Another Airborne Battalion To Receive New Armored Vehicles
January 17 2020
Russia is set to equip another of its airborne battalions with new armored vehicles, reports Russia’s Tass news agency.
On Jan. 17, a battalion of the Pskov Guards Airborne Force in northwest Russia is scheduled to receive more than 35 new BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-MDM Rakushka armored personnel carriers, the Russian Ministry of Defense said.
The battalion completed two months of training on the vehicles at the airborne force's training center in Omsk prior...
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