Russian Naval Infantry

franco wrote:

Militarov wrote:

franco wrote:

Militarov wrote:

GarryB wrote:BTRs have better sea keeping properties than heavier BMPs, plus the naval infantry are the poor second cousins... they will reportedly get their own model Kurganets adapted for sea keeping.

I remember them mentioning first 2-3 years ago how specialised version of BMP3 was made for them, later they stopped talking about it and these modernised BTR80s started appearing instead. Yeah i heard about Kurg 25 based vehicle for them but till it comes they should do something as stopgap solution coz their armor looks quite sad i must admit, they seem always being pushed aside.

Those in the West appear to be getting the BTR82AM first.

Yes, those are refubrished BTR80s to the level of BTR-82A. And their designation is BTR82AM. They are easy to recognise they have welded swim barrier at the front.

Not much sense in making new BTR82's when the Boomerang is almost ready to go into production.

GarryB wrote:If they do get landing ships the least they can have is dedicated troop transports in the form of Kurganets...

George1 wrote:Two photos of Russian Marines in Syria. Can anyone identified the type of their weapons?
One is Dragunov sniper rifle with  a wooden handguard

George1 wrote:

Air defence units of the Marine formation performed combat firing on Kamchatka

The servicemen performed marching, deployed Shilka ZSU-24 at the Radygin range, and met training qualification standards.
After that the air defence system crews performed firing against fast-moving targets.

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12078673@egNews

Russian Naval Infantry hasn't any more modern air defence? Why not Tunguska-M1? It would be far better for them instead of old ZSUs guns

Militarov wrote:

George1 wrote:

Air defence units of the Marine formation performed combat firing on Kamchatka

The servicemen performed marching, deployed Shilka ZSU-24 at the Radygin range, and met training qualification standards.
After that the air defence system crews performed firing against fast-moving targets.

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12078673@egNews

Russian Naval Infantry hasn't any more modern air defence? Why not Tunguska-M1? It would be far better for them instead of old ZSUs guns

There are not that many Tunguskas in service i guess around 250ish. And Naval infantry is famous for having the most outdated equipment in whole Russian armed forces, BTR60, PT76, Shilka... And look at it this way, Shilka is far better than having towed ZSU-23-2.

flamming_python wrote:

Militarov wrote:

George1 wrote:

Air defence units of the Marine formation performed combat firing on Kamchatka

The servicemen performed marching, deployed Shilka ZSU-24 at the Radygin range, and met training qualification standards.
After that the air defence system crews performed firing against fast-moving targets.

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12078673@egNews

Russian Naval Infantry hasn't any more modern air defence? Why not Tunguska-M1? It would be far better for them instead of old ZSUs guns

There are not that many Tunguskas in service i guess around 250ish. And Naval infantry is famous for having the most outdated equipment in whole Russian armed forces, BTR60, PT76, Shilka... And look at it this way, Shilka is far better than having towed ZSU-23-2.

Don't forget the T-55s with Drozd APS

Militarov wrote:
There are not that many Tunguskas in service i guess around 250ish. And Naval infantry is famous for having the most outdated equipment in whole Russian armed forces, BTR60, PT76, Shilka... And look at it this way, Shilka is far better than having towed ZSU-23-2.

George1 wrote:

eehnie wrote:Someone knows if the BTR-70s of the Russian Marines have been replaced in the active service?

well in news pages for russian marines and in videos i only see BTR-80/82As

eehnie wrote:Someone knows if the BTR-70s of the Russian Marines have been replaced in the active service?