Sponsored by Ground News: Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Be well informed. Download the free Ground News app at: https://www.ground.news/perun SPECIAL THANKS: PLEASE CHECK OUT THE CHIEFTAIN: null Intro: Captured equipment has been a feature of human conflict going back to the point where one human stole another human's bashing rock. But normally there are limits on how much it can be used. Supplying, repairing, or training on captured hardware is usually a difficult thing - unless the enemy is using basically the same kit you are. The Russian invasion of Ukraine involves a contest between two sides using compatible (largely) Soviet or Post-Soviet kit, coupled with a Russian force that seems predisposed towards abandoning equipment to the enemy. The result is that Ukraine (supplied by its farmers in some cases) has made extensive use of captured kit (as have the Russian aligned proxies). This video looks at some of the data behind that captured kit, discusses some of the challenges involved in recovery and repair (thanks to a guest contribution by everyone's favourite US Officer, Nicholas Moran) and the strategic significance of all this stuff that's been recovered and reused. Enjoy - and join me next week for a look at Russia's mobilisation announcement... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PerunAU Caveats: Many caveats are gone over in the video but the regular ones around fog of war and data uncertainty apply. Specifically, I want to point out that while I have a good body of evidence on the 93rd Mechanised and their use of captured equipment, such things a liable to change as equipment is knocked out or rotated and I obviously can't go down and check myself. Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Opening Words 00:02:51 — What We're Covering 00:04:08 — Sponsor: GROUND NEWS 00:05:42 — Kyiv Thrust 00:06:59 — Abandoned On Withdrawal 00:08:30 — Kharkiv Reprise 00:10:06 — Putting It In Numbers 00:11:08 — Understanding "Captures", & Challenges With Sources 00:14:54 — Categorisation 00:17:01 — BDAR With An Expert 00:19:00 — BDAR With An Expert: Self Recovery 00:20:57 — BDAR With An Expert: Like-Vehicle Recovery 00:24:06 — BDAR With An Expert: Dedicated Recovery 00:30:42 — BDAR With An Expert: How Russia Categorises Its Repairs 00:34:16 — BDAR With An Expert: Replacement Components 00:38:54 — Like-vehicle Recovery & Self Recovery 00:40:13 — Tractor Brigade 00:42:43 — Specialised Recovery Assets 00:44:18 — Informal Procedures 00:46:52 — Frontline & Informal Repair 00:48:02 — Rear Area Capital Repair - A Significant Challenge 00:49:50 — Primary Contributors 00:50:44 — Calling Out Bulgaria 00:53:10 — Quantities & Significance 00:55:06 — Captured, Abandoned, & Foreign Supplied Equipment (ORYX) 00:56:32 — Evidence Of Deployment 00:59:04 — Ammunition & Smaller Items 01:00:40 — Let's Talk AA 01:02:26 — The Sensitive & Secret 01:04:40 — You All Wanted To Hear About It 01:06:40 — Conclusions 01:08:08 — Channel Update Extra Reading: Oryx - Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html Jakub Janovsky - critical to supporting the Oryx work https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ Counteroffensive: Russian losses - @ragnarbjartur on Twitter https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/dfbcec47-7b01-400e-ab21-de8eb98c8f3a/page/p_gqerfsjkyc?s=tWeosgYXPTU A Frontline Shadow Economy: Ukrainian Units Swap Tanks and Artillery - NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/ukrainian-soldiers-weapons-front-line.html Poland multinational repair hub discussion https://mil.in.ua/en/news/in-eastern-poland-the-creation-of-a-center-for-the-repair-of-equipment-of-ukraine-is-being-considered/ Czech companies to repair Ukrainian tankshttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-companies-repair-damaged-ukrainian-tanks-2022-04-19/ Fantastic OSINT complication of interesting vehicle captures/sightings https://twitter.com/UAWeapons Thank you to those sources who contributed to the preparation of this video.