News about special and protective equipment

The Turkish company Aselsan said that the country's armed forces have officially adopted the Akkor 10 active protection system, designed to combat anti-tank weapons such as ATGM.

As part of the expansion of the fleet of small watercraft, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has approved new specialized boats, including a number of locally made models, for use by the troops.

The XII International Exhibition of Arms and Military Equipment MILEX 2025 will start in Minsk on May 21. Ahead of the meeting, Alexander Mikheev, head of Rosoboronexport, told TASS in an interview which Russian samples were presented at the exhibition and which products might be of interest to Belarusian partners in the first place, as well as what expectations the special exporting company has with the new Pantsir-SMD-E air defense system.

The British command plans to upgrade 148 Challenger 2 tanks to the Challenger 3 level out of 371 units at its disposal (of which 219 units are listed in combat units).

How disguises help hide military installations from enemy detection systems

The combat experience of a special military operation has clearly shown that any military equipment, both on the battlefield and in the immediate rear, is a priority target for the enemy.

Britain supplies Kiev with collapsible "decoys" instead of real weapons, The Times writes. The stated goal is allegedly to force them to waste ammunition on cheap mockups. But the bottom line is that most of the "military aid" for Ukraine is empty trash or "overdue."

The Russian tank fleet has been replenished with updated T-90M and T-72B3M models, writes MWM. The new vehicles are equipped with a fundamentally new system of protection against drones — lattice armor above the tower caps and radar warfare antennas, explains the author of the article.

Since the beginning of the special operation, hundreds of changes have been made to the design of the products

Uralvagonzavod Production Association has sent shipments of T-90M and T-72B3M tanks to the troops. These are the main working machines in the war zone. Over the years of the special operation, hundreds of design changes have been introduced into production — in particular, protection has been noticeably strengthened. Izvestia investigated which tanks the army receives from industry and how they have changed based on its experience.

The use of drones has been included in the training program for engineering troops

The engineering troops began using UAVs for mine clearance. The relevant section, developed based on the experience of the special operation, was included in their training program. From the air, the drone searches for explosive objects, and if detected, it can destroy them. For this, ammunition is dropped or overhead charges are used. This method allows you to significantly reduce the cleaning time of the territory, and most importantly, not to risk the lives of sappers.

Recently, the US Navy published images of F-35C fighter jets equipped with a new mirror coating, which is supposed to increase their stealth in the infrared range.

Crews adapt vehicles and tactics to the changed conditions

During the offensive in the Pokrovsky direction, the infantry is supported by tankers with fire, despite the unprecedented density of the use of kamikaze drones by the enemy.

The educational program was developed by the Rostec Academy in cooperation with the Scientific and Engineering Center for Security Equipment

Rostec State Corporation has launched a professional development program in the field of anti-terrorist protection of industrial enterprises. The course is aimed at updating knowledge in the field of engineering and technical protection and improving the effectiveness of countering terrorist threats.

This technique seriously expands the capabilities of combat swimmers

An underwater tugboat has been developed for the Russian Navy. With its help, a marine special forces soldier will be able to surreptitiously cover long distances underwater. It is a silent ultra-small device. Its design is based on an annular valve-induction propulsion system, which provides stealth when moving underwater. Experts are confident that such a technique will seriously expand the capabilities of combat swimmers.

One of the topics of discussion was the development of military and dual-use information technologies in the work of medical units

An exhibition of advanced medical developments and a scientific conference were held at the Kirov branch of the Military Medical Academy in Moscow in honor of the tenth anniversary of the educational institution. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Flights to Mars are again being seriously discussed and planned in the space industry. You need to prepare for them thoroughly, because the round trip can take about 500 days, and no one will cancel the radiation from cosmic rays and the solar wind by that time. In addition, solar flares and coronal ejections are unpredictably likely to occur, from which future space travelers will need to hide. A group of physicists has developed a system for predicting upcoming proton events in order to warn Marsonauts in time.

The Telegraph: The Balts are building concrete bunkers and digging ditches in emergency mode

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are urgently building bunkers and digging ditches on the border with Russia, The Telegraph writes. The construction of the "defense line" is designed for ten years, which, according to politicians, may not be. But inflating the military psychosis, no one answers the question of why Russia would attack them.

Participants practice the necessary skills in the most approximate conditions

The volunteers of the Bars-Belgorod and Bars-Bryansk detachments involved in the mine clearance of liberated border settlements are being trained at the 66th Interdepartmental Training Center of the Engineering Troops (Moscow Region). The training is conducted using the latest robotic ground platforms.

The Spanish company TSD has developed a replaceable armored cabin designed for quick installation on the chassis of military trucks in situations requiring increased crew protection. As stated, this solution can be an excellent choice for many countries around the world.

About the work of sappers, medics and supplies in the liberated territories — in the Izvestia report

Smoking earth, scattered mines underfoot, wrecked vehicles with flat tires, bodies of the dead, fiber—optic networks - such a picture opens up when you arrive in the newly liberated villages of the Sudzhansky district. Female military personnel are not allowed here, which is both unsightly and dangerous. You need to have iron nerves to be here, the fighters say. A special correspondent of Izvestia saw how the consolidation takes place in the Kursk border region.

The State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation noted that the level of proficiency in such medicine and the quality of medical products fully comply with international standards

Anna Tsivileva, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, checked the progress of developments in the field of improving the level of tactical medicine and first aid to military personnel at the Military Medical Academy. Kirov. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.