During the battles in the Kursk region, russian troops took an unusual step of sinking two of their BTR-D armoured personnel carriers to make crossings over small rivers. For the convenience of their infantry, russians placed wooden pallets on these armored vehicles, and as a result, the crossings had a rather unusual design.
The relevant photos have been spread on social media, and at first glance, it is surprising how irrationally russians used their armored vehicles.
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Usually, russian military leaders tend to focus only on equipment, not on their soldiers, because equipment is a scarce resource, unlike manpower.
According to The Military Balance 2024, the russian army's airborne troops had 550 BTR-D APCs at their disposal at the beginning of last year.
These Soviet-made armored vehicles can cross water obstacles at a speed of 10 km/h, so they can be used in the normal mode to cross rivers. Referring to the faulty vehicles that russian troops could deliberately use as a "basis" for crossings, it still seems irrational, because defective APCs could be disassembled for parts to repair serviceable ones.
Of course, all this could be much more prosaic: russian paratroopers tried to ford those rivers in their APCs, but the vehicles got stuck. Instead of retrieving them, russians decided to leave them in place and set up crossings.
If this assumption is correct, it still gives the impression that russians do not consider the rationality of using their armored vehicles during assault operations against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The result is that russians are now forced to produce assault vehicles based on GAZ-66 military truck.
As Defense Express reported, russian forces use North Korean weapons of questionable quality.
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