![]() Illustrated with expert colour profile artworks for each entry and completed with technical specifications, Modern Russian Tanks & AFVs is a detailed reference guide for modellers and enthusiasts with an interest in modern military technology. The Tsar Tank ( Russian: -, transcription: Tsar'-tank ), also known as the Netopyr' ( Russian:, which stands for Pipistrellus a genus of bat) or Lebedenko Tank ( Russian: ), was a Russian armoured vehicle developed by Nikolai Lebedenko, Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin. Organised by type and then alphabetically by manufacturer, the entries include the BMD-3, BMPT Terminator, T-90 and T-15 main battle tank, and their variants, as well as the Buk missile system responsible for shooting down the Malaysian Airlines 777 jet over Ukraine in 2014. A flame tank is a type of tank equipped with a flamethrower, most commonly used to supplement combined arms attacks against fortifications, confined spaces, or other obstacles. ![]() ![]() From Chechnya to the Crimea to the Ukraine, Modern Russian Tanks & AFVs explores the main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self- propelled guns and missile-launching platforms in service since 1990. Ground forces were involved in a series of conflicts in border states, nationalistic insurrections of minorities following the end of the Soviet Union, and the lifting of its iron fist on these regions. ![]() Created from what was left of the gigantic stockpiles of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles after the end of the Cold War, the Russian armoured forces were reorganized in the early 1990s. ![]()
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