Among the land platforms were Titan-DS vehicles. (Watan Habarlary)

The Armed Forces of Turkmenistan displayed a wide range of military equipment at a parade held in Ashgabat to commemorate the 31st anniversary of Turkmenistan’s independence.

Video footage released by the state-run TV channel, Watan Habarlary, showed Chinese, Emirati, Israeli, Italian, Russian, South Korean, and Turkish equipment.

Highlights included footage of the newly inducted Turkmen-class corvette
Deniz Han
, Cavalon two-seat autogyro, StormRider light armoured vehicle, and Titan-DS armoured personnel carrier.

Deniz Han
was commissioned in August 2021. The 91.4 m-long ship is armed with MBDA’s Otomat Mk 2 Block IV surface-to-air missile system, two vertical-launch (VL) systems for MBDA’s VL MICA short-range anti-aircraft missiles, a 76 mm Leonardo Super Rapid Gun, and a 35 mm Korkut-D twin-barrelled close-in weapon system.

Titan-DS vehicles were paraded in Armed Forces of Turkmenistan colours, while the StormRider vehicles were displayed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which also has the Titan-DS in its inventory.