BTR-60

Huge success for the Ukrainians in that operation.

And as we saw last week, uh, they're throwing those BTR-60[rock music] In the electronic warfare space, there's been a very interesting report in the Wall Street Journal, uh, which is also based in our building here in London, talking about Ukraine's LEIMER EW system and how it successfully defeated Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles.

The report in the Wall Street Journal talks about an incident where two Iskanders were heading for a key Ukrainian government facility in Ukraine.

They were successfully spoofed, diverted to crash in the Dnipro River, causing effectively no harm.

It is a first in terms of warfare in history.

Old Soviet BTR-60 armoured carriers were rebuilt as remote-controlled kamikaze vehicles and driven into the strongest Russian fortifications.

In one intercepted call, a Russian officer could not believe Ukrainian robots had got so deep.

Georgian military analyst Resh Revishili summed it up for Newsweek.

This kind of softens up defensive positions and allows the humans to more safely advance on Russian positions.

And here, as I said earlier, this was a BTR-60, which is a Russian armored fighting vehicle that was rigged up with large amounts of explosives and sent towards a large defensive position in which it smashed into.

As you can see, massive explosion and a very effective weapon.

I mean, a BTR isn't the cheapest piece of equipment to sacrifice against this.

Dennis is a new player, and bless his heart.

He thought you had to assault with every single team inside of a unit of a large BTR-60 formation.

So instead of charging in with only like five shots of defensive fire, he charged in and got like 15 shots of defensive fire.

All he had to do was send in four dudes and kill the formation commander, and I would have got first place.

As has been the case throughout this conflict, not every figure can be independently verified in real time, but if accurate, that points to more than Ukraine taking back territory.

It suggests that Ukrainian forces are also breaking apart the units and systems Russia's been using to hold this part of the front, and Ukraine used some unusual tools to do it.

According to the Third Army Corps, Ukrainian forces used modified Soviet-era BTR-60s, uh, the eight-wheeled armored personnel carriers, to break through Russian defenses, but the vehicles were not used in the traditional manner.

Ukraine says the old armored vehicles have been converted so they can be driven remotely as attack vehicles to strike heavily fortified Russian positions without Ukrainian troops inside.

Despite the reported gains, Russian forces are still applying heavy pressure elsewhere in the region, especially farther south, where Moscow has been trying to push deeper into the city and surrounding areas.

And the tactic is fascinating.

They took the old BTR-60, which are eight-wheel amphibious Soviet troops, a real relic of the Cold War, and turned them into gigantic land kamikaze drones, driven at a distance.

Together with aircraft drones, they saturated the Russian defenses and captured over 250 soldiers.

Who wins? Ukraine, which compensates for the lack of fresh troops by recycling Soviet ships with modern software, an extreme optimization of resources.