Question about Ukraine OOB...

[MarkSheppard]

New Swedish arms package:

Things of note:

RBS-70 MANPADs
10 x CB 90 combat boats

~1 billion more SEK to the Swedish-Danish joint procurement of CV 90s for Ukraine.

[MarkSheppard]

ABRAMS IN ACTION

https://twitter.com/CasualArtyFan/st...91111521206274

Outside of Avdiivka, the 47th Mechanized Brigade uses M1A1 Abrams Tanks to slow the Russian advance.

While only 31 were given so far, the 47th says they’ve been used for over a month with great effect

https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1760984710392730062

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/...85166649110709

Also first semi confirmed Abrams hull loss, a M1150 ABV near Avadika.

https://twitter.com/Pion_2S7/status/...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

Also M2 Bradley in operation near Avadika as well:

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/s...23220806606898

US-supplied M2A2 Bradley IFV in Ukrainian service with the 47th Mechanized brigade, fighting in Avdiivka last month.

There's scenario possibilities there..

[MarkSheppard]

French have released this list:

https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sites/de...;Ukraine_0.pdf

Below, the quantitative list of military equipment actually delivered to Ukraine since the start of Russia's aggression on Ukrainian territory on February 24, 2022, until December 31, 2023 (deliveries of equipment carried out since 2024).

(Trimmed down for revelance to SPMBT)

• Night vision binoculars: 445
• AT4 rocket launcher system: 1,002
• Milan ATGM system: 3 launches, confidential number of missiles
• TRF1 155mm towed howitzer :6 cannons
• Caesar 155mm self propelled howitzer: 30 cannons
• LRU M270 MLRS Launchers: 4 units
• 120 mm mortars: 10
• Rattlesnake NG SAM (aka Crotale): 2 launchers, confidential # of missiles
• Mistral SAM: 6 launchers, confidential # of missiles
• SAMP/T SAM: 1 launcher, confidential # of missiles

Armored vehicles

• AMX10 RC: 38
• Armed VAB and medical VAB: 250

[DRG]

I have added the VAB. The AMX10 was already in.

AMX10 vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaWA4Y2xGJM

Stumbled onto an interesting factiod

Ukraine's average soldiers age is 43.......... that is right around the age in most armies now words like " I'm getting too old for this S#!T" are spoken.....

[Pibwl]

I couldn't restrain myself from posting, when I found this exceptional quailty video, what happens in a real life, when you fire at a hex with BTR-82A and its squad from a Bradley, possibly mortars, and on a minefield...

Warning: very graphic brutality.

https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros/sta...50008027377941

[Dion]

Broken link. Guess it was removed. I suppose it was too graphic even for the internet. It must have been a whopper.

[Pibwl]

I don't kow, it works when I click. However when I try on a different browser, where I am not logged to "X", it doesn't. I only occassionally use this portal, so I'm not sure how it works. Maybe it is that I follow Polish OSINT channel @wolski_jaros

[MarkSheppard]

https://twitter.com/AFVRec_/status/1772732087616835789

Out of all the vehicles that have been pulled out of storage and used by Russia in this war, this is one that was really at the bottom of my list to even see in theatre, never mind be destroyed.

The video shows what appears to be a Ladoga protected command vehicle, I won’t talk too much about it here as I made a whole post on the vehicle, so check below for the full info on it, in short it was designed to move senior Kremlin staff around under safety in the event of a nuclear attack, it was trialled in 1986 at the Chernobyl NPP.

Based on T-80 chassis with superstructure installed in place of turret.

https://twitter.com/AFVRec_/status/1695401878694043992

The Ladoga’s main test would be in Spring 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR. The vehicle with the callsign 317 was transported from Leningrad, Russian SFSR to Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR in May, the vehicle then went to the power plant to conduct chemical reconnaissance of the area, the vehicle was not alone and had a full CBRN company along with it, including decontamination systems as well as doctors and support troops. Supposedly the Ladoga even conducted extreme close up reconnaissance of the power plant, apparently inside the reactor room. The testing ended in Autumn that year, where it was sent back to Leningrad.

‘In total, from May 3 to September 28, 1986, "Ladoga" passed more than 4,720 km, overcoming sections with a background of up to 1600 R/hour, entering the engine room of the Chernobyl NPP, performing reconnaissance of the area in the territory adjacent to the fourth power unit. VTS "Ladoga" conducted a reconnaissance study of the area of the adjacent area, making video recordings of the most dangerous places and performing other works near the city of Pripyat and the destroyed power unit of the nuclear power plant.’

https://twitter.com/AFVRec_/status/1695402021740802417

According to sources no more than 4/5 vehicles were produced, including a prototype for testing in different areas of the USSR. There is 1x Ladoga on display in Patriot Park in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Rostov Region). The fate of the other vehicles are unknown.

[DRG]

It looks like Russian Unit 853 --BMR-3M/MA -- without the mine clearing device