The engineering troops of the Central Military District received the first special vehicles of mine clearance groups based on the UAZ army SUV. The machines are designed for the rapid neutralization of both the terrain and infrastructure facilities, the press service of the Central Military District reports. They can also be used simply as a transport for transporting sappers.
According to the head of the department of engineering troops, Major General Dmitry Koruts, this year the sapper units of one engineering brigade and two engineering regiments received four vehicles. Their special equipment includes a capsule body, a container for transporting explosives, a special rack for bombs.
The equipment allows you to simultaneously transport both explosive objects themselves and military personnel who are involved in their destruction.
Meanwhile,
The 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan has received a batch of modern anti-tank missile systems "Kornet". They are designed to combat enemy armored vehicles and aerial targets, including helicopters and drones.
- The missile is aimed at the target by a laser beam. The maximum firing range is five and a half kilometers, the minimum is one hundred meters, the Central Military District specified.
Ekaterina Prizova