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A total of 132 airborne infantry fighting vehicles BMD-4M and 58 BTR-MDM Rakushka armored personnel carriers will be delivered before 2020. [34] 31 BMD-4Ms and 8 BTR-MDMs were delivered in March 2019. [35] Russian MoD received 42 BMD-4M AIFVs from Kurganmashzavod plant in July 2019. [36]
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.
A curious offshoot of the 2S31 is the 16-ton 2S34 Khosta vehicle, which mounts the Vena’s gun on the hull of a 2S1 122-millimeter howitzer vehicle. An estimated 48 2S34s were converted from 2S1s ...
2S42 is intended for airborne troops to replace the Soviet 120-mm airborne self-propelled artillery 2S9. [2] As of October 2018, the design work had been completed, and according to the General Director of TsNIITochMash, the first prototype was under construction. Individual components tests were carried out as scheduled. [3]
In 2019, two battalion sets of BMD-4M airborne combat vehicles and BTR-MDM Rakushka armored personnel carriers, more than 200 units of various automotive equipment, including special armored vehicles, army snowmobiles, four-wheelers and buggies and more than 9,000 parachute systems D-10 and "Arbalet-2" were delivered to the troops. [60]
The separate Volgograd Machine Building Company, which is still based at the plant, continues to manufacture Sprut-SDM1 self-propelled anti-tank guns and BMD-4M airborne combat vehicles for the Russian Airborne Troops. [11]
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 ...
Work on the experimental Ob'yekt 914 helped a lot in the following layout development of the BMD-1 (Ob'yekt 915) airborne infantry fighting vehicle. Ob'yekt 19 from the Altai Tractor Plant in Rubtsovsk , 1965 - was a 4 x 4 wheeled design with retractable tracks between the wheel axles which were intended for crossing rough ground.