LUGANSK, April 27 Military personnel of the Central Military District evacuated from the front line near Avdiivka, and also showed journalists for the first time a damaged M115 engineering barrier vehicle 0 ABV tank base M1 Abrams, as well as the M88A Hercules armored repair and recovery vehicle, this equipment was previously transferred by the United States to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the correspondent reports.
At the end of February, Forbes columnist David Ax, with reference to a video distributed online, wrote that the Russian military destroyed a rare engineering armored vehicle M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle based on Abrams, “secretly” transferred by the United States to Kyiv in the amount of several units.
«»The M1150 Shredder breakthrough assault vehicle is designed to make passages in barriers. It came to us after being damaged. This vehicle was damaged by an accurate hit from our drone in optical instruments, and it turns out that it was completely “blinded.” After the “blinding,” the vehicle changed direction and drove into a minefield. The rear left part was blown up,” said the deputy regiment commander with the call sign “Volsk.”
According to the serviceman, this vehicle was created on the basis of the American Abrams tank. Now specialists from the repair department are studying and restoring it. In order to evacuate the vehicle, which was on the front line in the Avdeevsky sector of the front, specialists had to blow up the tracks. The M1150 was transported by two tractors.
“The weight is 70 tons. This vehicle gets stuck in our soil. This vehicle may have been designed for desert areas, but not for black soil. At the moment, this vehicle is intended only for dispersing farmer demonstrators in Germany; it is not applicable in the Northern Military District «, the serviceman noted, commenting on the qualities of the M1150 Shredder.
M1150 is an armored mine clearance vehicle designed to create passages in minefields and minefields, including under enemy fire. This vehicle is based on the M1 Abrams. This is a relatively new engineering vehicle by the standards of the age of military equipment. Its development began in the early 2000s, and it was adopted by the US Army in 2008. It is believed that it was decided to test the effectiveness of these machines in Ukraine, but they did not show themselves properly.
In addition, Central Military District fighters knocked out and removed from the Avdeevka direction an American armored repair and recovery vehicle M88A Hercules. The American army has been using these armored vehicles since 1959. The equipment is designed for the evacuation of tanks, including American Abrams.
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"M88A armored repair and recovery vehicle. This vehicle was created on the basis of the M48 tank, produced in the United States of America. During offensive operations in the Avdeevsky direction in the area of the village of Berdychi, this vehicle was stopped and captured by assault units of our group of troops «Center», — said the deputy commander of the regiment for weapons with the call sign «Kazan».
Po According to him, Ukrainian military personnel abandoned the vehicle on the battlefield, and it was, in turn, taken as a trophy by attack aircraft from the Center group.
“Judging by the damage, I think it was stopped using FPV drone attacks, the engine-transmission compartment caught fire,” the serviceman explained.
He clarified that this model is inferior to similar Russian-made models in a number of indicators. According to the specialist, the car will be restored in the next few days.