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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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

During the main stage of the strategic exercises "West-2021" at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, watched by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a B-19 infantry fighting vehicle with an Epoch combat module was shown, which turned out to be an "imperceptible revolution," writes the Polish edition of Defence24.

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.

After a long break, a T-72MP was seen at the Kharkiv training ground, first shown back in May 1997 at a weapons exhibition in the Czech city of Brno.

According to available data, this tank, which is one of the first modifications of Ural machines developed in Ukraine, was for a long time in the settling tank of the landfill testing site of the experimental shop 190 of the Kharkiv Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering.

The most powerful Soviet self-propelled guns - 203-mm 2S7 "Peony" were mainly operated in Soviet artillery brigades of high power. In total, according to various sources, more than 500 such combat vehicles were manufactured.

A Russian military base in Tajikistan conducted sniper training using new rifles at a mountain training ground, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Wednesday.

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.

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.

As part of the air detachments, Mi-8 helicopters with VSM-1 mining systems will be involved, tracked minelayers of modern modification GMZ-3 will also be used

The Syrian combat experience will be the basis for the actions of the Russian engineering troops at the international exercises of the military contingents of the SCO member states "Peace Mission-2021", which are taking place in the Orenburg region. This was announced to journalists on Tuesday by the head of the engineering troops of the Central Military District (CVO), Major General Dmitry Koruts.

The British Ministry of Defense has signed three contracts for the development of laser and radio frequency weapons demonstrators. One of the promising installations will be tested on board the Type 23 frigate, and the other will be installed on the Wolfhound armored vehicle.

About 400 units of military and special equipment were also involved

More than 800 servicemen and about 400 units of military and special equipment were involved in the tactical exercise of the parachute battalion and support units of the Ivanovo Guards Airborne Unit, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

In Yemen, an unusual homemade hybrid - a Toyota Land Cruiser 79-series pickup truck with a combat compartment installed on it from the Russian BTR-80A was noticed.

Previously, these cars, modified in Jordan by the national defense industrial holding KADDB, received protected cabins with armored glass. Special cabins with rotating turrets equipped with 12.7-mm NSVT "Utes"were installed in the bodies.

A small number of Type 62 light tanks remain in service with the People's Liberation Army of China. They are involved in secondary areas, are listed in training units and, as a rule, play the role of "enemy"armored vehicles during exercises.

Foreign armored personnel carriers, such as the BTR-3, BTR-4 of Ukrainian production or the Chinese ZBL-08, in addition to 30-mm guns, which are clones of Russian guns, are also armed with anti-tank guided missiles.