Illustrated with expert colour profile artworks for each entry and completed with technical specifications, 'Modern Russian Tanks & AFVs' is a detailed reference guide for modellers and enthusiasts with an interest in modern military technology. The APC’s features were demonstrated during the 15th. It can also carry out reconnaissance, combat support and patrol missions. The first prototypes of the vehicle were unveiled in December 2009. The BTR-80 8×8 armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by the Arzamas machinery Construction Plant of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is intended to carry personnel on the battlefield and provide close fire support. It is being used by the armies of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Belarus.

Organised by type and then alphabetically by manufacturer, the entries include the BMD-3, BMPT 'Terminator', T-90 and T-15 main battle tank, and their variants, as well as the Buk missile system responsible for shooting down the Malaysian Airlines 777 jet over Ukraine in 2014. The BTR-82A is an advanced 8×8 wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) manufactured by Military Industrial Company of Russia.

From Chechnya to the Crimea to the Ukraine, 'Modern Russian Tanks & AFVs' explores the main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled guns and missile-launching platforms in service since 1990.

Ground forces were involved in a series of conflicts in border states, nationalistic insurrections of minorities following the end of the Soviet Union, and the lifting of its iron fist on these regions. Created from what was left of the gigantic stockpiles of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles after the end of the Cold War, the Russian armoured forces were reorganized in the early 1990s.

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