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Russian Defense Ministry to finalize the tests of Sprut-SDM1 self-propelled anti-tank gun
 
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The Russian Defense Ministry is finalizing the testing of the Sprut-SDM1 upgraded self-propelled (SP) antitank (AT) gun, according to the Izvestia newspaper. The military has told the Izvestia that the weapon features, among other things, a guided system with a cutting-edge missile capable of wiping out a tank clad in explosive reactive armor (ERA) blocks set on top its own armor at a range of 6,000 m.
 

Russian Army will receive new ADS amphibious assault rifles
 
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Russia’s Armed Forces and military police will start receiving ADS amphibious assault rifles next year, Director of Russia’s Central Design Bureau of Sporting and Hunting Weapons Alexei Sorokin said. This is the first assault rifle in the world to fire equally well both in and out of the water. Notably, it is as good as the latest models of Kalashnikov-type assault rifles, while being smaller in size.
 

Russian BTR-82 armoured personnel carrier could be upgraded with AU-220M Mturret 57mm cannon
 
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Russian upgraded armored personnel carrier (APC) BTR-82 may be afforded the AU-220M fighting module with a 57-mm gun instead of the current 30-mm one, according to the Izvestia daily. A tentative decision has been made for fitting the AU-220M Baikal artillery combat mode to the BTR-82’s chassis, with the project awaiting approval now, a Russian Defense Ministry official close to the matter said.
 

Russian-made T-14 Armata main battle tank fitted with new detection and acquisition system
 
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The latest Russian T-14 army tank on Armata platform will be equipped with an advanced complex of target detection and acquisition with video imaging, Director of the specialized design bureau of the Popov Gorkosvky Communications Equipment enterprise which produces the device Igor Ryabov.
 

British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory looks the future for new combat vehicles
 
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The UKs Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) looks the future for new combat vehicles based on new technologies and to the new face of modern warfare. Modern technologies mean that future armoured vehicles could be very different from the heavy tracked vehicles in service today.
 

New Armata combat vehicle platforms to have number of advantages over their foreign counterpart
 
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The newest Russian armoured vehicles designed by the Uralvagonzavod (Russian acronym: UVZ) research-production corporation, the Tractor Plants Concern, and the Military Industrial Company (Russian acronym: VPK, Voyenno-Promishlennaya Kompaniya) have a number of radical advantages over their foreign analogues and over the vehicles, previously developed by the indigenous defense industry, Russian analysts suppose.
 

New generation of Russian combat vehicles to be equipped with soft-kill optoelectronic systems
 
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The newest Russian armoured vehicles, namely, T-14 Armata main battle tanks (MBT), T-15 BMP Armata and Kurganets-25 tracked infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), and Bumerang (Boomerang) wheeled IFVs will get advanced SPZ 'soft-kill' optoelectronic systems, according to the Izvestia newspaper.
 

Picatinny Arsenal developing first lethal hand grenade since Vietnam War for the US Army
 
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Engineers at US Army's Picatinny Arsenal are working on the first new lethal hand grenade in more than 40 years, which is designed to give greater flexibility to the warfighter. The multi-purpose hand grenade design will provide both fragmentation and blast overpressure more effectively and safely than its legacy counterparts. Once fielded, Soldiers will be able to select and use a hand grenade with different effects simply by flipping a switch.
 

Russian army will be equipped with new 40mm grenade launcher 6G27 before the end of this year
 
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The TekhMash Concern (a subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation) will finish the state trials of the newest 40mm 6G27 Balkan automatic grenade launcher (AGL) intended for the Russian Armed Forces before the year-end, according to a source in the indigenous defense industry.
 

Russian MoD has begun testing new armoured recovery vehicle based on Kurganets-25 chassis
 
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Russia's Ministry of Defense and the "Special Design Bureau for Machine Building" (SKBM) have begun testing a next-generation Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) based on the Kurganets-25, which is used to repair or recover damaged combat machinery during warfare.
 

ARDEC helps develop safer, extended range rocket-assisted artillery round
 
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The Army is developing a 155 mm artillery round that will extend cannon range to more than 24 miles, with a greater safety for service members and the ability to deliver near-precision strike capability. The XM1113 Insensitive Munition High Explosive Rocket Assisted Projectile will replace the aging M549A1 rounds produced in the 70s and help U.S. Soldiers and Marines maintain battlefield overmatch.
 

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