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The Western Military District (ZVO) has sent about 3,000 military personnel to firing exercises in four regions of central and southwestern Russia.

At the very end of last year, there were reports that French manufacturers of armored vehicles intend to offer India to replace the 1,700 T-72M/M1 Ajeya in service with their updated Leclerc XLR.

The Norwegian military will compare German and South Korean tanks. January 10, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that prototypes of Leopard 2A7 and K2 Black Panther vehicles had arrived in Norway to participate in the tender "Project 9360 — tank potential of the Army" (Prosjekt 9360 — Stridsvognkapasitet til Hæren).

During the storming of Grozny on December 31, 1995, the Russian command sent a wide variety of military equipment to the Chechen capital. Including one that was not intended for such combat operations at all.

In 2022, more than 400 units of armored vehicles are planned to be delivered to the formations and military units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

More than 10 of the newest self-propelled pontoons have entered service with the railway connection of the Southern Federal District, stationed in the Krasnodar Territory.

FAR EAST - A new tank unit has been formed in the Marine corps unit of the coastal forces of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet), stationed in Primorsky Krai, the press service of the Eastern Military District reported on Monday.

In 2021, the Airborne Forces continued to improve and modernize the VVST samples in service, as well as the introduction of new landing equipment.

In 2021, about 100 units of modern military equipment were received by military units of the combined arms association, district subordination units, Air Force and air defense units of the Air Force stationed in Transbaikalia.

The GAZ-3344-20 Aleut two-link tracked floating snowmobile of high cross-country capability was adopted by a division of the railway troops of the Central Military District stationed in Udmurtia.

In 1991, the German company Jung Jungenthal produced a prototype of the upgraded T-55 medium tank. According to this option, it was supposed to improve combat vehicles of this type, which are in service with the Egyptian ground forces.

Projects to finalize the "fifty-fifths" existed in many countries, but for some reason this one is not so well known compared to the others, although many interesting novelties were introduced on it.

An unusual road user - a BLT-72 tank bridge-laying machine on the T-72M1 Ajeya chassis - was filmed in India. A heavy engineering vehicle drove along one of the streets of the city of Avadi, where the production of such equipment is carried out. Judging by the fact that its passage did not cause much excitement, the locals have long been accustomed to this.

In the late 50s, work began on a new anti-aircraft self-propelled gun in the Soviet Union. It received the designation ZSU-37-2 "Yenisei" or Object 119. At the same time, the design of the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" was carried out. It was planned that the former would enter service with tank formations and units, and the latter with motorized rifle troops with lighter combat vehicles.

In 2022, the development of anti-aircraft complexes "Derivation-air defense" and "Pantsir-SM-SV" should be completed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Several dozen units of the interspecific artillery complex "Coalition-SV" will enter service with the Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District in 2022. This was reported by the press service of the ZVO.

The Laguna combat fire control complex was created and handed over to the customer, the State Military-Industrial Committee (GVPC) of Belarus reported.

The Algerian Army has carried out a massive modernization of the Russian-made BTR-80 in service.

Wheeled combat vehicles as additional weapons received one of the world's most powerful anti-tank missile systems "Kornet", capable of destroying all available foreign tanks.

This year, for the first time, platoon sets of the Gibka-S ultra-short-range mobile anti-aircraft missile system will begin to arrive in the troops. This was reported in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) plan to further equip the regiments with unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane and copter type, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Thursday.