The Armed Forces on Stryker's fighting vehicles near Vovchansk was conducting circular defense - Forbes (photo, video)

According to journalists, Stryker crews usually avoid direct battles with mechanized or tank equipment, especially in open areas. Severe armored vehicles can apply its fire power. At the beginning of 2023, the United States handed over nearly 200 Stryker combat vehicles to Ukraine. And almost all 20 ton machines-with a machine gun or grenade launcher, with a capacity of 11 people-received a new 82nd ODSBR. Forbes writes about it.

Now, over a year, the 82nd Brigade finally unfolds its shunting vehicles in the conditions, which the General Dynamics manufacturer was designed when in the 1990s the Drawings of Striker. On Tuesday, the 82nd brigade posted a video confirming the deployment. On footage, removed drones and chambers on Hepro -like Hepro, paratroopers of the Armed Forces are fighting in the center of Vovchansk. At the same time, one soldier even released an anti -tank rocket from the open hatch Stryker.

"The task was to take a defensive position and restrain the enemy," one of the paratroopers told. The American unit that was the first to receive Stryker was the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division of the US Army. In October 2003, it was transferred to the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

"The unit performed several functions, the machines have proven themselves as shunting, high -speed and silent, which made them suitable for raids, patrols and operations from the environment and search on Mosul city streets," said Major Walter Gray in the 2017 study. Stryker crews avoid direct battles with Russian mechanized or tank equipment, especially in open areas, where heavier tanks and tracked combat vehicles can use fire power.

"The main role of the striker" Striker "is not to destroy Russian transport connections," Gray emphasized. When the fighters of the 82nd first entered the battle last summer, they acted in inappropriate terrain, against the Russian mechanized forces dug in the open fields of southern Ukraine. When the Southern Front stabilized and the Russians concentrated their forces in the east and north, the 82nd brigade had already been able to fight in a favorable area.

The rates were huge when the first groups of the 82nd Airborne Outstone team were stationed in Vovchansk. The group of Russian troops used the tactics of attack with infantry priority. "The assault groups, usually the size of a platoon (40 servicemen), come into battle with the stronghold, and then unite with other assault groups," explained the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies. This reduces losses, but slows down the pace of promotion.

The platoons of the Russians dispersed the neutral strip of the city in the center of Vovchansk. The front line was blurred, Ukrainian strikers "Strikers" were forced to fight 360 degrees. "We were holding circular defense," one of the paratroopers said. "They walked from all sides. " The Strikers Group is suitable for circular combat. These high cars serve as observation and shooting platforms thanks to the installed sensors and weapons, which does not allow the Russians to sneak them.