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Ukraine - Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Pre-2022

The Mykolayiv Mechanical-Repair Plant delivered five APCs to Ukraine's Armed Forces in October 2011 and plans to produce 170 APCs of various sorts for the Ukrainian Armed Forces by 2017.

Some 200 armored vehicles "Dozor-b development of SE" Kharkiv Design Bureau of machine-building named. O. Morozov "(included in DC" Complaints") will be added to the arms of the armed forces and the National Guard. This was announced at the President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov 4 June 2014 on the Cuguïvs'komu range (Kharkiv region) during demonstrations of the tactical-technical characteristics "Dozoru." Features armored vehicles were also observed in a. Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine arsen Avakov and commanders of battalions involved in counter-terrorist operations in the East of the country. The small snow-Dozor desired and mobile parts of the armed forces and the National Guard. It is maneuverable, fast, can navigate any terrain at speeds up to 120 kilometers per hour, has enough strong armament, and the main thing – it is much cheaper than regular armored personnel carriers ",-said a. Turchinov.

Ukraine bought 75 Saxons from a British company, reportedly paying $50,000 per vehicle — a move that raised the eyebrows of military experts. British general Sir Richard Dannatt, who served as UK's Chief of the General Staff between 2006 and 2009, called the vehicles "quite useless." Others were less polite: Thomas Newdick in the popular blog "War is Boring" brought up memories of soldiers who rode in the APC, calling the vehicle an "armored bread van" and underscoring that the Saxon is extremely vulnerable in modern combat.

The first 20 Saxons arrived in Ukraine in February 2015, and appeart to have been heavily modified with additional armor. The delivery, organized through the Disposal Services authority, was carried out under a 2013 agreement. On 10 March 2015, an accident involving two of the APCs on the way from Kiev to the town of Berezan in the Kiev region resulted in the death of a Ukrainian soldier.

Only one-third of armored vehicles that the Ukrainian Army received in 2014 and 2015 were currently in service, Ukrainian weekly Zerkalo Nedeli (ZN) reported 28 June 2015. In 2014, the army received 20 units of BTR-3 and 25 units of BTR-4 armored vehicles. "Now, from that amount of modern equipment there are only 18 vehicles left in service," the source said. The Ukrainian armored vehicles are out of service not because of military action, but due to poor manufacturing, ZN said.

Furthermore, the Ukrainian army had problems with repairing its damaged military equipment. According to the General Staff of Ukraine, out of 102 BTR-2 armored vehicles that were repaired, 85 vehicles had various malfunctions in fire control systems, turret electronics, lubrication and cooling systems. The General Staff also reported that out of 90 repaired T-64 tanks, 66 armored vehicles had similar problems as "repaired" BTRs.

The Ukrainian stated-owned arms manufacture and exporter, Ukroboronprom, reported that Ukraine has imported a large batch of Czech-made BVP-1 (Bojove vozidlo pechoty 1) infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). A technical inspection of the new units was carried out by officials on 02 April 2020. The state company Ukrspetsexport, a subsidiary of Ukroboronprom, has begun delivering 37 BMP-1 IFVs to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukroboronprom has not detailed the supplier of the BMP-1 IFVs. The armored vehicles may have been exported by the Czechoslovak Group (CSG), the largest arms exporter of the Czech Republic. The BVP-1 (Bojové Vozidlo Pechot) is a Czechoslovak, amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle based on the Soviet BMP-1, the world's first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak, paid a working visit to one of the military training grounds of Chernihiv region 22 July 2020, where comparative tests of BMP-1 with combat modules «Parus», «Spys», «Shkval» and «Stylet» ["Sail", "Spear", "Squall" and "Stiletto"] were conducted. The tests were conducted with the involvement of specialists from the State Research Institute for Testing and Certification of Arms and Military Equipment (DNDI VS OVT) in Chernihiv.

Each contender carries similar armaments. They are equipped with the ZTM-1/ZTM-2 30 mm automatic cannon, 7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun, 30 mm automatic grenade launcher, and anti-tank guided weapons from the Ukrainian Luch Design Bureau. They are also equipped with thermal imaging cameras or an infrared night channel.

The Stiletto combat module is equipped with a 30-mm ZTM-2 gun, an automatic grenade launcher, a 7.62-mm machine gun, as well as guided missile armament and reinforced armor. The new digital sighting systems OTS-20.04-01 on the combat module "Squall" and "Track-2-01" on the combat module "Stiletto" are responsible for the accuracy of combat modules. Both aiming systems are equipped with a laser rangefinder and thermal imager, but use different fire control algorithms. The "stiletto" was installed on the armament of the modernized state enterprise "Zhytomyr Armored Plant" BMP.

Squall is a Ukrainian unified combat module with a 30-mm automatic gun as the main weapon. "Squall" is armed with a 30-mm gun ZTM-1, 7.62-mm paired machine gun KT-7.62, 30-mm automatic grenade launcher AG-17 and anti-tank guided weapons.

The Spear combat module can be installed on tracked and wheeled combat vehicles of Ukrainian, Soviet and Western production without any modifications. The complex of armament of the combat module "SPIS" includes: 30 mm automatic gun - ZTM-1 (2A72), which has ammunition of 300 shells; 7.62 mm PKT machine gun with ammunition of 2200 rounds; and 30 mm automatic grenade launcher KBA-117 (AGS-17) with ammunition of 125 grenades.

Sail is a Ukrainian remote-controlled combat module installed on combat armored vehicles. The module is equipped with a 30-mm KBA-1 gun, a 30-mm automatic grenade launcher, a 7.62-mm KT-7.62 machine gun and a Barrier guided weapons complex with two missiles.