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[–] Dreizehn@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Muscovites might drag one out of a museum and deploy it in Ukraine.

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Afaik Russia pretty much ran out of air assault troops a few months into the war. We've been doing it WW1 style since

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My uninformed opinion would probably be that someone somewhere realised that air assault is no longer viable, in light of a lack of Russian air superiority. And in general, the VDV has always been more of a ‘somewhat decently trained conscript force’, which only has an overall better image because they undergo slightly more training than their ‘normal’ conscripted brethren

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They've always been more "air mobile" rather than actual air assault anyway, much like marines don't do much amphibious landing nowadays.

IIRC they tried to land on that one airport at the very start, and bailed when it became a hot LZ. It's kind of an open question if air assault is even viable in this day and age.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What are the bicycle wheel looking things on the front?

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably for if they need to dismount the gun and transport it separately

[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think this is it. It looks like those wheels are attached to split trails with spade ends, that are kind of draped onto the hood of the jeep.

[–] terribletortoise@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly they are two tactile unicycles. /s

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What do you call two unicycles, peasant?

[–] ElCanut@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

In case they need to invade Copenhagen

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just guessing: maybe for driving on railroad tracks.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck it, we're doing it live

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Who is steering? Don't care, get it moving.

[–] Hubi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russian "creativity" doesn't seem to have changed at all in the last 80 years.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Of all the wacky ideas, ain't gonna fault 'em for this one. Frankensteining equipment together is a universal military tradition.

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago