Ukraine’s 22nd Brigade Has Three Different Kinds Of T-72 Tank, Including The Newest And The Oldest by daxe
The Ukrainian armed forces stood up around two dozen new brigades in the months leading up to its 2023 counteroffensive, which kicked off on June 4.
The army’s 22nd Mechanized Brigade is one of these hybrids. With its odd mix of PT-91, T-72AMT and T-72 Ural tanks, the 2,000-person 22nd Mechanized is representative of these hybrid brigades, which by now outnumber the nine largely NATO-style brigades. They either still are training in the relative safety of northern or western Ukraine, or lingering in some staging area behind the main line of contact. Waiting, perhaps, for the Ukrainian general staff to decideThe Ukrainian army had a 22nd Mechanized Brigade for around a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But as the army withered for want of funding, many brigades folded—including the 22nd.
At least, that is, as long as they continue to honor the armed forces’ naming conventions, whereby tank brigades generally have single-digit designations, mechanized brigades are in the mid-two-digits, light brigades choose from the 60s and 70s, air-assault units have 80s- and 90s-series designations and territorial brigades have numbers in the 100s.
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