Hi! Amazing video once again. Would you be intrested in making a video about the Finnish mechanised units. They are intresting as they mix leopard 2a6s and modernised bmp 2s.
Hi. I fought for three and a half years in the 14th mechanized brigade, until the summer of 2022, very accurate description, everything is correct. Video with javelin operators with red patches and shooting at a BRDM target is our anti-tank division at the training ground in the summer of 2020. Mechanized battalions on BMP 1, motorized infantry battalion on BTR 70 and BMP 1. Tank battalion on t72
Not really. It's just that everyone ignored us when we said the TRUTH about how shit the ruzzian army is. only thing they have is numbers and inhuman cruelty to everything - even the numbers themselves.
About the SVDs - they have been totally rulled out of use before feb 24 2022, and replaced by a locally produced UAR-10s. Of course since mobilization started, everything is used
Sniper weapons are a veritable zoo - UAR-10 is by far the least numerous rifle. SnipeX, Barrett, Sako, Desert Tech, SIG Sauer and Desert Tech are more plentiful each than Zbroyar UAR-10. Also snipers are allowed to use their own guns as long as they have spare parts and ammo for them, notably some rare South African Denel with interchangable barrels chambered in 14.5 and 20mm cartriges
@@SerCommander that’s true, but here I’d say the UAR served as main marksman/support rifle, it’s hard to call it a sniper rifle or to put together in a row with the other ones you mentioned, since the idea of it is different. But, the process to get rid of SVDs in regular units started two-three years before. There is a nice video about it, though only In Ukrainian, but with subs
Correction - BTR-4 is not a modernized vehicle, it is reworked design and manufactured from the scratch, based on the legacy of previous BTR models with a large pinch of NATO IFVs in them.
Need to mention that SVD was mostly replaced by domestic produced Zbroyar Z-10 (AR-10 derivative) as standard issue marksman rifle in 7.62 NATO for 3 reasons 1) sniper ammo for 7.62R stocks were mostly depleted 2) SVD's were in bad shape, and poorly performed in DMR role. 3) variety of optics for SVD is low, and Z-10 use picatinny rail for scopes. Yet you can find svd's from time to time. Also, field manuals weren't updated for a while, and not every unit follows them.
@@hallojutuhb9071 1. 7.62x54r migh have been a rifle cartridge during the russian revolution but right now its primarily made to be fired out of a PKM. 2.) PKM is a machine gun.
@@hallojutuhb9071 WTF are u talking about? Of course PKM uses RIFLE cartridge... That's the main difference between it and RPK family. So SWD and PKM indeed use same cartridge.
@@eduardostapenko6808t is the name of the book an miniseries much like Band of brothers, based on 1st. recon bn. USMC invasion of Iraq 2003. They were also mounted oh humvees and conducted assaults. Heavyli misused throught the war. Really good show and book
Brilliant clear production helping all to understand AFU structures & weapons distribution with squad structures, thanks for enlightening us armchair soldiers. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 .
No its not. Its a heavily modified btr-80 to fill a gap between old soviet crap and modern Patria-alike APC wich was to be created but the war started.
Slick and well-presented video, thank you. I ordered one of those Cyborg shirts also, thanks for the suggestion. Had to look up the 'Cyborg' reference, and that's was a pretty cool story all on it's own; great idea honestly. Slava Ukraini
So it's mostly still a Soviet era combined arms doctrine paired with western pull type logistics. Which is not a bad thing. Zaluzhny himself is a big admirer of Soviet army doctrine, and executed it masterfully in the past year.
centralization of heavy AT assets was an American practice as well (if we think of Javelin as a stand-in for TOW in the Ukrainian army), with brigade and battalion anti-armor companies in various forms. An airborne infantry battalion used to have a 30x HMWWV TOW company. A Marine tank battalion also gets 24x HMMWV TOW in the H&S company anti-armor platoon. Just like how US army is centralizing artillery in new division organization, in large-scale combat, it's crucial for higher commanders to be able to concentrate AT assets to break mass armor attacks when the enemy tries to punch through.
Well, the Ukrainians have things that stand in for a TOW better than a Javelin, for example, the Malyutkas or Fagots mentioned later in the video. They all have a greater range than a Javelin, but they are heavier and are SACLOS, meaning they aren't fire and forget weapons. The reason Ukrainians concentrate them the way they do is to centralize the logistics of it due to the finite supply of Javelin tubes and make it a higher level command decision to commit those weapons to a mission. If they had a larger supply, they probably would become organic to the company or platoon like NLAWs are. At least, that's my analysis of the facts presented here.
@@SirCheezersIII Availability is precisely why we can consider it to be relatively similar to TOW in its role. The supply of ANY heavy ATGM in that kind of conflict is limited, including those AT-3 and AT-4, as well as Stugna. You don't want piecemeal employment (similar rationale applies to artillery). If we look at what the Ukrainians have in their inventory, Javelin does fit in that category - armor-defeating capability- and range-wise - only being outclassed by Stugna. It has been the norm not the exception to concentrate your best AT assets whenever possible, even US army doctrine prior to the COIN-centric changes had focused on centralizing control, massing firepower, maximizing depth, and employing them in accordance with the higher commander's intent - only task-organizing and distributing these units when METT-T require.
Although this structure and equipment are more common for pre-war time, today`s AFU is pretty much a puzzle due to all foreign aid we`ve got. Considering last aid packages and future ones, soon we`ll going to see separate brigades armed with M2`s, Marders and Leopards. There will be a lot of work to deal with unification. Also interesting to hear your thoughts about probabilities and caveats of futures possible transition from brigades to divisions.
A very clear overview as always. The chapter on the Javelin was particularly interesting. Whether to concentrate or disperse specialized AT-assets is always a difficult decision.
It is more expensive to disperse them but every country that can afford to does. The question is less about the efficacy of either option and more about cost. Dispersing them means needing more AT weapons for the same fighting force, but they will be readily available whenever enemy armor makes and appearance. Concentrating them mean less AT weapons are needed but requires knowing where enemy armor is and if enemy armor surprises you, then your forces will be without AT support against enemy armor until the AT unit can show up.
@@TJackson736 I guess in a full scale war like this you have to stop big armored brigade attacks sometimes, that is where it could be useful. I mean if enemy is concentrating 40+ tanks somewhere together with many IFVs you will know about this
Finding this right after watching Kings and Generals is perfect because those videos usually have a lot of focus on what kind of unit is fighting, but I had only a vague understanding of what those definitions mean before finding this channel
@@Andriy_Sklyar Ukrainians attacking with Humvee's. Humvees weren't made for frontline combat, but people still use them for assaulting. That was one of the big gripes for the recon marines in Iraq. They were supposed to be a recon and opserve unit, but they assaulted airfields that had, at least according the intel, at least an armored brigade and fortifications. Luckily there wasn't any resistance. Sure Humvees do have the speed, but there is no armor.
@@Andriy_Sklyar All of us, in the west and in the east and propably you in between, were surprised how well you did, how poorly Russian army did and how the national pride rose against the invader. Not many expected that west would do anything. Not even Putin. He took too big of an bite to swallow and now he is chocking on it. Let's hope you don't end up like we did in the Winter War, and you get your land back.
Mechanised and motorized troops usually use the AKS74 with foldable skeleton stock. That's what we used in the 58th motorized brigade and that is a territorial defense unit lower on the equipment list.
@@luminaaeterna1259 Territorial defence force is similar to militia or lower grade units often created to function as a garrison to free up the better troop as well as consisting of former militias now under military command and control, the nation guard is under the interior ministry and function as internal police/national guard in the US for example, they are not meant to be an offensive force or maybe aggressive force is more correct.
@@luminaaeterna1259 Light infantry tends to be specialised AFAIK, think of the TDF as second rate troops in most cases. We had tanks btrs and even an artillery detachment, have to admit I am not sure how the Ukrainians set up their units but this was in the westernisation phase, usually you have detachments of armor recon artillery etc you can attach onto other units if there is a need for it, we had self propelled artillery and tanks, how normal that is I am not sure, we were motorized but on paper mechanised a process that had been ongoing since 2015 if I remember correctly. Then again we were at a very exposed position likely to be the focus of a breakthrough in the event of things going hot, so that might be why we had the heavy support, or it could be what the defence ministry wanted all mechanised TDF units to have. Again on the composition I am not to sure as I was just infantry, and tbh I did not care much for things outside my field or ability to affect. I believe there exists an English Wikipedia page on the 58th, not sure if they are currently listed under mechanised or motorized, if it helps and you want to dig it consists of former donbass militia units. You should probably be able to figure out the composition norms and current state if you have some patience and a translator.
@@INSANESUICIDE I understand, thank you for taking the time in answering some random idiot's questions in the internet I've always wanted to learn more but I don't know which sources for diving deeper are credible enough and where to start
Man I love Ukrainian Uniforms and Equipment can't wait for them to totally modernize all of their Soviet equipment like they did with BMP-1 with BMP-1U that has a better a more modern autocannon
@@whybndsu Also Russia helps with modernization. They gave to Ukraine 63 BMP-3, 228 BMP-2 and 6 BMP-1AM. I think with this much modern and semi-modern IFVs, UAF can rearm several of her independent mechanized brigades.
@@whybndsu I am happy to see NATO and the US sending their own equipment to Ukr. I'd like to see how much equipment you have left to support them. LOL from China.
5:50 we don't have "starshina" rank anymore. Now we have various sergeants like USA and NATO countries. I believe in platoon there's "Main sergeant of platoon", ranked "main sergeant", but I can be wrong
You know what would be a really cool video? A historical overview of the role of the main "combat arms," including the three classic ones (infantry, artillery, and cavalry) as well as the modern ones (armor, helicopter, etc).
That would be neat heard that the foreign legion has a spetnaz unit but I don’t think there is much if any information on them still would be cool to see there SF in detail
@@vapelordmarco4203 "Spetsnaz" are not SOF, they're simply Specialized units, like Recon, for example. Say a Recon Battalion is attached to a Mech Brigade, that Recon Btn is considered "Spetsnaz" as it's specialized in Recon.
@@woolytemple3667 Kind of. While Marine Force Recon is SOF capable, say the Navy is busy, the Marines CAN send in Force Recon as part of a JSOC mission. Most Spetsnaz don't operate on that level.
Jesus, it’s so crazy seeing their org chart that’s been shaped by modern major combat ops but also the Frankenstein aspect of it due to its soviet era military inheritance coupled with mishmash of donor equipment
Excellent video, very obvious that it is well researched and detailed. It will be interesting to see how our army structure changes after we finish this war )
Your explication is so quick but clear. I struggle understanding combat structures at scale but you made it simpler. Any chance you could do a general army structure video from individual to whatever the biggest unit in the military would be. That base explanation would help me understand this even more.
Main thing does not mentioned in video, this is theoretical structure. In wartime amount of equipment is much lower, even infantry weapons are mix of everything. Some brigades have a lot of captured equipment, some have few old soviet half working things. Constant shortages of heavy equipment, in comparison to russian
A lot of people especially in pro Russian camps tend to tout this idea that Ukraine is NATO spec but this video shows how far that is from reality. They've done joint exercises and had a lot of consulting and outside training since 2014 especially but the military is wholly Ukrainian built and mostly based on what they would already know.
@@prfwrx2497 Yeah, rockets are a great high explosive asset but the back blast can make geometries tricky; especially in an urban setting. But maybe the RPG back blast isn’t as restrictive as either the AT-4 or LAW?
I would really be interested to know more about how Territorial Defense is equipped and how they are typically used. Would also be interesting to know which formations are getting the new NATO equipment being sent.
Territorial Defence it is in vast majority light infantry on pick up trucks. Some of them(4-5 brigades)would have some tanks, APCs and proper artillery. They're being just like any other light infantry unit. Securing the rear, patrolling roads, guarding crossroads, bridges etc. Securing second and third-tier parts of the front, fighting in heavy environments like cites, heavy forests, hills etc where wide use of heavy equipment is not practical or even possible. Most of foreign help is going to either reserve brigades which were mobilezed after the war started or to those units that suffered to most in the spring.
@@norbi1411 truth be told, territorial defence units (also known here as ТрО) were used as frontline infantry in some cases last summer. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt
@@norbi1411 Ok so for example even M113's and Humvees are not going to territorial defense but instead to reserve units of motorized infantry I assume. So all those technicals we see with rockets in the back etc. are probably made by/for territorial defense?
A regular Territorial Defense battalion has 3...7 riflemen companies + fire support company (heavy grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, atgms) + 82mm/120 mm mortar battery + reconnaissance pt, engineering pt, signals pt and medical pt. There is no armoured vehicles in those batallions, mostly upgraded pickups and civil trucks. Territorial Defense battalions are often attached to the mechanized/tank brigades, being widely used in trench warfare, building and holding a defensive line along the border, or as the 2nd echelon during the offensive.
As Ukrainian, Ter forces just meat reinforce, which are usually used as reinforcements for mechanized brigades, modern technical units are receiving new formations like 47, 33, 82, 155 brigades
Ukraine abandoned svd . BTR4 is not a modernization of the Soviet armored personnel carriers 70-80, it is a completely new vehicle, with a different engine layout, with different weapons. with another body...
As an Elf from UKR aremored forces, thats video is a complete truce, but one: we dont use SVD as sniper rifle anymore from 2017, its a Teritorial defence rifle now in common, and of cource we use more NATO combat rifles and machineguns
This really helps to understand the scale of the military Ukraine receives. 14 tanks from the UK doesn't seem much at first, but add 2 companies more and it already satisfies the whole brigade.
great once again, thanks for the informative video! especially the place of the javelin in orbat is interesting, as is the placement of an anti-air platoon per batallion.
Many of the Ukrainian battalions nominally under the brigade but are actually separate. If the battalion has a number other than 1, 2, and 3 its technically a seperate battalion which can fight on its own.
@@questionmaker5666 exept that they didnt left any cultural mark on the peninsula and they didnt populate all of the peninsula so technically it wasnt fully over their control
weapons can be different, for example, instead of a SVD, there can be a Z-10, and instead of an AK, a MALYK or M4 or another trophy or transferred weapon
Sure but I think the fight in Ukraine has demonstrated that small arms are much the same. Well apart from manpads and atgm. Tanks, ifv, artillery, anti radiation missles etc this high level tech seems to make a big difference. That's just my take. But it is true what you said small arms are very mixed ATM.
@@brandondavis7777 It either is an "upgraded version" or it's not, and BTR4 is not, it's not a matter of opinion it's a fact that he got wrong. Also Crimea is a territory of OK South too.
If Ukrainian mech infantry can put one Javelin attached to a platoon to good work, imagine what a US platoon could do to a Russian tank attack with three organic Javs. Spoiler alert: at NTC, a Stryker BN wiped the floor with the enemy's tank-led counterattack on a recently captured town. All the BLUFOR had to do was set up hasty positions (took 20 tops minutes for a bunch of loud NCOs to reorganize two companies to face the enemy's direction of attack) and wait for the enemy to come into range. 8 tanks and 11 IFVs were destroyed in 15 minutes, and that was before the AH-64s from Brigade showed up. I imagine a Russian attack going just as well when those boys have the drop on them, but hey, you never know for sure until real bullets start flying.
More like the russian staging area for their assault gets hit by airstrikes or rocket artillery and they’re routed before their attack even makes contact lmao. But yeah, the number of javelins the US has is fucking insane. Probably goes back to cold war doctrine where every NATO military was obsessed with having as many mobile ATGMs as possible to attrit soviet/eastern bloc mechanized units, which made very heavy use of armor
only in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, the effectiveness of the javelin is about one hundred percent. This is a record in the history of javelins.) ✌️
I will weight in on compensation, as you've mentioned it. The salary is quite big by Ukrainian standards but if you are on front lines, you spend almost all of it on fight. Better equipment, thermal vision, copters, Startlink subscription, new vehicles, vehicles maintenance and even fuel - your life depends on it, so if you are on front lines you see money come and go in a blink of an eye.
And up recently there was a JFO command with it's own command staff that commanded units in JFO operational zone. (former ATO zone) It might still exist, just, it's commander got sacked recently.
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This video is based on Ukrainian doctrinal publications listed in the description and may not necessarily reflect the reality on the ground.
awesome 😎
We will know the exact details in 2-3 years after the war and the battlefield documents are being decrypted.
Basically, this video is entirely irrelevant and inaccurate already
@@512TheWolf512 no u
Hi! Amazing video once again. Would you be intrested in making a video about the Finnish mechanised units. They are intresting as they mix leopard 2a6s and modernised bmp 2s.
Hi. I fought for three and a half years in the 14th mechanized brigade, until the summer of 2022, very accurate description, everything is correct. Video with javelin operators with red patches and shooting at a BRDM target is our anti-tank division at the training ground in the summer of 2020. Mechanized battalions on BMP 1, motorized infantry battalion on BTR 70 and BMP 1. Tank battalion on t72
Well-balanced fighting units.
Your english is extremely good.
Thank you for your service!
@@ReySchultz121 ppl in Ukraine have high English skill, cuz children begin to learn it in 1/2 class, if not in kindergarten
@@maksimfedoryak, щось я не дуже володію англійською. Розуміти - розумію, але говорити - не зможу.
It would be interesting to see a video on them in 2014. They've made unbelievable progress since then.
Not really. It's just that everyone ignored us when we said the TRUTH about how shit the ruzzian army is.
only thing they have is numbers and inhuman cruelty to everything - even the numbers themselves.
From orc takticks to orc killer takticks🤟🏻🤟🏻
@@789know yup everyone knows soledar was the goal of this invasion
@@789know soldiers get killed during war? Who could have thought 🤯
@@789know Cope harder, Orc.
About the SVDs - they have been totally rulled out of use before feb 24 2022, and replaced by a locally produced UAR-10s. Of course since mobilization started, everything is used
Sniper weapons are a veritable zoo - UAR-10 is by far the least numerous rifle. SnipeX, Barrett, Sako, Desert Tech, SIG Sauer and Desert Tech are more plentiful each than Zbroyar UAR-10.
Also snipers are allowed to use their own guns as long as they have spare parts and ammo for them, notably some rare South African Denel with interchangable barrels chambered in 14.5 and 20mm cartriges
@@SerCommander that’s true, but here I’d say the UAR served as main marksman/support rifle, it’s hard to call it a sniper rifle or to put together in a row with the other ones you mentioned, since the idea of it is different.
But, the process to get rid of SVDs in regular units started two-three years before. There is a nice video about it, though only In Ukrainian, but with subs
@@SerCommander the video in question ruclips.net/video/Hd7ciM6M6uc/видео.html
@@yuriistasinchuk6807 link?
@@yuriistasinchuk6807 I would like to watch that video if you can locate a link please.
Correction - BTR-4 is not a modernized vehicle, it is reworked design and manufactured from the scratch, based on the legacy of previous BTR models with a large pinch of NATO IFVs in them.
yeah i mistook it for the french armored transport for a second, the way the front part is shaped with the driver's door and windows
Need to mention that SVD was mostly replaced by domestic produced Zbroyar Z-10 (AR-10 derivative) as standard issue marksman rifle in 7.62 NATO for 3 reasons 1) sniper ammo for 7.62R stocks were mostly depleted 2) SVD's were in bad shape, and poorly performed in DMR role. 3) variety of optics for SVD is low, and Z-10 use picatinny rail for scopes. Yet you can find svd's from time to time.
Also, field manuals weren't updated for a while, and not every unit follows them.
beat up svd firing machinegun ammo isnt exactly a "sniper rifle"
@@Slaapaav 1. The SVD was never used in a sniper role but in a DMR role. 2.) 7.62x54R is a rifle cartridge
@@hallojutuhb9071 1. 7.62x54r migh have been a rifle cartridge during the russian revolution but right now its primarily made to be fired out of a PKM. 2.) PKM is a machine gun.
@@Slaapaav Dude, plz check the definition and differences of rifle cartridges and for example intermediate cartridges.
@@hallojutuhb9071 WTF are u talking about? Of course PKM uses RIFLE cartridge... That's the main difference between it and RPK family. So SWD and PKM indeed use same cartridge.
1:55 I laughed so hard at the Generation Kill reference 😂
i didnt, even thought i noticed it. cause i didn't understand the refference.
can yu explain it please?
@@eduardostapenko6808t is the name of the book an miniseries much like Band of brothers, based on 1st. recon bn. USMC invasion of Iraq 2003. They were also mounted oh humvees and conducted assaults. Heavyli misused throught the war. Really good show and book
@@darkogaurina4778 thanks for the inro, i wattched the series. i just didn't get the reference
Brilliant clear production helping all to understand AFU structures & weapons distribution with squad structures, thanks for enlightening us armchair soldiers.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 .
slava ISAF
Always love seeing a notification that you've uploaded a video.
Thank you for the work that you do.
btr 4 is indigenously produced not modified, that would be btr 3 (modification of old btrs with new armament and internal components)
BTR-4 is not an upgraded vehicle. It's a totally new design
No its not. Its a heavily modified btr-80 to fill a gap between old soviet crap and modern Patria-alike APC wich was to be created but the war started.
@@borisbritva8486 absolutely not. It has no relation to BTR-80 at all.
The old Soviet DNA is in the design but I would agree, it is an entirely new platform, not some upgrade package.
@@mrx1979ua but in the result it don’t have anything in common with BTR-80
Different engine, place for engine, infantry places, weapon and tactics
@@jackjones7275 That's why I said it's a 100% new design
Slick and well-presented video, thank you. I ordered one of those Cyborg shirts also, thanks for the suggestion. Had to look up the 'Cyborg' reference, and that's was a pretty cool story all on it's own; great idea honestly. Slava Ukraini
So it's mostly still a Soviet era combined arms doctrine paired with western pull type logistics. Which is not a bad thing. Zaluzhny himself is a big admirer of Soviet army doctrine, and executed it masterfully in the past year.
Today Ukraine army is more like Britain army
They lost so many equipment and are getting pumped with NATO stuff, so I think soon other than tanks and artillery nothing will stay soviet
@@christianvincentcostanilla8428 why?
centralization of heavy AT assets was an American practice as well (if we think of Javelin as a stand-in for TOW in the Ukrainian army), with brigade and battalion anti-armor companies in various forms.
An airborne infantry battalion used to have a 30x HMWWV TOW company. A Marine tank battalion also gets 24x HMMWV TOW in the H&S company anti-armor platoon.
Just like how US army is centralizing artillery in new division organization, in large-scale combat, it's crucial for higher commanders to be able to concentrate AT assets to break mass armor attacks when the enemy tries to punch through.
Well, the Ukrainians have things that stand in for a TOW better than a Javelin, for example, the Malyutkas or Fagots mentioned later in the video. They all have a greater range than a Javelin, but they are heavier and are SACLOS, meaning they aren't fire and forget weapons. The reason Ukrainians concentrate them the way they do is to centralize the logistics of it due to the finite supply of Javelin tubes and make it a higher level command decision to commit those weapons to a mission. If they had a larger supply, they probably would become organic to the company or platoon like NLAWs are. At least, that's my analysis of the facts presented here.
@@SirCheezersIII Availability is precisely why we can consider it to be relatively similar to TOW in its role. The supply of ANY heavy ATGM in that kind of conflict is limited, including those AT-3 and AT-4, as well as Stugna. You don't want piecemeal employment (similar rationale applies to artillery).
If we look at what the Ukrainians have in their inventory, Javelin does fit in that category - armor-defeating capability- and range-wise - only being outclassed by Stugna.
It has been the norm not the exception to concentrate your best AT assets whenever possible, even US army doctrine prior to the COIN-centric changes had focused on centralizing control, massing firepower, maximizing depth, and employing them in accordance with the higher commander's intent - only task-organizing and distributing these units when METT-T require.
The production quality on this video is breathtaking. Nice work.
I love your videos, your channel is incredible and you yourself seem to be a moraly good person.
Keep it up.
I really found gold with this channel getting reccomended, as a person who was always interested in organizational structures that make the world run
"As for Javelin missiles, while the US Army use them as platoon or squad weapon, no other country can afford that."
God bless America.
"the Humvees the 58th and 59th Motorized brigades have been using to recreate Generation Kill" i had a good chuckle there.
Although this structure and equipment are more common for pre-war time, today`s AFU is pretty much a puzzle due to all foreign aid we`ve got. Considering last aid packages and future ones, soon we`ll going to see separate brigades armed with M2`s, Marders and Leopards. There will be a lot of work to deal with unification.
Also interesting to hear your thoughts about probabilities and caveats of futures possible transition from brigades to divisions.
I hope these people can pull it off and liberate all their land
Such unprecedented courage in this day and age
Man, the edits on your videos are just amazing. Awesome work!
A very clear overview as always.
The chapter on the Javelin was particularly interesting. Whether to concentrate or disperse specialized AT-assets is always a difficult decision.
It is more expensive to disperse them but every country that can afford to does. The question is less about the efficacy of either option and more about cost. Dispersing them means needing more AT weapons for the same fighting force, but they will be readily available whenever enemy armor makes and appearance. Concentrating them mean less AT weapons are needed but requires knowing where enemy armor is and if enemy armor surprises you, then your forces will be without AT support against enemy armor until the AT unit can show up.
@@TJackson736 I guess in a full scale war like this you have to stop big armored brigade attacks sometimes, that is where it could be useful. I mean if enemy is concentrating 40+ tanks somewhere together with many IFVs you will know about this
Чудове відео, як завжди
Pleasure to watch, especially during a live air raid alert with Kalibrs in the air in the region's vicinity
2:45 SVD was replaced to Zbroyar Z-10, the same name UAR-10.
Finding this right after watching Kings and Generals is perfect because those videos usually have a lot of focus on what kind of unit is fighting, but I had only a vague understanding of what those definitions mean before finding this channel
use Humvees to "recreate Generation Kill", best line ever...
"Gentlemen, we just seized an airfield."
They successfully did that under Kharkiv
@@Andriy_Sklyar Something like this. /watch?v=nur-e3EvUIs
I recommend watching/reading the Generation Kill.
@@Andriy_Sklyar Ukrainians attacking with Humvee's. Humvees weren't made for frontline combat, but people still use them for assaulting. That was one of the big gripes for the recon marines in Iraq. They were supposed to be a recon and opserve unit, but they assaulted airfields that had, at least according the intel, at least an armored brigade and fortifications. Luckily there wasn't any resistance. Sure Humvees do have the speed, but there is no armor.
@@Andriy_Sklyar All of us, in the west and in the east and propably you in between, were surprised how well you did, how poorly Russian army did and how the national pride rose against the invader. Not many expected that west would do anything. Not even Putin. He took too big of an bite to swallow and now he is chocking on it. Let's hope you don't end up like we did in the Winter War, and you get your land back.
The bursting bomb is a grenade and that is a symbol for grenadiers and other often 'elite' or 'heavy' troops.
Mechanised and motorized troops usually use the AKS74 with foldable skeleton stock. That's what we used in the 58th motorized brigade and that is a territorial defense unit lower on the equipment list.
If you don't mind answering, What are the differences between the Ukrainian National Guard and the Territorial Defense Forces?
@@luminaaeterna1259 Territorial defence force is similar to militia or lower grade units often created to function as a garrison to free up the better troop as well as consisting of former militias now under military command and control, the nation guard is under the interior ministry and function as internal police/national guard in the US for example, they are not meant to be an offensive force or maybe aggressive force is more correct.
@@INSANESUICIDE Ohhh interesting
Do TDFs get heavier equipment as well? Or they're mostly consisting of Light Infantry at least on paper
@@luminaaeterna1259 Light infantry tends to be specialised AFAIK, think of the TDF as second rate troops in most cases. We had tanks btrs and even an artillery detachment, have to admit I am not sure how the Ukrainians set up their units but this was in the westernisation phase, usually you have detachments of armor recon artillery etc you can attach onto other units if there is a need for it, we had self propelled artillery and tanks, how normal that is I am not sure, we were motorized but on paper mechanised a process that had been ongoing since 2015 if I remember correctly. Then again we were at a very exposed position likely to be the focus of a breakthrough in the event of things going hot, so that might be why we had the heavy support, or it could be what the defence ministry wanted all mechanised TDF units to have. Again on the composition I am not to sure as I was just infantry, and tbh I did not care much for things outside my field or ability to affect. I believe there exists an English Wikipedia page on the 58th, not sure if they are currently listed under mechanised or motorized, if it helps and you want to dig it consists of former donbass militia units. You should probably be able to figure out the composition norms and current state if you have some patience and a translator.
@@INSANESUICIDE I understand, thank you for taking the time in answering some random idiot's questions in the internet
I've always wanted to learn more but I don't know which sources for diving deeper are credible enough and where to start
Man I love Ukrainian Uniforms and Equipment can't wait for them to totally modernize all of their Soviet equipment like they did with BMP-1 with BMP-1U that has a better a more modern autocannon
They're getting bradleys and marders soon so we could finally see them doing NATO-style combined arms
@@whybndsu Also Russia helps with modernization. They gave to Ukraine 63 BMP-3, 228 BMP-2 and 6 BMP-1AM. I think with this much modern and semi-modern IFVs, UAF can rearm several of her independent mechanized brigades.
@@whybndsu I am happy to see NATO and the US sending their own equipment to Ukr. I'd like to see how much equipment you have left to support them. LOL from China.
@@niutuli5687 What the entirety of NATO is giving is literally pennies to what the US has Chink
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5:50 we don't have "starshina" rank anymore. Now we have various sergeants like USA and NATO countries.
I believe in platoon there's "Main sergeant of platoon", ranked "main sergeant", but I can be wrong
You know what would be a really cool video? A historical overview of the role of the main "combat arms," including the three classic ones (infantry, artillery, and cavalry) as well as the modern ones (armor, helicopter, etc).
Wish for Ukrainian special forces/special operations forces units soon
That would be neat heard that the foreign legion has a spetnaz unit but I don’t think there is much if any information on them still would be cool to see there SF in detail
@@vapelordmarco4203 Ok
@@vapelordmarco4203 "Spetsnaz" are not SOF, they're simply Specialized units, like Recon, for example. Say a Recon Battalion is attached to a Mech Brigade, that Recon Btn is considered "Spetsnaz" as it's specialized in Recon.
@@brandondavis7777 So it's like Marine force recon then?
@@woolytemple3667 Kind of. While Marine Force Recon is SOF capable, say the Navy is busy, the Marines CAN send in Force Recon as part of a JSOC mission. Most Spetsnaz don't operate on that level.
Damn, the production just gets better with every video.
killed it with this one, king👑
fantastic work as always🔥
Jesus, it’s so crazy seeing their org chart that’s been shaped by modern major combat ops but also the Frankenstein aspect of it due to its soviet era military inheritance coupled with mishmash of donor equipment
Excellent video, very obvious that it is well researched and detailed. It will be interesting to see how our army structure changes after we finish this war )
Fantastic video!
5:44 "Sergeant major", or chief sergeant, is correct. "Starshina" is no longer used since 2016.
Nice analysis as always. Thank you for keeping those of us that care about logistics informed to the best of your ability.
Your explication is so quick but clear. I struggle understanding combat structures at scale but you made it simpler. Any chance you could do a general army structure video from individual to whatever the biggest unit in the military would be. That base explanation would help me understand this even more.
Great video, it is very clear on every level of command. I would love to see more videos like this on other countries mechanised infantry.
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As always, great video! Good you please do a video about the USMC´s expeditionary quick reaction forces (MEU´s etc.)
What a fantastic birthday present for me! Great work and Slava Ukraini!
Love that new editing 😎
2:45 I have not seen the SVD for more than 4 years, the Marksmans are equipped with Ukrainian z-10 rifles
great video as always!! look forward to more videos like this.
Once again an impressive presentation. Thank you so much for high quality content.
Main thing does not mentioned in video, this is theoretical structure.
In wartime amount of equipment is much lower, even infantry weapons are mix of everything. Some brigades have a lot of captured equipment, some have few old soviet half working things.
Constant shortages of heavy equipment, in comparison to russian
Unbelievable accurate. A lot of details. I will be interested in video how you gain information like this.
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A lot of people especially in pro Russian camps tend to tout this idea that Ukraine is NATO spec but this video shows how far that is from reality. They've done joint exercises and had a lot of consulting and outside training since 2014 especially but the military is wholly Ukrainian built and mostly based on what they would already know.
It is interesting to note that they only have one GP-25 per squad. I'm sure they may add more weapon system types per the mission.
Yeah but they also have an RPG in almost every squad, so eh. Idk, man. Odd mix to me that's for sure.
@@prfwrx2497 Yeah, rockets are a great high explosive asset but the back blast can make geometries tricky; especially in an urban setting. But maybe the RPG back blast isn’t as restrictive as either the AT-4 or LAW?
@@LtActionCam No, your initial feelings are correct, RPG-7s have pretty lethal backbast that makes them very tricky to use in urban settings.
@@Kurogumo gotcha thanks for the info!
There'susually more than one gp-25 per squad and almost never there's an SVD.
I would really be interested to know more about how Territorial Defense is equipped and how they are typically used. Would also be interesting to know which formations are getting the new NATO equipment being sent.
Territorial Defence it is in vast majority light infantry on pick up trucks. Some of them(4-5 brigades)would have some tanks, APCs and proper artillery. They're being just like any other light infantry unit. Securing the rear, patrolling roads, guarding crossroads, bridges etc. Securing second and third-tier parts of the front, fighting in heavy environments like cites, heavy forests, hills etc where wide use of heavy equipment is not practical or even possible.
Most of foreign help is going to either reserve brigades which were mobilezed after the war started or to those units that suffered to most in the spring.
@@norbi1411 truth be told, territorial defence units (also known here as ТрО) were used as frontline infantry in some cases last summer. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt
@@norbi1411 Ok so for example even M113's and Humvees are not going to territorial defense but instead to reserve units of motorized infantry I assume. So all those technicals we see with rockets in the back etc. are probably made by/for territorial defense?
A regular Territorial Defense battalion has 3...7 riflemen companies + fire support company (heavy grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, atgms) + 82mm/120 mm mortar battery + reconnaissance pt, engineering pt, signals pt and medical pt. There is no armoured vehicles in those batallions, mostly upgraded pickups and civil trucks.
Territorial Defense battalions are often attached to the mechanized/tank brigades, being widely used in trench warfare, building and holding a defensive line along the border, or as the 2nd echelon during the offensive.
As Ukrainian, Ter forces just meat reinforce, which are usually used as reinforcements for mechanized brigades, modern technical units are receiving new formations like 47, 33, 82, 155 brigades
A very interesting video! Дякую!
Another great video B.O, keep up the great work.
0:29 the lads and lasses deserve at least that much hazard pay.
As far as I’m aware these mfs are getting paid better than the average russian grunt.
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Brilliant work!!! Wow
Ukraine abandoned svd .
BTR4 is not a modernization of the Soviet armored personnel carriers 70-80, it is a completely new vehicle, with a different engine layout, with different weapons. with another body...
As an Elf from UKR aremored forces, thats video is a complete truce, but one: we dont use SVD as sniper rifle anymore from 2017, its a Teritorial defence rifle now in common, and of cource we use more NATO combat rifles and machineguns
Very interesting and informative video as always
Perfect, I've been waiting for this one for a long time
That was thorough, good job.
The details! Great videos.. thank you
This really helps to understand the scale of the military Ukraine receives. 14 tanks from the UK doesn't seem much at first, but add 2 companies more and it already satisfies the whole brigade.
great once again, thanks for the informative video! especially the place of the javelin in orbat is interesting, as is the placement of an anti-air platoon per batallion.
Many of the Ukrainian battalions nominally under the brigade but are actually separate. If the battalion has a number other than 1, 2, and 3 its technically a seperate battalion which can fight on its own.
There’s actually an OK Crimea, but for obvious reasons, it isn’t online or organised until they take it back.
They will not take crimea however and remove the word back ita not like the place was theirs to begin with
@@Silver_Prussian They will take Crimea. Crimea has always been Ukrainian.
@@brandondavis7777 no they wint and crimea has always been russia, learn a bit of history
@@Silver_Prussian It has been controlled by the Greeks, Romans, Genoese and Crimean Tatars for far longer than it was controlled by Russia.
@@questionmaker5666 exept that they didnt left any cultural mark on the peninsula and they didnt populate all of the peninsula so technically it wasnt fully over their control
I don't know how you know any of this but good shit.
i might add that SVD was completely phased out in favor of UR-15
Many t-72s were also captured (several hundred) throughout the war. For a while more tanks were captured from Russians than donated by allies.
Love the use of the WARNO soundtrack! Awesome video!
Excellent and Outstanding Analysis!!!!
excellent explanation.
Excellent breakdown, thanks!!
Video looks amazing!
Well job, mr. Battle Order. Good video. Good boy.
BTR-3 is upgrade of Soviet BTR-80. BTR-4 is completely original Ukranian development.
@8:38 one brigades tank battalion is comprised of M-55S, Slovenian upgrades of the T-54
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weapons can be different, for example, instead of a SVD, there can be a Z-10, and instead of an AK, a MALYK or M4 or another trophy or transferred weapon
Sure but I think the fight in Ukraine has demonstrated that small arms are much the same. Well apart from manpads and atgm.
Tanks, ifv, artillery, anti radiation missles etc this high level tech seems to make a big difference. That's just my take. But it is true what you said small arms are very mixed ATM.
I love that i am not the only person that had to run it back for the generation kill bit that shit was so fucking funny
another top notch video!☺
Спасибо за информацию. Очень ценим!
Could you do a break down on the Motorised infantry next?
That’s funny. Most of infantry moves in used jeeps and sometimes in Mraps. BRTs, BMPs are luxury after 11 months of heavy fighting
Interesting to see which units will receive Bradleys and Marder.
Most likely all the bradleys will go to the newly formed 47th Assault Brigade "Magura", as it uses fully NATO tactics and structure.
or maybe Marders will go to the elite 92th and 93rd brigades
BTR4 is not an "upgraded version" it's a completely different configuration, unique design.
The context was perfectly understood, you're being pedantic.
@@brandondavis7777 It either is an "upgraded version" or it's not, and BTR4 is not, it's not a matter of opinion it's a fact that he got wrong. Also Crimea is a territory of OK South too.
@@Yaroslav_Tselovanskyi Listen, bud, in English, we have a term called "common colloquialism". This is an example of that.
24th Mech has BTR 4 I saw them at the polygon in Yavoriv.
Really good, detailed video! Great job.
Great video Thank you
Could you do a video on airborne variation between different countries
May I what resources you used to ID all the Ukrainian insignia? The amount of detail in this video were very impressive.
If Ukrainian mech infantry can put one Javelin attached to a platoon to good work, imagine what a US platoon could do to a Russian tank attack with three organic Javs.
Spoiler alert: at NTC, a Stryker BN wiped the floor with the enemy's tank-led counterattack on a recently captured town. All the BLUFOR had to do was set up hasty positions (took 20 tops minutes for a bunch of loud NCOs to reorganize two companies to face the enemy's direction of attack) and wait for the enemy to come into range. 8 tanks and 11 IFVs were destroyed in 15 minutes, and that was before the AH-64s from Brigade showed up. I imagine a Russian attack going just as well when those boys have the drop on them, but hey, you never know for sure until real bullets start flying.
More like the russian staging area for their assault gets hit by airstrikes or rocket artillery and they’re routed before their attack even makes contact lmao. But yeah, the number of javelins the US has is fucking insane. Probably goes back to cold war doctrine where every NATO military was obsessed with having as many mobile ATGMs as possible to attrit soviet/eastern bloc mechanized units, which made very heavy use of armor
only in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, the effectiveness of the javelin is about one hundred percent. This is a record in the history of javelins.) ✌️
It’s 19% hit rate for NLAW
I will weight in on compensation, as you've mentioned it.
The salary is quite big by Ukrainian standards but if you are on front lines, you spend almost all of it on fight. Better equipment, thermal vision, copters, Startlink subscription, new vehicles, vehicles maintenance and even fuel - your life depends on it, so if you are on front lines you see money come and go in a blink of an eye.
nah, hes just unable to miss. great vid!
And up recently there was a JFO command with it's own command staff that commanded units in JFO operational zone. (former ATO zone)
It might still exist, just, it's commander got sacked recently.
Make an Order of Battle for the Spanish Polivalent Brigades(Brigadas Polivalentes) please :D