Bushmasters

Australia will supply up to four Bushmaster armoured vehicles to Ukraine, after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a specific request for them to ...

“Vladimir Putin’s aggression in the name of a poisonous, nationalistic lie is abhorrent. So the unpunished evil comes back,” Zelenskyy said. “We are separated by oceans, seas, and territories of dozens of other countries and time zones. “They have to pay the highest price for blocking the sea. If you have an opportunity to share these with us, we would be very grateful,” Zelensky said. Prime minister Scott Morrison has subsequently stated that Bushmasters will be sent to Ukraine.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia will supply Ukraine with the armoured vehicles requested by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

And we're going to be sending our armoured vehicles – our Bushmasters – as well," he said. "We are sending our guns, ammunitions, we're sending our humanitarian aid. In hisspeech to the Australian Parliamentlast night, Mr Zelenskyy requested the Federal Government supply Australian-designed Bushmaster armoured vehicles to help fight Russia.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appeal for Australian-made armoured vehicles has been answered, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirming ...

A Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle is an armoured personnel carrier designed to carry and rapidly deploy up to 10 battle-ready soldiers. Mr Zelenskyy addressed the Australian parliament on Thursday and asked for armoured vehicles and other equipment to strengthen his forces. - The armoured vehicles are designed to rapidly deploy up to 10 battle-ready troops

In a speech to Australia's parliament last night, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky asked for 'wonderful' Bushmaster troop carriers, which he said ...

Moreover, we have new Abrams tanks on order as replacements for our fleet of 59 older-generation Abrams. Certainly, providing a tank capability would be a major step up in terms of training and logistics requirements compared to Bushmasters and would need careful planning. One was to be blast tested; the other two were an ambulance and a troop carrier. More than 1,000 Bushmasters have been delivered to the Australian Army and to Royal Australian Air Force airfield defence guards. Thales Australia was able to improve Bushmasters on the production line and in the operational area. It will be the same with captured Bushmasters (which would inevitably be accompanied by the information warfare and internet trolling that has become a feature of this conflict). How you sustain a logistics chain to Bushmasters scattered across Ukraine is anyone’s guess, but excellent techniques to maintain and upgrade them were developed in theatre in Afghanistan. That spurred the decision to obtain a large number of lightly armoured and versatile troop carriers. If we do supply the vehicles to Ukraine, we need to accept that we may see footage of destroyed Bushmasters. And with both sides putting captured materiel into service, we might see them with the now infamous ‘Z’ painted on their sides. Proof was delivered in Iraq and Afghanistan, where around 100 Bushmasters were blown up but not a single soldier died in one. If you have the opportunity, Ukraine will be grateful to you. They won’t protect against a direct hit from a tank, howitzer or anti-tank missile, all of which Russia has in abundance. With relatively low-tech militaries like Fiji’s and Jamaica’s already operating Bushmasters, the resourceful Ukrainians could master their operation very quickly.