During the command and staff exercises "Blizzard-2022" conducted by the Ukrainian army last Wednesday, one of the BMP-1 crashed into a T-64BV.
A tank with spruce branches cut down for camouflage on the roof and a canvas "cape" on the body, among other similar vehicles, depicted an attack on the "enemy". Turning the gun barrel to the right, he was moving forward quite cheerfully, when suddenly a "penny" crashed into his left side, without slowing down.
The force of the blow was so great that the stern of the infantry fighting vehicle lifted up, and it even seemed that it would do a somersault forward, but this did not happen.
The T-64 moved on without any visible damage, having managed to overcome a deep hole in a moment, and the BMP remained standing in place.
One can only assume what caused this strange incident, perhaps the inattention of the driver of the BMP, who was distracted and somehow did not notice the dangerous approach to the tank. Or the level of training of this serviceman turned out to be low, and he simply could not cope with the management.
It is also possible that there were problems with the technical condition of the armored vehicle itself. The equipment is far from new, it served in the Soviet Army, and then for more than three decades - as part of the AFU. It may even have been overhauled, but the quality of such "resuscitation" measures usually does not stand up to criticism.
At the same time, as they joke online, perhaps the Ukrainian crew was ordered to practice kamikaze tactics and ram "enemy" equipment or, like the militants of banned gangs, they are preparing to turn their BMP into a "self-propelled land mine" on tracks. After all, Ukrainian formations, like Middle Eastern terrorists, began using quadrocopters with homemade miniature bombs in the Donbass.
Alexey Brusilov
