What types of ground equipment can the Russian military use in Ukraine?

February 28, 2022 09:44 GMT+7

The Russian military later confirmed that it only used precision weapons against Kiev’s military facilities and insisted that these weapons were not aimed at cities or civilians.

After about five days of intense hostilities, the Russian Defense Ministry said on February 27 that the Russian army had launched attacks around the cities of Kherson and Berdyansk in southern Ukraine.

According to Major General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Kherson and Berdyansk were “completely surrounded by Russian forces”.

Here are the types of ground equipment that the Russian military can use in Ukraine:

T-90 “Vladimir”.

The Russian T-90 main battle tank entered service in 1992 and has since received several upgraded versions. Armament includes a 125 mm 2A46M-5 smoothbore cannon, which can fire small, high explosive armor-piercing rounds and guided missiles. The T-90 tank was named orally “Vladimir” after the death of the main designer of the tank Vladimir Potkin.

The Soviet and Russian armored infantry fighting vehicles were designed to transport personnel to the front lines, increasing mobility, armament and protection on the battlefield in conditions of the use of nuclear weapons. personnel as well as joint operations with tanks in battle. The BMP-3 has been in service since 1987 and during this time it has been upgraded several times, and also forms the basis for various equipment.

The BTR-82 armored vehicle is a deeply modernized version of the BTR-80, which entered service in 2013. The BTR-82 has a KPVT 14.5 mm machine gun or a 30 mm 2A72 rapid-fire cannon combined with a machine gun. PKTM 7.62 mm. After several modernizations on the basis of the BTR-82, the Typhoon-M was created as an anti-sabotage combat vehicle to protect mobile missile systems and units of the Rocket Force. comb.

The Russian all-terrain vehicle “Tiger” has been in service with the army since 2005. There are both non-armored versions for different missions, as well as a wide range of armored variants of the Tiger – both as passenger and cargo versions and modified with various weapons.

In terms of armament “Tiger” is not inferior to heavy armored vehicles. All armored vehicles of this type have a firing hole in the side of the vehicle. On the roof there is a turret door for the 12.7 mm “Kord” machine gun, the 7.62 mm “Pecheneg” machine gun or the 30 mm AGS-30 automatic grenade launcher. In addition, it is possible to install on “Tiger” a complex of 120 mm mortar “Goresh”, anti-tank missile launcher (ATGM) “Cornet-D”, light anti-aircraft missile “Gibka-C”.

In 1988, a series of Soviet multi-channel anti-aircraft missile systems for front-line air defense/anti-missile defense of ground forces was adopted as part of the creation of the air defense system. The S-300 “Antey” is designed to protect important military facilities, groups of troops and administrative-industrial centers from attacks of all types of aircraft, helicopters, missiles. cruise, aerodynamic vehicles, ballistic missiles as well as airborne weapons for other tactical and tactical purposes. Since 2012, all “Antey” complexes have been upgraded to the most advanced version of the S-300B4 to date.

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