

And last month, someone shot a video of a train hauling a BAT-2 and other engineering vehicles, heading toward the Russia-Ukraine border. The Assault Breacher Vehicle or ‘ABV’ is (as of 2018) the United States’ latest Combat Engineering Vehicle or ‘CEV’.

At the Weald Foundation, schools, engineers, historians, modellers. Social-media users and European arms-monitors spotted BAT-2s in Donbas in 2015 and again in 2019. to preserving and restoring historic military vehicles from both World Wars. Some of the vehicles already are in the region. The BAT-2s help clear paths for the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, but they also rely on tanks and fighting vehicles to protect them while they work, according to Grau and Bartles.īAT-2s in any event surely would be critical to any Russian attack across Donbas. The BAT-2s are scary-looking, but they’re also lightly armored and thus vulnerable to enemy gunners.

“Should the march culminate in an attack, the OOD then moves behind the attacking first echelon or prepares a route for the commitment of the second echelon,” Grau and Bartles explained. One of few programs like it in Michigan, it will prepare you to assist engineers in the development and testing of electric, automated and hybrid vehicles. “The mission of the OOD is to move behind the advance guard or forward detachment (about two hours ahead of the main body) to conduct engineer reconnaissance and to improve the axis of advance by filling in craters, constructing bypasses, improving rugged sections, bridging minor gaps or repairing bridges and clearing paths through minefields,” Lester Grau and Charles Bartles noted in The Russian Way of War.
