Well there was that one video on RIA with a Russian soldier rescued from captivity describing how AFU are using pickups with machine guns to assault infantry positions and capture prisoners. It sounded oddly efficient
100 years and tachankas made comeback. Seriously though they never left, just transformed. Improvised armed vehicles are called “technicals” and they are used in literally all conflicts, and can be quite effective if used properly.
Been using pickups with mortars to drive up to some village and commit totally not war crimes since 2014 too.
About efficiency…a pickup is a pickup. Not an APC. But yeah, they’re serviceable enough to be widely used as a military vehicle platform by militants that don’t have anything better. All over Middle East, for example. Even rocket artillery is installed sometimes.
P.S. Dumb example, not really Middle East, but you get it.
Well there was that one video on RIA with a Russian soldier rescued from captivity describing how AFU are using pickups with machine guns to assault infantry positions and capture prisoners. It sounded oddly efficient
100 years and tachankas made comeback. Seriously though they never left, just transformed. Improvised armed vehicles are called “technicals” and they are used in literally all conflicts, and can be quite effective if used properly.
Just look at Lybia-Chad war
Been using pickups with mortars to drive up to some village and commit totally not war crimes since 2014 too.
About efficiency…a pickup is a pickup. Not an APC. But yeah, they’re serviceable enough to be widely used as a military vehicle platform by militants that don’t have anything better. All over Middle East, for example. Even rocket artillery is installed sometimes.
P.S. Dumb example, not really Middle East, but you get it.
Ayup. Now you have tanks to support these humvee groups. Say a tank per pickup platoon. Suddenly it’s not a joke