News of the automotive industry

More than half of all cars sold in Norway in 2020 were exclusively electric-powered. These are the data of the local Norwegian specialized agency. Pure electric vehicles alone accounted for as much as 54% of all new car sales, and if cars with hybrid powerplants were taken into account, the figure would be even higher.

The Vietnamese army is practicing the use of old Soviet BM-14 multiple launch rocket systems for attacks on naval targets. In the text commenting on the video of live firing posted on the Network, it is noted that these installations do not have the necessary range and accuracy to hit enemy ships, but they can successfully cope with lightly armored amphibians approaching the shore.

The owner of the Tesla Model 3 car conducted an interesting experiment — drove the route from San Francisco to Los Angeles and back on autopilot. In the cities, the car moved under the control of the beta version of the Full Self-Driving (FSD) function, and on the highway it worked in Autopilot (AP) mode. For more than 12 hours of driving, the driver took control for only five minutes.

Ust-Katavsky Car Building Plant (part of Roscosmos) intends to assemble an unmanned tram in 2022, then its tests will follow. This was announced on Monday, January 4, by the general Director of the company Roman Novikov.

Volkswagen Group has presented a prototype of a robotic car charging system. It consists of battery packs on wheels and a robot with a manipulator that takes them around the parking lot and connects their charging cables to electric vehicles that need charging.

The Russian military began to receive the engineering system of remote mining (isdm) "Agriculture", intended for installation by means of programmable ammunition of minefields, reports "rostec".

Rostec State Corporation has started supplying the troops with the latest mine-barrage system "Agriculture", which sets minefields using multiple launch rocket systems.

On December 21, 2020, Hungarian Deputy defense Minister Gaspar Marot announced that more than 300 MRAP-class Ejder Yalçın armored vehicles with a 4x4 wheel formula developed and manufactured by the Turkish company Nurol Makina will be purchased for the Hungarian armed forces. At the same time, the Assembly of most of the cars (which will receive the Hungarian designation Gidran in honor of the breed of Hungarian racehorses) will be carried out in Hungary at a joint venture with the German group Rheinmetall.

The first self-driving cars of Sber Automotive Technologies went to the streets of Moscow for testing in the conditions of the winter metropolis: the drones will be tested by high humidity, negative temperature, poor visibility and heavy road conditions.

Foreign media actively promote the story about the fact that "Russian troops were sent to pacify the rebellion in one of the countries of Africa." As it turned out in the last few hours, several hundred Russian military instructors were actually sent to the Central African Republic (CAR). What is happening in this state and how can Russia help the local government?

the latest russian anti-aircraft missile and gun system "pantsir-sm" has radically improved capabilities to combat a variety of air targets.

Next year, four new Strela vehicles will be developed for the Russian military. The corresponding contract was signed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

according to the general director of the "military-industrial company" alexander krasovitsky, whose words are quoted by the tc "zvezda", it is planned to create multi-purpose armored and unarmored vehicles, as well as platforms for the installation of special equipment on their base.

The rapidly growing family of electric transport modules has been supplemented by an autonomous capsule-robotaxi Zoox from Amazon Zoox. Zoox is a former American startup engaged in the development of self-driving cars, it was acquired by Amazon earlier this year.

the Fall of Armenia was predetermined by technical failure

By the time the Azerbaijani forces entered the area of the strategically important city of Fizuli, the Armenian defense deployed near the border had ceased to exist. The remaining machine-gun and artillery units in the fortified areas began to leave their positions and retreat.

Russia is joining a new global trend. A domestic electric car is entering the market, which resembles the Oka in its dimensions. It is planned to captivate the buyer with the price – the Russian electric car "Kama-1" will cost almost three times cheaper than the most budget model of Tesla. Will this help its sales?

Closed in 2011, the company Aptera suddenly announced itself, introducing a new product-a three-wheeled "solar" electric car that does not need to be recharged. According to representatives of the company, the new model, equipped with a battery of 100 kWh, is able to overcome the mileage of 1600 km.

More than 2.5 thousand new types of weapons and military equipment delivered to the Ground forces in 2020, said commander-in-chief Oleg Salyukov

State tests of a new line of samples of artillery and mortar weapons on various types of chassis, which is being developed as part of the development work "Outline", are scheduled to be completed next year. This was announced by the commander-in-chief of the Land forces, General of the army Oleg Salyukov.

The number of delivered units did not elaborate

"Military industrial company" has fulfilled the contract to supply the Ministry of defense of Russian armored cars "Tiger-M", BTR-82A and command-staff vehicles based on them in the framework of the state defense order in 2020. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by its General Director Alexander Krasovitsky.

A large batch of new ADCPT-10-53501 tankers has been delivered to the logistics support unit (MTO) of the Western military district stationed in the Voronezh region.

A year later, a new motorized rifle division will be formed in the Kaliningrad region, sources in the defense Ministry said. According to military analysts, the created group will be enough to reduce to zero the threat of a NATO attack on our enclave. What methods will the West have left for armed provocations around Kaliningrad and what are the chances of forming the notorious fifth column in the city?