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Ukraine is preparing to send the first sample of the BTR-4KSH-T command and staff vehicle to Thailand. According to the Defense Express portal, it is intended for the Royal Navy marines of this state located in Southeast Asia.

In the second half of the 90s, projects of a new generation of tanks were being worked out in Poland, one of the versions, which received the preliminary designation PT-97, had some similarities with the T-14 Armata.

The American army has begun to master a new generation of tank shells. Yesterday, November 4, the portal defence-blog.com He reported that at the Yuma training ground (Arizona), the first crews of Abrams tanks fired M1147 ammunition.

ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" anti-aircraft self-propelled guns during the maneuvers of the ground forces of the Jordanian army covered the units involved in training battles armed with Al-Hussein tanks and Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles.

Crews of infantry fighting vehicles BMP-2 overcame a water barrier and destroyed tanks of a simulated enemy with the help of an anti-tank missile system (ATGM) "Fagot" in the Moscow region. This was reported by the press service of the Western Military District on Saturday, November 6.

An exercise to repel an attack by an illegal armed group (IAF) on the objects of the 201st Russian military base took place in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Saturday.

A control check with live firing of tanks of the Vistula Motorized Rifle Division has been completed in the Voronezh Region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Saturday.

The modernization of the German Marder infantry fighting vehicles announced last year is in full swing. Yesterday, November 5, the portal thedrive.com He reported that Rheinmetall has revealed the details of updating combat vehicles to the 1A5A1 level.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told what new equipment and weapons the Ground Forces have already received and will receive this year. According to the agency, we are talking about more than 2.5 thousand samples of modern arsenal.

For the last 45 years, the peculiarity of domestic tanks is that they can use guided missile weapons. Initially, these were complexes with radio command guidance.

Then, in the mid-80s, combat vehicles were adopted by the ground forces, the ammunition of which included more advanced ammunition, already guided by a laser beam.

The tank received a 1,130 hp engine.

A batch of T-72B3M tanks with improved characteristics entered service with the army corps of the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad region. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the fleet.

Fighters of one of the units of the People's Militia of Donbass modified the captured Ukrainian T-64BV. According to the project of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta "Russian Weapons", the main battle tank was equipped with two special searchlights, nicknamed "red eyes".

The wheeled road vehicle (KDM), developed specifically for the engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces, will replace five samples of engineering equipment designed for the preparation and maintenance of combat patrol routes and field positions of mobile ground missile systems.

The old Soviet BTR-152 continues to be improved in Vietnam. Currently, a thoroughly modified version has been created for peacekeeping units operating as part of the UN troops.

The Israeli defense showed a high result on the German tank. November 2, portal janes.com He reported that the companies Rafael and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) conducted a joint test of the Leopard 2 tank and the Trophy active protection system.

The German Leopard 2A7 tank has passed the first stage of testing of the active protection complex (KAZ) Trophy. The development of the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems provided effective protection of the tank. The Israeli Defense Ministry has published a corresponding message on its Twitter account. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The eleventh issue of the magazine "Army Collection" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation contains an article by V. Litvinenko, A. Klyukoyt "Modernization and development of new artillery models". In particular, the article mentions possible measures to improve the capabilities of the famous Russian 240-mm self-propelled mortar 2C4 "Tulip".

Deliveries of Su-30SM aircraft and Mi-35M helicopters have been completed, said Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Customs Service

Russia supplied Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with military products in 2021, including aircraft and missile systems. Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), said this in an interview with RBC.

The Russian tank "Object 195", which is also known as the T-95, could become one of the best combat vehicles in the world. In the USA, they remembered the predecessor of the T-14 Armata. Charlie Gao wrote for 19FortyFive about the advantages of Russian development.

The captured T-64BV main battle tank of one of the Donbass People's Militia units received "red eyes" - two special searchlights are installed on both sides of a 125 mm smoothbore cannon.