Ukrainian Army eagerly snatched dozens of ex-Soviet Army IMR-2 Engineering Vehicles

Ukraine’s foreign allies have pledged to the Ukrainian war efforts dozens of armored engineering vehicles: American-made M-88s; Challenger recovery vehicles from the United Kingdom; Bergepanzers, Wisents and Dachs from Germany; and even some very rare Norwegian NM189s, Swedish Bgbv 90s and Leopard 2Rs from Finland.

But for all that, the most common AEV in Ukrainian service is an ex-Soviet classic: the IMR-2. Basically, an old T-72 tank chassis with a crane in the place of its turret plus a hull-mounted dozer blade.