Central Asian Republics Militaries: News

Tsavo Lion wrote:What rifle is it, was it supplied from Turkey?

https://eurasianet.org/turkmenistan-a-united-nations-of-weaponry

it looks like FN Scar-H (Mk 17 Mod 0)

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/guns/fn-scar-h-mk-17-assault-rifle-pbr-highly-detailed-160714

Exercises of the 68th separate mountain rifle brigade of the Kyrgyz army

First Super Tucano and C-27J Spartan aircraft for Turkmenistan

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4206825.html

Russia to ship strike drones, S-300 air defense systems to Kyrgyzstan

The agreement was achieved during President Sadyr Zhaparov’s visit to Russia on February 24-25

https://tass.com/defense/1260711

Tanks T-72 "Ural" (object 172M), modernized BRDM-2M and lightly armored special vehicles Dongfeng EQ2058 Mengshi of the Kyrgyz army at the exercises "Koopsuzduk-2021" in the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan. March 23, 2021.

https://dambiev.livejournal.com/2268256.html

Τurkmenistan received the first military transport aircraft C-27J NG

bmpd
June 11th, 11:52
According to Spotter resources, on June 6, 2021, the first C-27J Spartan turboprop military transport aircraft, built by the Italian company Leonardo for the air force of Turkmenistan, flew from the Italian airport Turin-Caselle to Turkmenistan. The aircraft has the tail number "20 blue" and the Italian military number CSX62319, but so far it does not bear any identification marks. Judging by the presence of winglets on the wings, Turkmenistan received the first board of the new C-27J NG (Next Generation) modification.

Uzbek 120mm howitzer-mortar based on the BTR-60PB.

Basically a Nona-SVK 2S23 but based on the BTR-60 instead of the BTR-80.

I hope they replaced the two engines for one engine... it would simplify the transmission and improve performance.

Turkmenistan has purchased Typhoon-K armored vehicles from Russia. At the moment, this is the second foreign user of these machines, after Uzbekistan.

Upgraded Uzbek S-125-2M with 5P73-2M launcher

They were produced in enormous numbers as a low to medium altitude missile to compliment the medium to high altitude S-75 (SA-2) system that was focused on anti bomber and anti U-2 roles..

The SA-3 was not a bad system and with improved radar and control systems it is still a useful system against a variety of targets.

It would be a good system for use against drones, though its size makes it a little awkward this mobile system would make it more flexible... the missiles should be fairly widely available even now because they would have been made in enormous numbers.