August 30, 2018: In July 2018 Russia finally demonstrated its new BTR-MDM tracked airborne armored vehicle being airdropped (by parachute) with its three man crew on board. The BTR-MDM landed, via ...

Russian defence conglomerate Rostec noted on 15 April that its Rosoboronexport and NPO High-Precision Weapons companies are progressing efforts to promote the BMD-4M IFV and BTR-MDM APC as ‘the latest ...

The new multifunctional amphibious armored vehicles BTR-MDM “Rakushka,” manufactured under the supervision of the holding “High-Precision Complexes”, have been delivered to the Russian ...

In April 2017, BMD-4M IFVs and BTR-MDM Rakushka APCs were handed over to re-equip the inventory of one of the airborne assault battalions of the 31st Independent Guards Airborne Assault Brigade in ...

Paratroopers based in Pskov in Russia’s northwest will get a battalion set of next-generation combat hardware that includes over 35 BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-MDM ...

MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Russia’s Airborne Force will receive three battalion sets of BMD-4M airborne assault vehicles and more than 60 BTR-MDM Rakushka armored personnel carriers, Airborne ...

While these vehicles aren’t anywhere near as heavy hitting as a main battle tank (MBT), the BMD-4M and BTR-MDM provide the paratroopers with mobility and striking power once they’re on the ground.

The thinly-protected, 1950s-vintage BTR-50 might not be the worst vehicle the Russian army has sent in a direct assault on Ukrainian positions, but it’s probably the oldest. And while it’s ...

the BTR-MDM Rakushka amphibious armored personnel carrier, the Lynx armored car, the T-72B main battle tank, the Infauna electronic warfare vehicle and the Aistenok radar complex. Serbian troops ...