Russia’s 1950s BTR-50s Are Lightly Armed, Thinly Protected—And Increasingly Precious As Newer Vehicles Run Out
Sure enough, the Russians have written off no fewer than 10 BTR-50s that the Oryx intelligence collective has tallied. The ...
Russian BTR-82 Had A Spectacular Misfire On The Battlefield In Ukraine
A dramatic video has appeared showing a Russian BTR-82 8×8 armored personnel carrier firing its main gun wildly, spitting ...
For Russian Forces In Ukraine, It’s Now Normal To Ride Into Battle In Compact Cars
As reserves of armored vehicles run out amid catastrophic losses in Ukraine and western Russia, the Russian military is normalizing assaults in civilian cars. And not just any civilian cars, but Lada ...
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Mozambique operating MCAV-20 armoured vehicles
The Mozambican military has added another armoured vehicle to its inventory: the Emirati Calidus MCAV-20, which has also been adopted by several other African countries. MCAV-20s were publicly seen ...
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Russia digs deeper into military archives with BTR-50 deployment
Russian soldiers pose in front of armored personnel carriers. These are the nearly antique BTR-50s developed in the 1950s. We ...
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Vladimir Putin resorts to 70 year old tanks to send to Ukraine as shortages surge
Vladimir Putin has resorted to sending tanks designed in the 1950s to Ukraine to support Russian units as shortages of ...
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Massive Russian Military Convoy Spotted in Mali: A Boost for Wagner’s Successor?
The “Military Informant” Russian Telegram channel identified various advanced military assets in the convoy, captured in nearly an hour of footage, including T-72B3M tanks, Infantry Fighting Vehicles ...
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The BTR-50 First Appeared in 2023, and russia Still Deploys These Vehicles on the Battlefield
As of today, based on available photos and videos, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have destroyed at least 10 russian BTR-50 ...
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Forbes: Russian army deploys 1950s-era BTR-50s as newer vehicles become scarce
Russia has begun deploying 1950s-era BTR-50 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine as its stocks of modern combat vehicles continue depleting, Forbes reports. The BTR-50, which entered service in 1954, ...