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 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

Soviet warfare has always been a meat grinder and outdated equipment.