News of the automotive industry

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?

The 9k57 Uragan multiple launch rocket system was adopted 45 years ago. Despite its age, it is still considered one of the best MLRS in the world, capable of performing combat tasks effectively for a long time.

Ultralight tactical vehicles are finding more and more buyers in the world. Yesterday, November 30, portal armyrecognition.com reported that the German defense Ministry announced the signing of a contract for the supply of vehicles based on Polaris MRZR for special operations forces.

Radio training was conducted with the communications units of the 41st combined arms army stationed in the Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions, as well as in the Altai territory, using a new generation of communications equipment.

The modernized pontoon-bridge fleet based on KAMAZ vehicles entered service with the engineer-sapper regiment of the 41st combined arms army of the Central military district.

what you should pay attention to at the" defense " meetings with the President

On November 10, 2020, Vladimir Putin opened the traditional annual meeting with the heads of the Military-industrial complex and the Armed forces. Such meetings have already become a tradition, but this time the agenda was very acute problems that need to be urgently addressed.

A British startup founded by former Yota CEO Denis Sverdlov is preparing to enter the Nasdaq exchange. At the same time, Arrival will avoid the IPO process and become public by merging with CIIG Merger.

California transportation authorities have allowed companies to transport passengers in fully driverless cars without a driver in the cabin and charge money for it. At the same time, even companies that have already been allowed to test drones on California roads will have to get separate permits to create an unmanned taxi service.