News about special and protective equipment

Specialists of the German defense concern Rheinmetall have developed a compact pocket flash-bang grenade Spectac the size of a business card box. For the first time, this type of weapon was equipped with soldiers of the elite British special forces SAS in the 70s.

The campaign for revaccination from coronavirus has begun in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry on July 1.

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.

It is planned to pass it by the end of the year

Specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry have begun the construction of a training center for divers of the Pacific Fleet. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the Russian military department.

At the military-technical forum "Army-2021", which will be held in August this year at the Vostochny airfield in Ulan-Ude, residents and guests of the city will be shown new mine detectors "Korshun" and protective suits "Sokol".

10 new self-propelled PST-1 pontoons have been put into service with the railway connections of the Southern Military District (SE).

It is designed for towing ferries or individual sections of floating railway bridges, provides transportation of elements of hydraulic structures on water bodies with a wave height of up to 1.2 m.

The Russian T-72B3 tank with an active protection complex (KAZ) was shown in the TV military information program "Sentry" on the First Channel of Russian television. Most of the issue was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the 38th Research and Testing Institute of Armored Weapons and Equipment.

Under the leadership of the officers of the Main Directorate of Training of the Troops of the Rosgvardiya, an instructor-methodical training session on tactical medicine with employees and military personnel of special units of the department is being held at the Sofrinsky operational brigade of the Central District near Moscow.

British tanks will become more protected. June 24 portal armyrecognition.com he reported that the company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced the choice of its Trophy MV system for installation on the Challenger 3.

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the Zurich Higher Technical School have demonstrated that materials created from nanoscale structures thinner than a human hair do not allow microparticles flying at supersonic speed to break through them.

Work on a vaccine against coronavirus infection in the form of chewing gum is on schedule. This was announced on Thursday, June 24, by the head of the 48th Central Research Institute (Central Research Institute) of the Russian Armed Forces Defense Forces (AF) troops developing the vaccine, Colonel of the medical service Sergey Borisevich.

At the MVMS-2021 in St. Petersburg, a mock-up of a dehumidifying pump for Borey-type nuclear missile carriers was presented. The unit has exceptional vibration-noise characteristics, ensuring the secrecy of the submarine, writes FlotProm.

New generation heat traps guarantee protection against the most "smart" missiles with infrared homing heads, they are presented for the first time at the MILEX 2021 exhibition in Minsk

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started using a new system for recognizing faces, silhouettes of people and cars in Russia. "The system is already being used in five regions of the country," Andrey Telenkov, CEO of the Ntechlab developer company, is quoted by TASS. - The solution for silhouettes causes serious interest of our customers, we have a lot of requests."

Rostec reported that the product is twice as superior to foreign analogues in terms of operating time, radiation strength and the degree of protection of the aircraft

The new L376-2 "Yagel" trap cartridge for the protection of combat aircraft will be presented at the International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021 in Minsk. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the Rostec state Corporation.

The Australian company XTEK and the Estonian Milrem Robotics intend to cooperate in order to develop light armor for the THeMIS remotely controlled ground vehicle in accordance with the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed at the Land Forces 21 exhibition in Brisbane.

Last week, a photo report appeared on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from the Kadamovsky training ground (Rostov Region), where shooting was carried out with the participation of commanders of combined-arms units of the Southern Military District.

In Volgograd, a unique transition of pontoon units of the engineering troops, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, was completed. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky, as well as the city's leadership and public organizations took part in the solemn event in Volgograd.

The main part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is vaccinated against coronavirus - more than 900 thousand people have been vaccinated, Defense Minister General of the Russian Army Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call in the military department on Tuesday.

The video diary of innovations of the forum “Army 2021 " is a series of video broadcasts about innovative products of the most advanced enterprises of the military-industrial complex. The broadcasts will be held from August 23 to 27, 2021, during the Army-2021 forum, and are aimed at the heads of the main enterprises and the command of the Ministry of Defense.