2014 Russia-Ukraine War

1V110 BM-21 Grad Battery Command Vehicle in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War

The 1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicle is documented in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War through Russian loss records and Ukrainian reporting on a captured artillery fire-control vehicle in March 2022.

Weapon profile1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicle
SideRussiaUkraineRoleTargeting SupportCaptured Equipment
1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicle, Artillery battery command and fire-control vehicle, Support Equipment - 2014 Russia-Ukraine War
Image source: Wikimedia Commons 1V110 image

Evidence Map

ClaimSources
Russian forces fielded 1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicles in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War.

Sources: Oryx Russian Equipment Losses

At least one 1V110 artillery fire-control vehicle was captured by Ukrainian forces during the first month of the full-scale invasion.

Sources: ArmyInform Burkovskyi Interview, Mynizhyn Burkovskyi Award Report

The 1V110's battlefield function was battery-level artillery and rocket-artillery fire control rather than direct rocket launch.

Sources: Armforc 1V17 Mashina-B

The public sources do not confirm Ukrainian operational reuse of the captured 1V110.

Sources: Oryx Russian Equipment Losses, ArmyInform Burkovskyi Interview

Timeline

1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicle In 2014 Russia-Ukraine War

  1. Ukrainian reporting dates a 1V110 capture

    Mynizhyn, citing Nizhyn City Council material in a report on Serhii Burkovskyi's award, said Ukrainian forces captured a 1V110 artillery fire-control vehicle on 19 March 2022.

    Sources: Mynizhyn Burkovskyi Award Report

  2. ArmyInform describes a captured 1V110

    ArmyInform reported that Burkovskyi's sapper group captured a 1V110 artillery fire-control vehicle during the first month of the full-scale invasion.

    Sources: ArmyInform Burkovskyi Interview

  3. Oryx loss list records two Russian 1V110 vehicles

    Oryx's Russian equipment-loss list, accessed on this date, listed two 1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicles: one captured and destroyed, and one captured.

    Sources: Oryx Russian Equipment Losses

Documented Use

Direct proof of use

The clearest public evidence for the 1V110 in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War comes from the full-scale invasion phase. Oryx's visually confirmed Russian equipment-loss list records two Russian 1V110 BM-21 Grad battery command vehicles, one captured and later destroyed and one captured.

Ukrainian reporting provides a separate captured-equipment account. ArmyInform reported that sappers under Lieutenant Colonel Serhii Burkovskyi captured an artillery fire-control vehicle identified as a 1V110 during the first month of the full-scale invasion, alongside other Russian vehicles and artillery equipment. Nizhyn local reporting dated one 1V110 capture to 19 March 2022.

Sources: Oryx Russian Equipment Losses, ArmyInform Burkovskyi Interview, Mynizhyn Burkovskyi Award Report

Timeline

The dated public record begins with Ukrainian local reporting that placed a 1V110 capture on 19 March 2022. A later ArmyInform interview in August 2022 described the broader first-month capture and destruction record of Burkovskyi's sapper group and again named a captured 1V110 artillery fire-control vehicle.

Oryx's running loss list does not assign a public date to each 1V110 entry, but it places both vehicles in the Russian loss record for the invasion of Ukraine and identifies their status as captured or captured and destroyed.

Sources: Mynizhyn Burkovskyi Award Report, ArmyInform Burkovskyi Interview, Oryx Russian Equipment Losses

Battlefield role

The 1V110 is a battery senior officer's command and artillery fire-control vehicle from the 1V17 Mashina-B family, not a rocket launcher. Armforc's technical description places the 1V110 on a GAZ-66 chassis and describes its role as controlling firing platoons, determining battery firing-position coordinates, orienting guns or launchers, receiving firing settings and commands, maintaining communications, and collecting local meteorological data for multiple-launch rocket systems.

In the Ukraine record, the vehicle appears as a Russian artillery-support asset connected to BM-21 Grad battery command. The sources support Russian fielding and Ukrainian capture or loss of vehicles; they do not establish a documented case of Ukrainian operational reuse after capture.

Sources: Armforc 1V17 Mashina-B, Oryx Russian Equipment Losses, ArmyInform Burkovskyi Interview

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