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A new armored personnel carrier is planned to be created on the basis of the BTR-82A. At the same time, the components and assemblies of the "Athlete"armored car will be used.

The tank is adapted to the requirements of a number of foreign customers

Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec state Corporation) is waiting for the release of a lightweight export version of the T-90 tank. This was reported to TASS during the international military-technical forum "Army-2021" by the company.

The holding company "High-precision complexes" (part of Rostec) for the first time presented the Arctic version of the BT-3F armored personnel carrier at the military-technical forum "Army-2021", the press service of the state corporation reported.

The portfolio of export orders for Russian weapons and equipment for the ground forces is about $5 billion, the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev, told Interfax.

The holding clarified that they are working on the possibility of installing the Berezhka on new types of chassis

Design Bureau of Instrument Engineering (KBP) named after Academician A. G. Shipunov (part of the Rostec High-Precision Complexes holding) has begun to modernize the Berezhok complex, designed to equip infantry fighting vehicles. This was reported to TASS in the press service of "High-precision complexes" during the International military-technical Forum "Army-2021".

The concern reported that thanks to the equipment with an automatic control and control system, including the choice of the type of ammunition, the AU-220M is able to effectively hit air, sea and coastal targets at a range of up to 6 km.

The Israeli company IMI Systems will supply the Spanish Ground Forces with the latest 120-mm high-explosive tracer ammunition (HE-T) for the Leopard-2E and Leopard-2A4 main battle tanks.

The contract for the supply of the next batch of T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks, as well as for the modernization of T-90M combat tanks to the level of T-90M, was signed on Tuesday by the Russian military department and Uralvagonzavod, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

According to the commander of the Airborne Forces Andrey Serdyukov, the supply of air defense systems will be carried out separately

The Ptitselov airborne anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) will enter service with the Airborne Troops in 2024. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Army-2021 forum signed a contract for the supply of the latest self-propelled artillery systems "Coalition-SV" to the Armed Forces, the ministry told reporters.

The RHM-9 radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance vehicle is being openly demonstrated for the first time at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

Earlier it was reported that in 2018, this specialized armored car was presented in a closed static exhibition of a large-scale weapons exhibition held in the Moscow region.

The Strela KBM MIC SUV presented at the Army-2021 forum was created by students and graduates of Bauman Moscow State Technical University together with specialists of the Military-Industrial Company. In the future, the civilian Strela can get a seven-seat version and an automatic rifle, said Nikita Lozhkin, head of the calculation department of the Youth Design Bureau of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, in an interview with RG.

If there was a rating of tanks-losers, then the Ukrainian BM "Oplot" would surely take the first place in it. His entire short career is accompanied by failures and scandals.

The Thai military refused further purchases of such equipment. The contract concluded with Ukraine was constantly under threat of failure, and all 49 cars were received much later than planned.

The holding company "High-precision complexes" (Rostec State Corporation) presented at the military-technical forum "Army-2021" a version of the BT-3F armored personnel carrier adapted for operations in the Far North, according to a press release from Rostec.

The new multi-purpose armored floating vehicle (MBPM) rolled off the assembly line just ten days before the start of the Army-2021 forum.

Nevertheless, it has already been tested both afloat and during mileage tests, Sergey Suvorov, head of the media and advertising department of the Military-Industrial Company, said in an interview with RG.

At the IDEF-2021 exhibition held in Istanbul, the Turkish company FNSS presented a new version of the Shadow Rider modular ground-based remotely controlled vehicle (DUM).

Heavy flamethrower systems "Pinocchio" and "Solntsepek" have been used by our army for several decades. The successor of these legendary machines should be the Tosochka flamethrower system. Although it is currently at the stage of field tests, it has already managed to prove itself in all its glory at the strategic exercises "Caucasus-2020".

The soldiers of the engineering units of the Russian army are almost always on the front line. People in special equipment and with mine detectors at the ready appear in the center of events in any military conflict. Military engineers are also involved in the elimination of natural disasters and emergencies.

The International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is held from August 22 to 28 at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Complex in Kubinka, near Moscow.

In 2020, the newly formed 47th Missile and 238th Artillery brigades were deployed on the territory of the military garrison of Korenovsk (Krasnodar Territory).