News of the automotive industry
Deliveries of Aurus and hydrogen-fueled buses may begin in 2024
The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov hopes that in the future it will be possible to use hydrogen fuel cells in the field of aviation
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation expects to switch to active operation of Aurus cars by the end of 2023, and in 2024 to start supplying hydrogen-fueled cars and buses to the market. This was announced on Monday by the head of the ministry Denis Manturov in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel within the framework of the Army-2021 forum.
Army-2021 Forum: the beginning
The International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is held from August 22 to 28 at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Complex in Kubinka, near Moscow.
For the first time, a parachute for landing an armored car "Typhoon-airborne" was shown at Army-2021
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.
The heir of the famous BRDM-2 was shown at the "Army-2021"
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.
A new version of the armored car for special forces was shown at Army-2021
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.
US Marines crossed an NSM missile with a JLTV SUV
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.
The cost of owning an electric car has been disclosed
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.
Sweden has produced a "revolutionary" steel
Swedish manufacturer of environmentally friendly steel HYBRIT has made the world's first delivery of a "revolutionary" metal. According to Reuters, the company plans to radically change the steel industry, which now accounts for about eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
Self-driving cars without a tester on board will be released on the streets of Russian cities
In the near future, testing of unmanned vehicles without a test engineer on board may begin in some Russian cities, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports, citing a source in the Ministry of Transport.
A new wheeled self-propelled gun based on the "Ural" lit up in Libya
Artillery units of the armed forces of the Government of National Accord of Libya have adopted a wheeled self-propelled installation based on the Ural-4320 car. Such an ACS, armed with a D-30 howitzer, was recently lit up for the first time in one of the training centers during a visit to this facility by the leadership of the PNS.
Impassable and swampy terrain is now no problem for armored vehicles
A set of operational deployment of temporary roads "KRVD" will be presented for the first time at the MVTF "Army-2021"in the city of Chita of the Trans-Baikal Territory.
The Ukrainian NGO "Praktika" has fulfilled the contract for the supply of a batch of Kozak-5 armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia
The Ukrainian NGO "Praktika "(part of the Civil Union" League of Defense Enterprises of Ukraine") in 2021 successfully fulfilled a contract for the supply of a large batch of Kozak-5 armored vehicles adapted to the local climate to one of the Middle Eastern countries.
The Ukrainian "destroyer" of the Crimean bridge received Czech chassis
The LCD-360MC "Neptune" anti-ship missile system "has become even cooler," says the Ukrainian information and consulting agency Defense Express.
Photos of the first production vehicles of the new Ukrainian Neptune missile system are presented
The new version of the anti-ship complex uses the Tatra T815 as a standard chassis. The prototypes were placed on the basis of KrAZ cars.
Russian equipment repelled a conditional attack by militants from Afghanistan
"Typhoon-K", BTR-82 and Mi-35M were involved in the joint exercises "South-2021" of the military of Uzbekistan and Russia in the area of the border with Afghanistan.
According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the joint group has worked out a special operation to prevent the possible crossing of the state border by illegal armed groups.
Shoigu spoke about the critical situation with the supply of weapons in the spring of 2020 due to COVID-19
A lockdown in Russia in the spring of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic threatened to disrupt the supply of weapons and military equipment under the state defense order and for export in the amount of several trillion rubles, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.
The Airborne Forces received the latest Typhoon-AIRBORNE armored cars for supply, which had no analogues
The newest armored car "Typhoon-airborne" has been accepted for the supply of the airborne forces, the first batch of vehicles will be delivered to the troops in the near future, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
More than 30 ship crews will show the capabilities of the Caspian Flotilla at the Army Forum"
Also, on August 27-29, more than 15 units of military equipment will be presented at the forum site
The events of the military-technical forum of the Southern Military District "Army" in Kaspiysk (Republic of Dagestan) will include a demonstration of the combat capabilities of the ship group of the Caspian Flotilla. More than 30 crews of ships, vessels and boats will be involved in the demonstration, the press service of the military district told reporters on Tuesday.
Reactive "Agriculture": the new technique was tested at the exercises in Mulino
The engineering systems of remote mining "Agriculture"were involved in the exercises in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
According to the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda", at the training ground in Mulino, a blocking mining unit of a conditional enemy was used for the first time, which fell into a kind of impenetrable"bag". The ISDM platoon with its salvo closed the passages that had previously been made in the barriers, forcing the enemy to raise the white flag.
Specialists of the RCB protection of the TOPF received a batch of modern special aerosol counteraction machines
A separate unit of the Pacific Fleet RCBZ, stationed in the Primorsky Territory, received a batch of five new TDA-3 thermal smoke machines for setting aerosol curtains.