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The Russian armoured train Volga (call sign "Breakthrough") is an armoured train currently in use by Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022. [4] Unlike its sister train Yenisei, which is built primarily for logistics and refugee ferrying, Volga is primarily used for engineering, reconnaissance, mine clearance, restoration of damaged railway tracks, and escorting cargo within the ...
An armoured train (Commonwealth English) or armored train (American English) is a railway train protected with heavy metal plating and which often includes railway wagons armed with artillery, machine guns, and autocannons. Some have also had ports used to fire small arms from the inside of the train, especially in earlier armoured trains.
The train is protected by armoured plates of unknown thickness and is designed to transport materials, to restore and demine tracks that are damaged, and for engineering reconnaissance. [6] However, the train also has a ZU-23-2 and a mounted BMP-2 , [ 5 ] and thus is also suspected of being prepared for combat operations.
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The Russian armoured train Amur is an armoured train currently in use by Russia in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022. [3] Unlike the newer trains Yenisei and Volga, Amur was already built long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both Amur and its sister train, Baikal, were reactivated back in 2016, originally for rear-line logistical ...
An armoured train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia, the country’s state news agency reported today. The agency RIA, citing one of its correspondents in Russia’s ...
Volga: Armoured train: 1 Russia: Built in 2022 for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to serve for rear-line anti-mine countermeasure and anti-sabotage operations. [253] [254] [255] Yenisei: Armoured train: 1 Russia Ukraine: Built in 2022 for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to serve for rear-line and front-line logistical and fire support. Accused ...
Russia test launches intercontinental ballistic missile from new nuclear submarine. Ukraine grain exports fall by a third. 09:17, Matt Mathers. Ukraine’s grain exports have fallen by a third ...