News about special and protective equipment

The main feature of the new parachute system is a lightweight and compact backpack

The new Magic sports parachute has received permission for mass production in Russia. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of the Rostec state Corporation.

Military builders will create a hospital complex with a polyclinic in the Moscow suburb of Istra, the facility should be commissioned in May 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

On Friday, January 28, at a meeting of the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to combat a new coronavirus infection, Deputy Chief of the Main Military Medical Directorate, Major General of the Medical Service Maxim Kuandykov reported to First Deputy Minister of Defense Ruslan Tsalikov on the widespread introduction in military medical institutions of a new method of testing for covid, developed in the departmental 27 Central Research Institute.

Three new sanitary armored vehicles of the tactical link of the Lens family have been delivered to the units of the Russian military base in Tajikistan.

In Norilsk, a new fire and rescue unit with an area of more than a thousand square meters was opened in a solemn atmosphere, in which more than forty rescuers and firefighters will serve. It was built in the developing Oganer district with a population of almost five thousand people. Four newest Ural Next 5557 fire tankers have been delivered to its armament by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

The last few years have been characterized by increased rates of deliveries of special equipment for the engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces.

Combat swimmers of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) in Primorye conducted an exercise on the defense of a ship-based point from underwater saboteurs.

Servicemen from the Republic of Belarus have completed their training at the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, stationed in Nakhabino near Moscow.

Russia is finalizing agreements with the EurAsEC states that will not allow foreign military personnel to be on the territory of biological laboratories of these countries, and will make the activities of such laboratories transparent, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The increased level of loss of red blood cells in the blood, leading to anemia, in astronauts in orbit is an adaptive reaction of the body to weightlessness, the head of the Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry and Neuroendocrinology of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told Interfax RAS Andrey Markin.

The Russian military proposed to fight the enemy's combat swimmers with the help of acoustic waves that will cause underwater saboteurs pain in the ears, as well as a feeling of fear, weakness and depression - the concept is presented in the new issue of the magazine "Military Thought".

In 2022, the engineering units of the Guards Tank Army of the Far East will receive the latest means of engineering support. The servicemen will receive a mobile engineering mine clearance complex MICR and a mobile engineering power plant ED30-AI.

In 2022, the engineering and sapper units of the Central Military District, stationed in Bashkiria, the Tyumen Region and the Udmurt Republic, will receive about 40 units of modern and modernized engineering weapons.

Specialists of the marine engineering service of the Pacific Fleet received a large batch of modern means of mine clearance.

Russian sappers have cleared more than 130 hectares of territory in Laos in four years, defusing more than 2 thousand explosive objects, said Yuri Stavitsky, head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Losses in tanks during the battles in Grozny, which began on December 31, 1994, were due to a number of reasons. Including the fact that some of the combat vehicles did not have the required dynamic protection, which could effectively neutralize the actions of enemy cumulative ammunition of various types.

In the engineering unit of the Southern Military District, stationed in the Rostov region, a division has been formed equipped with sets of remote mining engineering system (ISDM) "Agriculture".

The cosmonaut noted that he conducted a test fitting of the spacesuit before the flight

Cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov, who is due to go to the ISS with colleagues Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev on March 18, said that he considers the Russian Falcon spacesuit more reliable than the spacesuit of the American company SpaceX.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, issued a festive order on the occasion of the Day of Engineering Troops, which is celebrated in Russia on January 21.

General Director of the company Alexey Maruyev said that the cars have passed all types of control tests and meet the requirements of regulatory and technical documentation

In 2021, the company "Armory Workshops" supplied the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with 21 multi-purpose armored vehicles "Tiger-M" with the combat module "Arbalet-DM". This was reported to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu by the general director of the enterprise Alexey Maruyev.