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Russian Ground Forces to receive thousands of new armored vehicles by 2020.
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Russia’s
Ground Forces are due to receive 5,000 pieces of new armored vehicles
and 6,000 pieces of modernized weaponry by 2020, Colonel General Oleg
Salyukov said on Wednesday, October 1st. “In total, it is planned
to buy over 5,000 new and around 6,000 modernized samples of armored vehicles
and military hardware, and around 14,000 pieces of modern samples of vehicles,”
said Salyukov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces.
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 Russian Government plans to buy modernized T-72B3 tanks (Pic.: T-72B3 at Russia's tank biathlon world championship) |
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The
Russian government is planning to buy modernized T-72B3 tanks, which were
seen at Russia's tank biathlon world championship outside Moscow in early
August and during the last month’s Vostok-2014 military drills in
Russia's Far East. Other weapons purchases for the army include BMP-3 amphibious infantry fighting vehicles, modernized BMP-2 and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, Salyukov said. Under the country’s unprecedented army re-equipment program, the share of advanced weaponry in the Russian army, currently estimated at 16%, is set to reach 70% by 2020. |
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