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Russian armored vehicles participating in special military operation in Ukraine, is equipped with additional protection on the spot, this is a design of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers. This was announced by the chief armored Directorate (GABTU) of the defense Ministry major-General Alexander Shestakov.
All Russian armored vehicles, produced from 2021, comes with modifications, allowing the field to set the elements of the additional protection for the type of anti shaped-charge lattice screens to protect the sides and stern, as well as additional armor. Protection kits are made separately and supplied to the troops. Set screens allow you to protect armored vehicles from the grenades that have repeatedly occurred in the framework of the NWO.
- the newspaper "Red Star"
About the appearance of sets of extra protection for the tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, started talking at the end of hostilities in Syria. The defense Ministry has taken into account the experience of using tanks Syrian tankers, which for added protection, began to establish a lattice screens. In 2019, the armored Directorate of the Ministry of defense of Russia announced the development of the Russian extra protection for armored vehicles and announced its entry into force. In addition, the design of military equipment has introduced a special mounts for installation of the same screens. Since last year, the improvements introduced in manufacturing and installed on all production vehicles.
