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The first production batch of the new BMD-4M and BTR-MDM "Rakushka" armoured vehicles, comprising 24 units (12 each) was transferred to the Russian Airborne Troops on March 3, 2015. [25] The Russian Defense Ministry is to receive more than 250 airborne troops’ BMD-4M combat vehicles and BTR-MDM Rakushka armored personnel carriers over three ...
Heavy infantry fighting vehicle meant to replace the BTR-T. [citation needed] Kurganets-25: Infantry fighting vehicle/armoured personnel carrier Russia: Planned to replace the BMP series. [428] [429] It has infantry fighting vehicle and armoured personnel carrier variants. [430] Anti-aircraft artillery 2S38 Derivatsiya-PVO
The Kurganets-25 (Russian: Курганец-25) is a tracked amphibious, 25-ton modular infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier being developed for the Russian Army. The Kurganets-25 is planned to evolve into various models, gradually replacing BMP , BMD , MT-LB and other types of tracked Soviet armored platforms.
The infantry fighting vehicle concept was first conceived of in the 1960s during the Cold War, where a confrontation between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries was expected to be dominated by tanks, so infantry required transport to sustain the pace of advance while having armament to fight tanks, and armor to withstand machine gun and artillery fire; the Soviet Union created the BMP-1/BMP-2 and ...
[6] [7] [12] There are two versions of the Bumerang 8×8 vehicle: the K-16 armored personnel carrier (APC), lightly armed with a 12.7 mm machine gun in a small remote turret; and the K-17 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), heavily armed with the Bumerang-BM RWS with a 30 mm cannon and Kornet-EM anti-tank missiles or AU-220M with 57 mm BM-57 ...
A M2 Bradley tracked infantry fighting vehicle, armed with a 25 mm M242 Bushmaster chain-driven autocannon and 2 BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missiles, in US service during the Second Battle of Fallujah (2004). A Russian BMP-3, armed with a 2A70 100 mm low-pressure rifled cannon, with embarked
Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia's wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow's military during the war in Ukraine, an ...
In Dutch service the Boxer ambulance replaced the YPR-765 prgwt variant of the AIFV (Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle) casualty transport and it can accommodate seven casualties that are seated or three lying down on stretchers, or one of the following combinations: three seated and two lying down, or four seated and a single casualty lying ...