On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory over the Third Reich on the Red Square held a grand parade. This year, it had much extraordinary. Not only because of round anniversary, but mainly because the Russian leadership must emphasize the strength of its army in the face of tensions with the West. For best results were sent to Red Square even being still in the early testing new tanks and armored vehicles.
Great parade is a fairly new tradition. In Soviet times, thus they feted the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, and not the victory in the Great Patriotic War, as Russians define this period of World War II, when warred with Germany. It was only in 2008 on the initiative of Vladimir Putin held a parade on Victory Day and started a new habit.
contemporary organizing shows of force in Red Square Russians draw extensively on the Soviet pattern, quite deliberately referring to the times of the USSR. Ceremonial is almost identical. He disappeared Lenin and the hammer and sickle, but were red stars.
Tensions with the West, even in a speech
According to tradition, at the beginning of the ceremony spoke leader, which President Vladimir Putin. He stressed the bravery of Red Army soldiers who had to save their homeland and decide the outcome of World War II. He stressed that “the Soviet Union assumed the heaviest hitting enemy”. – It is here that have been downloaded for final assembly of the Nazi army, focused all their military power, here took place the most decisive battles of World War II – he said.
He thanked the Western Allies, but then pointedly attacked the West, repeating currently applied by the Kremlin’s vision of the world. He warned against attempts to build a unipolar world. He called for the creation of – as he put it – a system of equal security for all states. – We see attempts to build a unipolar world. We see how turnover takes thinking in terms of military blocs. All of this undermines the stability of global development – he said.
On the platform Putin was accompanied by a bunch of foreign visitors, traditionally invited to the ceremony. This year, foreigners, however, was not enough, because the leaders of Western countries boycotted the event in a gesture of criticism for the actions of Russia in Ukraine. Of the current unquestionably the most important guest was President of China Xi Jinping. They were also leaders of India, South Africa, Egypt, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Serbia, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UNESCO chief Irina Bokova.
Thousands of soldiers from across the country
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The most important part of the ceremony was a show of military force Russia. Military parade was organized on a grand scale, so that was the largest to date. This is a clear signal on the address foreign rivals Russia and to their society. The Kremlin wants to show this first, that with Russia to be reckoned with and fear it, and second, that they can be proud of their country, which is so strong even in the face of “encirclement” by NATO and the sanctions imposed by the West.
In order to send a clear message on the Red Square accumulated a total of 16.5 thousand soldiers, representing all possible kinds of armed forces. From the Army, the Air Force, the army’s strategic fleet. Also paraded cadets and lecturers and students of academies, universities, institutes and military academies. Among the participants of the parade were the soldiers and officers of Interior Ministry troops, the Ministry. Emergencies and State Border Service of the Federal Security Service.
paraded well as foreigners, although this year there were not many and most were representatives of countries most friendly with Russia. They were soldiers from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. For the first time the military arrived from China, India, Mongolia and Serbia.
At the beginning of a big puzzle
After marching soldiers on Red Square stumbled heavy equipment and began the most spectacular part of the parade. This year, the Russians have done everything to show their best. Number of new hardware shown in Red Square was a record and eclipsed all previous parades. It also problems arose because most new vehicles is at an early stage trials and are rather prototypes. To enter the army is arming them still far away. One of them mysteriously in general did not appear, and some appeared in a few groups.
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The column of 190 vehicles opened vintage T-34 tanks and self-propelled guns Su-100, who served in the Soviet Army at the end of World War II. After them, there are already modern vehicles, starting with the lightest cars GAZ Tigr field, one of the newer products of the Russian defense industry. This year, for the first time showing them in a version of the Kornet anti-tank missile launcher.
After Tigrach were to appear wheeled armored personnel carriers latest boomerang, which is equivalent to Polish Rosomaków.Tak assumed preliminary plan. Transporters, however, was not. There were only at the very end of the parade. Only three cars carrying the banners of the column closed. According to unofficial reports from the Russian defense industry Boomerangs they are poorly developed and afflict them constant problems with the drive. Perhaps the risk of spoilage during the parade were considered so big that sent only three machines and at the very end. The camera did not show them at all, focusing on the incoming planes.
After Tigrach the square brought against the already known armored trucks Typhoon-K, armored vehicles BTR-82A, and the novelty, another armored truck created as part of the program typhoon, Typhoon indicated as the Urals. It was not a big premiere, because cars are already well known. Simply, not shown so far in the more basal. After them came to be known already airborne armored vehicles BMD-4.
Everything for propaganda effect
Then made the first big premiere. Red Square entered a large column of new armored personnel carriers Kurganiec in two versions. In contrast, boomerangs, Kurgańce to be already quite well developed and do not cause major problems. This is evident by the fact that there were at full strength, after ten vehicles in the column.
Kurgańcach came up after another big novelty, heavy armored personnel carriers T-15, developed under the program together with a tank cannon T-14. Red Square drove only five such cars and camera slid over them into the overall plan, although earlier cars are screened thoroughly and from many sides. This probably results from the fact that T-15 prototypes also are more than ready armament and perhaps feared their corruption.
After the conveyances come up tanks. First, never latest T-90A, and then another novelty T-14. These also was less than other cars, because only seven. According to Russian media reports, the new tanks broke down during rehearsals, and one even suffered a crash before a crowd of spectators during a rehearsal parade on Friday. For this reason, most likely they selected only those cars for which was the highest confidence that will not disappoint. T-14 is also prototypes. Military Trials are due to begin in late 2015 years. Series production can be started early in 2016 if the work will go smoothly.
After the tanks tank destroyers appeared chrysanthemum, and then came up heavy artillery. The first were tested running Msta-S, followed by their new version called Coalition. It was another big premiere. The new works are rather an evolution of previous solutions, than a revolutionary new weapons, so not accompanied by so much interest as in the case of Kurgańców and T-14.
departments came the various rocket armament. Since anti-aircraft weapons as rocket Pancyr systems, Buk, Tor and S-400. For the first time shown a rocket ground-water K-300P Bastion, but it is a modernization of the old Soviet weaponry, so it did not meet with great interest. At the end they came up a ballistic missile. First light Iskandery, then the heaviest intercontinental Jarsy.
In the air, the lack of news
In part, this terrestrial launched in the air. Airplanes and helicopters were extremely numerous, together 143, but virtually no news and trivia. Showing the entire cross section of the aviation weaponry. Of fighters, bombers, tactical aircraft after the heaviest Strategic like Tu-95 and Tu-160. Flew too big carriers, including the largest mass-produced aircraft An-124.
The only release of former fighters Su-30, although it is difficult to call them with new ones. Machines of this type are already in production for years, although mainly for export. An interesting were the group of airplanes with aerobatic teams. For the first time shows the group “Wings of Crimea” at school and combat Yak-130. Striżi teams also flew on MiG-29 and Russian Knights on Su-27, whose existence until recently was in question until a decision was made to give them a new aircraft.
Author: Maciej Kucharczyk / Source: tvn24.pl
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