Russian special military operation in Ukraine #43

Arkanghelsk wrote:I don't have criticism for Lapin, he did a good job

Although I think it is ridiculous that a Colonel General would have to resolve this situation

I'd want competent leadership of the border guards and Rosgvardiya to deal with these incursions

Lapin should have more important things to deal with, hopefully

Believe his present role is to co-ordinate the forces in the bordering Russian regions so it would fall under his job.

The worst two APC vehicles currently have Russia and the USA because both the BTR-82 and the Stryker are nothing but the worst piece of junk.

That is a ridiculous thing to say.

The Americans use Humvees for jobs the Russians use BTR-82s for... the Russian vehicle has armour protection from small arms fire and a stabilised cannon and machine gun and has very good mobility... the small trench that stopped those Humvees would not have stopped a BTR-82 and the BTR-82 would have been able to return fire with a decent calibre gun unlike the Humvee.

The BTR only has problems when you treat it like a BMP-3 because it is not that well protected and its fire power is not that good.

The Stryker replaces the M113 essentially which was a cheap aluminium box with an exposed guy hanging on to a 50 cal HMG... the Stryker has a better gun and is slightly better armed and has better mobility... hand grenade fragments could penetrate an M113 in Vietnam... it was troop transport and basic protection... you don't stay inside them when the enemy is shooting at you.

I don't understand why the Russians are testing the APC Boomerang so much because it's a freaking armored personnel carrier - not a spaceship.

The Boomerang is a vehicle family that includes a BTR but also a BMP and a tank and every other vehicle in an armoured division... they are getting the design right before they start making them and being a wheeled vehicle they are likely going to make a lot of them because wheeled vehicles are cheaper to buy and cheaper to operate than any tracked equivalent... so they are likely going to make a lot of them when they are ready.

You merely don't like the man because he dared to rightfully criticize Russian brass, and it's good he does. Someone who doesn't tolerate BS or incompetence gets the job done.

All fine and good, but when Rogozin does the same thing some people seem to rather want to hate him for it too.

We don't object to him solving his problems but doing it in public looks rather bad unless it is PR to fool the Orcs into thinking there is a gap in the Russian armour... in which case that is fine.

Comment from a resident

The plus markings almost as if they want the pictures of the destroyed vehicles to be proof the Russians are destroying Medical vehicles...

The general idea of an APC is more like a battlefield taxi. It supposed to deliver troop fairly close to the action but at a safe distance. The disembarked troops are then supposed to follow and cover the advancing tank units and the APC in turn covers the troops advance with it's machine gun or cannon. Very old school but this is the general idea of the BTR.

Exactly, it is low cost mobility that gets you to the fight and then recovers you to move you somewhere else when needed... it can retire and direct heavy fire on enemy positions but it is not intended to fight from it through enemy positions.

Not even BMPs are for that.... they just have better protection and can provide rather more powerful fire support to their disembarked troops.

The T-15 might be used to roll through enemy positions with its tank level armour but that has never really been tested yet.