Latest News: Russia replaces heavy armoured vehicles with light vehicles bought from China

Russia replaces heavy armoured vehicles with light vehicles bought from China at battlefront.

The occupation army of the Russian Federation is increasingly using high-speed vehicles during attacks on Ukrainian military positions instead of heavy armored vehicles, which the occupiers have fewer and fewer of.
Journalists of the Popular Mechanics publication, referring to the intelligence data of Western countries, note that by giving preference to high-speed vehicles at the front, the occupying army of the Russian Federation sacrifices the protection provided by heavily armoured vehicles.
An updated intelligence report from the British Ministry of Defense notes that over the past few months, the Russian occupiers have increased the use of light vehicles to transfer troops along the entire front line.
In addition, the Russian occupiers used high-speed vehicles to carry out night attacks on Ukrainian military positions.
Ukrainian troops used All-Terrain Vehicles as early as April 2022 to ambush Russian troops.
Already in February 2024, the Armed Forces soldiers noted that Russian All-Terrain Vehicles are more manoeuvrable than tracked vehicles, making them more challenging to hit with artillery.
“It is likely that Russian forces will increasingly resort to using lighter and faster vehicles to conduct reconnaissance of Ukrainian defensive positions to enable subsequent fire using artillery, first-person-view cameras or unilateral strike drones, in an attempt to consistently weaken the Ukrainian forces”, the report of the British Ministry of Defense emphasizes.
British intelligence notes that Russia has purchased thousands of Desertcross 1000-3 All-Terrain Vehicles from China.
How the tactics of the Russian army changed with the beginning of the use of All-Terrain Vehicles at the front
According to Rob Lee, a senior researcher at the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies, one of these vehicles, which is in service with Russia's 177th Marine Regiment, was equipped with an anti-drone screen.
“This improvised drone protection — a cage-like mesh, sometimes called a "coop cage" — is widely used on Russian and Ukrainian armored vehicles, including tanks. In fact, this is an additional level of protection that is installed as a last resort to protect against such threats as drones and artillery”, the authors of the material explain.