Ukraine has destroyed an ultra-rare Soviet-era armoured vehicle that was first field-tested by the Russians at Chernobyl.
Battlefield footage shared on social media appeared to show the Ladoga nuclear command vehicle being targeted by a Ukrainian drone.
The vehicle was designed in the seventies to move senior Kremlin staff around in the event of a nuclear attack.
Grasping for a reason you’d prefer this in an APC role over an MT-LB/BTR/BMP. Sure the chassis has more armor, but speed, armament, troop capacity, etc are all inferior. Mines and modern ATGMs work about as well against tanks as they do APC/IFV, as do FPV drones.
Amazing how far they’re scraping the barrel of the Soviet inheritance for any metal to pack meat into