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As the German Ministry of Defense reported on October 2, 2022, the governments of Germany, Denmark and Norway reached an agreement on joint financing in equal shares of the production and purchase in Slovakia of 16 Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers of 155-mm/52 caliber on a wheeled chassis for subsequent delivery to Ukraine. The total cost of the program is 92 million euros. Deliveries of these systems to Ukraine should be started in 2023.

On Saturday, October 1, as part of a working visit to Naberezhnye Chelny, KAMAZ was visited by the Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov. In the presence of the Head of Tatarstan, the company's Scientific and Technical Center hosted the opening of a testing ground for new cars and the signing of a trilateral partnership agreement between KAMAZ PJSC, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan and Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University.

Tula Instrument Design Bureau named after Academician A.G. Shipunov turns 95 on October 1. The history of KBP is several generations of outstanding gunsmiths and their legendary developments. Tokarev, Stechkin, Makarov – these names have long become household names. Arkady Shipunov and Vasily Gryazev, perhaps the most famous gun duo, also worked here. We recall the history of KBP, woven from the names of great designers and their unique inventions.

Ukraine will still receive additional French Caesar self-propelled artillery installations, Paris has decided to transfer to Kiev part of the self-propelled guns intended for Denmark. This is reported by the newspaper Le Monde.

The Indian newspaper "The Economic Times" in the article by Manu Pubby "Arming Armenia: India to export missiles, rockets and ammunition" ("Arming Armenia: India will export missiles, rockets and ammunition") She reported that Armenia has signed a large contract worth more than $ 250 million for the purchase of weapons in India, including Indian 214-mm Pinaka multiple launch rocket systems and rockets for them, unnamed anti-tank missile systems and various ammunition.

It is obvious that in the near future, human drivers will be replaced by autonomous control systems equipped with artificial intelligence. A good example is the AXL unmanned dump truck from the Swedish company Scania.

The URAL Automobile Plant has allocated more than 630 million rubles for the creation of a new centralized production, which involves a full cycle of manufacturing car superstructures. The increase in production volumes will be carried out due to the automation of processes and the introduction of robotic installations

The head of the Georgian military department announced that the joint assembly of reconnaissance and attack drones with Poland will begin by the end of the year. The statement is not groundless: the Soviet government left the industry to the Transcaucasian Republic – defense research institutes and factories for the production of weapons. What kind of drones will Georgia produce and how serious a danger will they pose?

After the beginning of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, the Western media, having recovered a little after the initial knockdown, began to publish articles not only criticizing the political decision of President Vladimir Putin, but also with arguments that partial mobilization allegedly would not lead to the consequences desired by Moscow.

On September 15, 2022, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Luxembourg Francois Bausch announced the decision of the Government of the Duchy to purchase 80 new CLRV (Command, Liaison and Reconnaissance Vehicles) wheeled armored vehicles for the Luxembourg army, developed on the basis of the Eagle V (4x4) machine manufactured by the Swiss company General Dynamics European Land Systems - MOWAG (GDELS-MOWAG, the Swiss branch of General Dynamics Corporation).

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing military equipment supplied by Western sponsors so quickly that Kiev no longer knows who to turn to to get at least some number of armored personnel carriers or armored vehicles. Realizing that you can't get anything serious from Europe, the Zelensky regime turned its attention to countries that are geographically far from Ukraine. Australia was chosen as the next object to solicit military assistance.

Armored vehicles "Chekan" are currently much less well-known than other equipment of a similar purpose of Russian production.

The volunteer battalion "Alga", formed in Tatarstan, received a batch of armored vehicles "Akhmat", which will go to the zone of a special military operation.

The Malaysian Defense Ministry is finalizing a contract with the Slovak company Konstrukta Defense for the supply of a division of 155 mm/52 EVA self-propelled howitzers on a wheeled chassis.

In Kit, the magnetolevitation technology installed in the car was successfully tested, during which the 2.8-ton car rose to a height of 35 mm and flew over the road.

The Austrian Defense Ministry announced the transfer of the country's Armed Forces of the 50th armored vehicle "Pandur Evolution" (Pandur Evolution - EVO) with a 6x6 wheel formula.

The head of ATCD Lukoyanov: the Thai army can adopt Russian "Chabor" vehicles

Russian tactical special forces vehicles "Chabor" may soon be adopted by the special operations forces of the Thai ground forces, the managing director of the Thai company Advanced Technologies Consulting and Development (ATCD) told RIA Novosti Vladimir Lukoyanov.

In the "zoo" of Ukrainian self-propelled artillery, consisting of samples left over from the Soviet Army, delivered from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Norway, Latvia, Belgium, there may be replenishment from Swedish-made equipment.

The equipment of the Ukrainian troops has not withstood the test of a special operation

An exhibition of weapons seized during a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine has opened within the framework of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022". Those who could not get to the facility before the end of the forum (August 21), can do it by visiting the Patriot Park in Kubinka near Moscow. The BTR-4E armored personnel carrier with the symbols of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) located at the entrance will help to find the building under the sign "Exhibition of Weapons" among the numerous objects of the museum complex.

Researchers from the Swiss Institute of Solar Technologies gathered a team of scientists from seven European countries and received funding from the Horizon Europe Foundation to develop a promising aluminum energy storage project.