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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited the Smolino test site in the Nizhny Novgorod Region during a working trip, where he checked the progress of the state defense order.

The experimental and industrial batch of armored vehicles on the Armata platform, which Uralvagonzavod (UVZ, Rostec) is preparing to transfer to the military, will be significant, the head of the concern, Alexander Potapov, told Interfax on Thursday.

A group of "Terminator" vehicles of the Algerian army was first captured on video.

The low-quality footage shows three tank support vehicles (BMPT) moving between the dunes.

The servicemen of the amphibious assault regiment in Stavropol received a battalion set of the latest equipment - 31 BMD-4M combat vehicles and eight BTR-MDM "Shell" armored personnel carriers. By the end of the year, three more sets of combat vehicles will be delivered under the rearmament program.

In Ukraine, they do not give up hope to bring to mind the long-suffering BTR-4, which has already been rejected by several states. The Ukrainian military department reported on the allegedly successful tests of the version "with improved characteristics for overcoming water obstacles."

The first tank army will be involved in the planned Russian-Belarusian strategic maneuvers "West-2021" in September, the Western Military District (ZVO) said on Wednesday.

The main striking force of the Venezuelan ground forces is currently the Russian-made T-72B1V and the AMX-30V purchased in France. The

"Seventy-second" has 92 pieces. According to some reports, they differ from conventional vehicles of this modification by new means of communication, a different type of track belts, which received asphalt shoes.

Currently, active protection systems are being created in many countries, in some of them, for example, Israel and Turkey, tanks with KAZ have already taken part in battles.

The Western military District (ZVO) will be reinforced with hypersonic missile systems "Dagger", according to "Izvestia", citing sources in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Kharkiv design bureau has been developing a new Ukrainian BMP-U since 2018. It is not known when the first prototype will be made, however, in order to somehow report on the work done, the creators of the combat vehicle decided to publish the tactical and technical characteristics.

Currently, much is being said about the equipment created for operations in the Arctic. It is reported that it is the high efficiency of gas turbines in low temperatures compared to diesel engines that forced the return of the famous "flying tanks" T-80 to the troops.

Modern infantry fighting vehicles continue to arrive in the formations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. As part of the state defense order, in the near future, manufacturing enterprises will transfer the next batch of BMP-3 to the SV units.

The impact of a guided anti-tank missile on an American-made armored car in northern Iraq led to fatal consequences. Five people inside were killed and seven others were injured. It is assumed that the complex "Competition" or "Cornet" was used.

[b]Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company LLC, noted that the Boomerang is the most powerful wheeled armored personnel carrier available in Russia today.]

The domestic armored personnel carrier "Boomerang" can be controlled even from a mobile phone. This was stated on the air of the RBC TV channel by Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company LLC.

The company also participates in the international arms exhibition Shield Africa 2021, which takes place from June 8 to 10 in Abidjan

Rosoboronexport (part of the state corporation Rostec) signed contracts worth $1.7 billion with sub - Saharan Africa in 2020-early 2021. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the company.

On the roads of Syria, cars that were supplied to this country by the Soviet Union have long become familiar: old GAZ-66, ZIL-131, Ural-375, KrAZ-255, MAZ-537.

There are significant quantities of GAZ-3308 "Sadko", actively used modern modifications of "Ural", "Kamaz".

The head of the holding "Technodinamika" Igor Nasenkov said that according to the results of the tests, a decision will be made on putting it into service

The Tosochka heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 will complete state tests by the end of 2021. This was announced on Friday by the head of the holding company "Technodinamika" of the state Corporation "Rostec" Igor Nasenkov during the SPIEF-2021.

It is pointless to compare the power of the Armed Forces of Russia and Ukraine, since they are "completely different leagues". On Friday, June 4, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia.

In Russia, a munition has been created that "blinds" the guidance systems of high-precision weapons of the enemy. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Alexey Leonkov spoke about the principle of operation and the features of the development.

The T-16 tractor, created on the heavy interspecific unified Armata platform, is less well-known than its "close relative" - the T-14 tank, which annually participates in parades.