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Sailors from Russia and China held joint exercises
On Tuesday, a whole series of exercises started, in which Russian servicemen are involved. Moreover, the maneuvers took place even abroad. Thus, the Russian-Chinese exercise "Peaceful Sea-2022" took place in the western part of the Arabian Sea.
The Russian military will receive a BMP with a "Berezhk"
CVO units will receive more than 50 upgraded BMP-2M by the end of 2022
The formations of the Central Military District (CVO) will receive more than 50 BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles with the Berezhok combat module. The cars will be delivered by the end of 2022. This was announced by the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, the press service of the district reports.
Live firing of "flying tanks" T-80U in Cyprus was shown on video
The crews of the T-80U of the twentieth Armored Brigade of the National Guard of the Republic of Cyprus conducted live firing exercises at a training ground near the settlement of Kalo Horio.
Russian-made combat vehicles made a rapid march to the area of the battle with a conditional enemy. Small water obstacles were overcome while driving over very rough terrain.
The forgotten UAZ "Jaguar" could sail from Ulyanovsk to Astrakhan
The Russian armed forces traditionally pay great attention to waterfowl technology. Wheeled and tracked armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, paratroopers, some models of self-propelled artillery installations, etc. received the ability to independently force water obstacles.
Why were the famous DT-30 Vityaz needed at the beginning of the First Chechen War
The Mozdok airbase in February 1995 was remembered for the presence of a larger number of troops belonging to various departments. Su-25 attack aircraft, rotary-wing combat and transport Mi-24 and Mi-8 take off and land every now and then.
Nuclear complexes "Yars" were brought to the exercises in the Irkutsk region
In the Irkutsk region, mobile strategic complexes "Yars" went to field positions. Autonomous launchers of the local division of the Strategic Missile Forces entered the combat patrol routes as part of the exercise. The command involved about a thousand soldiers and officers, as well as more than 100 units of military and special equipment of various types and purposes.
More than fifty BMP-2M with the Berezhok module will receive a CVO in 2022
The BMP-2 with the Berezhok combat module will replenish the parks of formations and military units of the Central Military District stationed in the Volga region by the end of this year. This was reported by the press service of the territorial association with reference to the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.
An armored homemade vehicle based on the BMP-1 was thrown into battle in Syria
During the fighting in the Syrian city of Hasaka, Kurdish formations used an unusual tracked homemade armored vehicle against militants of the terrorist group "IG" banned in Russia.
There was a photo of a mysterious T-62 tank with a "folding" gun barrel
An unusual T-62 with a "folding" gun barrel surprised users of social networks. The machine was used by one of the units of the 40th Combined Arms Army of the Limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan (OKSVA).
Russian instructors have started training 500 soldiers of the Tajik army
The press service of the Central Military District noted that the instructors will train the commanders of multiple rocket launchers, gunners of self-propelled guns, driver mechanics and gunners-operators of T-72 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles BMP-2
Tank crews started shooting at a training ground in the Crimea
The Black Sea Fleet reported on the firing of tankers of the Southern Military District at the Angarsky training ground
Tankers of the units of the Army Corps of the Southern Military District (SE) began firing at the Angarsky training ground in the Crimea. The crews of the T-72B3 tanks conducted classes in accordance with the combat training plan. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet.
More than a thousand tank army soldiers in the west of the Russian Federation participate in the combat readiness check
The First Tank Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) is conducting combat readiness testing classes, the ZVO said on Tuesday. "In total, more than 1 thousand servicemen and about 100 units of weapons, military and special equipment are involved in the combat readiness check," the report says.
Tankers of the Southern Military District conducted training firing
Crews of T-72B3 tanks as part of tank units of the Army Corps of the Southern Military District took part in shooting practice at the Angarsky training ground near Simferopol.
Bloody August of '97 in Tajikistan: the towers of the T-72AV were torn off in the battles
In October 1996, I had to visit Tajikistan near the location of the tank unit of the brigade of the rebel Colonel Mahmud Khudoiberdyev. The fighters were just engaged in maintenance of equipment: they cleaned the trunks, dug into the engines, changed the tracks of the tracks of one tank.
Did the T-90 have a chance to fight in Chechnya
Despite the fact that the first Chechen war ended more than a quarter of a century ago, there are a lot of myths and misconceptions around it. For example, information about the participation of T-90 tanks in those hostilities still pops up from time to time in various sources.
The Central Military District troops in the Volga region will receive more than 50 BMP-2 with the Berezhok module by the end of 2022
More than 50 modernized infantry fighting vehicles with the Berezhok combat module will enter service with formations and military units of the Central Military District in the Volga Region by the end of 2022, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, commander of the Central Military District, told reporters.
In 2022, remote mining systems "Agriculture" will be put into service with the engineering units of the Central Military District
In 2022, a separate engineering brigade of the Central Military District stationed in Bashkiria will receive the latest engineering systems for remote mining (ISDM) "Agriculture", said the head of the engineering troops of the Central Military District, Colonel Andrei Gandzyuk.
For the first time, the Central Military District will receive Ka-52 helicopters and the Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system
More than 1,300 pieces of equipment will be delivered to the troops of the Central Military District this year. The commander of the district, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, announced the build-up of combat power at the briefing.
The rarest and most unusual modification of the T-72 was created in Romania
The T-72 tank from the late 70s began to en masse into service with the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries and states friendly to the Soviet Union.
In some of them, for example, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and India, licensed production was organized.
The Central Military District troops will receive new planes, helicopters and upgraded BMP-2
In 2022, the troops of the Central Military District (CVO) will receive more than 1,300 units of new and modernized weapons and military equipment. This was told to journalists on Monday by the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.