News about special and protective equipment
Special forces of the Central Military District in the Samara region in 2021 will receive a batch of modernized armored vehicles " Tiger-M"
The special purpose brigade of the Central Military District, stationed in the Samara region, will receive a batch of upgraded Tiger-M armored vehicles in 2021 (in total, more than 15 units).
A new production method has improved the medical alloy with shape memory
NUST MISIS scientists in collaboration with Russian and foreign colleagues were able to improve the technology of obtaining medical alloys with shape memory. The new technique will improve the reliability of existing surgical devices and develop a number of new ones. The results of the study are published in the journal JOM.
UK buys unmanned minesweepers
The Royal Navy will search for sea mines with the help of robots. January 20, portal navyrecognition.com He reported that the UK Ministry of Defense has ordered three robotic SWEEP minesweepers from Atlas Elektronik.
How to control the Uranus-6 combat robot"
At the training ground near Voronezh, the military tested the first sapper robot "Uran-6"on the western border of Russia. The armored tracked vehicle, whose task is to destroy mines and other explosive objects without risking the lives and health of people, came to the engineer regiment as recently as December 2020. At its first practical application, the correspondent of "RG" was present - he mastered the basics of controlling a six-ton robot, understood why only strong men can do this, and found out why there is a big red button on the armor of "Uranus".
At the training ground – "Falcons", "Cobra" and " Hygiene»
In the Kaliningrad region, on the eve of the Day of the Engineering Troops, engineers of the Baltic Fleet conducted large-scale exercises. At the beginning of the maneuvers, a crossing was made using a pontoon-bridge park.
Land mines: the fleet began to receive robot minesweepers
Russian navy sailors received "coastal minesweepers". A fundamental decision was made to equip the engineering regiments of the Navy with combat robots-sappers "Uran-6". They can be used with maximum safety for the personnel to clear explosive hazards from the coast and the hinterland.
Rostec: equipment "Centurion" on the basis of polyethylene fiber, will exceed the protection of any bullet-proof vest
The Russian equipment of the soldier of the future "Centurion "at the expense of special materials will receive a record low weight and will be adjusted to the figure of the fighter, while its protection will surpass all existing body armor, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the state corporation" Rostec".
In the Bologovsky rocket connection the car of remote mine clearing of MDR "Listva" arrived"
In the Bologovsky missile connection of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Tver region, a remote mine-clearing vehicle MDR "Listva"was received.
The new coating will protect electronics in extreme temperatures
TSU researchers from the Laboratory of Chemical Technologies, together with employees of the ISE SB RAS, have created a new protective coating that is resistant to extreme temperature changes and has high chemical resistance to many solvents.
Russian engineers have created impenetrable polyethylene for bulletproof vests
Russian defense engineers have developed the strongest supermolecular polyethylene, which is planned to be used for the production of bulletproof bulletproof vests. Plates made of such material are able to stop a fragment flying at a speed of up to 670 meters per second, and also withstand the hit of automatic bullets.
The Amur Association of the VVO received the first batch of the latest PMK-4 gas masks
The combined arms Army of the Eastern Military District, stationed in the Amur Region, Khabarovsk Territory and Jewish Autonomy, received the first batch of the latest PMK-4 gas masks.
More than 600 units of engineering equipment were delivered in 2020 to the formations and military units of the engineering troops
In 2020, 639 units of engineering equipment, as well as more than 195 thousand sets of engineering equipment and engineering ammunition were delivered to the formations and military units of the engineering troops.
Flexible active camouflage based on hydrogel is demonstrated
American developers have created "artificial chromatophores" - the basic elements of future flexible displays and active camouflage.
For the Russian military, they are developing promising means of protection against radiation, chemical and biological contamination
During the year, the development of advanced means of protection against radiation, chemical and biological contamination will be completed, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
Ten main technological achievements of Russia in 2020
Vladimir Putin proposed declaring 2021 the Year of science and technology. This initiative is not accidental-despite Western sanctions and the pandemic, the innovative economy is increasingly coming to the forefront in Russia. What are the main scientific and technological successes achieved by domestic scientists and industry in the past year?
Russian sappers defused more than 150 thousand explosive objects in Syria
The military cleared more than 10 thousand hectares of terrain
Russian sappers during their work in Syria have defused more than 150 thousand explosive objects, clearing more than 10 thousand hectares of terrain, said the commander of the group of Russian troops in Syria Sergey Kuzovlev.
Americans will get water from the air
American soldiers will be able to get water from the air. Yesterday, December 23, the portal defenseworld.net reported that the Agency for advanced defense projects (DARPA) of the US Department of defense announced the signing of a contract with five participants in the Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program.
Russia will receive reactive " Agriculture»
The Russian military began to receive the engineering system of remote mining (isdm) "Agriculture", intended for installation by means of programmable ammunition of minefields, reports "rostec".
Delivery of the remote mining system "Agriculture" began to the troops"
Rostec State Corporation has started supplying the troops with the latest mine-barrage system "Agriculture", which sets minefields using multiple launch rocket systems.
Deliveries of new parachutes for Russian special forces have begun
Special intelligence units began to receive new tactical parachute systems "Steyer". They are designed specifically for scouts and allow you to land from a height of 10 kilometers.