Two BMD-2 machines were taken to the venue onboard an Ilyushin Il-76 multi-purpose airlifter on Sunday. The vehicles successfully landed on to the Nikinci training area in Serbia. The BMD-2 is a Russian airborne infantry fighting vehicle used for combat tracking, which NATO has given the designation BMD M1981/1. It is fitted with a turret, anti-tank guided missile launcher and two machine guns. The vehicle is also fully amphibious and was designed especially for airdrops. From a distance, a BMD-2 dropping may well look like a small tank landing with a parachute. Russia's airborne paratrooper units arrived in Belgrade...
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