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February 23, 2024Russian military forces destroyed a rare M1150 Assault Breacher engineering armored vehicle based on the Abrams, “secretly” transferred by the United States to Kyiv in several units.
This was reported by Forbes columnist David Axe, citing a video circulating on the internet.
“Ukraine has only a few Assault Breachers of American production. It has just lost one near Avdiivka,” the author said, calling the loss “particularly painful” for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
David Axe referred to a video captured by a Russian drone and shared online, showing the crew abandoning their “rare” M1150, after which the armored vehicle was hit by a projectile, “presumably causing significant damage, if not destroying it.”
As the author speculated, the M1150 belonged to the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is equipped with the most modern Western equipment provided to Ukraine. He also recalled that this brigade lost three Leopard 2R engineering armored vehicles during an unsuccessful offensive in Zaporizhia in the summer of 2023, which were transferred to Kyiv by Finland in a quantity of six units.
According to David Axe, the Assault Breacher is one of the most protected and versatile vehicles for breaking through defenses in the world.
“This is the first confirmed loss of a Ukrainian Assault Breacher,” he stated.
In November of last year, David Axe wrote that the United States “quietly” transferred several M1150s to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He claimed that the machines received by Kyiv were “spotted” in photographs on Volodymyr Zelensky’s website, while Assault Breachers were absent from the official lists of US military aid.
The armored vehicle is based on the Abrams tank and weighs 55 tons.