News land-based units

On May 13, 2021, JSC "Ural Plant of Transport Engineering" (JSC "Uraltransmash", part of JSC "Research and Production Corporation "Uralvagonzavod") reported that as part of the state defense order, it delivered the first batch of 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S3M "Acacia" to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after major repairs.

The latest anti-aircraft artillery complex ZAK-57 "Derivation-AIR DEFENSE", armed with an automatic gun of 57-mm caliber, successfully hit unmanned aerial vehicles of various types during tests, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (UVZ, part of Rostec) told RIA Novosti.

Modern armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and BTR-82AM with improved combat and driving characteristics will enter service with the Ground Forces. This was announced on Saturday, May 15, by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russian protected armored vehicles of special purpose K-43269 "Shot" continue to improve. At the parade in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, among the new products from the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" you could see the latest version.

The Turks "crossed" the machine type MRAP with MLRS. On May 13, the head of the Defense Industry Department under the Turkish presidential administration, Ismail Demir, posted a video of testing a new modification of the Vuran machine on his official Twitter page.

One of the oldest German concerns-manufacturers of military equipment Rheinmetall (founded in 1889-ed. TechCult.ru) introduced a new version of the NH – NH3 tactical military truck.

The first batch of upgraded 2S3M "Acacia" self-propelled artillery units has been handed over to the Russian Defense Ministry.

As reported by the Ukrainian media, on May 12, 2021, on the territory of the enterprise of the Ukrainian LLC "Scientific and Production Company" VK Sistema " in Vasylkiv (Kiev region) the transfer of a batch of nine Oncilla 4X4 L2014-UD wheeled armored vehicles assembled by the NPK to the armed forces of Ukraine took place "VK Sistema " from machine kits made by the Polish company Mista Sp. zoo.

The M1128 combat vehicles in service with the US ground forces, created on the platform of the Stryker armored personnel carriers, are going to be completely written off by the end of next year.

Judging by the reports that appeared on the Network, despite many years of operation in specialized brigades, they did not manage to solve a number of design problems, for example, with an automated gun loading system. It not only has a relatively small ammunition supply (only 18 shells), but also constantly fails.

At the military parade in Tula on May 9, the BMD-2M with a single combat compartment "Bereg"was first demonstrated.

From the original versions, they differ in the installation of a new, more massive-looking sight with a laser rangefinder, a thermal imaging channel and an automatic target tracking system.

The "Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering" reported that work on the reconstruction of the monorail section is already being completed, where they will demonstrate the layout

The model of the magnetic cushion train will be demonstrated for the first time by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering Corporation (MIT, which is the developer of the Yars complex, part of Roscosmos) in August. This was reported to TASS in MIT on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the enterprise.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines has published a" Notice of Order "(NOA – Notice of Award) for the supply of 90 light trucks GAZ" Sadko NEXT " produced by the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ Group, Nizhny Novgorod).

Specialists of the Military Academy of Logistics (VA MTO, St. Petersburg) named after General of the Army Khrulev came up with a project of a unique transport-loading robot based on one of the most massive tractors in the Russian army MT-LB (also known as "Motoliga"), follows from a document published on the website of Rospatent.

Unable to acquire modern combat aircraft, Ukraine decided to focus on unmanned aircraft. It is expected to receive about fifty "Bayraktar TB2".

The ZSU-23-4 anti-aircraft self-propelled gun, despite its venerable age, is still in service with the armies of more than three dozen countries.

For example, they are armed with air defense units of the Angolan ground forces. There are about 50 pieces in total.

The fighters of the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed LPR reanimated the existing single copy of the vehicle for providing crossings (MOP) "Holder".

She took part in the parade dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

More than 80 units of weapons and military equipment have been received by the troops of the Central Military District (CVO) since the beginning of this year.

84 units of ground combat equipment took part in the parade dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, held at the Russian air base Khmeimim in Syria. Among them was a T-34-85.

Estonian company Milrem Robotics has announced the signing of a distribution and maintenance agreement with the Australian company XTEK Ltd., as well as the delivery of the first ground-based remote-controlled machine THeMIS.

The Listva remote mine-clearing vehicle will be presented at the Army-2021 International Military-Technical Forum.