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It is a MAZ-79221 truck but with a driver training payload for Topol-M and Yars TEL's.
Oh I see, thanks. I've never seen such a thing before.
Rare footage where you can immediately compare both new howitzers 2S44 "Giatsint-K" and 2S43 "Malva" appeared at the parade rehearsal in Moscow. The main difference between the howitzer "Giatsint-K" and the howitzer "Malva" is a new gun. The firing range of the howitzer "Giatsint-K" with Krasnopol-M shells can reach 50 km. It is worth noting that the SAU "Giatsint-K", like the SAU "Malva", will most likely be temporarily produced. In the future, they will be replaced by howitzers with a more modern artillery gun. Currently, the SAU "Giatsint-K" is equipped with an artillery barrel from the towed gun 2A36 "Giatsint-B".
Seems despite the "shortage of tanks" the Russians are parading 10 T-90M, T-80BVM and T-72B3M of the latest variants with the T-72 now also having Relikt on the glacis
Also another apparent change is that the parade batch for the BMP-3 and the MBT's no longer have IR lamps for the commanders. The implication being they might have started to fit thermals for them
Also another apparent change is that the parade batch for the BMP-3 and the MBT's no longer have IR lamps for the commanders. The implication being they might have started to fit thermals for them
I suspect the Russians reserved what was left of their Soviet era MSTA-B and Hyacinth-B towed artillery stocks for use to be turned into Malvas and Hyacinth-K. The Malva should have been renamed into the MSTA-K, never mind the original MSTA-K prototype that had the turret from the 2S19 SAU on a trailer.
If there is something the Russians are running out of, and that's towed artillery, either by combat attrition, mechanical breakage or barrels wearing out. But it doesn't seem that the Russian command is willing to restart making towed artillery units once again, as they seem confident that they can entirely on SPGs, drones, and air strikes when the time comes. However we are still reminded constantly that towed units are still effective in a daily basis.