TASS Russian News Agency:

Russia’s Ground Forces received more than 2,500 new pieces of armament and military hardware this year, Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief, Army Gen. Oleg Salyukov, said.

“In order to increase combat performance and renew the equipment in 2020, military units of Russia’s Ground Forces received over 2,500 pieces of new standard weaponry, as well as military and special hardware,” Salyukov said in an interview with the Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zverda newspaper, published on Wednesday.

In his words, units of the Russian Ground Forces received advanced Buk-M3 medium-range air defense systems, Verba fourth-generation infrared homing surface-to-air missile MANPADS (man-portable air defense systems), and Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) — the longest-range and the most powerful MLRS weapon in the world, with improved range and accuracy…

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