The Armed Forces of Ukraine are believed to have received the first heavy equipment recovery vehicles M88A2 Heavy Equipment Lifting and Evacuation System (HERCULES).
Based on Militia, the image of a terrible military tractor in service with the Ukrainian army was posted on social networks. It is also possible that the video was shot during a Ukrainian military exercise in one of the European countries.
The M88A2HERCULES vehicle was built by the British company BAE Systems and has been used by the US Army and Marines in one form or another since 1959. It is one of the armored recovery vehicles (ARVs). ) is the largest used by the United States Army Force.
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The M88A2 HERCULES is the recovery system of choice for today’s 70-ton combat vehicles. armor, ballistic skirt, over 35-ton boom, 140,000-pound (63,504 kg) continuous towing main winch with 280-foot rope and three-ton auxiliary winch to support main winch cable deployment.
BAE Systems says the M88A2 HERCULES is built and equipped to be the world’s recovery champion.
On January 25, US President Joseph Biden announced that in the upcoming support package, Ukraine will receive 8 M88 ARVs.
It should be noted that the US ordered the production of the M88A2 Hercules for Poland last December.
