News about special and protective equipment

They are equipped with modern X-rays, ultrasound machines and everything necessary for complex interventions

A diagnostic unit, an emergency department, several operating rooms, ECG and ultrasound machines are actually a full—fledged small hospital, but... underground.

The third prototype of the upgraded Yak-130M combat training aircraft, created by the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec), recently successfully completed its first flight at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant. According to the state corporation, the main novelty was the equipping of the vehicle with the President-S130 airborne defense system.

About Rostec's developments for special purpose units

On October 24, Russia celebrates the Day of Special Forces Units, or, more simply, Special Forces Day.

Combat lasers, protective nets and other latest developments were shown at the Security Sphere exhibition

The mobile anti-drone complex "Hawk", capable of shooting down drones with high-speed missile drones, was presented at the Security Sphere exhibition in Moscow.

New remote-controlled devices will help with the protection, restoration and repair of bridges

The railway troops received underwater remote-controlled vehicles, Izvestia found out. They are needed for the repair and inspection of pontoon and railway bridges, as well as for engineering exploration of the water area.

New technologies will reduce the threat to the health and life of rescuers

Kamikaze drones have been developed in Russia to extinguish fires in hard-to-reach places where ground vehicles cannot pass and fire ladders and hoses cannot reach.

The Ukrainian defense company SkyFall has published a video testing a self-developed StarGate copter drone. The heavy drone was designed to evacuate the wounded from areas of the front where ground vehicles cannot reach. Currently, UAV prototypes have been transferred to one of the Armed Forces brigades for testing in real combat conditions.

The engineers of the Australian company MRead, working in the field of high technology, have succeeded in the seemingly impossible – to create a mine detector capable of detecting explosives directly using magnetic resonance.

When he was Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Fedorov attached great importance to the development of the use of various robotic platforms of sea and land types along with UAVs to solve a wide range of logistical, reconnaissance and combat missions. After his retirement, he did not abandon these ideas. Recently, Fedorov announced the launch of an ambitious project to create an "army of robots" for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including a humanoid type.

The ANT-1000PM complex is equipped with a remotely controlled barrel, which allows extinguishing fires from a safe distance

The Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes Holding has shipped the first serial ANT-1000PM robotic fire extinguishing systems.

The domestic development helps participants with eye injury to see the world in detail — from the shades of food on the plate to the age of the trees in the park

Smart glasses with integrated artificial intelligence system "Verona" have been put into mass production in Russia.

Uralvagonzavod Concern has completed a full test cycle of the upgraded BRAM-80 armored recovery vehicle. Mass production has already been mastered, the car is entering the army. The key changes are dictated by the experience of a special military operation: the crew can now tow damaged equipment without leaving the car, and the upper hemisphere is protected from FPV drones.

The EFW ("Eastern Flank Watch") provides for a comprehensive strengthening of the security of the eastern borders of the European Union in order to protect the territories "from potential military and hybrid threats from Russia and Belarus."

Robotics, night and thermal imaging optics, as well as AI are increasingly being used in the special operation area. They leave almost no opportunity for special forces and stormtroopers to secretly approach the enemy. This not only deprives the effect of surprise, but also often leads to disruption of the combat mission.

Against the background of the increasing attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on infrastructure facilities, Russian business is increasingly organizing independent protection of enterprises from enemy drones. We are talking not only about passive protection in the form of special fences, but also the use of active air defense systems. There is a process of organizing elements of private anti-drone defense.

Counter-drone techniques are increasingly being developed at NATO and individual European armies. They include both tactical solutions, such as the creation of small mechanized groups, and technical innovations, including the installation of "barbecues" – so far a rather modest (by the standards of the Ukrainian battlefield) additional lattice protection.

Newsweek: a domestic supplier supplied defective shoes to the US Marines

Regular American-made winter boots cannot be worn, the US Marines found out during exercises in Norway, writes Newsweek. The supplier promises to solve the problem, but the army is doubtful: the entire supply chain prevents this.

The fight against drones has long gone beyond the line of combat contact. Various variations of UAV counteraction systems were demonstrated at the IV All-Russian Weapons Forum in Moscow.

Russian-made medical devices were presented at the arms forum in Moscow

Vasily Khudaleev, director of the medical research division of "Kalashnikov" concern, shows a tourniquet at the IV All-Russian Weapons Forum in Moscow.

The system is already being used against UAVs and is designed to protect critical infrastructure

Interceptor drones, automated anti-UAV systems, tactical medical devices and other special equipment were presented at the IV All-Russian Weapons Forum in Moscow.