News of the automotive industry

Rosoboronexport announced an increase in the order portfolio worth more than 3 billion euros. "As a result of negotiations with foreign partners, I have signed more than 30 contract documents worth more than 3 billion euros," the company's press service said on Tuesday.

The new Polish SUV is designed for gunners, but it can also be useful for special forces. September 6, portal milmag.pl He announced that an armored car from the Huta Stalowa Wola company will be presented for the first time at the MSPO defense exhibition.

Tests of the first Russian armored car K-4386 ZA-SpN for special forces will begin in 2022, Igor Zarakhovich, chief designer of the Remdiesel development company, said on September 6.

The company "Yandex" will launch unmanned taxis for passenger transportation in 2021. This is reported by RBC with reference to the corresponding draft government decree supplementing the law "On experimental legal regimes in the field of digital innovations".

The family of equipment based on the armored car K-4386 "Typhoon-airborne" (4X4), created in JSC "Remdiesel", continues to increase.

Tesla will not have time to release an electric Cybertruck pickup truck until 2022. This is reported by the publication Electrek.According to a source familiar with the situation, Tesla "reluctantly" admitted that the Cybertruck electric pickup would not be able to be released on time. Now the head of the company, Elon Musk, said that the start of mass production of the pickup truck is postponed until 2023.

Apple has accepted two former Mercedes employees as part of the development of a project to create its first electric car. This is reported by MacRumors.

The family of equipment based on the armored car K-4386 "Typhoon-airborne" (4X4), created in JSC "Remdiesel", continues to increase. So, at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", a version of the AMN-D, made in the form of a multi-purpose truck, was demonstrated for the first time.

Readers of the Japanese news aggregator Yahoo News Japan admired the Russian four-wheel drive SUV "Strela", created by GAZ on the basis of the armored car of the same name, produced by the Military-Industrial Company (MIC). InoSMI tells about the reaction of network users.

New Russian SUVs were chosen as the main vehicle for use in the competition of the Army International Games "Guardian of Order"

The Serbian Military Police has re-equipped its fleet with new Russian UAZ "Patriot" SUVs and started their active operation. This is reported by a TASS correspondent from the scene.

The Norwegian autonomous electric cargo ship "Yara Birkelan" will make the first flight between the two cities by the end of the year. According to CNN, there will be no crew on board. The vessel's movement will be monitored by three ground-based data control centers.

For many years, the GAZ-66, nicknamed "Shishigs", were one of the most popular cars in the Soviet, and then the Russian army. They were also widely used in the armed forces of various foreign countries, where they still serve.

It will begin after the completion of state tests, if there is an appropriate decision of the state customer, the Uralvagonzavod concern reported

The production of the latest self-propelled mortar "Phlox" and the self-propelled artillery gun "Magnolia" can be launched in late 2022-early 2023, the press service of the concern "Uralvagonzavod" (UVZ, part of the state corporation "Rostec") told TASS at the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

The American companies HyPoint and Piasecki Aircraft are going to create the first hydrogen helicopter, as well as develop and certify a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. It will give an energy density four times higher than existing lithium-ion batteries.

After an all-electric van designed for intercity transportation was introduced last year, Volta Trucks has started testing a 16-ton platform truck. Now the prototype is undergoing sea trials in the UK.

At the military-technical forum "Army-2021", which started today in Yekaterinburg at the Sverdlovsk training ground, a special vehicle of mine clearance groups was presented for the first time. This year, we recall, it entered service with engineering units of the Central Military District.

Pictures of modified Tiger armored vehicles appeared on the network. The photos published in the group" Turned at War "in Vkontakte show cars with additional protection. According to the caption, the pictures were taken on the territory of the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan, where unusual cars were found.

The correct actions of the military police led to a decrease in the accident rate in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation by 29%. It acts effectively both in Syria and in Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu said on Thursday, August 26, at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A large-scale exhibition of military equipment and weapons "Army-2021"has opened at the Tolmachevo military airfield near Novosibirsk. Anyone can examine in detail the most advanced models of small arms and army vehicles. In particular, for the first time, the newest sanitary armored car "Lens"is presented at the Novosibirsk site.

The prototype of the PZM-2M regimental earthmoving machine based on KAMAZ-65224, which is being demonstrated at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", even looks very unusual from the outside.