Comments by "Orbital_Inclination" (@Orbital_Inclination) on "Storm in Ukraine: Kyiv's latest armoured amphibious vehicle" video.

So you're saying there have been no river crossings in this conflict? And no, amphibious vehicles don't need to trade armour or weight, they just need buoyancy which is a result of displaced volume.
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Testing a tracked vehicle on sand, as part of a broad testing package across many environments, is hardly unheard of.
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 @nc1609 you're right, I was mistaken. The M3 Bradley is actually lighter than the USMC ACV. Buoyancy doesn't depend on weight, as long as the former outstrips the latter.
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@nc1609 there hasn't been air supremacy by either side in this conflict, and it's unlikely there ever would in a major peer-peer conflict. Doesn't mean amphibious assaults don't happen, just that they're more costly, like any operation undertaken without air power. It's not Afghanistan mid-2000s anymore, operating under unopposed 24/7 air cover isn't an option. Doesn't mean operations stop as a result, the fight just gets harder. We don't have the luxury of deciding where rivers are located in the world.
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 @richard9444 war actually tends to lose nations on both sides a lot of money.
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