HMMWV with Mk19 grenade launcher in service with Ukrainian Armed Forces (video)

By: Myroslav Trinko | 13.06.2022, 12:14
HMMWV with Mk19 grenade launcher in service with Ukrainian Armed Forces (video)

Ukrainian defenders use American HMMWV (aka Humvee) military vehicles at the front.

What is known

The video with the car was published by the Bochkala_war Telegram channel. The video shows an armored car equipped with an automatic belt-fed grenade launcher Mk19 (aka Mark 19). It was developed in 1967 and since then this grenade launcher used by the US military. 

What is HMMWV

it all-wheel drive military vehicle manufactured by the American company AM General. Since the adoption by the US military in the 1980s, based on Humvee various modifications have been created: the main military vehicle, a light truck, an ambulance, mobile radars and air defense systems, engineering and armored vehicles.

Recall, apart from HMMWV, the Ukrainian military also uses British HUSKY TSV armored vehicles.

Source: Bochkala_war

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