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

By: Myroslav Trinko | 13.06.2022, 12:14

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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