Russia's joint military exercises with foreign countries

"Defenders of Friendship-2021": Departure of Russian Servicemen for Joint Exercises

Servicemen of the Guards Airborne Assault Regiment of the Novorossiysk Mountain Formation departed from the Russian Federation to the Arab Republic of Egypt to participate in the joint tactical exercise Defenders of Friendship-2021, which will be held from 17 to 29 October.

As part of the exercise, the personnel will work out interaction in the preparation and conduct of hostilities in the course of blocking and destroying illegal armed formations of a simulated enemy in a desert area.

The joint Russian-Chinese exercise "Maritime Interaction 2021" ends in the Sea of Japan

Opening ceremony of the joint Russian-Egyptian exercise "Defenders of Friendship 2021"

Are these pictures you have taken?

The pic in question appears to be taken from a drone... but being a still image you can't tell whether the troops were there using the cover of the road and the tank is sitting there in position too or if the tank just moved there to support an assault on that built up area in front of them and would immediately move forward... but standard practice for built up areas is for troops to go first which would be the opposite of that.

It might be that the people on the ground are in direct radio contact with the tank which is using the road to provide a semi hull down position where it can use its thermals to look for targets and can use machine guns for direct fire support.

I would assume with the kit set buildings in front of them they wont be firing live main calibre rounds.

Certainly not a place to be when a modern tank fires a full power round like HE or APFSDS rounds.

The Leopard 2 pic is mine. Taken from the range tower

Thanks for sharing... wasn't being snippy...   when I re read my post I thought it sounded like a challenge... it was certainly not meant to be.

I thought if the original pictures were yours that you might remember how the situation developed... ie were the troops already there and the tank pulled up beside them or was the tank already there and the troops arrived.

As I mentioned the fact that they are facing prefabricated buildings I rather suspect main calibre tank fire was not expected so such a position is not as bad as it looks.

Being this close to the tank means you can see where his optics are pointed and therefore roughly what he is looking at and your points of references are very similar... ie dead ahead or 11 oclock etc etc for spotting targets and firing points of the enemy... the tank could fire "machine gun support" and use its optics to aide the infantry and in real combat might fire main gun ammo to support the attack if heavy fire appears to be coming from one building, but during this training I suspect main gun ammo would not be fired and if they did they would warn nearby troops.

I wonder if hearing protection is part of Ratnik 2 or the upcoming Ratnik 3... a set of directional microphones and ear protection would be rather useful in combat to improve situational awareness and protect the troops.

The maritime phase of the Russian-Egyptian exercise "Bridge of Friendship-2021"

Interesting the new gun on the Russian ship does not eject the empty brass on to the deck like older guns did/do.

GarryB wrote:Interesting the new gun on the Russian ship does not eject the empty brass on to the deck like older guns did/do.

That's the gun from an egyptian ship.

Are you sure?

Looks a lot like an AK-176 MA-01...

From that video...



From Rosoboronexport:



Same shape, same profile... the bottom image just missing the water cooling pipes from the gun.

Actually I'm wrong. I thought it was a Gowind class because the front is flat but it seems to be a Bykov class.

Easy enough mistake to make, with them all being stealthy and modern it is becoming hard to tell them apart...

 for outright saying you made a mistake though...

I am still not 100% sure myself...

The defense minister also stressed that China, India, Algeria, Egypt, Vietnam and Myanmar remain Russia’s partners in the field of military cooperation.

https://tass.com/defense/1378717

Kazakh lower house ratifies military cooperation agreement with Russia

https://tass.com/defense/1379035

Joint naval exercise "CHIRU-2022" of warships of Russia, China and Iran in the Gulf of Oman