The M-55S can hit enemy tanks as far away as 4,400 yards, depending of course on the ammunition type it’s firing. The M-55S itself is a hybrid: a 36-ton, Soviet-designed T-55 tank hull with Israeli subsystems and a British-made, 105-millimeter L7 main gun firing NATO-standard ammunition.
Brigade troopers carry American M-16 rifles and M-203 grenade-launchers rather than the AK-47-style rifles that most Ukrainian troops carry. The 47th Assault Brigade also possesses a greater proportion of NATO-style weaponry than other Ukrainian brigades do. It’s an entirely volunteer formation-no conscripts-and reportedly leans heavily on its non-commissioned officers, like brigades in NATO armies do. The 47th Assault Brigade is a young unit-and unique in the Ukrainian order of battle. The brigade’s 28 super-upgraded M-55S tanks, which Slovenia donated last fall, provide the guns. In service with the Kharkiv-based 47th Assault Brigade, Bradleys could become the missile half of gun-missile tank-killer teams.
The ODS modifications made the M-2 a somewhat better infantry-carrier- and a much better anti-tank platform. Now an M-2 crew and its dismounted infantry team both could shoot missiles at enemy tanks, each relying on a different form of missile guidance.
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