News of the automotive industry

The new armored car for special forces K-4386-ZA-SpN, designed for special purpose units, is based on the already well-known landing armored car "Typhoon-airborne", but has a number of differences. Marat Rizvanov, a representative of the developer company Remdiesel JSC, told about this in an interview with RG.

The RHM-9 radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance vehicle is being openly demonstrated for the first time at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

Earlier it was reported that in 2018, this specialized armored car was presented in a closed static exhibition of a large-scale weapons exhibition held in the Moscow region.

The Strela KBM MIC SUV presented at the Army-2021 forum was created by students and graduates of Bauman Moscow State Technical University together with specialists of the Military-Industrial Company. In the future, the civilian Strela can get a seven-seat version and an automatic rifle, said Nikita Lozhkin, head of the calculation department of the Youth Design Bureau of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, in an interview with RG.

The new multi-purpose armored floating vehicle (MBPM) rolled off the assembly line just ten days before the start of the Army-2021 forum.

Nevertheless, it has already been tested both afloat and during mileage tests, Sergey Suvorov, head of the media and advertising department of the Military-Industrial Company, said in an interview with RG.

Specialists of the military innovative technopolis "ERA" presented at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" on Tuesday a unique operating model of electric transport developed specifically for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces. The electric car was given the name "ERA".

The engineering troops of the Central Military District received the first special vehicles of mine clearance groups based on the UAZ army SUV. The machines are designed for the rapid neutralization of both the terrain and infrastructure facilities, the press service of the Central Military District reports. They can also be used simply as a transport for transporting sappers.

The Swedish company SSAB has supplied Volvo with the first batch of a new type of automotive steel – "green". The term is still unofficial, this material is also called "environmentally friendly steel", because when creating it, combustible fossils and the energy produced with their help are not used. There are also no emissions into the atmosphere during the production of eco-steel, which is very beneficial for both SSAB and Volvo. The first pledged to switch to carbon-free production by 2045, the second-by 2050.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 "(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 LCD-360MC "Neptune" anti-ship missile system "has become even cooler," says the Ukrainian information and consulting agency Defense Express.