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The development of the 2S25 fighter was started on the basis of the assignment of the Russian airborne troops, which required a new airborne machine designed to fight the enemy's armored vehicles. Construction work on the new vehicle began at the Volgograd Tractor Plant probably in 1994, based on the BMD-3 airborne vehicle.

Challenger 2 is a product of the British armaments industry offered as a replacement for the obsolete tanks of the British Army Chieftain and Challenger 1.

Portable anti-tank missile set of medium range with a passive self-guidance device of the Fire and forget type fired from the shoulder or vehicles.

M1132 Engineer Squad Vehicle (ESV) is the combat engineering variant of the Stryker wheeled armored fighting vehicle. It is issued to combat engineer squads in the US Army Stryker brigade combat teams. Its purpose is to transport and support combat engineers on the battlefield; the vehicle includes obstacle clearing and lane marking systems as well as mine detection devices.

The AT4 is a Swedish 84 mm unguided, man-portable, disposable, shoulder-fired recoilless anti-tank weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics. The AT4 is not a rocket launcher strictly speaking, because the explosive warhead is not propelled by a rocket motor. Rather, it is a smooth-bore recoilless gun (as opposed to a recoilless rifle, which has a rifled barrel). Saab has had considerable sales success with the AT4, making it one of the most common light anti-tank weapons in the world. The M136 AT4 is a variant used by the United States Army.

The MT-LB multi-purpose tracked armoured personnel carrier is designed for infantry transport, material transport, liaison purposes and for towing guns as an artillery tractor.

The PT-91 Twardy is a Polish main battle tank. A development of the T-72M1, it entered service in 1995. Changes from the T-72M include a new dual-axis stabilized fire-control system, reactive armour, a more powerful engine, transmission and new automatic loader.
Unlike many other T-72 upgrades, Polish Army PT-91s feature elements created almost exclusively by domestic companies, including the new engine, fire control system, and all communication system elements. Many of the elements were used to upgrade existing fleets of T-72 tanks in countries including the Czech Republic (T-72M4 CZ), Georgia (T-72SIM-1), and India (T-72 Ajeya Mk. 2). A total of 232 PT-91 tanks were delivered to the Polish Land Forces: 92 newly built vehicles and 140 from refurbished T-72A and T-72M1 tanks, designated PT-91M1 and PT-91MA1, respectively.

Based on the BILL system, Bofors has developed a new version known as BILL 2, which is designed to counter the most advanced tanks and armoured vehicles, both current and under development. Externally, the BILL 2 system is virtually identical to its predecessor. The primary difference from an operational deployment perspective lies primarily in the ability to destroy tanks with the additional dynamic protection of the main armour and the small dispersion of the missile in the target area. The modes of combat use are also different.

The T-62 medium tank is one of the compact types of the Russian tank school favouring minimal size and powerful armament. The basic design was taken from the T-55 tank, which was introduced in all armies of the Warsaw Pact.

The T-80B and T-80BV tanks are the first upgraded versions of the T-80 with significantly higher combat qualities. The T-80BV type differs from the T-80B only in the increased ballistic protection provided by the additional dynamic armouring of the turret and hull nose. The main armament of the T-80B tank is the upgraded 125 mm 2A46M-1 gun stabilised in two planes.

In the second half of the 90's factory Uralvagonzavod developed and started to mass-produce tank T-90S, as a new generation of "raketno-pušečnyj" tanks, including the best know-how of the tanks T-72 and T-80.