Russian troops received Tablet-A complexes for artillery fire control, based on Atlet armored vehicles. It is worth noting that we previously talked about the “Tablet-M-IR” version, it is newer, but the “Tablet-A” version was sent to the troops. The “Tablet-A” complex was developed by the Kovrov All-Russian Scientific Research Institute “Signal”, based on tablet computers, based on Russian Komdiv-64 processors. The Tablet-A complex is capable of controlling the fire of almost all weapons in service. "Tablet-A" increases the effectiveness of counter-battery warfare, significantly reducing response time; it collects data to calculate fire parameters. The complex can work with any reconnaissance equipment, radar, laser range finders, thermal imagers, automated weather kits, ballistic computers and UAVs, receiving data in real time via satellite channels. All data is processed and transmitted to the screen to the gun commander, the brand of the gun and the type of shells are taken into account. After receiving the coordinates of the targets, the commander of the artillery unit, in just a few clicks, ensures the calculation of firing settings and their transfer to specific guns.
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A new combat laser for combating drones is being prepared for testing in Russia, the Sputnik agency reported. The laser was developed by the Scientific and Technical Center "LEMT" of Belarus and Russian research institutes. The combat laser will have a power of about 100 kW, it is being tested not only on drones, but also on other surfaces. Previously, specialists from the LEMT company successfully tested a 30 kW laser in the Middle East. There is no information about the guidance system and radars used. The system effectively detects drones that are hit at a distance of 400 meters to 6 kilometers. The cost of firing laser systems with a power of up to 60 kW is about 1-2 dollars, with a power of up to 480 kW - up to 10 dollars.
Rostec handed over the first VK-650V engines to the Kazan helicopter plant for testing the imported Ansat helicopter. “The first prototypes of the VK-650V engine were produced at the St. Petersburg enterprise ODK-Klimov, they successfully passed preliminary and life tests. They are currently undergoing certification tests. They plan to receive the certificate by the end of this year, and next year they plan to begin mass production of the engine. VK-650V is the first Russian helicopter engine in the 650-750 hp power class. The power plant will replace the American Pratt & Whitney PW207K engine on the Ansat helicopter; it will also be used on the Ka-226T helicopter, as well as in other promising Russian helicopters and aircraft with a take-off weight of up to 4 tons. Compared to foreign analogues, the VK-650V will have greater take-off power and better specific characteristics. Dry weight of the VK-650V engine is 105 kg. The declared specific fuel consumption at takeoff is 245 grams of fuel per horsepower per hour.
A prototype of the Impuls-M universal tracked platform, developed jointly with the Moscow company Gumich, was shown in Russia. The Russian robotic complex "Impulse-M" has a modular design and is planned to be used for cargo transportation and for installing various equipment, including different types of weapons; it can be used for laying mines and evacuating the wounded. Testing of the platform with an anti-tank missile system is already planned. The robot's tracked chassis is distinguished by high reliability and maintainability in field conditions; it can continue moving without several rollers. The Impulse-M robot implements various types of communication between the operator and the robot, which ensures operation in electronic warfare conditions. If the connection is lost, the robot can continue the route to its destination and return back to the base along the same path. The length of the Impulse-M robot is about 2 meters, it is capable of transporting a load weighing 1 ton on a horizontal surface. On a 30-degree climb, the robot can transport up to 500 kg, and on a trailer it can pull up to 1.5 tons.
Russian military personnel showed a homemade wheeled platform “Scorpion-M”, essentially an FPV drone, only on wheels. The Scorpion-M robotic platform can be used for reconnaissance of terrain, trawling breakage and pressure sensors used in anti-personnel mines and improvised explosive devices; the drone can be equipped with explosives weighing up to 40 kg. Weighing up to 20 kg, the Scorpion-M ground drone is capable of moving at speeds of up to 12 km/h, its battery life is about 4 hours, at a distance of up to 5000 meters. Interview in video.
Rare archival footage used by units of the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Soviet ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” in Ukraine. It is worth noting that the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” is also used by the Ukrainian army, but there is practically no video of it either.
ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" was produced from 1964 to 1982, despite such a long production period, there are supposedly no more than 100 of them left in Russia, and no more than 40 in Ukraine. The Shilka air defense system is used extremely rarely, since training on it takes a long time, and the radius of destruction of targets is only 2 kilometers.
Detailed technical characteristics of the Shilka air defense system on the screen. The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" is armed with a quadruple 23-mm AZP-23 "Amur" cannon with a rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute per barrel. The ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” combat vehicle weighs 19 tons and is equipped with a 280 hp engine. and reaches speeds of up to - 50 km/h. Power reserve 300 km. The thickness of the armor in the frontal part of the hull is up to 15 mm. The crew of the combat vehicle is four people. Details of the combat work of the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” in Ukraine in the video.
ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" was produced from 1964 to 1982, despite such a long production period, there are supposedly no more than 100 of them left in Russia, and no more than 40 in Ukraine. The Shilka air defense system is used extremely rarely, since training on it takes a long time, and the radius of destruction of targets is only 2 kilometers.
Detailed technical characteristics of the Shilka air defense system on the screen. The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" is armed with a quadruple 23-mm AZP-23 "Amur" cannon with a rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute per barrel. The ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” combat vehicle weighs 19 tons and is equipped with a 280 hp engine. and reaches speeds of up to - 50 km/h. Power reserve 300 km. The thickness of the armor in the frontal part of the hull is up to 15 mm. The crew of the combat vehicle is four people. Details of the combat work of the ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” in Ukraine in the video.
Operation of the Russian combat vehicle TO-2 "Tosochka". A Russian serviceman told his impressions of the TOS-2 “Tosochka” heavy flamethrower machine and showed the work of its crew. The firing range of the TOS-2 "Tosochka" is up to 18 kilometers. New samples of TOS-2 “Tosochka” are also equipped with grilles for protection against drones. The developer of the TOS-2 “Tosochka” is the Tula research and production association “Splav” named after A. N. Ganichev; the combat vehicle is produced by the machine-building plant “Motovilikha Plants” in the city of Perm. Details in the video.
The Northern Fleet frigate Admiral Gorshkov, as part of a long voyage, after visiting Cuba, searched for submarines in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship's Ka-27PL anti-submarine helicopter was used to search for submarines. The video shows a Ka-27PL helicopter diving into water with a VGS-3 sonar station. The VGS-3 hydroacoustic station takes approximately 30 seconds to perform a 360-degree view in noise direction finding mode. At a distance of more than 50 kilometers from the ship, the pilots carried out a set of measures to visually, radar, magnetometrically and hydroacoustically search for submarines. The Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov of Project 22350 is a multi-purpose ship with guided missile weapons. The ship was accepted into the Russian Navy in 2018, and in 2021 it was modified to use Zircon hypersonic missiles.
Rostec has supplied the Russian troops with a batch of the latest 152 mm Malva self-propelled wheeled howitzers manufactured in 2024. Wheeled self-propelled guns "Malva" on the BAZ 8x8 chassis were put into mass production on October 26, 2023, technical information about them is in the link to the video in the comments to the video. The Malva 2S43 self-propelled gun has high maneuverability, a long service life and is economical to operate, in comparison with self-propelled guns on a tracked chassis, and they can also be quickly transferred by Il-76 aircraft.
The Malva self-propelled gun can fire all types of ammunition that are used on 152-mm gun mounts, such as Msta-B, 2 S19 Msta-S, D-20, 2S3 Akatsiya and ML-20. You can also use adjustable Krasnopol projectiles with laser illumination.
The Malva self-propelled gun can fire all types of ammunition that are used on 152-mm gun mounts, such as Msta-B, 2 S19 Msta-S, D-20, 2S3 Akatsiya and ML-20. You can also use adjustable Krasnopol projectiles with laser illumination.
The flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, the missile cruiser “Varyag” of Project 1155M, conducted exercises in the Mediterranean Sea as part of a long voyage. During the exercises we practiced the destruction of sea drones. air attack means, repelling an attack by an enemy surface ship and searching for and destroying a submarine. The sailors used a smoke screen to camouflage the ship. During the exercise, shooting was carried out at a target from AK-130 and AK-630 artillery mounts. To repel a simulated attack by naval drones, Kord and Utes machine guns were used. An RBU-6000 rocket launcher was used to destroy the submarine. Also on the cruiser “Varyag” they improved their skills in using the “Fort” anti-aircraft missile system; no shooting was carried out.
The Russian airspace control system SKVP is being tested in the Moscow region. The developer of the complex air defense "Central Design Bureau of Apparatus Engineering" from Tula, there are very few technical details. The system consists of 24 phased array radar stations, each weighing 110 kg, mounted on tripods, vehicles or buildings. The technical capabilities of the airborne missile system allow you to simultaneously track up to 20 air targets, including small drones. At the same time, the system determines their type, flight altitude and distance to them. The SKVP system can detect targets at speeds of up to 972 km/h. and is capable of working in conjunction with air defense or electronic warfare systems; test samples have already worked for 18 thousand hours without shutting down. You can control the system from a laptop. The radar system of the SKVP system allows you to detect a Boeing type aircraft at a distance of more than 90 km, a Cessna type aircraft at a distance of 30 km, a Furia or Mugin type UAV at a range of up to 15-18 km, and Mavic 2 type drones at a range of up to 4 km.
Footage of a Russian Su-35 fighter flying next to an American MQ-9 Reaper UAV in the sky over Syria. The shooting was carried out over the village of Es-Sukhneh, Homs province of Syria at altitudes from 7000 to 8000 meters. The Su-35 was armed with R-73 and R-77 missiles, and the MQ-9 Reaper UAV also had missile weapons.
Personnel training of Russian FPV drone operators of Airborne Forces units. Before flying drones, operators are trained in computer simulators. Drone operators are improving their skills in controlling drones, in particular, in conducting reconnaissance, searching for high-priority targets, and adjusting the fire of various artillery systems. The training is carried out under conditions of simulating the enemy's active use of jamming by electronic warfare systems.
The first footage of the 125-mm high-explosive fragmentation tank projectile 3OF82 “Telnik”, which appeared in the Russian army, has been published. The shells were produced under a contract dated 2021. Now the Telnik projectile can be used from the 2A82-1M gun mounted on Russian T-90M Poryv tanks. It is expected that the projectile will soon be adapted for the latest modifications of the Russian T-80BVM tanks with the 2A46M-4 gun and the T-72B3 tank with the 2A46M-5-01 gun. The Telnik projectile, weighing 23 kg and with a warhead weighing 3 kg, is equipped with a projectile trajectory detonation system, with induction input and temporary installation of a head fuse.
Russian military personnel showed a homemade buggy "ZVeraBoy" for fighting drones. The servicemen independently welded the body of the buggy and assembled all the weapons that have recently been used to fight drones. The buggy is equipped with two turrets with a thermal imaging sight and a six-barreled shotgun. At the front of the vehicle there is a turret with two PKT machine guns, between which there is a homemade six-barreled muzzle-loading shotgun. There are also six short barrels installed around the perimeter of the buggy for firing homemade charges made from 7.62 mm bullets. The turret is controlled via a monitor from the passenger seat. The rear turret rotates 360 degrees and is equipped with six twin AK-12 assault rifles that fire simultaneously. The buggy's power reserve, engine and other technical details are not reported.