News land-based units

At the end of February 1995, in the cemeteries of military equipment at the Chervlennaya station and in the vicinity of Grozny, where combat vehicles that had failed for various reasons were collected from all over Chechnya, one could see the damaged T-72A tanks with the remnants of white camouflage on the towers. There were quite a lot of them.

At the Roshchinsky training ground in the Samara region, the peacekeeping brigade of the Central Military District showed its combat capabilities during large-scale exercises. The training footage was captured on video.

Last Thursday, tests began on the first of three samples of the modernized Italian-made C1 Ariete AMV tank. It is reported that the combat vehicle received an updated IVECO V12 MTCA powerplant with a 1500 hp Common Rail fuel injection system.

A group of officers who had previously graduated from a military college were admitted to the armored school of the Iraqi army. 107 people from January to October of this year will study military equipment in the troops, in particular T-90S tanks and infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3M.

Next year, the airborne and amphibious assault divisions of the Russian Army will begin to receive mobile air defense systems "Birdman". This is reported in the material by I. Borovkov "Air defense for "winged infantry", published in the February issue of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Army Collection".

A batch of twelve new means of communication has arrived at the 201st military base of the Russian Federation stationed in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Tuesday.

In 1996, Russian border guards guarded the border with Afghanistan in Tajikistan. Every night attempts were made to break through, there were shootouts. Therefore, each outpost was turned into a small fortress.

Howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the units of the Western Military District

Units of the Western Military District (ZVO) received new self-propelled artillery units (ACS). 12 modernized self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the military. This was reported in the press service of the ZVO.

Units of the Western Military District received new self-propelled artillery installations. According to the press service of the ZVO, 12 modernized self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the military. 

In the second Chechen campaign, along with a mass of various light armored vehicles, the only sample of this veteran armored personnel carrier was involved.

All logging trucks and vehicles involved in extinguishing forest fires will have equipment to track their movement online. This is assumed by the order of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the draft of which is posted on the portal for the publication of the developed regulations.

Thermal imagers of various types have been actively used in various branches of the leading armies of the world for a long time. Therefore, the developers of targets and all kinds of false targets are trying to make their products at landfills look like real when using such sights and surveillance devices.

About 40 new all-terrain vehicles "Ural-4320" will be delivered this year to equip the Russian military base in Tajikistan.

Exercises involving Chinese-made VT-3 tanks (also known as Type 59G) were recently conducted by the Chadian ground forces.

Information about the acquisition of these combat vehicles by the military department of this country was made public at the end of April last year, when they were first seen on the streets of the capital - N'Djamena.

A rare Russian anti-tank complex "Kornet-T" on a BMP-3 chassis is seen at a railway station in Belarus. The car was in the echelon that arrived to participate in joint maneuvers of the armies of the two countries.

The gunners of the 150th Division of the Southern Military District, as part of planned exercises, destroyed a unit of a conditional enemy in the Rostov region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

In Ulan-Ude (Buryatia), exercises of units of the Eastern Military District were held at a specialized training ground of a tank compound.

In Ulan-Ude, exercises of units of the Eastern Military District took place at a specialized training ground of a tank compound, reports OTR. They involved tracked floating all-terrain vehicles "Aleut".

19FortyFive: The German Panzer VIII Maus is the worst tank in history

The "worst of the worst" tanks in world history is the German Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, writes 19FortyFive.

Tankers of the military base of the Southern Military District in Adygea conducted night battles on modern T-72B3 tanks as part of operational and combat training classes, the press service of the Southern Military District reported on Saturday.

The Marine Corps used Grad, Gvozdika and Nona installations during exercises in the Arctic

Crews of artillery installations of the Marine Corps of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy used artillery during exercises in the Arctic. A video showing the firing of marines was published by the Zvezda TV channel.