More than 50 BTR-82A entered service with a tank division being formed in the Urals
Information Agency TASS cites the statement of Colonel Roshchupkina:
The BTR-82A has been equipped with vertical and horizontal pickups with electric drives. In addition, the armored personnel carrier is equipped with a digital two-plane stabilizer. The armored vehicle has digital crypto-protected communication devices of the 5 generation, a topographic orientation system, as well as combined observation tools. On the BTR-82A installed the latest fire extinguishing system.
According to the official representative of the Central Military District, the formation of a new tank division in the Urals will be completed by December 1 of the current year. At this stage, an inspection check of the condition and staffing of the unit has been carried out. In addition, the command inspected the preparation of directors (landfill sites), tank divisions and tactical fields in the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. It is in these regions that the unit of the new Ural tank division will be located.
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