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Russian army vehicle from the 1970s destroyed by Ukraine highlights Russia’s struggle with replacing its battle-stricken tank fleet (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Ukraine has destroyed an ultra-rare Soviet-era armoured vehicle that was first field-tested by the Russians at Chernobyl.

Battlefield footage shared on social media appeared to show the Ladoga nuclear command vehicle being targeted by a Ukrainian drone.

The vehicle was designed in the seventies to move senior Kremlin staff around in the event of a nuclear attack.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The Leopard 2 was designed in the 70s. So for battlefield vehicle designs, that is not necessarily outdated. Most fighter aircraft in use today were desgigned in the 70s: Su-27, MiG-29, sure, we think they're old, but the F-16, F-15, F/A-18 are the roughly the same age.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sure they're designed in the 70s, but the ones currently in service are usually not pulled out of a museum, like this one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

They're also usually updated, and not left how they came out of the factory.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The interesting bit is not that the Ladoga is an old vehicle, it's how incredibly rare it is. It must have been pulled from deep storage or a museum somewhere.

The result was the Ladoga. Kirovsky produced just a handful of the tracked vehicles—perhaps four or five. One spent some time in the fallout zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl following the plant’s deadly 1986 meltdown. Aside from another that landed in a museum, the Ladogas then ... disappeared.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/27/the-ladoga-was-the-soviet-unions-plush-nuclear-war-command-vehicle-a-drone-just-blew-one-up-in-eastern-ukraine/

It speaks volumes to the state of their armed forces to be resupplied with such a vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They hold Chernobyl and we know at least one is in the red yard at Chernobyl so guess where this one is probably from, I'd hit it with the fun meter to see how many giggles per hour is emiting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

The Rashists left Chernobyl after one of their crazy units dug in a radioactive forest, and the Ukrainian staff of the closed power plant scared the Rashists of all possible consequences.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Soviet warfare has always been a meat grinder and outdated equipment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Well yeah, but Soviet designs tended to be outdated by year 10 of being issued. Also Western Equipment got modernised constantly.