Explosive Tactics: Russia's New Fighting Vehicle and Incentivized Destruction of Western Weapons.
A Russian BTR-80 wheeled fighting vehicle with UB-32 rocket pods was destroyed by Ukrainian first-person racing drones in southern Donetsk Oblast, just 10 days after its public debut. The Russian army has been employing more and more crude technicals due to a growing shortfall of purpose-made fighting vehicles. The do-it-yourself vehicles are subject to the same hazards that have depleted Russia’s arsenal of purpose-made vehicles. The swift evolution, and extinction, of the BTR-80-UB-32 is a reminder that scale matters.