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The Russian Army received another prototype batch of the modernised BMD-4M airborne assault vehicle during mid-2014. Eight modernized BMD-4M vehicles were delivered to the 106th Guards Airborne Assault Division by Kurganmashzavod, where the vehicles continued to undergo testing. [14]
2S42 "Lotos" (Russian: 2С42 «Лотос»; "Lotos") is a developing Russian self-propelled 120 mm mortar system meant for the Russian Airborne Forces. It is based on the BMD-4M chassis and is intended to replace the 2S9 Nona self-propelled mortar.
The Russian Defense Ministry adopted the BMD-4M in April 2016. [138] The first production batch of the new armored vehicles BMD-4M and BTR-MDM "Shell" in the amount of 24 units (12 each) transferred to the Russian Airborne Forces in 2015. [139] The VDV equipped the first regiment with BMD-4Ms and BTR-MDMs in 2016.
2S9s also saw extensive action during Russia’s invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2015—both with Russian airborne and separatist forces and ... parachute branch’s latest BMD-4M fighting ...
51st Guards Airborne Regiment, в/ч 33842 (Tula) 137th Guards Airborne Regiment, в/ч 41450 (Ryazan) (BMD-4M 62 units) 1182nd Guards Artillery Regiment, в/ч 93723 (Naro-Fominsk) 1st Guards Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, в/ч 71298 (Naro-Fominsk) N-I Tank company (Tula) 388th Guards Engineering Battalion, (Tula)
In the early 1990s, the Volgograd tractor plant created a new self-propelled tank destroyer based on a modified prototype light tank classified as Object 934. [1] The plant was also the designer and manufacturer of the BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3 and latest BMD-4 airborne combat vehicles that are used by the Russian Air Assault Divisions.
BMD-4s are new-build or upgraded BMD-3s. The prototype was known as BMD-3M. The BMD-4 is no longer being purchased for the Russian troops, in favor of the BMD-4M. [2] RKhM-5 (Object 958) - Chemical reconnaissance vehicle, fitted with the same specialised equipment as the BTR-80 version RKhM-4. The turret has been removed; the RKhM-5 has a fixed ...
Instead, the damage bears the hallmarks of shrapnel from an airborne weapon, and British military veteran and security analyst Justin Crump told CBS News' partner network BBC News that "the most ...