News of the automotive industry

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.

Having studied the situation on the global market of electric vehicles, the specialists of the analytical company Canalys came to the conclusion that 6.5 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide in 2021, which is 109% more than in 2020.

In the joint Russian-Belarusian operational exercises "Allied Resolve-2022", units equipped with multi-axle wheeled tractors played a significant role in the relocation of the military equipment involved to the landfills.

A batch of ADCPT-10-53501 tankers based on KamAZ-53501 vehicles has arrived at the logistics Support unit (MTO) of the Western Military District (ZVO), stationed in the Moscow region.

In the armed forces of many countries, there are specially created units that portray the enemy during various military exercises.

In the USA, for example, the so-called "32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment" existed for a long time in Fort Irwin (Mojave Desert, California).

Domestic UAZ-469 and UAZ-3151 all-terrain vehicles continue to be used in many armed forces and law enforcement agencies of the world. There are still quite a lot of them in Africa.

For example, the Ghanaian army has adapted Ulyanovsk jeeps for the installation of small arms and anti-tank weapons.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to operate several hundred American-made Humvee SUVs. On Tuesday, photos from the fifth maintenance and repair center of these foreign cars that arrived from overseas, located in Zhytomyr, were posted on the Network.

Rogozin on Twitter showed a car flying in outer space from Chelyabinsk

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin showed a car flying in outer space on Twitter. Thus, the manager illustrated the reporting for 2021 of the Ust-Katavsky Carriage Building Plant (UKVZ) from the Chelyabinsk Region, which is part of the state Corporation.

The Military Industrial Company has delivered a new batch of multipurpose armored vehicles "MIC-Ural" to one of the Middle Eastern countries, Alexander Krasovitsky, CEO of MIC LLC, told RIA Novosti.

The Pentagon recognized the low efficiency of promising ISV machines

The American Army Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) SUVs were recognized as ineffective in combat. The shortcomings of the new machines were named in the report of the Department of operational testing and evaluation DOT & E (Director of Operational Test and Evaluation) of the US Department of Defense, which was published on Thursday. This is reported by Breaking Defense.

Light ISV SUVs from GM Defense are ineffective in combat. They cannot be fired on the move, design features do not allow. The vehicles designed for American paratroopers and commandos turned out to be weak and vulnerable.

The troops of the Eastern Military District (VVO) received a large batch of new communications equipment over the past year. Command and staff vehicles (KSHM) allow you to establish communication via closed Internet channels and carry out topographic mapping through various satellite systems.

A batch of the newest automatic filling stations ARS-14KM based on the all-terrain vehicle "KamAZ" has arrived in the regiment of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the South Ossetia, stationed in North Ossetia.