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technique What is already here.
In the course of the upcoming research “Allied Resolve – 2022” in Belarus, it is mandatory to deliver the most used Russian applications, Mirror.io It turned out what Russian equipment has already arrived in our country.
Despite the fact that there are still more than two weeks before the training (they start only on February 10), trains with equipment are already arriving at different stations. So, a reader sent us a video taken on January 22 in the first half of the day – on footage of an offshore platform with a number of Russian military equipment. According to the visitor, the equipment was being taken towards Baranovichi. Here’s what we were able to see.
Armored car “Tiger”
One of the main armored vehicles of the Russian security forces (both the military and the police, and the National Guard) exists in a large number of options – both “sharpened” for military operations and special operations. Belarusians have known him since August-November 2020, the riot police have one such armored car, and during the days of the suppression of protests, he was often on the streets of Minsk.
In addition, the machine-gun armored vehicles “Lis” from the MZKT, which are guarded, in particular, the Palace of Independence in September 2020, are international copies of the “Tiger”. The video vehicles are not armed with anything, but depending on the model, various weapons can be placed on it – rifle or large-caliber machine guns (“Kord” or “Pecheneg”), automatic 30-mm cannons or AGS-30 easel grenade launchers. As an aid to an armored car, smoke screen grenade launchers are often used – in order to cover themselves with smoke if necessary. Apparently, on the frames of just such.
The main task of the “Tigers” has always been the dose, if possible without losses, of the infantry from point A to point B, the armored car is not intended for a serious battle.
BMP-3
On the platform behind the wagons of ten combat vehicles, in which infantry fighting vehicles (BMP-3) can be identified with a high probability. This technique is the most powerful Soviet infantry fighting vehicle, it has been developed since the seventies and was adopted in 1987. The Soviet army was not fully able to control the equipment – by the time the USSR ran out of money and rearmed, there was nothing.
As a result of the first strange, which received a large number of BMP-3s in the army, which suddenly appeared in the United Arab Emirates, the sheikhs liked the car, and they had enough money to order. Therefore, for the UAE, post-Soviet Russia has already collected more than 600 infantry fighting vehicles. Other Arab countries were also interested in the novelty, and Kuwait, Iraq and Algeria received their equipment at different times. Russia itself purchases machines quite slowly; in 30 years, almost as much has been delivered to the installation as delivered to the UAE.
A feature of the vehicle is its main caliber – with a standard small-caliber rapid-fire cannon for most infantry fighting vehicles, a much larger 100-mm gun. The decision to put two guns at once was controversial in many ways (all other infantry fighting vehicles in the world went the other way), but many consider it very successful.
They scold the BMP-3 for something else: like all Soviet vehicles of this class, it was made floating in order to mix reservoirs under its own power. At first glance, this is good, but practice after case shows that swimming in a real combat situation is almost never necessary. At the same time, high buoyancy is required for an armored vehicle – a less durable aluminum protection is installed on the BMP-3. The method of landing the crew is also criticized – jumping out of the BMP, due to the peculiar location of the engine, the fighters become vulnerable to a source of fire.
There is no BMP-3 in the army of Belarus – they were not inherited from the USSR, and the years of independence have never been acquired. Especially heavy cannon armored vehicles of the country BMP-2 and BTR-82A purchased this year.
MT-LB
The light multi-purpose tracked transporter-tractor MT-LB, also known as the famous “motorcycle league”, has become a real workhorse of the armed forces of the USSR and post-Soviet countries. It was adopted back in the sixties. This technique can be used to transport and tow various military cargoes, and, if necessary, put on a variety of applications – machine guns, cannons, grenade launchers, anti-tank systems, launchers for unguided aircraft missiles. Nevertheless, judging by the personnel, these MT-LBs operate for their intended purpose – to carry and tow cargo.
Tank T-80BV
Right behind the MT-LB platform with tanks, which were identified as the most uncommon T-80BV vehicles in Russia. So that in the USSR there was no one captured school of tank building, different groups of lobbyists pulled the blanket over themselves, and the content of three main battle tanks was produced in the country – T-64, T-72 and T-80.
The latter was the most popular of the three and stood out primarily for its power plant – unlike diesel assemblers, the T-80 was equipped with a gas turbine engine, like the American Abrams. As a result, the tank received greater mobility coupled with huge fuel consumption.
After the disappearance of the USSR, the existing T-80 versions of the BV went to Belarus, but they were not put on acceptance, preferring the less “gluttonous” T-72. For a long time, the “eighties” remained in storage, in the end, in 2010, 66 tanks were sold to Yemen, in 2012 another 14 such combat vehicles were sent to the same country.
In Russia, they did not dare to completely part with the T-80BV, but it always looked in the army in small quantities. First, the usual bet was made on the T-90 (modernized 72s), then more budget versions of the T-72B were added.
The T-80 also became famous thanks to a special special “baptism of fire” – the opening of these tanks and the opening of fire … on the establishment of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, when parliamentarians and Yeltsin became famous in the opening of the offensive in the fall of 1993. Then the car fought in Chechnya and Yemen.
Russian quantities occasionally brought a small number of T-80s to Belarus, they were lit up, for example, at the Zapad-2017 exercises.
Combat vehicles similar to the T-80BV were bought by a familiar reader, and also in Rechitsa – they sent us a video.
SAU “Nona”
Nona-S is a Soviet 120mm airborne self-propelled gun.
“Nona” became the first truly successful airborne self-propelled gun of the USSR. During the war years, the Soviet airborne troops were in great need of the armed forces, and therefore they would have sharply increased the firepower of the unit in the rear. Work on the model was carried out with ladders, and by the end of the seventies, the first combat vehicles began to roll off the assembly lines.
Aluminum armor, a small mass of 8 tons (which moves to drop equipment by parachute) and an excellent 12-mm gun with a mortar estimate of the number (and are made) of “Nonu” from successful samples of “landing” armored vehicles. Best of all, an artillery mount is able to deal with infantry and small armored vehicles, but for developed and cumulative shells with good armor penetration.
Like many types of Soviet armored vehicles, “Nona” received a baptism of fire in Afghanistan, marked and destroyed in the Chechen wars.
Behind the Nons, you can see equipment similar to mobile reconnaissance targets (PRP) on the BMP-1 chassis – they are used, among other things, for artillery purposes.
Is that all we’ll see?
Probably not. The most powerful and highlighted use that will be transferred to Belarus is already known – these are long-range anti-aircraft missile systems S-400, Su-35 fighters and Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun systems. None of the above is in service with Belarus.