The captured t-90m specimen will give military analysts a chance to assess Russia’s claims about these capabilities. And as the war in Ukraine grinds on, the intelligence bonanza will continue. The West has already gained access to a variety of Russian radar, intelligence gathering and command...
The design concept of the T-34 was for the tank to be light and fast, yet mount a more effective main gun than most Soviet designs and still have decent armor protection. The need for decent armor protection in a lightweight tank led the designer, Mikhail Koshkin, to go back to ...
It is otherwise similar to the KMDB BTR-80D in capabilities, but has lesser fire control and vision equipment.As an experiment, the turret of the BMD-3M has been mounted on the BTR-80. This gives the BTR-80 a major increase in firepower, making it more of an MGS than an APC, though...
On June 6,Interfaks-AVNreported that the Russian Navy will not cut the cruise missile strike capabilities of its “permanent operational formation” in the Mediterranean, according to a source “familiar with the situation.” So there is apparently no plan forAdmiral Grigorovich,Admiral Essen, or...
Amid the furor hangs a question: Why is HIMARS so good? Has it merely maximized a determined Ukraine’s effectiveness against a Russia unprepared for a modern conflict, or do the weapon’s unique capabilities and design portend an even greater value on future battlefields?
preserve its systemic status-quo. Fifth, the nuclear dimension cannot be overlooked: Russia has the largest WMD arsenal in the world; North Korea continues to develop its embryonic nuclear capabilities; Iran is a nuclear-inspired threshold state; and Belarus hosts Russian nuclear weapons and ...
T-72 tanks of the separate tank battalion of the Baltic Fleet motorized infantry brigade, during dislocation, being loaded on flatcars and sent to the district selected for military exercises, in the city of Gusev, Kaliningrad Region on February 28, 2014 (RIA Novosti / Igor Zarembo)©RIA ...
“There is a need for this in any case, with the current number in the tanker fleet its capabilities are largely nominal.” Kramnik makes good (and obvious) points, but there are other things worth knowing to be thrown in here.
anti-tank guided missiles and other needed arms and munitions. It’s widely known that Moscow even provided a limited number of T-90 main battle tanks, TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower systems and Uragan multiple rocket launcher systems. The Syrian military has also received Pantsir-S1 ai...
According to the NATO definition of nuclear-sharing arrangements, these consist of “nuclear capabilities, aircraft and infrastructure provided by a number of NATO countries for the collective defence of all.”Footnote10 Nuclear sharing has been the central feature of NATO nuclear policy since the ...