As Ukraine prepares to launch a long-trumpeted counterattack, the first obstacle its soldiers must push through isn’t Russia’s defenses. It’s their own.
It is based on the chassis of the 2S1 tracked self-propelled howitzer.Once the line charge is in place, it is detonated, creating a shockwave that neutralizes or detonates any mines near the explosion and creates a safe path up to 6 meters wide and 90 meters long.The Leopard 2R mine-clearing tanks that Finland has transferred to Ukraine are developed on the basis of the Leopard 2A4 tank.Note: Illustrations are not to scale.
But the best option for this work — the M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle, based on the chassis of the American-made M1 Abrams battle tank — is not available to Ukraine, Matveichuk said. Washington has been urged to send them but has not done so.“Despite the significant amount of weapons provided to Ukraine to repel the aggressor’s attack, the problematic issue is the provision of engineering units with engineering tanks” and other technologies, Matveichuk wrote.
Steve Danner, a former U.S. Army engineer who now works as an infrastructure consultant, said other equipment could be sent: He pointed to a type of U.S.-owned armored digger, the Israeli-developed IDF Caterpillar D9. They were used in Iraq but are now “just rusting away” in storage in Kuwait, he said.
For Russia, the heavy, dirty work of fortification in Zaporizhzhia became urgent after Ukraine pushed Moscow’s troops from the northern Kharkiv region and forced them to retreat east across the Dnieper River in the southern Kherson region.
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