A look at some of the new Russian military vehicles.
Russian WW2 parade: A tank-spotter's guide - BBC News
The Armata tank is ... hot.
Firefox was a loooong time ago
your both "dating" yourselves
I think they call that "friday night"
Firefox was a loooong time ago
your both "dating" yourselves
Is Putin expecting to take a walk through the Fulda Gap sometime soon?
Russia's new high-tech battle tank has ground to a halt during a rehearsal for 9 May Victory parade in Moscow, prompting speculation of a breakdown.
One of T-14 Armata tanks suddenly stopped on Red Square, and the driver raised a red flag - apparently to signal that he had problems.
A tow vehicle was brought in, but the tank later managed to drive on.
The parade announcer said the stoppage had been planned to show how to "evacuate weaponry".
This prompted laughter from the crowds who gathered to watch the rehearsal in the Russian capital, Reuters reports.
Aren't CNN and TASS the same organization?
As Keir Giles notes, "another major headache for military modernisation is the loss of access to the Ukrainian defence industry.
"Even this long after the end of the USSR, some parts of the Russian and Ukrainian military-industrial complexes still functioned in close co-operation. Now, Russia has to source key components for its warships, aircraft and weapons systems elsewhere - or start to build them itself."
Igor Sutyagin agrees. "Russian defence officials openly recognise that 30% of Ukrainian imports to Russia's defence industry cannot be substituted domestically. One-third is large enough, when you bear in mind that one out of every five pieces of Russian military hardware is either Ukrainian or depends upon Ukrainian parts."
Of course, no military the size of Russia's can be modernised in one go. Russia prioritised strategic nuclear forces, with new missiles and submarines.
For the army, "the priorities were special forces and the airborne assault troops," Keir Giles says.
"One result was the highly capable special forces troops that appeared on the streets of Crimea in February 2014."
Russia bothers me. Rosie O'Donnell terrifies me.
On the crew situation, keep in mind that this is supposed to be modular. ...
Wow! Russian espionage apparently been working overtime the past few years. Wonder if the chassis is powered by a diesel or a turbine. Diesel is my guess. Wonder if the apparent sophistication is going to affect traditional Soviet strategy of "quantity over quality" (or "quantity has a quality of its own.")
Russia, or the former Soviet Union, has always used technological innovation in some areas, where they had it, over quantity. See for example, the ZSU-23/4. Also the implementation and effective doctrine for the employment of man-pack ATGM's capable of taking out MBT's at 2-3 thousand meters. The BMP was probably the first modern and effective MICV in production and employment as well.