Russia has equipped the first international level training ground for extreme driving of RCB reconnaissance vehicles

TSAMTO, August 19. On the border of the Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions, Russia's first international level training ground for extreme driving of RCB reconnaissance vehicles RHM-4 (based on the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier) and practical shooting for a while with a change of firing position from small arms was equipped.

It acquired the status of an international training center of the Military Academy of NBC Defense in 2015 in connection with the Safe Environment competition and was subsequently re-equipped annually. Currently, the unique Volga proving ground is equipped with a fire-assault strip with a cable car, trenches, sites for special processing, sampling, radiation monitoring of equipment, chemical control and practical shooting. Now it allows you to train chemical reconnaissance units using the latest techniques. At the Pesochnoe training ground, cadets from 28 countries, including Asia, Africa, and South America, undergo training and improve their skills.

On a three-kilometer route, it is possible to work out complex standards that provide for the implementation of the most complex elements of chemical reconnaissance. The tracks include both classic obstacles (a model of a track bridge, a track passage in a mine-explosive obstacle, a zone with size limiters), and long sections with a complex integrated complex of artificial obstacles for extreme driving. At the test site, RCB intelligence specialists using standard equipment will be able to overcome the water obstacle.

Are there wheels for the Strategic Missile Forces?

Work in the USSR and the Russian Federation to improve mobile ground-based missile systems (PGRK) has never been interrupted. A new impetus was given to them two years ago, when they decided to abandon the supply of Belarusian tractors. As a result, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation opened another research work (R&D), which received its own code. The main executor of this R&D is MIT Corporation JSC (developer of all domestic PGRKs put into service). She also leads the development of the concept of creating chassis, tractors for mobile complexes. The Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant was not involved in the case - all co-executors were only Russian.

Today, in the Russian Federation, two factory teams are engaged in the development of military SKShT: Bryansk Automobile Plant (BAZ) and PJSC KAMAZ together with JSC Remdizel (Naberezhnye Chelny).

The results are known: samples of KAMAZ chassis were accepted for supply to the RF Armed Forces, but they were not in demand due to the prohibitive cost, the use of imported auto components, extremely low reliability, and failure to meet a number of technical requirements. A lot of money wasted. If we calculate the amounts for all the agreements and contracts concluded by the "firebrand" with government customers as part of the work on the R&D platform "Platform", the amount will be much more than 10 billion rubles. I think it makes sense for the experts of the Accounts Chamber to do the calculations. It is noteworthy that the "Platform" at the "KAMAZ" was led by retired Colonel General Vladislav Polonsky, chief of the GABTU in 2004-2007.  

Seven leading defense industry enterprises will take part in the Army-2020 forum in Yekaterinburg

EKATERINBURG, August 18. / TASS /. Seven leading enterprises of the military-industrial complex have confirmed their participation in the program of the International military-technical forum "Army-2020" in Yekaterinburg, the acting deputy commander of the district troops for military-political work, Colonel Andrey, said at a press conference in the Ural regional information center TASS. Sobolev.

"Seven enterprises have confirmed their presence, in the dynamic display we will present robotics from Chelyabinsk, they will show their machines, which will later be proposed by the Ministry of Defense for implementation in the armed forces to work with special units, intelligence units. The rest of the enterprises will participate in the static display. Design Bureau" The innovator ", for example, will participate," he said.

As the press service of the Central Military District specified, representatives of the 144 BTRZ OJSC, the Vector and Uraltransmash factories, the Chelyabinsk enterprises NPO Elektromashina and SKB Turbina will also arrive at the Army-2020 forum in Yekaterinburg.

Within the framework of the forum, representatives of the defense industry enterprises, the district command and military experts will take part in a round table on the topic "The use of modern modernized weapons and military equipment in the Central Military District, the specifics of equipping with weapons based on the experience of local wars and armed conflicts."

A gantruck was made from the armored car "Tiger"

A new version of the Russian armored car "Tiger" - a machine-gun pickup or a gantruck, will be presented at the Army-2020 forum. The vehicle is based on an open version of the armored car - it will also be shown on the forum.

A powerful frame protects the riders from overturning, half a dozen canisters in the back hint that the "Tiger" will have to act far from the base. On the right side there are two brackets for machine guns.

Depending on the purpose "Tiger" can be equipped with diesel engines with a capacity of 215 to 300 horsepower, mechanical or automatic transmission, and other options.

Details of the tests of the Object 195 have become known

Some details have become known regarding the creation of a promising Russian tank "Object 195", also known by its unofficial name - T-95. Information about this unique vehicle was published by UVZ. Tankoprom.The combat vehicle was created at the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering, and many of the solutions used in it became unusual, for example, the complete isolation of tankers from shells and fuel tanks. The combat module was remote, the armament in it (according to the open information posted on the Web - a 152-mm cannon) provided a significant advantage over foreign competing tanks.

18 years ago, at the "Prospector" training ground near Nizhny Tagil, the prototype fired the first three shots. This important event was attended, among other things, by the head of the Main Armored Directorate Sergei Maev and the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel.

The program of state tests was planned to be completed in three years, and in 2006 one hundred tanks could come off the assembly line, and in the next - already three hundred. It is reported that in fact it was possible to build only two copies, one of which was able to pass 15,000 kilometers during the tests and fire 287 cannon shots. Almost all problems arising in the course of the work were solved, but in December 2008 the tests of the experimental "Object" were stopped. However, many of the developments obtained were used already when creating other UVZ equipment.