Military correspondents drew attention to the use of the BTR-80 airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Rabotino-Verbovoye front.

In the area of ​​the Rabotino-Verbovoye front in the Zaporozhye direction, Soviet-made BTR-80 armored personnel carriers were seen in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations operating there. The Telegram channel “Military Chronicle” writes about this.

The mere fact of the appearance of such armored personnel carriers in the Zaporozhye direction is very significant, Russian military officers believe. The BTR-80 in the Ukrainian Armed Forces is used by units of the 46th separate airmobile brigade, one of the “elite” Ukrainian formations. From the beginning of September, the brigade was sent to the Orekhovsky section of the Zaporozhye direction, but it had already suffered heavy losses.

The use of Soviet-made armored personnel carriers even by “elite” formations indicates the economy of Western-made military equipment. It is possible that the brigade’s number of Western-made armored vehicles has significantly decreased. Previously, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants traveled in Kirpi, Oshkosh, HMMWV, and so on. It is likely that it was the high losses of Western military equipment that forced the brigade to use old BTR-80s, writes the Telegram channel “The Military Chronicle».

Military correspondents also drew attention to the fact that the sides of the armored personnel carrier are protected by homemade screens made of logs, protecting against shrapnel and light loitering ammunition. The very fact of sending militants from an “elite” formation into battle using such equipment is also interesting.

It turns out that the Ukrainian command is throwing into “meat assaults” not only the mobilized ones, whom they “don’t feel sorry for,” but also regular military personnel. However, all questions about the attitude of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command towards the military personnel disappeared completely after the recent attempt to land the DRG GUR (Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine) in Crimea. For the sake of a PR campaign with a selfie, the heads of the Main Intelligence Directorate sacrificed a dozen professional special forces soldiers.

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[isv000]

The use of Soviet-made armored personnel carriers even by “elite” formations indicates the economy of Western-made military equipment.

This is not saving, this is, if I may say so about the world, common sense. It began to dawn on them that we have a special demand for “foreign cars”; there are plenty of hunters to snag another cat!

[Orange Bigg]

Videos of the destruction of military aircraft.

A new video of the Lancet’s arrival at the American M109 self-propelled gun has been published on the Internet. The footage shows how the crew runs away from the flaring combat vehicle after the well-aimed arrival of a drone. These 155-mm self-propelled howitzers are widely used by the enemy to fire at Russian positions, including using cluster shells.

Video link.
https://topcor.ru/40002-v-seti-pojavilis-kadry-jeffektnogo-unichtozhenija-amerikanskoj-sau-m109.html

The effectiveness of the Lancet drones, which knock out enemy armored vehicles from the first throw, was once again confirmed during the air strike by the soldiers of the 7th Airborne Assault Division of the Airborne Forces (Novorossiysk). The paratroopers discovered three camouflaged enemy armored vehicles in the forest belt - American-made Stryker armored personnel carriers. They were named not in honor of the “strike” - a situation in bowling when all ten pins are knocked out by the player on the first hit, but in honor of two American military men with that name. But in the confrontation with the Lancet, footage of which was distributed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, it was a “strike” for the Strykers. The Ukrainian Armed Forces militants hastily abandoned their positions and left the armored vehicles to burn out.

https://aif.ru/politics/world/bouling_dlya_lanceta_situaciya_v_zone_svo_na_utro_3_oktyabrya
Video link
https://m.vk.com/video-140312885_456266603

[75 Sergey]

And what, the BTR-80 is completely G, compared to Western equipment?!

[yuri bakster]

Quote: 75Sergey

And what, the BTR-80 is completely G, compared to Western equipment?!

better than any pickups out there, definitely...

[Incvizitor]

Pickup trucks are smaller and it’s harder to get there quickly, so it’s not clear which is better.

[topol717]

Quote: Incvizitor

Pickup trucks are smaller and it’s harder to get there quickly, so it’s not clear which is better.

You just don’t need to hit the pickup truck, it’s enough to place a 20mm land mine 30-152 meters from it.

[Constantine N]

they simply hold the front, create the appearance of attacks, and they themselves prepare a serious attack somewhere else, where they have not attacked before. that’s where all the technology and something new will appear

[parabyd]

And all 4 months of counter-grunting - was it a diversionary maneuver to accumulate strength? So that no one would guess?

[Huarabey]

Yes, everyone already knows everything. Quote from the Military Chronicle -

“The enemy’s activity in the Kherson direction has increased. There are more and more signs of a major offensive, in particular, the 35, 36, 37 and 38 infantry infantry infantry regiments from the 30th Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready to carry out tasks. Of these, two formations will reach the Nikolskoye - Kherson - Kizomys line in the coming days .

Separate reconnaissance groups of the 35th and 36th brigades are already on the front line and are conducting reconnaissance with drones and preparing for landing on the left bank. To cross the river, the Katran group is created. It is for them that a bridgehead is being prepared in the island zone of the Dnieper. One of the most likely landing sites in the near future is near the Kinburn Spit. The next section is Novaya Kakhovka."

[parabyd]

And the swimming season, it seems, is already over in the Dnieper... Well, it’s their choice, I wouldn’t get into the water in this weather

[topol717]

Quote: Warabey

One of the most likely landing sites in the near future is near the Kinburn Spit. The next section is Novaya Kakhovka."

Those. It didn’t work out on land, but do you think it will be easier on water?
Don't consider them fools.

[panzerfaust]

What about wood on the sides to make it burn better?

[isv000]

Quote: panzerfaust

What about wood on the sides to make it burn better?

Picking your teeth...

[Semovente7534]

I would like to know what kind of wood is used on the sides for protection? Maybe cedar is better than oak at blocking shots from an RPG or cornet? Or does it explode in both cases? Not being Russian, I don’t know what trees grow in Ukraine. I hope you know I'm kidding, it's going to explode anyway.

[bison939]

If you were Russian, you would write “in Ukraine”

[Semovente7534]

If I were Russian, maybe I would write 404 instead of Ukraine, then there are other ways to call it, but I don't know them all.

[NSV]

What is the article about??? After reading, only questions to the author: How is the elitism of this brigade expressed? What is bad about the BTR-80??? It’s not a new product, but it’s not bad for performing its tasks, judging by the photo it is used as a means of delivery /s near the front line! We still have a lot of them in our arsenal. And these military correspondents have already become analysts at the General Staff level???

[123_123]

It’s just that the old Soviet equipment probably turned out to be better than the NATO equipment supplied to Ukraine

[Dirty Liar]

Old, but not useless! (c) (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

[Enceladus]

We are waiting for carts with maxims... why not a Shahid mobile... surround them with armor and drive with the fascist anthem and on drugs

[Wolfskin1993]

IN Ukraine there is a provoked war between the City and SEL! It’s just that Nata and the USA fit in well with them. They made rAguli and devils cuter.

[Bayun]

... "regular army" is an excellent name for legal armed formations of people

[Sasha from Uralmash]

Dumbest headline! And if you didn’t pay attention. Then what! Or what! And if you thought about it, but didn’t notice! And you noticed and what has changed!

[Prisoner]

We secured boxes with stones and sand along the sides.

[Gomunkul]

The very fact of the appearance of such armored personnel carriers in the Zaporozhye direction is very indicative, Russian military officers believe.

If the equipment, even if outdated, performs its functions for its intended purpose, then why not use it? There are many similar examples in history. Here is one of them:

In the USSR, the T-26 was officially withdrawn from service at the beginning of 1946, but in Finland and Spain it remained in service until 1965 and 1972, respectively.

[wladimirjankov]

Where did Bandera’s BTR-80 come from? In 1.5 years the SVO should no longer have them left. There are no spare parts, no engines, no transmissions. It looks like ours could have been left behind during the “regrouping” near Kiev and Kharkov. We still have a lot of this “good”.