News about special and protective equipment

Magic is a nine-section transition parachute of the "wing" type, which is designed for sports jumping

The new Magic sports parachute produced by Technodinamika Holding (part of the Rostec state Corporation) has passed state tests and can now be accepted for supply by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for use by military parachutists. This was reported on Friday in the press service of the holding.

The US Army Research Laboratory has reported a breakthrough in two neural network projects. The first one is designed to create smart uniforms - such clothes will be able, for example, to assess the state of their carrier and transmit data. The second project is designed to facilitate the interaction of commanders with artificial intelligence.

The military of one of the countries of Southeast Asia will receive jetpacks for the first time. The American company JetPack Aviation has signed a contract for the supply of two JB12 devices. According to the terms of the agreement, the satchels will be delivered within six months, The Drive reports, without specifying which country it is about.

On September 2, 2021, the American defense company Collins Aerospace announced the release of the world's first portable military diving navigation system ArtemisPRO-M, suitable for processing GPS signals in the military code M (MUNS-M). According to the manufacturer, the enhanced system allows combat swimmers or mine divers to accurately determine their position, while remaining at a great depth, protected from interference.

Engineers of the US Navy have created an unusual portable device that interrupts human speech, which makes it impossible, for example, to speak at a rally.

The developers of the Printosens company of the Mordovia Nanocenter, which is part of the RUSNANO Group's FIOP investment network, have released the second version of the cyber glove and created new software for controlling robotics, for example, working under water and in laboratories with high risks for the safety of employees.

The Russian equipment of the soldier of the future "Sotnik" is planned to be equipped with optical devices for blinding the enemy at a long range, relevant studies are being conducted, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the defense industry.

On Saturday, September 4, State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov inspected the new mobile training complex at the army Center for Mountain training and Survival "Terskol".

The Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences will test the protection of astronauts from radiation in interplanetary flights on the Science module of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023, Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti on September 5.

The Russian equipment of the soldier of the future "Sotnik" is planned to be equipped with optical devices for blinding the enemy at a long range, relevant studies are being conducted, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The future of our world belongs to biotechnologies, and scientists from Washington University in St. Louis (USA) have presented another strong proof of this. They trained bacteria to collect artificial analogues of living muscles, but not in the form of ready-made muscles, but in the format of fibers. They can be used to weave fabric or create details of prostheses, the strength of which exceeds all current analogues.

The solemn ceremony of seeing off the Russian pilots took place at the Antalya airport

Representatives of the Antalya province administration thanked the pilots of the Russian Defense Ministry for their help in extinguishing forest fires in the country. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Modern devices for conducting radiation reconnaissance and dosimetric control – IMD-7 dose rate meters-have been received by the units of the RCHB protection of the combined-arms army of the VVO stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Specialists of the engineering troops of the Western Military District (ZVO) for the first time used massive mining during a special exercise in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Within the framework of the project to create a "Drill", the development of cluster means is underway, including planning

An emergency rescue cassette with medicines, food and things, which will fly at the specified coordinates to provide operational assistance to those in distress in hard-to-reach areas, can be created as part of the work on the planned "Drill"cluster aerial bomb.

This was stated by Ivan Ozhgikhin, Senior Managing Director of RUSNANO Management Company, Chairman of the Management Board of the Medical Equipment Consortium, at the Innomed forum. Currently, up to 30% of the volume of medical products purchased at the expense of the budget is already produced in Russia.

Servicemen of the fifth naval construction battalion of the US Navy (NMCB-5) began to build copies of military equipment from wood. The military erected plywood copies of Humvee cars. The models are designed to equip the 17th combat logistics regiment during the exercises, writes the Defense Blog portal.

Exoskeletons will be a necessary attribute in the combat equipment of the future. This was announced on Friday, August 27, by the general director of the Kalashnikov Group of companies, Vladimir Lepin.

The latest underwater unmanned complex for destroying mines was presented to the Navy command at the Army-2021 forum, the project manager of the Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ)told RIA Novosti Maxim Umansky.

Vladimir Koshlakov, General Director of the Keldysh Research Center, which is part of Roscosmos, told about the tests of the latest technology for the disposal of especially dangerous municipal waste and industrial waste using plasma torches. His words are quoted by TASS.