News of the automotive industry

On October 18, 2022, the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania announced that the Defense Resources Agency (Gynybos resursu agentūra), which is part of it, signed an intergovernmental agreement with the US Department of Defense on the purchase of 300 more JLTV (Joint Light Tactical Vehicle) light armored vehicles with wheeled vehicles through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The 4x4 formula produced by Oshkosh Corporation, in addition to the 200 JLTV machines already ordered by Lithuania under the 2019 agreement. Thus, Lithuania should receive a total of 500 JLTV machines, which makes it currently their largest foreign customer.

On Tuesday, October 18, a meeting was held on the territory of the Dimitrovgrad industrial site of the OAT Group, which is part of the KAMAZ structure, with the participation of the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Alexey Russian, the General Director of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin, the President of AVTOVAZ Maxim Sokolov and the General director of the OAT Group Firdaus Kabirov.

For the US defense industry, the creation of hybrid and fully electric vehicles for the US army is a very important step. And the purpose of this is not related to environmental protection. The command wants to increase the efficiency of the army, in addition to reducing the noise when using transport in order to make it harder to detect fighters.

In Ukraine, it is increasingly being stated that unprecedented weapons are being used against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Photos of fragments of ammunition with the inscriptions "Geranium-2" found at the site of missile strikes appear. How does Geranium-2 work, what is it, what is it made of – and what does Iran have to do with it?

Vyacheslav Filippov — about how the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine divides the German government

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said in September that the Federal Republic was "150% on the side of Ukraine" and that it would supply Kiev with weapons as much as needed. Nevertheless, Berlin has not yet satisfied the main desire of the Ukrainian side — the transfer of German battle tanks to it, despite all the criticism, accusations and attacks from the politicians of Nezalezhnaya.

This is the first parade for the new president and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan - Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who this year replaced his father Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who resigned and became chairman of the Halk Maslahaty - the upper chamber of the Turkmen parliament.

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.