A detachment of warships of the Russian Northern Fleet conducted anti-submarine exercises in the northern regions of the Barents Sea. The anti-submarine ship "Vice-Admiral Kulakov" and the missile cruiser "Marshal Ustinov" were used in the exercises. The video shows the takeoff of the Ka-27 anti-submarine helicopter.
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It is the principle of the thing. They caught this embezzlement amount, but more might not be accounted for. From what I heard, the state gave funding to retool the factory to serial produce the Kurganets, but the tooling was never installed there. The factory is serial producing the BMP-3 and BMD-4M just fine however.
I know that with the Bumerang there were issues where the government changed the specifications for equipment carried by infantry after the project began in such a way that they cannot fit fully equipped infantry in the Bumerang anymore. Maybe this also happened with Kurganets. i.e. an infantryman fully equipped with Ratnik including body armor won't fit.
No one retool a factory before the final product is ready. see Su-57 example. certain things can easily take a decade from few prototypes to preliminary tests to state tests and than actual combat conditions. i am strictly going by amounts these are small amounts for this size of project. and who knows what actual reason for removing these people. perhaps more intense background checks due to Ukraine war and found some other connections. This is a country that will not tell real reason to push its athletes to fail IOC.
The dump truck market is double but he is not investing in increase production and you think without contracts they can buy tools for serial production for some thing that is not even certified?
Kurganetz is an entirely separate program from Armata.
Purpose of the Armata program is to create a unified series of heavy, advanced vehicles. Heavy tank, heavy IFV, etc... They are to equip heavy formations that use the same chassis.
Kurganetz was supposed to be like that, but for 'medium' units. Basically, to replace the existing medium IFVs in particular [such as BMP-series].
Bumerang was for the wheeled formations.
Armata looks like they could bring it into production and service if they want to. Bumerang was delayed by a redesign since there wasn't enough internal space for fully-equipped modern infantry. Bumerang appeared to be working okay, just small on the inside.
Kurganetz is the big problem. Yes, funds were supposed to go to refitting plants for production of this series of vehicle, which was to replace medium units. But corruption prevented this. Seems shameful from a Russian POV, since those funds could have gone into revamping BTR-82 and BMP-3 production into more suitable designs, as is now happening.
Russian manufacturers seem to have preferred creating entirely new designs at great cost and time-investment for the potential of greatly increased capability and serviceability, instead of many iterations on known chassis. Improving BTR-82 and BMP-3 is a relatively low-risk and low-cost project, but seemed to be neglected in favour of next-generation designs that are not ready yet.
A Russian soldier spoke about the use of DJI drones. Quadcopters of the DJI brand are among the most common in the world; they are used by the Russian and Ukrainian military, features of their use in the video. The video talks about the DJI Mavic Mini, DJI AIR 2S and DJI Mavic 3 drones.
Cope tires on Su-34 to protect against hollow charges and kinetic energy penetrators. Together with the metal airframe, it acts like NERA to protect the precious tarmac.
The sole tire around the wingtip jammingpod is like a cherry on a pie.
when too many sorties are generated aircraft eat tires. i am sure they testing various methods and this part of process to built the most effective airpower that can sustain a prolong conflict.
when that huge earth quake happened in Turkey-Syria border not only the Russia airbase runway survived but the structures built for aircraft housing and these hardly expensive one. so you can rely on Russian engineering.
Clearly a cope solution until real solution is found... A burning tire is a big problem on an aircraft, clearly not termite proof !Cope tires on Su-34 to protect against hollow charges and kinetic energy penetrators. Together with the metal airframe, it acts like NERA to protect the precious tarmac.
The sole tire around the wingtip jammingpod is like a cherry on a pie.
Russia intends to resume serial production of new T-80 tanks, said Alexander Potapov, general director of the Uralvagonzavod concern. This decision was made after analyzing the experience of using the T-80. The initial version of the T-80 was mass-produced in the USSR from 1976 to 1978 at factories in Omsk and Kharkov; more than 10 thousand vehicles were produced. Until now, Uralvagonzavod has modernized the Soviet-built T-80. The main distinguishing feature of the T-80 tanks is the presence of a gas turbine engine. Also, the tank can be refueled with any fuel, diesel, gasoline and kerosene, the tank is easy to start at low temperatures. The decision to produce T-80 tanks was made after analyzing application experience. In the future, Russian T-80 tanks will be equipped with Arena-M active protection systems. The tank is already equipped with protection from drones using the Volnorez electronic warfare system. Now all tanks available in Russia are being upgraded to the T-80BVM level. The tanks are equipped with a multi-channel gunner's sight, a 125-mm cannon, a modified gas turbine engine with a capacity of up to 1,250 horsepower, a weapon stabilizer and a driver's observation device. Examples of using the tank are in the links to the video in the comments to the video.