Posted on 04/12/2025 8:33:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Drones swarmed the museum-grade GAZ-69 trucks. All along the front line, vehicle losses are spurring a swift de-mechanization of the Russian army.
A few weeks after first appearing in significant numbers along the front line in Ukraine, Russian GAZ-69 trucks—museum pieces from the 1950s—seem to have participated in their first direct assault on Ukrainian positions.
“We are an inch away from the GAZ-69 sturm,” open-source intelligence analyst Moklasen predicted on April 1, using slang for “attack.” They were right.
The Thursday assault outside Bilohorivka, at the juncture of Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts in eastern Ukraine, ended badly for at least one of the 3,500-pound, four-wheel-drive GAZ-69s, which rolled off the assembly line at the Molotov plant in Moscow some time between 1952 and 1972.
The trucks are totally unarmored except for the anti-drone cages some Russian troops weld onto them.
The GAZ-69 was struck by a first-person-view drone from the Ukrainian Abwehr Gruppe drone team, part of the 81st Air Mobile Brigade. The rest of the civilian-style vehicles in the platoon-sized column—potentially including additional GAZ-69s—also came under attack.
“No one arrived, no one reached” Ukrainian positions, the Abwehr Gruppe reported.
The best-protected Russian assault groups struggle to cross the mine-seeded, artillery-pocked, drone-patrolled front line of Russia’s 38-month-long wider war on Ukraine. Lightly protected assault groups in civilian trucks, all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles tend to fare even worse.
But more and more Russian regiments are riding in civilian vehicles as Russia’s losses of purpose-made combat vehicles exceed 20,000 and factories struggle to build new vehicles fast enough.
And that helps to explain why the numerically superior Russian force in eastern Ukraine, which may number more than half a million, has been struggling to gain ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Oh geesh. 🤣🤣🤣🤣💩💩🤡🙄
Good grief. Looks like what they drive in Cuba
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
“Ukraine is bragging about being able to destroy 70 year old trucks”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Bad Vlad and the rusty Rooski army gets clowned. Those rusty Russian trucks look like Franklin Roosevelt sent them over from Detroit’s River Rouge Plant.
No worries Marky.
I told your Momz I’d get her ride fixed.😄
😂🤡
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/UW4A8acZ9dI
Facts on the ground.
Maybe the US should quit sending money to President Penis and send some to Putin?
Fair is fair, right?
Are they using T-34’s, T-60’s, or T-72’s yet?
I’m about two seconds away from literally rolling the floor.
Tears of laughter are literally rolling down ....
I can’te even finish this post.
Canaris would be proud that his team is remembered. and honored. Or more likely from the Luftabwehr.
They just can't get away from their Nazi ties, can they?
Funny how orcs with shovels and electronics cobbled from washing machines and now with ancient trucks... are still winning and forcing back the combined military efforts of an alliance of 7 times their population spending (in Ukraine alone) many times the budget of the entire Russian military effort. That has got to be tremendously embarrassing.
This guy brings content from both Russia army and The Ukraine merc forces.
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary/videos
Seems the truth is different than fake news
Source :Kagan’s War Pigs for War 😂
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