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Tank involuntary: what armored “mutants” are fighting in Ukraine

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Military operations on Ukrainian territory provided the richest food for the creativity of soldiers on both sides in improving the equipment they had on hand. The AvtoVzglyad portal

Tank involuntary: what armored “mutants” are fighting in Ukraine
Military operations on Ukrainian territory provided the richest food for the creativity of soldiers on both sides in improving the equipment they had on hand. The AvtoVzglyad portal tried to systematize the fleet of exotic and sometimes unique combat vehicles used by the Ukrainian army.

Bandera is actively involved and engaged in the manufacture of various types of “armored mutants”. After all, from the very beginning of the conflict, Russian troops “carried out” a large part of the original fleet of equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine. And they continue to systematically turn both the remains of Soviet military vehicles and NATO models arriving from the West into “barbecues”.

The most recent Ukrainian modification, which became known during the battles for Artemievsk/Bakhmut, was the old Soviet T-64 tank with its turret removed. He was armed with a machine gun, suspended with blocks of obsolete dynamic protection “Contact-1” and began to be used as a heavily armored infantry fighting vehicle.

But usually lighter equipment undergoes changes. For example, they take a mobile artillery reconnaissance point PRP-3 (4) – in fact, the chassis of an old BMP-1 with a single machine gun – and “attach” to it a turret from a landing BMD-2 with a 30 mm automatic cannon .

There was also a “mutant” based on the “demobilized” BTR-60 – with glazing of the driver’s seat instead of armor. It also had a turret with a 30 mm gun mounted on it. And it’s not clear how they fought. After all, this tower could not rotate.

The Ukronazi craftsmen reinforced the old BRDM-2 with its 14.5 mm KPVT machine gun in a way invented during the Afghan war: they charged an unguided missile launching unit UB-32-57 taken from a helicopter , directly on the dome. For “bullet somewhere over there” – it will do.

They also try to “load” lightly armored tracked vehicles with some heavier weapons. For example, a turret from a self-propelled 120-mm gun 2S9 “Nona-S” is attached to the commander’s BRM-1K. Such a “mutant” in terms of firepower becomes comparable to a tank. Although it cannot boast of serious battlefield survivability.

Another tracked vehicle, the legendary “moto-tolyga” (MT-LB, “light armored multi-purpose transporter-tractor”), became the object of semi-manual improvement in all conflicts of the post-Soviet space. Why aren’t they “hanging” him in Ukraine! They put a mortar in the back, “screw” the UB-32-57 helicopter missile launcher already mentioned above, arm it with heavy machine guns and anti-tank missile launchers … But the most original version seen in Ukraine is the MT-LB, equipped with a 100mm anti-tank gun MT-12 “Rapier” and hung with additional booking sheets. Refuel anyway.

From the same series – a semi-serial Ukrainian monster called the Kevlar-E infantry fighting vehicle. This rarest “beast” is the same lightly armored “motorcycle”, but with a roof-mounted turret for the Shturm combat module with a 30mm automatic cannon, a 7.62mm machine gun, an automatic 30mm grenade launcher and an ATGM “Barrier “.

Of the rather curious, one can also mention a truck that was once seen on the front line, which in a past life worked as a shit truck – it served planes at the airfield. The special operation repainted it in camouflage and installed a twin 23mm ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun on the cover of the fecal tank.

Civilian pickups Mitsubishi L200, Toyota Hilux and others, as well as UAZ “loaves” with a sawn-off roof at the back, also turn into carriers of all kinds of weapons. From ATGM launchers to heavy machine guns. In specialized telegram channels even appeared photos with quad mounts of 7.62 mm machine guns “Maxim” mounted in their bodies – weapons of the First World War.

Well, “for a snack” we will call the Ukrainian mobile hospital “Kovcheg”, apparently released in one copy. A monstrous car on a four-axle chassis – apparently from a heavy truck. It is said to hold up to 50 wounded soldiers, for whose services there is even a shower.

And occasionally photos of Ukrainian-made buses slip through the media, as if they came from the filming of an action movie about the post-apocalypse. A kind of box on wheels encased in rusty steel plates and grilles. There is clearly no way to use them. After all, they can move only on smooth asphalt, which is almost impossible to find in places of active hostilities.

photo from social networks
photo from social networks

Bandera is actively involved and engaged in the manufacture of various types of “armored mutants”. After all, from the very beginning of the conflict, Russian troops “carried out” a large part of the original fleet of equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine. And they continue to systematically turn both the remains of Soviet military vehicles and NATO models arriving from the West into “barbecues”.

The most recent Ukrainian modification, which became known during the battles for Artemievsk/Bakhmut, was the old Soviet T-64 tank with its turret removed. He was armed with a machine gun, suspended with blocks of obsolete dynamic protection “Contact-1” and began to be used as a heavily armored infantry fighting vehicle.

But usually lighter equipment undergoes changes. For example, they take a mobile artillery reconnaissance point PRP-3 (4) – in fact, the chassis of an old BMP-1 with a single machine gun – and “attach” to it a turret from a landing BMD-2 with a 30 mm automatic cannon .

There was also a “mutant” based on the “demobilized” BTR-60 – with glazing of the driver’s seat instead of armor. It also had a turret with a 30 mm gun mounted on it. And it’s not clear how they fought. After all, this tower could not rotate.

The Ukronazi craftsmen reinforced the old BRDM-2 with its 14.5 mm KPVT machine gun in a way invented during the Afghan war: they charged an unguided missile launching unit UB-32-57 taken from a helicopter , directly on the dome. For “bullet somewhere over there” – it will do.

They also try to “load” lightly armored tracked vehicles with some heavier weapons. For example, a turret from a self-propelled 120-mm gun 2S9 “Nona-S” is attached to the commander’s BRM-1K. Such a “mutant” in terms of firepower becomes comparable to a tank. Although it cannot boast of serious battlefield survivability.

Another tracked vehicle, the legendary “moto-tolyga” (MT-LB, “light armored multi-purpose transporter-tractor”), became the object of semi-manual improvement in all conflicts of the post-Soviet space. Why aren’t they “hanging” him in Ukraine! They put a mortar in the back, “screw” the UB-32-57 helicopter missile launcher already mentioned above, arm it with heavy machine guns and anti-tank missile launchers … But the most original version seen in Ukraine is the MT-LB, equipped with a 100mm anti-tank gun MT-12 “Rapier” and hung with additional booking sheets. Refuel anyway.

From the same series – a semi-serial Ukrainian monster called the Kevlar-E infantry fighting vehicle. This rarest “beast” is the same lightly armored “motorcycle”, but with a roof-mounted turret for the Shturm combat module with a 30mm automatic cannon, a 7.62mm machine gun, an automatic 30mm grenade launcher and an ATGM “Barrier “.

Of the rather curious, one can also mention a truck that was once seen on the front line, which in a past life worked as a shit truck – it served planes at the airfield. The special operation repainted it in camouflage and installed a twin 23mm ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun on the cover of the fecal tank.

Civilian pickups Mitsubishi L200, Toyota Hilux and others, as well as UAZ “loaves” with a sawn-off roof at the back, also turn into carriers of all kinds of weapons. From ATGM launchers to heavy machine guns. In specialized telegram channels even appeared photos with quad mounts of 7.62 mm machine guns “Maxim” mounted in their bodies – weapons of the First World War.

Well, “for a snack” we will call the Ukrainian mobile hospital “Kovcheg”, apparently released in one copy. A monstrous car on a four-axle chassis – apparently from a heavy truck. It is said to hold up to 50 wounded soldiers, for whose services there is even a shower.

And occasionally photos of Ukrainian-made buses slip through the media, as if they came from the filming of an action movie about the post-apocalypse. A kind of box on wheels encased in rusty steel plates and grilles. There is clearly no way to use them. After all, they can move only on smooth asphalt, which is almost impossible to find in places of active hostilities.

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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