Old remains new as Russia’s broader war against Ukraine enters its fourth year. Giving World War II, some armies, the British Army, specifically, spread out in steel over the tank chassis and used the resulting “amusements” to temporarily erect bridges. The deficiencies of automobiles on the battlefield.
Eighty years later in Kursk Oblast in western Russia, Russian airborne troops have been deploying modified BTR-D air assault vehicles in the same way: piling what appear to be wooden floors on top of the 13-ton tracked vehicles and rolling them into rivers. Sinking into the muddy riverbeds, the vehicles’ improvised surfaces function as bridges.
Kriegsforscher, a Ukrainian drone operator supporting the 20,000 Ukrainian troops who carved out a 250-square-mile salient outpost of Kursk in August, one of the funnels of the BTR-D bridge. Open source analysts searching social media for evidence of broken and destroyed armored cars have come across at least one more.
Funnia appears to be the most active on the western border of the Kursk salient, where Russian paratroopers have been counterattacking since November. To attack Ukrainian forces in and around the village of Darino, the Russians will have to cross the Snahist River first. The Ukrainians relentlessly bombard civilian bridges and any traditional pontoons or pontoons of Russian engineers built in Kursk, and also attack the bridge vehicles specially designed by the Russians, which are giant and difficult.
Hence the rotation of the BTR-D entries. They are just as vulnerable to Ukrainian mines, missiles, artillery, and drones as any combat vehicle (i. e. , very vulnerable), but they would arguably be less vulnerable than bridges or permanent vehicles. Slow engineering. A BTR-D is slightly safe, but at least it’s fast, with a top highway speed of nearly 40 miles per hour.
The Ukrainians have eliminated at least two BTR-DSs since November. But DIY cars helped Russian troops cross the Snahist River several times and begin to conquer the domain around Darino.
Sources:
1. Kriegsforscher
2. Moklasen
3. Ukraine Control Map
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