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Chile decided to convert some of the existing Leopard 1V main battle tanks into multiple rocket launchers.

Currently, a technology demonstrator has been created, which is a tracked combat vehicle, from the turret of which the 105-mm rifled L7A3 cannon was removed. Two packages of twenty guides for launching 70-mm unguided missiles were reportedly installed on it.

The export version of the Chinese Type 96A tank was noticed in Tanzania

In Africa, Chinese VT-2 tanks were demonstrated for the first time. The export version of the Type 96A tank was noticed at a display of military equipment, which was timed to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Tanzania's independence. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

In the first Chechen War, the Russian army actively used modern T-80BV, T-72B and T-72B(M) tanks in battles at that time. Unfortunately, due to mistakes in tactics, the battles in Grozny led to the loss of several dozen units of such equipment.

The engineering division of the combined arms army of the VVO, according to the plan for providing engineering equipment, will receive a heavy mechanized bridge TMM-3M2.

Rheinmetall and BAE Systems' joint venture, Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), founded in 2019, heads a consortium of British companies engaged in the research of concepts of new, economical and high-performance uninhabited ground robotic systems (Unmanned Ground Vehicles, UGV) for the British Army.

The German company Rheinmetall has introduced a tracked robot based on the Wiesel platform. It can be used to solve a wide range of tasks.

A batch of new T-72B3M tanks, which reinforced the Russian military base in Tajikistan, has been sent to a training ground in a mountainous area, the Central Military District (CVO) said on Saturday.

Tank crews conducted live firing at the ranges of the Southern Military District in the Volgograd and Rostov regions, Crimea, Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, as well as at Russian military bases in Abkhazia, Armenia and South Ossetia.

President Vladimir Putin said that there is no need to worry about the Russian army, since everything is fine with it. He mentioned this on December 9 at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC).

The delivery of new generation T-14 Armata tanks to the Russian army will be phased. After 2023, it is planned to transfer more than 40 cars.

A railway echelon with new military equipment – BTR-82A armored personnel carriers has arrived at the Grodno garrison of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. The delivery was realized by JSC Arzamas Machine-Building Plant (Russian Federation).

Russian BTR-80 are traditionally popular in the armed forces of almost three dozen countries. For example, in the early 90s, armored personnel carriers were purchased by the Turkish gendarmerie. In total, more than two hundred and thirty units were delivered.

China has started exporting VT-2 main battle tanks to Africa. Two such combat vehicles, painted in colorful camouflage, were seen last Thursday at a military equipment show dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of Tanzania's independence. They were taken on car trawls through the stadium of the country's largest city - Dar es Salaam.

More than two dozen modernized T-80BV tanks have entered service with the coastal troops of the Pacific Fleet. This technique will strengthen the striking capabilities of the Primorsky Marine Corps unit, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported.

At the end of the 80s, the USSR once again tried to create a new generation tank, which was supposed to successfully fight not only with existing Abrams and Leopards, but also with promising equipment that could appear in the West both in the 90s and later.

The Polish army will soon receive 300 used wheeled armored vehicles from the United States with enhanced mine protection. This was stated on Twitter by the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.

In order to increase the strike capabilities, maneuverability and autonomy of combined arms formations in the interests of the Ground Forces, fundamentally new models of armored vehicles are being created on unified platforms "Armata", "Kurganets" and "Boomerang". In addition, a promising artillery complex "Coalition-SV" and a mobile anti-aircraft artillery complex "Derivation-air defense" are being developed. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov said this at a meeting with military attaches of foreign states on Thursday.

Since the beginning of the armed conflict in Ethiopia between government forces and formations of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (PFLP), the parties have lost more than 110 tanks of various models.

We are talking about combat vehicles, the destruction of which was visually confirmed by photographs and video materials. The largest number falls on the T-54/55, a total of 44 pieces, of which a pair of upgraded T-55AM2 and T-55AMB, with additional reservation and dynamic protection.

Interfax: tests of the T-14 Armata with new shells will be completed in 2022

The promising T-14 tank on the Armata tracked platform will receive new shells. The tank with the new ammunition is being tested. Andrey Yelchaninov, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia, said this in an interview with Interfax.

About three years ago, an unusual Ukrainian tank lit up in a video advertising the Ukrainian armored repair and evacuation vehicle "Athlete". Some of the viewers even decided that they had declassified their closed recent development in Nezalezhnaya.