Ukraine's 42nd Brigade Has The Best Strykers—And The Worst MT-LBs
The 42nd Brigade has Strykers: at least a battalion’s worth. It’s worth asking why it doesn’t have more.
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The 42nd Brigade has Strykers: at least a battalion’s worth. It’s worth asking why it doesn’t have more.
It’s apparent the Frankenstein’s monster of a combat vehicle is even less than the sum of its crude components.
A recent video posted by Ukraine’s military shows an MT-LB armored tractor of Ukraine’s 67th Mechanized Brigade with an old 85-millimeter D44 gun on top.
Enterprising Ukrainian technicians even have fitted the old D-44 gun to 1970s-vintage MT-LB armored tractors to produce a new kind of tank-destroyer. An MT-LB-44.
The MT-LB-A-22 is a fire-support vehicle. The A-22 launcher, which also arms Russian navy amphibious vessels, can fire unguided rockets out to a distance of five miles or so.