and how to destroy it, in the sense of minimum costs, maximum effect.
And to prove that American technology, except for terrifying civilians, is no longer good for anything.

[Murmur 55]

Silver99 , but they don’t plan on it in a serious battle, I think they will try, like last year, to tear the defense with quick breakthroughs of the trained troops, followed by filling the breakthroughs with troopers and volunteer battalions, and for this mobility is needed.

[Arsen1]

That is, the BTR 80 is a bad car in your opinion?)

[Codett]

In fact, like an armored personnel carrier, it is badly cramped, not comfortable landing, cardboard armor, mine protection is poor, and therefore everything on the armor, which is bad when a projectile is blown up nearby, will cut everyone with fragments, because of the installation of 30 mm guns, they began to send into battle what in general a crime, this is not my opinion, but the opinion of those who served on it, it may be suitable for the marines because it swims, but for other tasks it is outdated, you need a Kurgan or other well-protected armored personnel carrier or, as it is now in the west, a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle.

[tralflot1832]

It started again, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the best soldiers in the world. The statement is extremely controversial, it smells of Goebel.

[Murmur 55]

tralflot1832 , Reznik is a product of his system and regime, he cannot speak differently, plus the sword from his head for corruption has not yet been completely removed.

[novel66]

My friend, they are us, no matter how sad it sounds, and the best soldiers have always been us and the Germans (under Napoleon the French)

[75 Sergey]

It is necessary to cut off the Outskirts from Poland.
Who made the decision to withdraw troops from Kyiv?!

[Silver99]

This is not the time to lay out all the trump cards, to leave 900 thousand groups in the rear and at the same time hold back the border, you need to have iron tongs, but the RF Armed Forces do not have them. I would put the question differently, who brought troops to Kyiv without backing them up with reserves? That's when the threat of encirclement loomed and our serious defeat, the crazy plan "A" became clear, supposedly to run away and everyone would scatter, changing power, apparently Medvedchuk led us not just astray, but into a deep miscalculation of the situation. Tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus are so far only a reminder and preparation for cutting off.

[Sid2014]

Who brought and planned known. The bad thing is that there is no certainty that the offensive will be repulsed and we will not roll back, of course, as part of another gesture of GOOD WILL. The entire previous course of the NWO (Kyiv, Kupyansk, Izyum, Russian KHERSON) THIS was clearly shown !!! But we do not abandon ours! Or not???!!!

[novel66]

Manpower is not enough, if only the Ureyans come to the rescue

[rocket757]

Washington hopes that the transferred armored vehicles will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine defeat Russian troops in the upcoming counteroffensive.

. The minke whales hope for a big, bloody mess and will do everything to make it happen.

[Vlad2012]

Maybe I'm wrong, but twenty-one rifle regiments are fighting in the NWO from Russia. Which means that they do not have BBM at all. I think if the Chinese gave them a Stryker-type armored personnel carrier with a heavy machine gun, they would learn Chinese gratitude in a week.

[_Ugene_]

It seems that the more success we have, the more the coalition of Western countries will flood Ukraine with weapons, money and everything necessary, the IMF loan has rolled up by 15,6 billion !!!, I doubt that we will pull such a confrontation, one man is not a warrior, our only hope is all-round assistance from China, but does he need it? one gets the impression that our supreme commander missed a lot with this

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: _Ugene_

It seems that the more success we have, the more the coalition of Western countries will flood Ukraine with weapons, money and everything necessary, the IMF loan has rolled up by 15,6 billion!!!

To drive up, he drove up, but extended the issuance of a loan for 4 years + made a reservation that these babos were allocated not for military purposes, but for economic ones. In fact, these babos were thrown at them to pay off previously issued loans and interest accrued on them, otherwise Ukraine is a bankrupt country with a default, but this is not yet included in the plans of mattresses and it is artificially supported afloat.

[Arsen1]

Ah, so we have such successes at the front now?)) Interesting

[_Ugene_]

Ah, so we have such successes at the front now?))

well, yes, we don’t retreat, as some time ago, it’s already good
on the other hand, when it seems that everything is bad so that there is nowhere worse, maybe this is the bottom and then only up to victory?

[Aristarkh Pasechnik]

In the Ukrainian mud in the spring, the stayer is not ice! Until the first good puddle!

[Incvizitor]

Large and cardboard, the dream of an ATGM operator.

[lukash66]

These handcuffs already had self-developed armored personnel carriers 4 with the same module. Almost all of them are lying around as scrap in the Donbass, Lugansk region. Will these change what?