Russian army airborne troops ordered a new 125mm tracked self-propelled gun to Kurgan factory, which can be unloaded from a plane without any platform. Airborne troops of Russian army have indeed need a new vehicle to replace the 2S25 Sprut-SD that the "paras" have abandoned in 2010 after a fire on the vehicle after the military parade on Red Square, due to a fuel leakage. The Russian airborne troops will be equipped with a new vehicle able to fight the main battle tanks U.S. Abrams M1 and Israeli Merkava, wrote the newspaper Izvestia.
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| 2S25 Sprud-SD 125mm self-propelled gun for airborne troops based on the chassis of BMD-3 armoured infantry fighting vehicle. |