Currently, Russia has about 3,500 tanks, 7300 infantry combat machines and 4500 armored personnel carriers, as well as 4800 artillery systems, mortars and binding systems of salvo fire, approves the Polish edition of Defence24.
Edition, referring to the open data of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, called the number of combat vehicles, which in 2021 will receive the Russian Army: more than 90 T-72B3B3 and T-72B3M tanks, about 80 T-80BVM tanks with a gas turbine engine, about 70 tanks t -90m “breakthrough”, more than 120 units of BMP-3, over 280 modernized BMP-2 with a combat module “Berezhok” and about 300 conveyors of BTR-82A and BTR-82AM.
“As you can guess, in these figures, probably do not include cars intended for marine infantry (for example, BMP-3F) and airborne troops (for example, BMD-4 and BTR-MDM” Shell “)” – writes the publication.
Defence24 make it difficult to call among the above shares of absolutely new and modernized combat vehicles, assigning that only the T-90m “breakthrough”, BMP-3 and BTR-82a “can be completely new.” “Of course, all BMP-2M and BTR-82AM restored from old BMP-2 and BTR-80,” assures the publication.
According to Defence24, “Russia’s land forces, as well as its airborne and naval forces, are still among the largest in the world and are comparable only with the appropriate US and China forces.”
In September, the publication wrote that during the main stage of the strategic teachings “West-2021” at the Mulino Polygon in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, which was observed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the B-19 Infantry combat vehicle with a combat module “Epoch” was shown, which turned out to be a “invisible revolution.”