There are a number of reasons for doubting whether the BMD-4 is still a good fit for Russian airborne troops. Equipping the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) with weapon systems based on the BMD-4 chassis ...

Here’s a video of one accident, showing the BMD leaving the IL-76MD air transport and plummeting to Earth in a bomb-like trajectory. Russia’s airborne corps, or VDV, functions as the country ...

What went wrong? Timokhin lists several problems with the VDV. For one, the paratroopers were equipped with lightly armored, air-droppable armored vehicles such as the BMD-4 infantry fighting vehicle.

During fighting in Ukraine, the VDV has lost T-72B tanks and BMD-2 infantry fighting vehicles, among other vehicles. US paratroopers have some mechanized capabilities — like the LAV-25 ...

The BTR-MDM was not the first of the new VDV armor vehicles to paradrop with crews. The similar 13.6 ton BMD-4M, which entered service in 2004, was the first such vehicle to do so. The BND-4M has a ...

Several Terminators were also spotted with VDV BMD-2 and BTR-D vehicles near Severodonetsk. While the Russian commentators cheer the deployment of the armored vehicle in Ukraine, claiming it hints ...

Judging from the smoking wreckage along the Zelenyi Shlyakh road, recent assaults have included BMP and BMD tracked fighting ... the 14-ton Typhoon-VDV and the eight-ton Tigr.

The Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) are famous for their usage of the BMD and BTR-D series of airdropped armored vehicles. But in 2018, the VDV’s 7 th Novorossiysk and 76 th Pskov air assault ...

Russia's military is redeploying its elite airborne (VDV) divisions from the southern front of Ukraine to boost its offensive in the east where Moscow's momentum is continuing, it has been reported.

Vladimir Putin is sending his elite airborne troops into the eastern Donbas region in a bid to repel the Ukrainian counteroffensive, British defence chiefs believe. Yevgeny Prigozhin and the other ...

On Wednesday, General Colonel Mikhail Teplinsky, who heads up Russia's VDV, or airborne forces, said during a recorded speech that 8,500 paratroopers had been wounded in Moscow's war effort since ...