2022 Russian Armed Forces procurement thread. The Russian MoD said the Ground Forces will receive more than 400 pieces of equipment in 2022, including T-72B3M, T-80BVM, and T-90M tanks, BMP-2M with Berezhok turrets and BMP-3 IFVs, and BTR-82A APCs.
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The Russian MoD said the same thing about the Ground Forces procurement in 2021 (thread on its details below). 2/
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Izvestia reports the Baltic Fleet's 4th Naval Attack Aviation Regiment based in Kaliningrad will be rearmed with modernized Su-30SM2 fighters this year. 3/
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The Russian MoD said a new Voronezh early-warning radar would be built this year near Vorkuta. 4/
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Southern Military District railway troops based in Krasnodar received 10 PST-1 pontoon railway bridge boats. 5/
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In 2021, the Baltic Fleet's 11th Army Corps received more than 40 T-72B3M tanks and about 1,000 Ratnik equipment kits. 6/
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The Russian MoD said it will receive two modernized Tu-160M strategic bombers this year. 7/
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The Russian MoD said the first Gibka-S MANPADS carriers will be delivered to the Russian military this year. 8/
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The Russian MoD said RKhBZ troops will receive RKhM-9 vehicles this year. The Strategic Missile Forces received 100 pieces of RKhB equipment, including ARS-14KM, RKhM-6, and UTM-80M. 9/
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Central Military District communications units received more than 50 pieces of equipment in 2021, including P-230T command vehicles. 10/
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The Russian MoD said the first Koalitsiya-SV howitzers will be delivered to the 1st Tank Army this year. 11/
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The Russian MoD said work on the Derivatsiya-PVO SHORAD with a 57mm cannon, Pantsir-SM-SV (for the Ground Forces), and Typhoon-PVO MANPADS carrier will be completed this year. The Ptitselov was also mentioned. 12/
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The Russian MoD said Eastern Military District units based in the Kuril Islands will receive T-80BV tanks. 13/
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Rostec said Kurganmashzavod fully completed deliveries of BMP-3 to the Russian military as part of a two-year contract. 14/
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Izvestia reports the Southern Military District's newly formed 20th Motorized Rifle Division's anti-aircraft regiment in Volgograd was equipped with Tor-M2 air defense systems. 100 billion rubles has been allocated for Tor-M2 procurement until 2027. 15/
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Zvezda says modernized Mi-28NM attack helicopters are ready to be delivered to the Russian military. 16/
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The Russian MoD said an engineering unit equipped with Zemledeliye minelaying MLRS will be stood up in Rostov. A battalion set was delivered to the Russian military last year. 19/
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The Russian MoD said the 440th Independent Helicopter Regiment based in Vyazma, Smolensk will receive two Mi-8AMTSh-VN helicopters designed to support Russian SOF. 20/
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So the two Iskander-M battalions Krivoruchko mentioned will go into service with the Central Military District, according to Colonel General Alexander Lapin. 21/
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Colonel General Alexander Lapin said Central Military District units will receive Ka-52 helicopters, 50 BMP-2M with Berezhok turrets, and the 232nd Rocket Artillery Brigade will receive Tornado-S MLRS this year. 22/
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Lapin said the Central Military District will receive more than 1.3k new and modernized pieces of equipment in 2022, including 17 aircraft and helicopters and 8 radar systems (e.g. Kasta 2 and Podlet-M). 23/
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Colonel General Alexander Lapin said Russia's military based in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will receive more than 70 pieces of equipment this year. 24/
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The Russian MoD said the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division has stood up its electronic warfare battalion equipped with Leer-3, Borisoglebsk-2 and Zhitel EW systems based in Belgorod. 25/
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The 1st Tank Army will receive more than 150 pieces of equipment in 2022, including T-80BVM, T-90M, BMP-3, BTR-82A, TDA-3 smoke machines, ARS-14KM decon systems, Tor-M2 air defense systems, and SAGR demining systems. 26/
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Two TASS sources say the Belgorod Project 09852 special-purpose nuclear submarine that will carry Poseidon nuclear-powered UUVs is scheduled for the summer of 2022. 27/
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Motovilikha Plants announced they delivered a batch of Grad MLRS to the Russian military. 28/
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One of the first modernized Su-30SM2 fighters (bort # blue 80) for Russia's Naval Aviation. 29/
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Izvestia reports the Southern Military District's 8th Combined Arms Army is receiving upgraded Tornado-G MLRS, starting with the 150th Motorized Rifle Division's artillery regiment. 30/
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Not a Russian military procurement story but still relevant. The Sibir Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker was commissioned yesterday in Murmansk. 31/
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Alexander Lapin said the Central Military District will stand up electronic warfare battalions in Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk and a radio-technical regiment this year equipped with Polye-21, Silok, Svet-KU, Lesostep, Lesochek, and Palantin systems. 32/
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A new S-400 battalion has been stood up in Dmitrov. 33/
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Russian combat aircraft deliveries in 2021:
MiG-35S: 1
MiG-35UB: 1
Su-30SM: 4
Su-34: 6
Su-35S: 5
Su-57: 2
Yak-130: 2
Total: 21
Compare that to 101 delivered in 2014 and 89 in 2015 as part of GPV-2020.
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Photos of new Su-30SM2 fighters for Russia's Naval Aviation. 35/
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The Baltic Fleet's 4th Naval Attack Aviation Regiment received four Su-30SM2 fighters. 37/
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The Russian MoD said a unit in Primorye received a batch of T-80BVM tanks in 2021, presumably the 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade. 39/
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Izvestia reports the 8th Combined Arms Army's artillery brigade has begun receiving Khrizantema-S ATGM carriers. 40/
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Video of some of the new BMP-3 IFVs delivered to the Russian military, which include wider tracks. 41/
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Photos of the four new Su-30SM2 fighters delivered to the Baltic Fleet's 4th Naval Attack Aviation Regiment. 42/
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The Western Military District received two Monolit-BR coastal defense radars. 43/
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Izvestia reports that the Eastern Military District will receive an additional Iskander-M brigade this year. 44/
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Denis Manturov said the first new build Tu-160M (aka Tu-160M2) modernized strategic bomber will be delivered to the Russian MoD by the end of June. 46/
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Missed this from last month, but the Russian MoD said the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade stood up a new T-80BV tank battalion. 47/
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An OPK source says the Krasnoyarsk Project 885M Yasen-M nuclear-powered submarine will depart for the White Sea for factory sea trials in early June. 50/
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