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2021-07-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Deliveries of modern technology to Russian Ground Forces

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[RedStar] By the end of this year, more than 800 units of armored vehicles are planned to be delivered to military units and formations of the Ground Forces.

As part of the execution of the state defense order, the enterprises of the military-industrial complex will transfer to the modern and modernized models of armored vehicles that Russian Ministry of Defense have successfully proven themselves in operation in various climatic zones.

The troops will receive more than 90 modern T-72B3 and T-72B3M tanks, about 80 T-80BVM units with a gas turbine power plant, and a batch of T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks. In addition, more than 120 BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, modernized BMP-2 with the Berezhok fighting compartment, as well as about 300 armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and BTR-82AM will be delivered to military units and formations.

Posted by badanov 2021-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 and a batch of T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks

To put this in perspective:

*The T-90 is an upgraded T-72. The T-72 has been in service since 1979. There's been about 3200 of them built.

*Our armor mainstay is the M1 Abrams, in service since 1979 as well. It has been decisively kicking T-series tank a$$ since 1991, and we've built almost 10,300 of them. The latest version, the M1A2D SEP is a very literal Doomsday machine against other tanks.

*Given ~~Soviet~~ Russian maintenance standards, a 30-40% combat availability is reasonable on any given day. During the last two Persian Gulf Live Fire Exercises, the US Army was able to reach a 90% combat availability rate.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-07-21 06:21|| 2021-07-21 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Socks?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-21 11:17|| 2021-07-21 11:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Not worried about the tanks Mike, just when is crewing them...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-21 14:45|| 2021-07-21 14:45|| Front Page Top

#4 ...who...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-21 14:46|| 2021-07-21 14:46|| Front Page Top