The nine new brigades for the spring offensive – organization

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. Another chart shows how each brigade is structured. That chart also shows some additional MRAPS and APCs:

  1. 116th MBde: 3 mechanized bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  2. 47th MBde: 3 mechanized bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  3. 33rd MBde (reserve unit): 3 infantry (MRAP) bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  4. 21st MBde: 3 infantry-type bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  5. 32nd MBde: 3 infantry (MRAP) bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  6. 37th MBde: 3 infantry-type bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  7. 118th MBde: 3 mechanized bns, 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  8. 117th MBde: 2 mechanized bns, 1 infantry-type bn (shows 30 MRAPs vice 10), 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.
  9. 82nd Air Assault Bde (symbol shows a mechanized bde): 3 infantry-type bns, 1 mech bn (with an additional 40 Marders (GER)), 1 tank bn, 1 artillery bn.

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

Summation:

116th MBde: 30 tanks (T-64 and ???), 90 IFVs (BMP) and 22 SP heavy artillery (AS-90s and 2S1).

47th MBde: 28 tanks (T-55S), 99 IFVs (M-2 Bradley) and 24 heavy artillery (M-109s and D-30s).

33rd Bde: 32 tanks (Leopard II), 90 MRAPs (MaxxPro) and 12 towed Artillery (M-119). 

21st Bde: 30 tanks (T-64), 101 AFVs, (20 CVRTs, 51 MRAPs, 30 APCs) and 10 towed heavy artillery (FH-70).

32nd Bde: 30 tanks (T-72 and ???), 90 MRAPS (MaxxPro) and 12 towed heavy artillery (D-30).  

37th Bde: 30 tanks (AMX-10 and ???), 70 MRAPs and 12 towed heavy artillery (D-30). 

118th MBde:  28 tanks (T-72s), 90 APCs (M-113) and 8 towed heavy artillery (FH-70).

117th Bde: 31 tanks (PT-91s), 58 APCs, 10 MRAPs and 16 heavy artillery (D-30 and 4 AS-90).

82nd Air Assault Bde: 14 tanks (Challenger), 90 APCs (Stryker) and 24 towed artillery (M-119).

 

This is the last of four posts on the subject. The charts show the vehicle type and in parentheses the country they are from. Tanks are discussed here: The nine new brigades for the spring offensive – tanks | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org), IFVs and APCS here: The nine new brigades for the spring offensive – APCs and IFVs | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and artillery is discussed here: The nine new brigades for the spring offensive – artillery | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org).

 

I am assuming that if I have these documents, then the Russian FSB also has them. I gather they are still officially classified. So far, no one from the FBI has been knocking on my door.

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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)

Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

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