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The Russian military base in Tajikistan held a night tactical exercise at the Lyaur mountain range, which involved motorized infantry, armored vehicles and mortars, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Friday.

Australia chooses a new BMP — the South Korean Redback ("Black Widow") and the German Lynx ("Lynx") in the KF-41 modification compete in the final of the competition. A new video published by Hanwha Defense shows the highlights of the Black Widow tests, and also indicates that this BMP has successfully passed tests within the framework of the LAND 400 Phase 3 tender. The Australian Defense Ministry will announce the winner soon.

Sergey Kotelevsky, Head of the Kurganmashzavod R&D Department, said that the new version of the Octopus amphibious vehicle is radically different from its first generation

The updated version of the airborne self-propelled anti-tank gun "Octopus" based on the latest BMD-4 has a unique fire control system. This was announced on Sunday on the air of the program "Military Acceptance" on the Zvezda TV channel by Sergey Kotelevsky, head of the Kurganmashzavod R&D Department.

Conducting maneuverable defense by mechanized units with the support of artillery and aviation was practiced by the military at the joint exercises of Belarus and Russia "Allied Resolve-2022", the Belarusian Ministry of Defense reported on Saturday.

The Ukrainian military used the upgraded T-64BM2 tanks for the first time in the exercises

The Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted exercises at a training ground in the Kharkiv region. During the maneuvers, the military used for the first time an upgraded version of the Soviet T-64 tank. This is reported by Defense Express.

Battalion tactical groups of the military base of the Southern Military District in Abkhazia arrived at the Tsabal mountain range to participate in a planned live firing exercise, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The Israel Defense Forces are currently armed with modern Merkava Mk tanks.4, equipped, among other things, with active protection complexes.

Machines of earlier versions are no longer in use. According to reference publications, more than six hundred Merkava Mk.3 are in storage, the rest can be seen only in museums, at sites of decommissioned equipment and at landfills where various training tasks are being worked out on them.

Launched in 1957, the Soviet armored reconnaissance patrol vehicle BRDM-1 had several modifications. For example, in the very original version, it was made without an armored hull roof.

During the fighting in Yemen, President Hadi's T-55AM2 tanks, modernized in Czechoslovakia, were again seen as part of the military formations opposing the Shiite Ansar Allah movement (Houthis).

As a rule, early versions of T-55s are used in battles, which formed the basis of the armored power of the land forces of this country before the civil war began in 2014.

Popular Mechanics told about the sending of untested weapons to Europe by the USA

The United States is sending weapons untested in a real war to Europe to fight Russia, says the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

The Ukrainian T-64BV tank received a machine gun that is similar to the American M2 Browning

The Ukrainian modification of the Soviet tank received a new machine gun. The upgraded T-64BV of the 2022 model was equipped with an anti-aircraft machine gun with a Laska K-2 machine gun, which looks similar to the American Browning M2. This is reported by the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

In the armed forces of many countries, there are specially created units that portray the enemy during various military exercises.

In the USA, for example, the so-called "32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment" existed for a long time in Fort Irwin (Mojave Desert, California).

More than 300 units of weapons and military equipment will be involved in the exercises

The gunners of the formations of the 49th Army of the Southern Military District stationed in the Caucasus have begun field exercises. As the press service of the district told reporters on Wednesday, more than 2.5 thousand servicemen are taking part in the maneuvers, who will fire from howitzers "Acacia", "Carnation", multiple rocket launchers and other weapons.

The marines of the Northern Fleet destroyed the forces of a conditional enemy at a training ground near the village of Sputnik in the Murmansk region. This was announced on Wednesday, February 9, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Modernization of obsolete T-72M1 tanks continues in Iraq. So far we are talking about combat vehicles that are in service with the People's Militia Forces. They were first shown in May last year.

From the usual "seventy-second", the main external difference is the massive elements of the built-in dynamic protection on the turret, which are able to withstand tandem cumulative ammunition of various types.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to operate several hundred American-made Humvee SUVs. On Tuesday, photos from the fifth maintenance and repair center of these foreign cars that arrived from overseas, located in Zhytomyr, were posted on the Network.

In Ukraine, they announced the testing of the next version of the Soviet T-64BV tank. Now this car of the 2022 model, modified by the specialists of the Kharkiv Armored Plant, has received "sights and devices of the third generation."

The Ukrainian enterprise KHBTZ has started testing the T-64BV tank of the 2022 model

Tests of the upgraded version of the Soviet T-64 tank began in Ukraine. The state enterprise "Kharkiv Armored Plant" (KHBTZ), which is part of the Ukroboronprom concern, has equipped the T-64BV model 2022 with new equipment. This is reported by Defense Express with reference to the press service of the concern.

The Marines of the Russian Navy may, in the foreseeable future, acquire equipment of a completely new class for them. We are talking about a Marine infantry fighting vehicle (BMMP). The "military informant" published, presumably, the first photo of a prototype painted in tricolor camouflage, located in the factory shop.

The last Soviet T-10M heavy tank has been completely restored at the Museum of Russian Military History in Padikovo near Moscow.

This combat vehicle, according to domestic and foreign experts, was considered the best in its class during the 50-70s. In terms of its tactical and technical characteristics, it surpassed the American M103 and the British FV 214 Conqueror.