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A military parade in honor of the 30th anniversary of the country's independence was held in Turkmenistan on Monday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports,

At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus received a significant number of T-72 tanks. By the beginning of the second decade of the new century, more than 450 T-72B remained in service, another 700 vehicles were in storage.

Tanks and other armored vehicles were involved

Motorized rifle and tank units of the Russian military base in Tajikistan conducted live firing exercises at two mountain ranges "Lyaur" and "Sambuli", the Central Military District (CVO) reported.

Next year, the American army will choose a new light tank for itself. September 23, portal janes.com He reported that the Mobile Protected Firepower (MFP) program has entered the "limited user testing" phase.

During the recent DSEI (Defense and Security Equipment International) exhibition, BAE Systems for the first time demonstrated the CV-90 armored combat vehicle equipped with a new D-series turret.

At the Donguz training ground (Orenburg Region), during the active phase of the anti - terrorist exercises of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization "Peace Mission-2021", Russian tankers demonstrated advanced methods of conducting defensive combat operations.

Last Thursday, it became known that the Ministry of Defense of India ordered 118 Arjun Mk-1A main battle tanks. According to local media, they will be manufactured by the Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) in Avadi (Chennai) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The operational and strategic command and staff exercises "Otpantau-2021" held in Kazakhstan involved the existing modern types of weapons and military equipment.

According to the press center of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the troops have applied the experience of recent armed conflicts in practice, worked out new forms and methods of conducting combat operations.

In Russia, the production of a new system for protecting equipment from high-precision weapons has begun. The Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering " Tsniitochmash "of the Rostec State Corporation has started mass production of unified protection systems. This is reported on the website of Rostec.

The Indian Army will arm itself with Arjun Mk-1A tanks. On September 24, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of India announced the signing of a contract with the Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) for the supply of 118 Arjun Mk-1A tanks.

The BMP-3 was able to extinguish the candles with shots from a 30-mm gun

In the program" Acceptance "on the TV channel" Zvezda", the capabilities of the BMP-3 were demonstrated. In particular, they tested the accuracy of the combat vehicle's fire control system. However, instead of the usual shooting at targets, the shooter was given a non-trivial task - to extinguish five candles with shots at a hundred-meter distance.

Soviet first-generation IFVs in the late 60s were considered by military theorists as a means of delivering infantry in a full-scale nuclear war.

In the Rostov region, servicemen of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division practiced the landing of a mass tactical landing by helicopter. A squadron of transport and combat Mi-8AMTSh "Terminator" and a pair of multi-purpose Mi-35M were involved in the exercises.

In Libya, after a long break, the former Soviet four-axle BTR-60PB were again seen. Armored vehicles in the amount of five units were demonstrated during a visit by the commander-in-chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, to one of the infantry units subordinate to him.

Rheinmetall has announced the signing of a contract with the command of the German Armed Forces for the modernization of armored vehicles of the RCB-reconnaissance "Fuchs".

Warsaw, which is preparing for destabilization on the eastern border for one well-known reason, announced plans to deploy up to 250 of the latest Abrams tanks there. The United States intends to start supplying combat vehicles to Poland in 2022.

Fighters of the Iraqi People's militia restored a captured T-55A medium tank. If you look closely, you can understand that this is not an ordinary combat vehicle.

The fact is that it was previously in service with the Syrian army and, apparently, was supplied from the Soviet Union in the 70s.

The participation of light armored vehicles in local wars and conflicts often led to its massive losses. We can recall the mission of the Soviet limited contingent in Afghanistan, the fighting on the territory of the post-Soviet space. Dozens or even hundreds of burnt-out and exploded infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers remained everywhere after the fighting.

Modern armored personnel carriers with improved combat and driving characteristics of the BTR-82A and BTR-82AM are entering service with formations and units of the Ground Forces.

Military police units of the Central Military District (CVO), including at the Russian military base in Tajikistan, will receive new special equipment and "Gyurza" stun guns by the end of the year, Konstantin Smirnov, head of the regional military police department of the Central Military District, told reporters on Wednesday.