In early December of this year in the Western military environment may be a new tank army. With all of this 20th-arms will, in practice, formed anew. The defense Ministry informed that much of a difference between them.
The defense Ministry expects by December 2015 to form in the Western military environment new tank army, reports TASS citing an anonymous source in military structures. In addition to the 20-th army is almost formed anew.
To command of the 1st Panzer army will be major General Alexander chaiko. He previously was appointed head of the 20-th combined arms, in his place was appointed the General-the major Sergey Kuzovlev. "Fully formed and administration (headquarters) these 2 armies stationed respectively in the village Bakovka, Moscow region and in Voronezh," said the informant.
The first tank army will enter the Taman motorized rifle and Kantemirovskaya tank division. In addition to the new formation will be attached 27th Sevastopol separate motorized infantry, and the 6th separate tank brigade.
"The hardest is the case with the formation of the 20th guards combined arms army, who lost much of its fighting strength. As of the moment, the army included the 9th tank brigade from Nizhny Novgorod. At the moment there is a formation of other armored and mechanized infantry brigades for the army," said the adept of the Ministry of defense.
The Department announced that a special difference in the composition of the 1st and 20th armies will not. With all of this in a tank army will be more tanks and combined arms - infantry fighting vehicles. An anonymous source in the Department said that the new 1st army and newly formed 20-th combined arms army tanks will be first to receive the next generation Armata and BMP" Kurganets".