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According to the Latvian media, the Latvian Defense Ministry has signed a contract for the supply of 18 additional 155-mm self-propelled howitzers M-109A5OE from the Austrian Armed Forces. The purchase price exceeds 2 million euros.

The Chinese airborne 120 mm self-propelled artillery system was first demonstrated at the 12th International Aerospace Show AIRSHOW CHINA 2018.

The Slovenian Ministry of Defense announced the delivery to the port of Koper of a batch of new JLTV light armored vehicles purchased in the United States with a 4x4 wheel formula (national designation LKOV – Laki Kolesni Oklepni Vozil).

A video has appeared from the site of the destruction of the Israeli Merkava tank by the Russian Kornet complex, which is in service with the Palestinian movement Hamas. This video is currently available for viewing on Twitter.

Modern armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and BTR-82AM with improved combat and driving characteristics are entering service with the Ground Forces. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

It is known that the new armored vehicles are intended for the transport of units, their fire support in battle, the destruction of manpower, anti-tank weapons and light armored vehicles of the enemy.

During the upcoming military-technical forum "Army-2021 "at the Vostochny airfield in Ulan-Ude, at the site of weapons and military equipment, it is planned for the first time to demonstrate the latest armored vehicle" Typhoon", which this year entered service with the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District.

The substitute for the "aluminum coffin" is a step away from mass production. May 16, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that the US Department of Defense and BAE Systems have signed a new contract for the development and supply of AMPV tracked combat vehicles.

The Israel Defense Forces lost the Merkava Mark IV tank. The incident occurred at the end of last week. Video footage taken at the scene of the incident appeared on social networks.

The combat vehicle is located on a semi-trailer, which is towed by a tractor. Clouds of thick black smoke can be seen rising into the sky. You can hear the bullets for the machine guns exploding from the open fire.

In the Southern Military District (SE) in the Volgograd region, more than 320 junior specialists of the training battalion of the railway troops passed final exams in 7 military accounting specialties.

It is no secret that the" service life " of modern military technologies is limited to a few years, after which they are replaced by new ones, and this creates enormous problems when upgrading existing equipment and weapons.

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.