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The Algerian military is going to turn the T-62 into tank support combat vehicles. The material about this is posted on the portal menadefense.net. To implement this project, the turret with the 115-mm smoothbore 2A20 gun will be dismantled from the medium tank, and the Berezhok combat compartment will be installed instead.

Finnish Patria and Slovak engineering company CSM Industry have signed a memorandum of understanding on joint participation in a tender for the supply of 8x8 armored combat vehicles to the Slovak Armed Forces.

The Taliban celebrate the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan as a historic victory. In two weeks, they managed to establish control over all but one of the provinces. In honor of this, victory parades were held throughout the country, during which the Taliban demonstrated American-made weapons.

There is no foreign analogue of this heavy flamethrower system yet, said Omsktransmash CEO Igor Lobov

The Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (Omsktransmash, part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec State Corporation) is working on the inclusion of the TOS-1A "Solntsepek" heavy flamethrower system in the automated control circuit of troops. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Igor Lobov.

The modernized German Leopard 2A7+ significantly gained weight and lost mobility.

One of these tanks was recently demonstrated at an exhibition in Hungary. A shield with fairly detailed technical characteristics was installed next to it. In particular, the specified weight is 67.5 tons. If we recall the 55-ton Leopard 2A4 released in the second half of the 80s, the weight gain was more than 12,000 kg.

The United States analyzes photos and videos taken by the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) at the Kabul airport. They show captured military aircraft, helicopters, cars and other trophies.

The Ukrainian tank industry is in a deep crisis. From the once giant of Soviet industry - the Malyshev plant, in fact, there are repair shops that are capable of semi-artistically, as they say, on the knee, making individual samples from the previous reserves, which then break down during rehearsals of parades.

The Pentagon told about a new package of US assistance to Ukraine, which will include the supply of Javelin anti-tank missile systems. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

The general director of the enterprise Igor Lobov noted that the organization is ready to work in this direction if there is a need for it

Omsktransmash (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec state Corporation) is negotiating with potential customers on the possible modernization of Soviet T-55 tanks. This was announced to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Igor Lobov at the international military-technical forum "Army-2021"held in the Moscow region.

A prototype of a light tank with a new turret and armament was photographed in Serbia. The Belgrade company DLS Special Systems installed the Soviet MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun in the car on the basis of the world's first floating self-propelled gun "Gvozdika".

At the exhibition of military equipment "Army-2021" in Simferopol and Sevastopol , new T-72B3M tanks, recently entered service with the tank battalion of the 126th Coastal Defense Brigade of the 22nd Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet, are shown for the first time.

The first pictures of abandoned American planes that were inherited by representatives of the Taliban appeared (movement is prohibited in Russia). Business Insider published photos of cargo planes of the Afghan Air Force at the Kabul airport on Tuesday, August 31.

Specialists of the engineering troops of the Western Military District (ZVO) for the first time used massive mining during a special exercise in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The BMPT was nicknamed the "Combine of Death"for its versatility even before it was put into service. Indeed, the crew of this armored vehicle, consisting of five people, can bring down a steel rain on the enemy from 30-mm shells of 2A42 cannons, two 30-mm automatic grenade launchers AG-17 at once, as well as guided missiles "Attack" with various types of combat units . It was reported that up to four targets can be attacked simultaneously. The modern fire control system allows you to use this weapon at any time of the day.

The Minister of Defense of Venezuela, General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino Lopez, visited the 11th Armored Brigade (Fort Mara, Zulia State), where he got acquainted with the results of the work carried out on the modernization of 155/23-mm M-14A1 howitzers and the repair of AMX-13C90 light tanks.

The American army left huge trophies at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. We are talking about dozens of units of armored vehicles, various aircraft and anti-aircraft systems.

In the Kaliningrad region, the marines of the Baltic Fleet repelled the attack of a simulated enemy from the sea in conditions as close to combat as possible.

Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (as part of JSC Concern Uralvagonzavod is part of the Rostec State Corporation) took part in the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The first attempt of the Ethiopian army to use the T-72UA1 tank modernized in Ukraine in battles ended in failure. One of these combat vehicles in good condition was captured recently by the militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray.

The latest military equipment was used at the special exercises of the logistics support units of the Western Military District that were completed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. In particular, in the photo materials published by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, you can see the latest modification of the BMP-3 with the Epoch combat module.