Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Ukrainian counter offensive order of battle.

 via Asia Times

116th Brigade:

90 x BMP (Polish/Czech), already delivered.

13 x T-64 (Ukrainian), on hand.

17 x Unspecified tanks, TBD.

12 x AS-90 (British 155mm howitzer), April delivery. —these are 155mm howitzers equivalent to Krab, M109, PhZ2000 etc.


47th Brigade:

99 x M2 Bradley, delivery in late March.

28 x T-55S (Slovakia), on hand.

12 x M109 (American 155mm SPG), on hand.

12 x D-30 (old Soviet towed artillery), on hand.


33th Brigade:

90 x MaxxPro (American MRAPS), 20 on hand, the rest by late March.

14 x Leopard 2A6 (German), delivery estimated in April.

4 x Leopard 2A4 (Canadian), delivery April.

14 x Leopard 2A4 (Polish), delivery March.

12 x M119 (US light 105mm old howitzer), on hand.


21st Brigade:

20 x CVRT (old British Scorpion with 76mm gun), delivery in April.

30 x Senator (Canadian IMV, equivalent to Humvee, etc., only light machine guns), on hand.

20 x Bulldog, 21 x Husky (British light APC, akin to M113), x 10 M113’s, on hand.

30 x T-64 (Ukrainian), on hand.

10 x FH70 (old Italian towed 155mm howitzer from 1960’s), on hand.


32nd Brigade:

90 x MaxxPro (American MRAP), on hand.

10 x T-72 (Netherlands), delivery by April.

20 x Unspecified tanks (wishful thinking), TBD.

12 x D-30 (old Soviet howitzers), on hand.


37th Brigade:

30 x Mastiff/Husky (British MRAP w/ light weapons), delivery in April.

30 x Mastiff/Wolf (same thing), delivery expected.

30 x Senator (Canadian IMV, equivalent to Humvee), delivery TBD.

14 x AMX-10 (French wheeled “tank” with small 105mm gun), delivery in March.

16 x Unspecified tanks (wishful thinking), TBD.

12 x D-30 (Soviet howitzers again), delivery TBD.


118th Brigade:

90 x M113’s (American Vietnam-era APC tin-can), on hand.

28 x T-72 (Polish), by April.

6 x M109 (American 155mm SPG artillery), delivery in March.

8 x FH70 (old Italian towed howitzer), expected in April.

xxxx – Something unreadable but appears possibly more Senator IMV’s.


117th Brigade:

28 x Viking (Netherlands small APC), on hand.

10/20 x XA185 (Finnish APC equivalent to BTR-82a, etc.), estimated by April.

10 x Senators (Canadian Hummer), delivery TBD.

31 x PT-91 (upgraded Polish T-72’s), delivery in April.

12 x D-30 (Soviet artillery), on hand.

(xxxx – Something illegible).


82nd Brigade:

90 x Strykers (American IFV), expected March.

40 x Marders (German IFV), expected April.

14 x Challenger-2 (British MBT), expected April.

24 x M119 (U.S. light towed howitzer 105mm), on hand.

Its kinda obvious that certain brigades are designed to be breakthrough units and others are biased toward exploiting the breakthrough and pushing fast towards whatever objective they had in mind.

All this brings me to the action we saw with the Leopard MBT and Bradley IFVs that were attempting to breach a minefield.

Either this has been reconfigured or they're mixing up units.

This is a little service bias I guess but I wonder why they standardize on Brigades instead of Battalions.  A battalion (at least in the Marine Corps) seems to be a much more flexible and agile force.  The Command & Control to maneuver and fight Brigade sized units is probably beyond the Ukrainians ability.

Coordinating supporting fires from rockets, artillery, attack helicopters and whatever aircraft they have left has got to be a bear for them

The Ukrainian military was CRAZY to push this counteroffensive now.  If they had waited and built up combat strength then MAYBE next summer they could have pulled it off.

Now?

Now they're further weakened, the allies, to include the US are reaching the limits of their ability to support them militarily and the civilian population in Western countries are looking more and more at domestic issues.

This was a bad idea and poorly executed. 

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