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Airborne Troops combat vehicles : new BMD-4M replace BMD-1/2 and BTR-MDM replace BTR-D

Airborne Troops is a separated service 45000 pers., 4 Div. in fact Brigade for size and 5 Brigades in fact small Rgts.
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Russian Navy's sole aircraft carrier, "Admiral Kuznetsov", along with the nuclear-powered cruiser "Petr Velikiy" and destroyer "Severomorsk", are preparing to deploy within the next week!

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Aboard Kuznetsov, among others (Ka-52K, MiG-29K, Ka-27), will be ten Su-33 upgraded with the “Gefest” SVP-24 targeting system.

Out of topic: Why I cannot have an avatar yet?
 
(related to the third Project 11356 ship, the Admiral Makarov (799)):
Oct 1, 2016
Jun 17, 2016

since then :) her sea-trials took place in the Baltic Sea; soon she will sail to the White Sea for state (before commissioning) trials:
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... the first part of state trials took place in the Baltic Sea since October 7 until today (October 10); she'll sail to the White Sea in mid October for armament tests, according to
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Apr 9, 2016
I quickly scrambled the description of the active-protection "President-S" system of a "Black Shark" chopper "for you" (if you don't like it, don't read it, am not an expert, translator, whatever):
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the most interesting link in English I found in the process (I know it's an Ukrainian source!) is related to #1 in this chart, and is:
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maybe I'll add more info ...
... and more info comes now: the President-S installed on a Mi-8 saved this helo in Syria on October 8, says
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(inside is the chart similar to the one above:
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(and if you wondered about the President-S on a Mi-8: since 2010 all Russian helicopters had been flying with it in "hot spots" ... the link says)
 
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