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85-horsepower ATV lacking weapons and armor, nicknamed ″golf carts″ by Forbes. [86] E-scooter [87] [88] Motorized scooter: Unknown Electric scooters are one of the typically civilian vehicles used by Russian soldiers in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where they are used for transport on the front.
Russia SR-1 Vektor Serdyukov pistol 9×21mm Gyurza: 2003–present sidearm utilized in limited numbers by the Spetsnaz: SR-1M SR-1MP Russia Udav: 9×21mm Gyurza: 2019-present successfully passed official trials in January 2019, becoming approved for adoption by the Russian Army [1] Russia Poloz pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum: 2020–present
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects. [2]
Weather modification can also have the goal of preventing damaging weather, such as hail or hurricanes, from occurring; or of provoking damaging weather against an enemy, as a tactic of military or economic warfare like Operation Popeye, where clouds were seeded to prolong the monsoon in Vietnam.
However, the treaty does not directly condemn military use of weather modification when it does not directly cause harm, [3] such as the United States' use of weather modification in the Battle of Khe Sanh in the Vietnam War. The limitations of the treaty, and its application only to signatory states, allow weather warfare to continue to play a ...
On 14 November 2023, the UK MoD reported that Russia has increased its production of 152mm Krasnopol shells. These shells are laser guided however they are affected by winter weather, with clouds able to stop any laser guidance. The increase in the production of this weapon is due to a possible emphasis on efficiency of their artillery. [33]
The radar-guided ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" SPAAG, with its four 23 mm (0.90") autocannons, was a revolutionary SPAAG, proving to be an extremely effective weapon against enemy attack aircraft and helicopters under every weather and light condition.
Name Type Photo Notes 6B2 (Zh-RI) : Flak jacket Issued in 1980, it provided inadequate protection in Afghanistan and subsequently phased out. [3]: 41 6B3: Flak jacket