In 2013, Russia adopted the BTR-82A as the future of its mechanized infantry. A modern 8x8 wheeled armoured personnel carrier with a stabilized 30mm autocannon, thermal optics, satellite navigation, and a diesel engine that could start in minus forty degrees Celsius. It was supposed to lead the sweep into Kyiv in February 2022. Within three years, over 1,000 of them had been destroyed, captured, or abandoned across Ukraine. Russian soldiers started calling it meat delivery. The factory kept building them anyway.