News of the automotive industry

The South Korean company Hyundai Rotem has handed over two multi-purpose ground wheeled robots to the army for testing. According to Aju Business Daily, these are the first unmanned vehicles that will be used in the South Korean army. The military tests will last six months.

In China, the PLC-181 self-propelled artillery units were modernized. These combat vehicles began to enter the troops quite recently - in 2019. For the first time, they were demonstrated at a military parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The re-equipped units of the Strategic Missile Forces continue to receive modern equipment for logistics, engineering, medical and automotive support units, as well as for communications units.

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of a large batch of heavy tactical trucks with auxiliary and related equipment to Kuwait.

The Belarusian army can receive self-propelled mortars created on the chassis of armored vehicles MZKT-490100 V1. A model of this combat vehicle was presented at the 10th International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021 held in Minsk.

The Russian Typhoon-AIRBORNE amphibious armored vehicle, which is being prepared for delivery to the Russian army, has received an upgraded combat module with a 30 mm cannon, which has a unique range of destruction for its class of weapons, Igor Zarakhovich, the chief designer of the company developing this machine, Remdiesel JSC, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Former US military captain of the first rank of the US Navy, retired Harry Tabach, compared the Russian army with the "Zaporozhets", and the NATO forces with Tesla. This was announced on Saturday, July 3, according to InoSMI.

The flying car AirCar of the Slovak company Klein Vision made a flight between cities for the first time. According to New Atlas, it took off from Nitra Airport and landed in Bratislava. The flight took the car 35 minutes. Behind the wheel was its creator Stefan Klein.

The formation of unmanned logistics corridors can become an extremely promising step for the development of cargo transportation in Russia and increase the attractiveness of Russian transport routes for foreign contractors. This opinion was expressed in an interview in the journal "Vestnik GLONASS" by the head of the Research Department of integrated transport development of JSC NIIAT Tatyana Mikheeva. 

When Prince Albert II of Monaco visited Antarctica in 2009, he was unpleasantly surprised that people move around one of the cleanest corners of the world by transport with "dirty" internal combustion engines. He turned to the Venturi company with an order for the development of an environmentally friendly all-terrain vehicle with electric traction. Since then, two trial models have been released, and the final third is now being prepared for shipment to Antarctica.

Within the framework of the state defense order, 25 special vehicles were delivered to the units of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the SAGR mine clearance groups. The vehicles were delivered to the engineering units of the military districts, the Northern Fleet and the units of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

At the 10th International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021, held last week in Minsk, several modifications of the Kaiman armored vehicles created at the 140th repair plant were presented.

The latest armored vehicles "Ural Tornado-U" were delivered to the mountain compound of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Republic of Tyva.

A new amphibious vehicle is being developed for the Russian Marine Corps. June 27, portal flotprom.ru he reported that the KRIZO plant presented civil and military versions of cars based on the Niva SUV.

After a successful series of tests with the participation of auto giants Hyundai and Toyota, many global automakers began to show increased interest in hydrogen-fueled cars.

This tactic was used for the first time in the Kaliningrad region by the Baltic Fleet mortars.

The tactics of "nomadic" mortars are used during the combat training of gunners of the Western Military District, the Military-Industrial Courier was told in the information support department of the press service of the ZVO for the BF.

Tatrabras held its first presentation on the Brazilian market of all-terrain trucks with a 6x6 wheel formula equipped with Euro 5 and Euro 6 engines, which will be produced in the state of Paraná from September.

On the opening day of the 10th International Exhibition MILEX-2021 held in Minsk, the first official demonstration of the prototype of the MZKT-690003 armored personnel carrier (Volat V-2) with an 8x8 wheel formula developed by the Belarusian JSC MZKT took place.

In China, a restyling of the legendary Chinese all-terrain vehicle Beijing BJ 212 is presented, which in turn is a modified copy of the Soviet GAZ-69. Now the updated Beijing BJ 212 has a clear external similarity with the Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV.

At a recent military parade in Zambia, Russian-made Tiger armored vehicles were demonstrated for the first time.

They differ from the already familiar models with reinforced weapons. In the rotating armored turret with an open top, the Vladimirov heavy machine gun, currently considered one of the most powerful in the world, is installed.