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Why 2020 Was a Big Year for the Russian Military It s all thanks to some new weapons of war. Here s What You Need to Know: The year s new equipment included the Buk-M3, Tornado-S, and Verba fourth-generation infrared homing surface-to-air missile man-portable air defense systems. Christmas came early for the Russian Ground Forces, which received more than 2,500 new pieces of armaments this year including advanced Buk-M3 medium-range air defense systems and Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).  “In order to increase combat performance and renew the equipment in 2020, military units of Russia’s Ground Forces received over 2,500 pieces of new standard weaponry, as well as military and special hardware,” Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief Army Gen. Oleg Salyukov said in an interview with the Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zverda newspaper, according to a report from Tass.

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