News about special and protective equipment

Russian scientists have created new means of overcoming minefields. Employees of the Military Institute of Engineering Troops presented two models of minesweepers designed to protect wheeled and tracked vehicles. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The Russian-Pakistani exercises of the dRuzhba-2021 special forces units have begun in the Krasnodar Territory, the Southern Military District (SE) reported on Tuesday.

NPO eLektromashina has developed Russia's first robotic perimeter security system, Prometheus. Protection against unauthorized entry is assigned to remotely controlled combat models with large-caliber machine guns.

Scientists of the Military Institute of Engineering Troops have created new means of overcoming mine-explosive barriers for wheeled armored vehicles.

In Russia, the production of a new system for protecting equipment from high-precision weapons has begun. The Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering " Tsniitochmash "of the Rostec State Corporation has started mass production of unified protection systems. This is reported on the website of Rostec.

Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin said that in the West during the Soviet era, studies were conducted on the influence of electromagnetic waves on the human brain, including the potential of their influence on human behavior. The head of the SVR told about this in an interview with RT.

At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus received a significant number of T-72 tanks. By the beginning of the second decade of the new century, more than 450 T-72B remained in service, another 700 vehicles were in storage.

The product is designed to protect the TOS-2 heavy flamethrower system, the PRP-5 reconnaissance vehicle, as well as the Zavet-D automated artillery control systems.

Specialists of the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (Tsniitochmash) of the Rostec State Corporation have developed a new automatic smoke screen to cover armored vehicles from guided weapons. This was reported on Friday in the press service of the state corporation.

The Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TSNIITOCHMASH, part of Rostec) has started mass production of protection systems against high-precision weapons, the press service of Rostec reported.

The International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation trains sappers in four areas: humanitarian demining, countering improvised explosive devices, mine search service and the use of robotic means.

Representatives of the enterprises of the Technodinamika holding of the Rostec State Corporation attended the All-Russian meeting dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Aviation Security, which was held in the Moscow region.

Military police units of the Central Military District (CVO), including at the Russian military base in Tajikistan, will receive new special equipment and "Gyurza" stun guns by the end of the year, Konstantin Smirnov, head of the regional military police department of the Central Military District, told reporters on Wednesday.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the UPVS-5 installation for obtaining water in the Arctic latitudes is being developed.

The Russian complex of active protection (KAZ) of armored vehicles "Arena-M" can repel an attack from any direction. The system received a modern radar and maneuverable ammunition for destroying an attacking projectile. The features of the complex were revealed by the head of the development and design department of the Kolomna KBM, Vladimir Kharkiv, on the air of the Zvezda TV channel.

As part of the air detachments, Mi-8 helicopters with VSM-1 mining systems will be involved, tracked minelayers of modern modification GMZ-3 will also be used

The Syrian combat experience will be the basis for the actions of the Russian engineering troops at the international exercises of the military contingents of the SCO member states "Peace Mission-2021", which are taking place in the Orenburg region. This was announced to journalists on Tuesday by the head of the engineering troops of the Central Military District (CVO), Major General Dmitry Koruts.

The modernized Arena-M active protection complex of armored vehicles, which is planned to be equipped with Russian T-72 and T-90 tanks, is able to repel the attack of any anti-tank missile - both the Israeli Spike and the American Javelin. The complex provides protection of the machine from any direction - including in the upper hemisphere.

An unusual modification of a Russian tank was noticed on the video of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Among the equipment of the Guards Kantemirov division, which was loaded on the echelon in Belarus, there was a T-80UM2 tank. A special feature of the modification was the active protection complex (KAZ) "Drozd-2", reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

A new aerosol munition developed by the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering of the Rostec State Corporation has been adopted by the Russian Army.

The product is designed for individual protection of ground combat equipment from high-precision weapons with laser, optical and thermal guidance systems.

The new CEDAR-PARA submachine gun, designed for law enforcement agencies and special forces forces, was developed on an initiative basis by Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant (Zlatmash, part of the Roscosmos state Corporation), state tests of weapons will begin in 2022, Vadim Astashin, head of the Small arms Sales Bureau of Zlatmash JSC, told RIA Novosti on the Day of the Gunsmith.

The Russian army has adopted a new means of protecting tanks. The 3VD35 munition is designed to protect the upper hemisphere of equipment from attacks by high-precision weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missile systems. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Rostec state Corporation.