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.
It seems like it doesn’t have much in the way of weapons. What exactly were they hoping they would achieve with it on the front line?
The “front lines” stretch back a fair bit when one considers drones.
But to guess at some applications:
APC. Your goal is to move people without them getting ambushed by small arms and shrapnel. Not proof against a drone with sufficient payload, but the same is true for APCs.
Armored ambulance, if it’s got large enough hatches.
Use it as a command vehicle, if it’s got radios and space. If it’s got radios and such…shrugs