The old is new again as Russia’s broader war against Ukraine enters its fourth year. During World War II, some armies, notably the British Army, placed steel over the tank chassis and used the resulting “Funnies” to temporarily erect bridges through tank performance gaps. cars 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 that supports the 20,000 Ukrainian troops that forged a Kursk Kursk of 250 square miles in August, one of the funnels on the BTR-D bridge. Fountain escape analysts who seek evidence of Broken and Broken and Broken and Broken The destroyed armored cars have known at least one more.
The Funnies appear to be most active at the western end of the Kursk salient, where Russian paratroopers have counterattacked since November. To attack Ukrainian forces in and around the village of Darino, the Russians will first have to cross the Snahist River. The Ukrainians relentlessly bomb civilian bridges and any traditional pontoons or Russian engineering pontoons built in Kursk, and also attack the Russians’ specially designed bridge vehicles, which are gigantic and difficult.
Hence the turn to the fun BTR-D. They are as vulnerable to Ukrainian mines, missiles, artillery and drones as any combat vehicle – that is, very vulnerable – but would possibly be less vulnerable than those consistent with permanent bridges or slow engineering vehicles. -D is poorly protected, but at least it’s fast, with a top road speed of about 40 miles per hour.
The Ukrainians have knocked out at least two BTR-D funnies since November. But the do-it-yourself vehicles have helped Russian troops cross the Snahist River more than once and begin to contest the area around Darino.
Sources:
1. Kriegsforscher
2. Moklasen
3. Ukraine card
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