Russia and Ukraine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Russians are now using military weapons mounted on commandeered civilian vehicles in Ukraine, confirmed by Andrey Kelin (I’m sure there’s a correct military term for these hybrids). Some questions for people who know more about military stuff than I do:

Is it because their tanks are bogging down in the mud? Is it because they’re running out of tank fuel? It it because they’re running out of tanks? Is it a good idea use these when they can be disabled by a simple hunting rifle? Doesn’t this argue against Russia holding its premier equipment in reserve?

Boru

I get a rather humorous vision of someone driving around with a machine gun mounted on top of a car like my Buick Encore.  Have to admit I wouldn't be expecting and old broad in a Buick would be a military threat.

I am very much enjoying the info on this thread...Thump and Nudger have real life experience with this sort of thing and I am fascinated!

My military days were spent in communications...even if I was trained for a combat environment it basically meant I would be working comm in a specially rigged vehicle...probably not a Buick.

I’ve been doing some reading about these things, and it seems like they’ve been used with a fair degree of frequency in quite a few conflicts. But it still seems strange (if unsurprising) that Russia, with its aspirations to be a Great Power, has suffered such extensive equipment losses (per Nudger’s very informative post) that it’s been brought to the ‘make do’ stage.

I agree completely about the info here. Im learning a lot.

Boru