Grasping for a reason you’d prefer this in an APC role over an MT-LB/BTR/BMP. Sure the chassis has more armor, but speed, armament, troop capacity, etc are all inferior. Mines and modern ATGMs work about as well against tanks as they do APC/IFV, as do FPV drones.
Amazing how far they’re scraping the barrel of the Soviet inheritance for any metal to pack meat into
The “front lines” stretch back a fair bit when one considers drones.
But to guess at some applications:
APC. Your goal is to move people without them getting ambushed by small arms and shrapnel. Not proof against a drone with sufficient payload, but the same is true for APCs.
Armored ambulance, if it’s got large enough hatches.
Use it as a command vehicle, if it’s got radios and space. If it’s got radios and such…shrugs
The Leopard 2 was designed in the 70s. So for battlefield vehicle designs, that is not necessarily outdated. Most fighter aircraft in use today were desgigned in the 70s: Su-27, MiG-29, sure, we think they’re old, but the F-16, F-15, F/A-18 are roughly the same age.
The interesting bit is not that the Ladoga is an old vehicle, it’s how incredibly rare it is. It must have been pulled from deep storage or a museum somewhere.
The result was the Ladoga. Kirovsky produced just a handful of the tracked vehicles—perhaps four or five. One spent some time in the fallout zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl following the plant’s deadly 1986 meltdown. Aside from another that landed in a museum, the Ladogas then … disappeared.
They hold Chernobyl and we know at least one is in the red yard at Chernobyl so guess where this one is probably from, I’d hit it with the fun meter to see how many giggles per hour is emiting.
The Rashists left Chernobyl after one of their crazy units dug in a radioactive forest, and the Ukrainian staff of the closed power plant scared the Rashists of all possible consequences.
and way more modernized since the war got them to clear out the old stuff and replace if with current day. Its funny how much russia has armed europe indirectly.
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