TSAMTO, November 8. In the Ground Forces, systematic comprehensive re-equipment with modern models of the military-industrial complex continues as part of the implementation of the state armament program for 2018-2027.
In order to increase combat capabilities and upgrade the fleet of equipment during 2021, more than 2,500 new basic samples of the Air Force will be delivered to the formations and military units of the Ground Forces.
Modern T-72B3M and T-80BVM tanks, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers are being purchased for tank and motorized rifle units.
This year, for the first time, the delivery of upgraded armored vehicles has begun: T-90M tanks and upgraded BMP-2 combat vehicles with the Berezhok combat compartment.
The formations and military units of the missile forces and artillery receive modern multiple launch rocket systems of medium caliber "Tornado-G", modernized self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S", self-propelled anti-tank missile systems "Chrysanthemum-S". Reconnaissance artillery units are equipped with radar complexes for reconnaissance of firing positions "Zoo-1M", radar stations "Aistenok", automated sound-thermal and sonometric complexes of artillery reconnaissance.
Anti-aircraft missile systems and complexes S-300V4, "Buk-M3", "Tor-M2" and its modification in the Arctic version "Tor-M2DT", portable anti-aircraft missile systems "Willow", automation complexes "Polyana-D4M1" and "Barnaul-T", radar stations "Niobium-SV" and other weapons are mass-produced and supplied to the troops.
In the current year, the supply of the second-generation Sagittarius-M intelligence, control and communications systems (CRUS) is planned for the intelligence units, which allow for interfacing with the existing line of technical intelligence equipment and solving management tasks, determining coordinates and transferring them to fire-destruction means.
Also, the Ground Forces are equipped with modern means of communication and automation of the unified tactical management system (ESU TK). Four compounds have already been equipped with ESU TK kits, while two more sets will be delivered to the SV compounds by the end of the year, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
