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Thread: vehicles have begun staging for the Victory Day Parade across Red Square that will involve 13k servicemen from Russia and 13 other countries, 216 pieces of ground equipment, and 75 aircraft. Ground Forces CINC Oleg Salyukov will command the parade.
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Video showing the ground equipment staged on Tverskaya Street before the parade today. 2/
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Then came the 10 BMPT, 10 T-72B3, 10 T-80BVM, 4 T-14 Armata, and 6 T-90M tanks. 3/
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Some of the equipment then staged in front of the Four Seasons Hotel. 4/

A number of foreign leaders chose to not attend but Tajikistan's Emomali Rahmon, Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić, Uzbekistan's Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko all attended. 5/

An overview of the troops taking part in the parade. 6/
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The parade commander is General of the Army and Ground Forces CINC Oleg Salyukov, who has commanded the parade every year since 2014. Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu reviewed the troops. Both were driven in the new Aurus Senat vehicles Kortezh-series vehicles. 7/

The parade had some issues. After driving across Red Square, one of the K-17 Bumerang armored vehicles had an engine fire. The Bumerang, Armata, and Kurganets-25 vehicles have been at each Victory Day Parade since 2015 but none has entered service. 8/
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A conscript from the 27th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade also reportedly began screaming that he hated the FSB and struck an FSO vehicle before the parade, and was removed before the ceremony began. 9/
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Video of Shoigu and Salyukov reviewing the troops. 10/

An infographic of the troops that took part in the parade. 11/
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After President Putin's remarks, the parade began with General of the Army Oleg Salyukov followed by musicians from the Moscow Military Music College and honor guards from the Ground Forces, Aerospace Forces, and the Navy. 12/

They were followed by historical reinactors with RVSN servicemen, cadets from the Moscow Higher Military Command School, and then servicemen from the 27th MRB dressed as WWII infantrymen, pilots, sailors, engineers, razvedchiki, and militia and FSB officers as border guards. 13/

Then came a company of cossacks and cadets from the Khrulev Military Logistics Academy. 14/

They were followed by the foreign component beginning with troops from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. 15/

Then Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan brought its own vehicles that were replicas of GAZ M-20 sedans based off Mercedes chassis. 16/

Photos of those replica GAZ M-20 Pobeda sedans used by Turkmenistan. 17/
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Then came cadets from the Moscow and Tver Suvorov Military Schools, St. Petersburg Nakhimov School, Kronstadt Naval Cadet Corps, Yunarmia, and officers from the Combined Arms Academy. 18/

Then officers from the Military University of the Ministry of Defense (VUMO), Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Acedmy, Marshal Vasilevsky Military Academy of the Armed Forces Air Defence Branch, and Khrulev Military Logistics Academy. 19/

Then came the female parade formation with women officers from the Ground Forces and Aerospace Forces. 20/

The came the Russian Aerospace Forces component from the Gagarin, Zhukov, and Mozhaysky military academies. 21/

The Naval component included cadets from the Ushakov Baltic Naval Institute and Makarov Pacific Naval Military Institute as well as naval infantrymen from the Baltic Fleet's 336th Naval Infantry Brigade. 22/

Overhead, presidential security service spetsnaz sniper teams from the USN SBP FSO equipped with Steyr SSG sniper rifles protected the parade. 23/
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Then came the RVSN's component with cadets from the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Troops. 24/

Then came the VDV component with cadets from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School and paratroopers from the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment and 104th Air Assault Regiment, and cadets from the FSB's Moscow Border Institute. 25/

Note the AK-12 and ASM Val rifles with Valdai 1P87 sights. 26/

Then the 1st and 45th Engineer Brigades, cadets from the Marshal S. Timoshenko Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops College, cadets from the Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps, troops from the 34th and 38th Railway Brigades, and EMERCOM personnel. 27/

Then troops from Rosgvardia's Dzerzhinsky Independent Operational Purpose Division, the Western Military District's 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division and 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, and cadets from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. 28/

Note the Dedal DK-9 daysights. 29/

The list of the ground equipment that took part in the parade. 30/

Then the ground equipment portion of the parade began with 11 T-34-85 (most if not all of these tanks came from the 30 T-34-85 tanks received from Laos last year used to stand up a tank battalion in the 4th Tank Division) and 7 SU-100 assault guns. 31/

Then a Tigr-M with an AGS-17 and PKP, 6 KAMAZ-53949 Typhoon-K MRAPs (3 with Kord HMGs and 3 with 5ETs16U remote operated combat modules with Kord HMGs), 3 KAMAZ-K4386 Typhoon-VDV with 30mm cannons, 7 BMP-2M with Berezhok turrets, 6 BMP-3, and 4 57mm 2S38 Derivatsiya-PVO. 32/

Next came 3 Kurganets-25 with Epokha turrets including 8 small Bulat missiles, 3 T-15 Armata IFVs with Kinzhal turrets with 57mm cannons, 10 BMPT tank support vehicles, 10 T-72B3 tanks, 10 T-80BVM tanks, 4 T-14 Armata tanks, and 6 T-90M Proryv-3 tanks. 33/

There wasn't great footage during the parade so here is a photo of the B-11 IFV variant of the Kurganets-25 from the rehearsals. Note the 8 small Bulat missiles above 2 of the 4 Kornet-EM ATGMs. 43/
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Another photo of the B-11 Kurganets-25 IFV with an Epokha turret with 8 Bulat missiles and 4 Kornet-EM ATGM from the rehearsals. 44/
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Then came the artillery starting with 4 Msta-SM and 4 Koalitsiya-SV 152mm self-propelled howitzers, 6 Tornado-S MLRS, and 6 Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system 9P78-1 launchers. 45/

The air defense and VDV portion included Tor-M2, Buk-M3, S-300V4 air defense systems and 7 BMD-4M and 6 BTR-MDM armored airborne vehicles. 46/

Overhead comparison of T-72B3, T-80BVM, and T-90M tanks. 47/
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T-15 Armata IFV with a Kinzhal turret next to a Citroen C6 sedan. 48/
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Nikita Eremenko was the conscript that struck an FSO vehicle by Red Square. Apparently, FSB CI officers decided to remove him from the parade the week prior, but his commander kept him in the reserve (in case someone had to be replaced). 49/
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He was worried that he would not march across Red Square despite the months of drills. When his unit from the 27th MRB departed for Red Square without him, he became angry and drove the butt of his Mosin Nagant rifle through an FSO vehicle (he thought it was an FSB vehicle). 50/

Next came 9 TOS-1A heavy flamethrower MLRS, 4 of the new TOS-2 Tosochka MLRS, 4 ISDM minelaying vehicles (two combat vehicles and two transport/loaders), 2 Pantsir-SM (with 4 new, small counter UAV/PGM missiles), 2 Pantsir-S1, and 2 Arctic Pantsir-SA air defense systems. 51/

Then S-350 Vityaz with 4 50P6E TELs; S-400 with 4 5P85SM2-01 TELs; a Bal coastal defense system (2 C2 vehicles, 2 launchers, and 2 tranporters); Military Police with 4 Tigr-M and 6 KAMAZ-63968 Typhoon-K MRAPs; and Rosgvardia with a Tigr-M, 6 Patrul, and 3 Ural-VV MRAPs. 52/

Security camera footage of the conscript Nikita Eremenko hitting an FSO vehicle (he thought it belonged to the FSB) with the butt of his Mosin Nagant rifle after learning that he wouldn’t get to march across Red Square as part of the parade. 53/
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