News of the automotive industry

SberAutoTech has started testing drones in the passenger transportation service mode. The fleet of self-driving cars has been on the roads of Moscow and the Moscow region since December 2020. Cars are being tested in conditions of dense urban traffic, taking into account various weather conditions and time of day. In the spring of 2022, the company started the next stage — testing the unmanned passenger transportation service.

Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, spoke at the Federation Council on April 13 as part of the "Expert Time" on the topic "Diversification of production of Rostec State Corporation organizations".

The special military operation in Ukraine, announced by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on February 24, served as a trigger that launched the process of dropping the disguises that had long concealed the bestial grins of "our Western partners."

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov promised the appearance of unconventional types of weapons in Russia

The State Armament Program (GPV) will be aimed at creating non-traditional types of weapons, including directed energy weapons, kinetic weapons, as well as control systems using artificial intelligence and robotic complexes.

The newest Russian armored car "Buran" was first presented to the public in 2020. However, it is already gaining popularity among the military – both Russian and foreign.

Rosatom plans to build a plant in the Kaliningrad Region for the production of lithium-ion cells and batteries with a total capacity of about 4 GWh per year, which will start operating in 2025 and will meet the needs of Russian automakers in traction batteries.

At the last Vertical Flight Society H2 Aero seminar, Hyundai presented its plans for the development of electric aviation in the near future. They emphasized that they already have a run-in technology of hydrogen power plants for vehicles. You just need to modify it and install it on aircraft.

Electric cars in Russia and lithium fever in the world

Against the background of the special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine, Russia came under numerous sanctions mainly from Western countries, which exposed the country's significant dependence on imports in the field of high technologies of a number of industries.

"Novaya Gazeta" under the heading "Current events guarantee victory for China. Russia's dependence on the Celestial Empire will begin to grow at a gigantic pace. Why?" published an interview with a well-known Russian sinologist, director of the Center for Integrated European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and a former employee of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) Vasily Kashin.

Multiple launch rocket systems "Willow" and "Birch bark"

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rocket forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) got a significant number of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of various calibers, including dozens of 122-mm MLRS of the Grad type.

The armed formations of Ukraine continue to massively use the car fleet of the unilaterally privatized property of three military districts of the Soviet Army, formations withdrawn from Eastern Europe, as well as various power structures of the USSR.

These are ZIL-131, GAZ-66, Ural-4320, Ural-375, KrAZ-255, KrAZ-260, KamAZ-4310 and UAZ-469 all-terrain vehicles.

The representative of the German Foreign Ministry, Andrea Sasse, said that the first German armored vehicles as part of the defense assistance package were successfully transferred to Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.

Military personnel of the special purpose unit of the Southern Military District, stationed in the Krasnodar Territory, have started practical training on modern Typhoon armored vehicles.

Perhaps soon the regional administration for the Krasnodar Territory will receive high-passability equipment.

At the recent exercises of the 93rd separate mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a mobile launcher capable of using the ATGM of the Stugna-P complex was demonstrated.

St. Petersburg LLC "Electric Vehicles Manufacturing Rus" (EMR) plans to open a factory in Moscow for the production of EVM PRO electric trucks in the third quarter of 2022. This is stated in the materials for the presentation of the car, which were reviewed by Interfax.

Developed during the Great Patriotic War, the 14.5-mm ZPU-2 machine gun was installed at various times on various models of equipment. For example, back in the 50s, modifications of wheeled BTR-40, BTR-152 and tracked BTR-50 were equipped with such weapons.

Egyptian defense columnist Mahmoud Gamal posted photos on Twitter showing the adviser to the President of Burundi inspecting a Fahd-300 armored personnel carrier with an Egyptian-made 4x4 wheel formula during his last visit to the Kader factory.

The Bangladesh Ground Forces received a new batch of 15 M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicles of the MRAP class as part of the American Surplus Military Equipment (EDA) program.

A new airfield autofuel tanker, which will allow refueling several aircraft at once, is being developed for the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.