The nine new brigades for the spring offensive – APCs and IFVs

In the classified Joint Staff briefing slides, there was a listing of the ready status as of 28 February for nine new Ukrainian brigades. One of those was a reserve brigade that existed (at least on paper) when the war started. The other eight were new brigades. They are:

  1. 116th MBde (new unit),
  2. 47th MBde (new unit),
  3. 33rd Bde (reserve unit, mechanized?),
  4. 21st Bde (new unit, mechanized?),
  5. 32nd Bde (new unit, mechanized?),
  6. 37th Bde (new unit, mechanized? Not listed on militaryland.net),
  7. 118th MBde (new unit),
  8. 117th Bde (new unit, mechanized?),
  9. 82nd Air Assault Bde (new unit).

The charts do list the equipment being prepared for them. To summarize:

APCS and IFVs (and MRAPs and AFVs):

116th MBde: 30 tanks (T-64 and ???) and 90 BMP (POL/CZE – Soviet-era IFV) = 90 IFVs

47th MBde: 28 tanks (T-55S) and 99 M-2 (U.S. – these are Bradleys IFVs) = 99 IFVs

33rd Bde: 32 tanks (Leopard II) and 90 MaxxPro (U.S. – these are 4-wheeled MRAPs) = 90 MRAPs

21st Bde: 30 tanks (T-64) and 20 CVRT (GBR – AFV), 30 Senator (CAN – 4-wheeled MRAP), 20 Bulldog (GBR – FV432 APC), 21 Husky (GBR – 4-wheeled MRAP), 10 M-113 (U.S. APC) = 20 AFVs, 51 MRAPs, 30 APCs

32nd Bde: 30 tanks (T-72 and ???) and 90 MaxxPro (U.S.) = 90 MRAPs 

37th Bde: 30 tanks (AMX-10 and ???) and 30 Mastiff/Husky (GBR – 4-wheeled MRAP), 30 Mastiff/Wolf (GBR – 6-wheeled MRAP), 10 Senator (CAN – 4-wheeled MRAP) = 70 MRAPs

118th MBde:  28 tanks (T-72s) and 90 M-113 (U.S. APC) = 90 APCs

117th Bde: 31 tanks (PT-91s) and 28 Viking (NLD – 8-wheeled APC), 20 XA185 (8-wheeled APC), 10 M-113, 10 Senator (CAN – 4-wheeled MRAP) = 58 APCs and 10 MRAPs

82nd Air Assault Bde: 14 tanks (Challenger) and 90 Stryker (U.S. wheeled APC) = 90 APCs

 

The charts show the vehicle type and in parentheses the country they are from. Tanks are discussed in yesterday’s posting.

I am assuming that if I have these documents, then the Russian FSB also has them. I gather they are still officially classified. Will address artillery in subsequent posts.

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Christopher A. Lawrence
Christopher A. Lawrence

Christopher A. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience.

Mr. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation.

His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) and The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019)

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