As with the plan for the May 9th "Victory Day" parade flyover there is also a plan for the actual parade.
It also features some interesting details and differences, if compared to the parade from 2020 and 2021, that I will go through in this thread. 1/
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It also features some interesting details and differences, if compared to the parade from 2020 and 2021, that I will go through in this thread. 1/
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Firstly, if compared to 2020 and 2021, you will notice this years parade is a lot smaller. It features 131 vehicles, compared to 234 in 2020 and 197 in 2021. 2/
A large portion of the combat ready vehicles are missing from this years parade, including TOS-1s, Pantsir-S1s, T-80BVMs and BM-30 Smerchs. 3/
The Rosgvardia (National Guard) armored vehicles that are usually part of the parade are also missing this year. They are being used extensively in the invasion of Ukraine and have suffered heavy losses. 4/
The parades usually impressive display of MLRS systems appears to have been demoted to 9 Tornado-G upgraded Grad systems. 5/
The large part of their parade consists of their "next generation" systems that exist in too few numbers to have been fielded in combat in Ukraine. Systems such as the T-14 Armata, Kurganets-25, VPK-7829 Bumerang and Uran-9. 6/
Thread analysing the parade's flyover
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