Mock-ups of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system and the T-72 tank have been spotted on a highway in the US state of Alabama. It is assumed that they will be used to designate the equipment of a likely enemy during the exercises of the US Air Force.
Chinese sources note that we are facing an attempt to reproduce the 5P85C launcher of the PS modification based on the MAZ-543M four-axle all-terrain vehicle, produced in the Soviet Union since 1983.
However, the illuminated sample has a pixel camouflage characteristic of some weapons of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA).
At the same time, it is known that the air defense forces of the Celestial Empire are armed with more modern Russian-made air defense systems - S-300PMU1, S-300PMU2 and S-400.
Observers were surprised by the incompleteness of the chassis, it is quite possible that it will be retrofitted upon arrival at the site.
It can also be seen that to move around the landfill, the "installation" was placed on a special wheeled platform capable of withstanding increased load.
The tank layout itself cannot move either - it is mounted on a six-wheeled chassis. Interestingly, the organization that produced it did not take too much care of full compliance with the original.
So, the built-in dynamic protection on the "tower" resembles the "Contact-5" of the later versions of the T-72B and T-72B3, but on the "side screens" the mounted "Contact-1" is visible, as on the T-72AV or T-72B of the 1985 model.
Three months ago, an imitation of the PLA ZTZ-99 main battle tank, which is also intended for training purposes, lit up on one of the highways on a car trawl.
In China [...] itself, an old clone of the Soviet T-54, the medium Type 59, was recently remade in the M1A2 Abrams.
Alexey Moiseev
