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Far Eastern units are reinforced with upgraded T-80BVM tanks
Land formations and units of the Far Eastern Military District (Far Eastern Military District) are reinforced with modern T-80BVM tanks. These combat vehicles, in particular, first entered service with the motorized rifle division stationed in the Khabarovsk Territory. Several dozen T-80BVMS were delivered to its garrisons by rail. The Far East prepared for the reception of equipment in advance - in the parks they equipped places for storing and servicing new tanks.
Ka-52 attack helicopters to be transferred to Abkhazia for exercises
The Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopters will be deployed to Abkhazia for planned tactical exercises. According to the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev, the Alligators will provide air support to the motorized rifle units of the Russian military base of the Southern Military District during the maneuvers.
The bombing of an American Humvee in Iraq was shown on video
A video has appeared on the Internet, which captures the moment of the explosion of an American Humvee from a close distance.
In the explanation to the video posted on YouTube, it says that the shooting was made in 2005, but the video was made public only recently.
Thailand's ILC will receive 18 Israeli-designed guns
During the upcoming exercises, the Thai Navy Marine Corps will test the first batch of Israeli-developed guns received last year, which are assembled at the facilities of the local defense industry.
The "Magnificent" Seven: seven of the strangest military makeshifts
Wheelbarrows, gun-trucks, installation of NURS on pickups — what people will not come up with when full-fledged army equipment is not available or "ended". To mark the seventh anniversary of the launch of the Warspot portal, we offer you a selection of photos of military homemade items that can be found in combat zones.
Armored car for anti-aircraft gunners "Typhoon-AIR defense" will be shown for the first time at the Victory Parade
The composition of the mekhkolonny includes five types of armored vehicles of increased protection of the Typhoon family, the Ministry of Defense reported
The newest armored vehicle "Typhoon-AIR Defense" for the transport of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) on a wheeled chassis will be held for the first time as part of a mechanized column at the upcoming parade in honor of the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on Monday in the Ministry of Defense.
Rostec to equip BMP-3 with new engine
The Russian infantry fighting vehicle is also planning to install a new commander's thermal panoramic sight, the state corporation's weapons complex reported.
The Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle will receive an improved UTD-32T engine, and it is also planned to install a new commander's thermal panoramic sight. This was reported to TASS in the arms complex of the state corporation "Rostec".
The Armed Forces of Serbia acquired a new batch of BBM " Lazar-3"
As reported by the Ministry of Defense of Serbia, Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Defense Nebojsa Stefanovic on March 20 took part in the signing of the military department with the company Yugoimport-SDPR contract for the purchase of a new batch of BBM "Lazar-3" with a wheel formula of 8x8.
In the Altai Territory, rocket scientists used a remote mine-clearing machine "Foliage"
In the Barnaul compound (Altai Territory), the latest remote mine clearance vehicle (MDR) "Foliage" was used to accompany the mobile ground missile system "Yars"on the combat patrol routes.
BTR-80 captured on video after exploding on a mine in Venezuela
A video has appeared on the Internet showing the BTR-80 of the Venezuelan army after being blown up by an anti-personnel mine. Apparently, the armored vehicle survived the incident without much damage.
At the exercises in Abkhazia, car repair units used the latest REM-KL vehicles to evacuate equipment in battle
Military personnel of the automobile repair unit of the Russian military base in Abkhazia, as part of a tactical and special exercise at the Tsabal training ground, evacuated conditionally damaged equipment, using the latest REM-KL repair and evacuation vehicles in a combined-arms battle.
"Smart artillery»: in Russia, they proposed to remake the old guns
VNII "Signal" proposed to modernize the artillery from obsolete guns
In Russia, it was proposed to create a "smart" artillery from obsolete guns. For this purpose, the Signal Research Institute plans to develop a set of unified equipment that will provide automatic data entry for firing on towed guns. In turn, this will allow them to upgrade to the level of highly effective artillery systems. Military observer " of the Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok dealt with the company's initiatives.
The experience of the war in Iraq confirmed the high efficiency of the TOS-1A
The first heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A entered service with the Iraqi army in July 2014.
They were taken to the airport in Baghdad by the heavy transport aircraft AN-124-100 "Ruslan". The next shipments began to arrive by sea, at the port of Umm Qasr.
High efficiency: only one T-90S of Azerbaijan was destroyed in the fighting
By the beginning of the operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani ground forces were armed with about a hundred T-90S main battle tanks. This technique in its tactical and technical characteristics significantly surpassed not only the old modifications of the T-72 available to the Armenian side, but also the Azerbaijani T-72 "Aslan"modernized with the help of the Israelis.
Major military exercises in Primorye ended with live firing
Large-scale tactical exercises with military personnel of motorized rifle, tank and artillery formations of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) ended with large-scale combat shooting at the Sergeyevsky training ground in Primorye, the press service of the VVO reported on Monday.
A special version of the armored car "Federal-M" appeared in Rosgvardiya
At the request of the Engineering Department of Rosgvardiya, experimental design work is being carried out to ensure the actions of the reconnaissance and mine clearance groups. As reported in the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, within their framework, the Krasnodar Instrument Factory "Cascade" on the basis of the armored bus "Federal-M" created a prototype of a special engineering vehicle SIM-4.
The rearmament of the Barnaul missile compound at the Yars PGRK will be completed by the end of the year
The rearmament of the Barnaul missile compound (Altai Territory) with the Yars mobile ground missile system will be completed by the end of 2021, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergey Karakaev, said during the command and staff exercise.
Russian " Cornet "was used in the US-Moroccan exercises
Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missile systems are highly effective against well-protected main battle tanks, other types of armored vehicles, as well as low-flying aircraft.
A new modification of the ZBL-08 armored vehicle was shown in China
In the family of Chinese wheeled four-axle armored ZBL-08 appeared "ambulance", designed to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield.
Currently, such special vehicles began to arrive in the units of the Tibetan Military District of the People's Liberation Army. They have the necessary medical equipment that allows them to start saving the lives of fighters at the moment of their transportation to the hospital.
Rosgvardiya showed new robotic systems and machines for mine clearance
In the Center for Engineering and Technical Support of Rosgvardiya and in the training center "Novsky" ODON named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky, the department's specialists demonstrated the actions of the units in conditions close to combat, including the clearance of objects with the help of robotic means.