Unusual equipment appears on the front line, according to journalists, and this is explained by the fact that the Russian Armed Forces have lost about 15,000 military vehicles in two years.
In the late 1970s, St. The Kirov Design Bureau in St. Petersburg received an order to develop a special-purpose reconnaissance vehicle. Forbes reports this.
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And not only armored vehicles intended for operation in radiation conditions. In addition to safety, it also had to be the most comfortable car. Sealed, autonomous, reliable armored, turretless, with remote compartments and oxygen supply.
As a result, Ladoga appeared. The design bureau produced only a few of these tracked vehicles, perhaps 4-5. One of them spent some time in the radiation zone at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. Another was taken to the museum, the others disappeared.
The fate of these vehicles was unknown until this week, when a Ukrainian drone struck a site believed to be Ladoga near Kremennaya.
The Kremlin is trying to build up a stockpile of combat vehicles, either through new production or by mothballing old ones, thus compensating for significant losses such as 15,000 units of equipment.
The quantitative difference between new armored vehicles (500 or 600 tanks and about a thousand combat vehicles per year) and annual losses (about 1,300 tanks and 1,700 combat vehicles) explains why unusual equipment, especially Chinese-made golf carts, appeared on the front lines.
Compared to the open golf cart, Ladoga is much more suitable for mechanized warfare. It has the armored hull of a T-80 tank with a gas turbine engine and a large fighting compartment for four people.
“Ladoga” is equipped with a camera and a full set of radio stations, which allows the vehicle to perform the command function in a nuclear war. We can imagine Soviet leaders taking shelter in safety in the Ladogas as NATO nuclear weapons rained down on them.
But its designers apparently did not imagine that 50 years later Russia would lose 15,000 armored vehicles in just two years in a non-nuclear war with independent, NATO ally Ukraine. And outdated armored vehicles will be transported to the front line.
Let’s remember that Russia protects Iskander missiles from electronic warfare with a new system.
It was also reported that the Russian Federation is modernizing its aerial bombs. Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine talked about the features of the new systems.
Source: Focus
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