Tesla has released a report in which it compared the cost of ownership of an electric car and a car with a gasoline engine. The document is available on the company's website.

After the development and adoption of the first Chinese mass self-propelled artillery Type 83 (analogous to the Soviet 2S3) in the early 80s, the command of the People's Liberation Army traditionally pays great attention to the development of this type of weapons. For example, the 155-mm PLZ-05, created already in the new century, can compete with the best foreign models in terms of its tactical and technical characteristics.

Norwegian anti-ship missiles have found a new use for American Marines. August 19, portal marinecorpstimes.com He reported that the US Marine Corps hit the first target during tests of the new NMESIS missile system.

A modernized Soviet tank was noticed during a rehearsal of a military parade in Kiev. This is reported by the blog andrey-bt. The T-64BM2 tank differs from the base model with a new engine. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has ordered twelve modernized vehicles.

The Ukrainian tank BM "Oplot" broke down during the rehearsal of the parade for the Independence Day of Ukraine. Due to the breakdown of the tank, the movement of the parade crew was stopped, and a rescue car arrived at the broken "Stronghold". This is reported by the Telegram channel PavlovskyNews.

In Kiev, at the rehearsal of the parade in honor of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, modernized Soviet BMP-1s were seen. Only ten units.

These infantry fighting vehicles received a single-seat combat compartment "Spis"("Spear"). It was created to replace the Shkval module, first shown 20 years ago on the BMP-1U, also at the parade in the Ukrainian capital.

The Russian army is close to arming itself with new wheeled armored vehicles. On August 19, the TASS news agency reported that state tests of the latest K-16 armored personnel carrier and the K-17 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle on the Boomerang platform have begun.

Its tests are planned to be completed by the end of 2021

For the first time, visitors to the Army-2021 forum can see a cargo parachute system for landing an armored vehicle "Typhoon-Airborne". The Horizontal-4000 cargo parachute system and special-purpose systems for high-altitude landing are also presented for the first time, the press service of the Technodiinamika holding of the Rostec state Corporation told reporters on Sunday.

At the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", which opened on Sunday in the Moscow region, a completely new development of the "Military-Industrial Company" was presented - a two-axis multi-purpose all-wheel drive armored floating vehicle, already unofficially nicknamed "BRDM-4"in the Network.

The tests of the "Athlete" will be completed in 2021

The military-Industrial company (LLC "MIC") for the first time presented an amphibious multi-purpose armored vehicle at the Army Forum. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy General Director - Director for development of the company Vladimir Matansky.

Russian enterprises currently pay great attention to equipment designed for arming special-purpose units. The experience of recent local conflicts has confirmed the urgent need for such combat vehicles.

Within the framework of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", the Kalashnikov concern presented the S-8L adjustable aviation missile, it follows from the company's presentation.

"Tablet-M-IR "will be able to quickly exchange information with such complexes as "Yastreb-AV", "Smile-M", said Vladimir Pimenov, General Director of the Signal Research Institute

The Russian mobile artillery fire control system "Tablet-M-IR" will be able to direct guided artillery shells "Krasnopol-M2" and "Kitolov-2M".

Its flight range is up to 14.5 thousand meters

The newest guided missile of the air-to-surface class "Product 305E", designed for modernized Russian combat helicopters, was presented for the first time at the international military-technical forum "Army-2021", a TASS correspondent reports.

Specialists will improve K08BE and UPAB-1500BE

JSC "State Scientific and Production Enterprise "Region" (part of the Corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons", KTRV) has started the modernization of the latest guided aerial bombs K08BE, UPAB-1500BE and KAB-250LG-E. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the State Enterprise " Region "during the international military-technical forum"Army-2021".

Russian anti-ship missiles X-31AD and X-35UE can hit enemy warships and vessels in any weather conditions and when the sea is rough from five to six points. High-precision weapons were demonstrated at the Army-2021 forum.

Robert Strider, Deputy Director of the US Office of Military Hypersonic Projects, revealed plans for the development of the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile during a speech at a conference on space and missile defense in Alabama. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the publication of The National Interest.

Israeli ELTA Systems (a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries) is developing new versions of ground-based AFAR radars with electronic scanning, designed to combat changing threats, including swarms of UAVs and hypersonic missiles.

As a result of the attack, there are no victims and destruction, said the deputy head of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit

The Russian-made Syrian air defense systems Buk-M2E and Pantsir-S destroyed 22 of the 24 guided missiles fired by Israeli Air Force fighters at the Rif Damascus and Homs provinces on August 19. This was reported to journalists by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit.

The Russian-made Syrian air defense systems Buk-M2E and Pantsir-S destroyed twenty-two of the 24 guided missiles fired by Israeli Air Force fighters at the provinces of Damascus and Homs earlier this week.