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Russia to show off bombers and ICBMs at Victory Day parade
MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti) - Sophisticated military hardware will be paraded
during May's Victory Day Parade in Moscow for the first time since the split up
of the U.S.S.R, a military official said on Wednesday.
Celebrations to mark the end of Russia's participation in WWII are to be held
on Red Square on May 9.
The victory parade will see a display of the country's most advanced military
technology, such as BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR-80 armored personnel
carriers, T-90 tanks, Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile mobile
launchers, Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers.
"After a 17-year-long break, the president of Russia took the decision to
resume military parades with military hardware," Moscow Military District
Commander General Vladimir Bakin said, adding that the Topol-M launchers would
not be carrying missiles during the parade.
Bakin also said over four thousand fireworks would be launched at the
celebrations.
The first Victory Parade was held on Red Square on June 24, 1945 on the order
of the then-Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Joseph Stalin.
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