News about special and protective equipment

The advance of Russian troops in the area of the special military operation requires humanitarian demining of the liberated territories. Vyacheslav Kovalevsky, General Director of the private engineering company Complit Technician, told TASS in an interview whether anti-personnel mines supplied by the United States to Ukraine will become a serious problem, how the methods of laying mines have changed over the decades and how many sappers are needed to neutralize the territories of new regions of Russia.

Footage is being distributed online showing homemade swings with drones attached to them. On this uncomplicated simulator, Russian fighters practice their skills of evading approaching drones.

The Russian holding company "High-precision Complexes" showed the capabilities of the new robotic platforms "Dispatch" and "Caracal", the demonstration took place at one of the training grounds. This is reported by the Rostec press service.

In the production of the C3105 turret, aluminum armor is used, providing protection at level 5 according to STANAG 4569 (withstands a 25 mm BPS or BOPS hit). She is armed with a 105 mm HP ("high pressure") cannon and an automatic loader (BK for 12-16 shells). The vertical guidance angles are -10° / +42°. The distance of detection, recognition and identification of the target is 18/9/5 km and 15/7/3.5 km, respectively, during the day and with the help of a thermal imager.

Sappers in Donbass often encounter similar explosive objects

Non-magnetic minesweeper kits have been supplied to the humanitarian demining service operating in Donbass. They include mine markers made of durable plastic material, sapper probes with two dielectric needles, humanitarian demining markers made of fiberglass and other equipment that does not contain metal elements. Experts note that they allow you to work with mines equipped with magnetic fuses — there are especially many of them coming to the zone from NATO countries.

The new U.S. Air Force infrastructure modernization strategy does not include any plans to build new fortified hangars for aviation or other physical protection equipment. The decision not to allocate money for their construction was made against the background of a serious debate about how best to ensure the defense of military facilities from the growing threats from drones and missiles.

The U.S. Marine Command has invited companies to provide solutions to protect infantry from small drones. The means of combating UAVs should be user-friendly, easy to learn, lightweight and maximally compatible with systems that are already in service.

After the massive appearance of lattice protection on Russian tanks, a whole galaxy of Western officials and observers made fun of the new MBT equipment in every possible way. However, then similar designs began to be used by the APU, despite a long reluctance to install them on American Abrams and German Leopard 2. As previously reported by VO, now the turn has reached the West.

After 12 years of development and military testing, the US Army has signed a multi-year contract with Pratt & Miller Defense (a division of Oshkosh Corporation) to produce a new small arms training complex Trackless Moving Targets (TMT).

Testers with the latest Tandem-400 parachute systems left the aircraft from an altitude of 10,120 m

Rostec organized a unique landing with the latest Tandem-400 parachute systems, setting several records at once. For the first time in the world, three pairs of parachutists left the aircraft from the stratosphere — from a height of 10,120 m.

Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region will demonstrate modern high-tech domestic medical equipment for diagnostics, surgery, rehabilitation and dentistry at the international exhibition Healthcare 2024, which will be held in Moscow from December 2-6, the press service of the concern reports.

Protective equipment is useful in the Dnieper and primorsky regions

New Bor-M bulletproof vests have been developed in Russia, allowing the fighter to stay on the water. A ballistic package and a shock-absorbing damper made of lightweight materials give it positive buoyancy. At the same time, the main characteristics of the bulletproof vest do not deteriorate from this — it can protect against an automatic or machine-gun bullet. Experts note that such equipment will be useful in the Dnieper and Primorsky regions, where a significant part of the line of contact passes.

China has a lot of tanks. And who else will keep a huge number of combat vehicles in working order? Answer: The USA and Russia. However, most Chinese tanks are old models, but there is also a new Type 99 tank, which has a set of unique properties. What does it look like in comparison with the two most important contemporaries — the American M1A2 Abrams and the Russian T-90.

The US Army has improved the Stryker NBCRV armored personnel carrier (a vehicle for nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance) by installing a set of sensors on it that allows you to launch UAVs from the rear compartment in response to NBC threats. This is reported by the publication Army Recognition. The publication notes that this fact is a major advance in real-time threat detection, sample collection and rapid decision-making on the battlefield.

On October 23, 2024, a regular meeting of the Runway Aviation Lovers Club took place in the Pink Living Room of the Zhukovsky Palace of Culture. It was timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the birth of Hero of the Soviet Union, test parachutist Oleg Konstantinovich Khomutov (1934-1997).