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BMD-1 modernization fitted with TKB-799 "Kliver" one-man weapons station developed by Tula Instrument Engineering Design Bureau (KBP). It is armed with a missile pod, a 30 mm 2A72 multipurpose autocannon (it can be used against both ground targets and air targets) and a 7.62 mm PKTM coaxial general purpose machine gun.
107th independent air defense division from Donskoy (18 BTR-D, 6 BTR-ZD and 1 BMD-1KSh) 332nd independent engineer battalion from Tula (8 BTR-D and 1 BMD-1KSh) 731st independent communications battalion from Tula (2 BTR-D, 6 BMD-1KSh, 5 BMD-1R and 2 R-440-ODB ) 15th independent repair battalion from Tula (4 BTR-D and 1 BREM-D). [7]
The 2A28 Grom also known as KBP 2A28 Grom, is the main armament of the Soviet-designed BMP-1 and BMD-1 infantry fighting vehicles.It is a 73 mm low pressure smoothbore semi-automatic gun with a wedge breech block. [1]
The Tula Division, from that point until the present day, was to be one of the most frequently-used elements of it. Two of its regiments took part in the Soviet–Afghan War . As nationalist unrest grew in the southern republics of the USSR throughout the end of the 1980s, the division was deployed to Baku , Azerbaijan , in 1988 and to Fergana ...
There are over 1,800 armored fighting vehicles, mostly BMD-1 (since 1969), of which all but around 100 are in storage, [133] [failed verification] and at least several hundred BMD-2 (since 1985). There are over 100 BMD-3 (1990) that were partially upgraded to BMD-4 level. All of them are amphibious, moving at around 10 km/h in water.
Silin produced several important weapons for the USSR, both through his own engineering work and under his direction. Most notably, whilst working at the Central Bureau for the Construction and Research of Recreational and Hunting Weapons during the 1960s, he was directly involved in the creation of the main armament for the BMP-1 and BMD-1 infantry fighting vehicles - the 73mm 2A28 Grom.
A new review reports that nine people taking semaglutide and tirzepatide — the active ingredient in GLP-1 medications — experienced vision issues, including three potentially blinding eye ...
On 5 January 1973, near Tula at the 106th Airborne Landing Division's "Slobodka" training grounds he was the first to drop from an Antonov An-12B "Cub" cargo airplane inside a BMD-1 in order to test the Kentavr multiple parachute system. The crew commander of the BMD-1 was Lt-Col. Leonid Zuev and 1st Lt. Aleksandr Margelov was the gunner. [21]