Monday, May 4, 2015

Victory Parade rehearsal: Declassified equipment held on Red Square – BBC News

At the heart of Moscow late evening of 4 May, the penultimate rehearsal for the Victory Day parade. On the Leningrad highway and Tverskaya Street to Red Square A column of military equipment, which consisted of several dozen units. As part of the Front column calculations walking on Red Square have been more than 15 000 troops. During this rehearsal planes and helicopters were not used, said the agency “Interfax”.

Ahead of the mechanized column moved Ceremonial historical calculations – the legendary T-34 tanks and self-propelled artillery SU-100. They were followed by modern designs – self-propelled howitzers “MSTA-S” and the latest “Coalition-SV” missile system “Iskander” armored cars “Tiger” and “Typhoon”, BTR-82A, T-90 tanks, anti-aircraft missile systems ” Buk-M2 “,” Thor M2U “anti-aircraft missile and gun complexes” Carapace-C1 “and launchers of anti-aircraft missile system” S-400 “troops Aerospace Defense.

In addition, the Red Square for the first time passed the latest models of equipment – fighting vehicle BMD-4M, multi-purpose armored vehicle “Shell” mobile missile system Strategic Missile Forces “yars”. Also in the column were promising models of armored vehicles that had previously been kept secret – “Armata”, “Kurganets,” “Boomerang”.

It was the penultimate night rehearsal of Victory Parade. Next, general, held on May 7.

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