News about special and protective equipment

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation received 850 thousand doses of the drug "Sputnik V", more than eight hundred thousand people have already been vaccinated in the army. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the board of the military department.

The rearmament units of the Strategic Missile Forces continue to receive the latest equipment of the RCB protection troops. Modern machines, including the ARS-14KM, RHM-6 and the first samples of the UTM-80M, allow you to fully solve the entire range of tasks from conducting reconnaissance to complete special processing of weapons, military and special equipment, including autonomous launchers.

The Listva remote mine-clearing vehicle will be presented at the Army-2021 International Military-Technical Forum.

In China, an improved QSB-11 shooting knife for scouts and special forces was publicly demonstrated. Weapons in action showed the national television of the People's Republic of China in a report from the training of the special forces.

The head of the State Border Service of Ukraine (SBSU), Serhiy Deineko, said that in recent years, 400 km of an anti-tank ditch was dug on the border with Russia, 100 km of metal fence was installed and 70 km of barbed wire was stretched.

The prototypes have already been tested

JSC "Scientific and Production Corporation "Precision Instrument Systems" (NPK "SPP", part of Roscosmos) has created a mobile medical and diagnostic complex, the prototypes have already been tested. This is stated in the draft plan for the implementation of the company's product diversification program until 2025 (available to TASS).

British Marines practiced landing on a warship using a jetpack created by Gravity Industries. The military believes that the new method can be considered as an alternative to conventional methods of air landing.

Scientists from St. Petersburg at the State University of Technology and Design have developed a unique thermal insulation material with record fire-resistant and high-temperature performance. The basis for its manufacture is a mullite – silica fiber, which has the highest fire resistance and low thermal conductivity.

This year, the Airborne Forces will receive more than 13 thousand sets of modern landing equipment and parachute systems. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. These funds, among other things, will be used to equip two more paratrooper battalions with BMD-4M armored vehicles.

In Russia, an experiment was conducted with an American bulletproof vest and AK-12 bullets, experts tried to find out whether the Russian machine gun could flash the "ballistic gel", the shooting was organized by the Zvezda TV channel.

The US is investigating radiation attacks on officials and diplomats. The latest such case occurred last year in Miami, where government employees were exposed to energy, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The victims complained of tinnitus, headaches and nausea. The same symptoms were observed in employees of the US Embassy in Cuba in 2016.

American engineers have taught the exoskeleton for the legs to increase the walking speed by an average of 42 percent. After the start of walking, the exoskeleton gradually optimizes the parameters of its work, adapting to the walking of a particular person. The paper is published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.

The United States is ahead of other countries in terms of the technical equipment of the ordinary soldier. Another example is a video from an exercise where soldiers of the 4th Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment use the latest ENVG-B thermal imaging binoculars.

The number of people vaccinated against coronavirus by the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine exceeded 667.3 thousand people in the army and navy. Many of them were also vaccinated with the second component of the drug. In total, the Armed Forces delivered almost 706 thousand doses of the vaccine against a life-threatening infection.

Specialists of the Research Center at the state aerospace company China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) have developed an exoskeleton for firefighters involved in extinguishing forest fires.

The Department of the Chief of Engineering Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will take an active part in the preparation and holding of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

In a few months, a facial recognition system installed in the Moscow metro has helped identify 600 people who are on the federal wanted list. This was announced by the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, speaking at the discussion club of the Higher School of Economics and the BEAC.

Near Moscow, the exercises of the 45th engineering and camouflage regiment of the Russian Armed Forces were held, during which the military tested unusual inflatable equipment, the Zvezda TV channel reports. At the same time, the maneuvers of the "inflated" troops caused concern in a number of Western media, including the British The Sun.

In the Netherlands, a naval special forces exercise for the first time used a gravity jet suit to get on a ship captured by a simulated enemy.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on April 20, 2021, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.