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Russia’s largest movie studio donated about 50 tanks and armored vehicles from the 1950s that it had been using as props. ... Russia’s war machine is running on fumes as industry warns of ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine would change nothing on the battlefield but only further escalate the conflict, adding that foreign ...
The arms industry of Russia, also known as the defense industry of Russia is a strategically important sector and a large employer in the Russian Federation. [1] It employs approximately 3.5 million people nationwide and accounts for 20% of all manufacturing jobs in Russia. Total defense spending in Russia reached 7.5% of GDP in 2023. [2] [3]
Now 575 days into his war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has halted virtually all exports of gasoline and diesel out of the country to lessen the pain for average Russians and protect the nation's ...
However, at the time Western observers questioned Russia's ability to produce modern tanks like the T-90 and T-14 in significant numbers. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] In response to the Armata, German company Rheinmetall has developed a new 130mm L/51 tank gun, claiming it provides a 50 percent increase in armor penetration over the 120mm L/55 in service ...
Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union: Belt fed with 50-round boxes. In Ukraine, the NSV is produced under the name KM-12.7 or KT-12.7. PKP Pecheneg [1] General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×54mmR Russia: PKP is not known to be in service with Ukrainian forces, and has only been exported outside of Russia in limited quantities. [1]
Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces to prepare to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out and allow tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy ...
Ukrainian soldier with a DPM machine gun Ukrainian soldier with a UK vz. 59 machine gun Ukrainian technical made with a LuAZ-969 with PM M1910 and DP-27 machine guns. Ukrainian Naval Infantry with a Rheinmetall MG 3 machine gun. DP-27 [131] RPD [131] RPK [131] RPK-74 [131] [132] Zastava M53 [131] Beretta MG 42/59; Rheinmetall MG 3 [108] [133 ...