News about special and protective equipment

During the exercises in Kamchatka, the military personnel of the radiation chemical and biological protection unit made the positions of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems invisible to aviation and radar radars.

The construction of 44 support vessels continues under 18 state contracts concluded with shipbuilding enterprises, the Navy reported

The contract for development work on the development of the oil garbage collector was signed in 2020 in the Russian Federation. This was announced by the head of the auxiliary fleet of the Transport support Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, Captain I rank Sergey Epifanov.

Lockheed Martin announced a recently signed contract to supply the US Army with a basic set of Modular Active Protection System MAPS (Modular Active Protection System) to equip the BBM.

Military attaches from 50 countries, as well as their family members, were vaccinated against coronavirus with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, said Alexander Kshimovsky, head of the Main Department for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry.

New army glasses for the US Army-Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) will help soldiers get important visual information without leaving the APCs and other combat vehicles. The command plans to purchase tens of thousands of such points.

The idea of using animals as weapons does not leave humanity throughout its history. The United States was no exception: MilitaryWatch told about the most insane (and failed) projects of the local military.

The American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22, the second ship of the Seawolf II project) was attacked by bedbugs. The bloodsuckers did not allow the crew to live in peace for about a year, and the command of the boat, according to the assurances of the sailors, was in no hurry to solve the problem.

Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) The United States has announced its intention to evaluate the practical use of jetpacks and other compact individual vehicles. According to Flightglobal, in early March of this year, the agency announced a tender for the development of concepts and projects of jetpacks, thanks to which the military intends to determine how such devices could be used in the military.

At the Divisional training ground in the Republic of Buryatia, the military personnel of the reconnaissance unit began to master the KRUS "Strelet" complex for combat equipment "Ratnik" during special training sessions.

On February 23, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the conclusion of an intergovernmental agreement with the German Ministry of Defense on February 22 regarding the supply of the Trophy active defense complex ("Meil Ruach") manufactured by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to equip the German army's Leopard 2 tanks.

Test active protection system (KAZ) tanks "arena-e", is able to reflect all the tank hazardous munitions, including the U.S. Javelin anti-tank missiles will be completed soon, said on Sunday, RIA Novosti General Director - chief designer of the Ural design Bureau of transport machine-building (UKBTM, part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod") Andrey Terlikov.

NASA has launched a new project called the "Deep Space Food Challenge," which aims to gather ideas and technologies to address the food security of astronauts on future space missions. This is a social and scientific project that everyone can take part in. Twenty teams with the best results will receive prizes of $25,000 and an offer of cooperation.

Industrial Director of the Rostec weapons complex Bekhan Ozdoev-about the future of combat drones, the prospects of Armata and the latest Kalashnikov assault rifles

The past year 2020 has also been a difficult one for the Russian military-industrial complex. Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the armament complex of the Rostec State Corporation, told Izvestia about how the coronavirus epidemic affected the implementation of international contracts and state defense orders, whether Armata will become unmanned and when domestic kamikaze attack drones will appear.

Designed to protect personnel from mines and land mines, MRAP class armored vehicles can also successfully save them from other weapons of destruction. This is evidenced by the video posted on social networks.

The Ministry of Defense will receive new food rations for the Airborne Forces, Marines and Special Forces

That changes in the organization of power of the fighter, the responsible editor of the "Independent military review" Dmitry LITOVKIN on the eve 321-anniversary food service, told the head of Department (food) Department of resource support of the Ministry of defense Colonel Sergei NICHELMAN.

The Americans can abandon the Israeli active protection systems for armored vehicles. On February 17, the press service of Lockheed Martin announced the signing of a contract with the US Army for the supply of a pilot batch of MAPS systems.

The machine "is designed for engineering support of combat operations of troops in the conditions of the enemy's fire impact and the use of weapons of mass destruction"

The Uralvagonzavod Concern (part of the Rostec State Corporation) will present the latest UBIM universal engineering vehicle at the IDEX 2021 International Arms Exhibition. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the UVZ.

For the first time, the Central Military District demonstrated autonomous equipment of special units with electric heating.

The Russian Armed Forces received tankers with a special bulletproof coating. They joined the logistics brigades of the operational-strategic commands and individual battalions of tank and motorized rifle divisions.

A bulletproof vest with an instant reset function has been developed for Russian servicemen. Innovative equipment allows you to almost instantly provide first aid to the wounded in the field or get rid of a protective vest in the water.