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The US army should give priority to Russia, not China, writes the American edition of Breaking Defense.

Some technical characteristics of the Russian mobile reconnaissance point PRP-5, made on the basis of the serial domestic armored personnel carrier BTR-82A, have become known.

This car was demonstrated at the beginning of October this year at an exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Ground Forces held in the Patriot Park near Moscow.

In order to increase the combat capabilities of the reconnaissance units of the Ground Forces, the delivery of the second-generation Sagittarius-M intelligence, control and communications systems (KRUS) is planned.

The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.

The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.

According to information published on October 6 by General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS), the Latvian Armed Forces will receive a self-propelled pontoon fleet based on the M3 amphibious vehicle.

The armored long-lived PT-76 continues its service in the land forces and Marines of Indonesia. The first batch of Soviet light tanks was delivered to the armed forces of the state in 1962. According to various sources, less than a hundred such machines have been received in total.

More than 1.2 thousand servicemen took part in the exercises

Units of the 2nd combined Arms Army on Patriot pickups showed new ways of conducting combat at exercises at the Roshchinsky training ground near Samara, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Thursday.

The upgraded M-84 tank was shown at the Partner-2021 exhibition in Belgrade (Serbia). The M-84AC2 received an upgraded fire control system (FMS), new surveillance devices and dynamic protection. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The Institute noted that the key advantages of these artillery modules are an uninhabited combat compartment, control from automated calculation sites in the chassis and high-precision shooting.

Six years ago, it became known about the design by Serbian designers of the M-20UP1 tank, nicknamed "Armata" "in Serbian" for its characteristic appearance.

Tests of the armored wheeled vehicle "BARYS 8x8" have been completed in Kazakhstan. According to the State Defense Order Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a total of 25,000 km was covered within six months, including through mountainous, steppe and desert areas.

Within the framework of the Partner-2021 international defense exhibition taking place in Belgrade (Serbia), the Serbian company Yugoimport SDPR presented a new BBM with an 8x8 wheel formula, called LAZANSKI.

For the purpose of competent operation of new military equipment and its effective use, the training and retraining of personnel of department commanders, driver mechanics and gunners-operators of combat vehicles, as well as officers for military units is carried out in two stages.

Due to the secrecy traditional for this country, North Korean tank construction is of great interest to foreign experts. However, how North Korea's heavy tracked vehicles are being improved can only be judged by reports from military parades held in Pyongyang and by rare photo reports directly from military units.

The Israeli company uVision showed the LAV-M armored vehicle of the American Marine Corps with a launcher for barrage ammunition. According to The Drive, the installation includes eight launch containers. It is suitable not only for armored vehicles of the LAV-25 series, but also for other platforms.

At the exhibition "Self-Defense-2021", North Korea demonstrated the innovations of its military-industrial complex. Among them is a tank visually similar to the Russian T-14 based on the ARMATA tracked platform. Another important novelty was the hWasong-8 hypersonic weapon system, tested in September.

Units of the Barnaul Division of the Strategic Missile Forces stationed in the Altai Territory brought mobile ground-based YARS missile systems to combat patrol routes.

The Azerbaijani army has adopted the Yugoslav triple-barreled 20-mm M55 Zastava cannons captured from the Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh.

At the 10th International Exhibition of Armaments and Military Equipment "Partner-2021" held in Belgrade, the Serbian armored personnel carrier "Lazanski", created in yUgoimport-SDPR, was demonstrated for the first time.

The four-axle combat vehicle is named after the Serbian ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazansky, who passed away in early August of this year.

In North Korea, they again showed a tank of their own production, which experts previously considered a kind of hybrid of the Russian T-14 Armata tank and the American M1 Abrams. A new picture of the combat vehicle, published by the Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) of the DPRK, was shown by the South Korean Yonhap news agency.