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The Russian army has introduced a new generation of armoured cars. There’s the ‘Bear’, an anti-mine vehicle that can transport up to 8 soldiers, and two ‘Tigers’, a cross-country armoured car, and an ambulance version for medical emergencies.
You may have heard of a UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle, but have you heard about UGVs? UGV stands for unmanned ground vehicle and, just like it sounds like, a UGV is basically a tank drone. One of Russia's newest UGV robotic tanks, called the Soratnik, which means c comrade-in-arms, trained side by side with Russian infantry forces at the Alabino training ground near Moscow on Wednesday. The Soratnik was joined by another UGV called the Nerehta, which sports 4 anti-tank missile bays. Both systems are piloted remotely by expert crews from up to 6 miles away and can reach speeds of up to 25 miles per hour. Both the Soratnik and the Nerehta are built by the Kalashnikov Concern, the same company that manufactures the legendary AK-47. Russian Defence Ministry officials kept a sharp eye on the UGV systems - they will ultimately decide if the Soratnik or the Nerehta enter into active military service. Soratnik is a seven-ton robot tank that can be equipped with machine guns of various calibres, grenade launchers and guided missiles with a range of three miles. The UGVs are designed to keep human beings out of harm's way on the battlefield and may herald an entirely new type of warfare.
Check out Russia's new generation space suit, meant to protect cosmonauts and astronauts from the harsh realities of space travel. The Polar Bear freeze-proof space suit was designed to be worn just before cosmonauts and astronauts at the Baikonur aerodrome depart for the final frontier, when temperatures fall below zero, so they don't catch a cold on their way to work in space. These same suits were worn by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson shortly before they launched off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrone in Kazakhstan on November 17 of this year, becoming the 29th crew to serve on the ISS in orbit.
Images of the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) before its 28th Conference of States Parties in the Hague, Netherlands. IMAGES
Russia's Ministry of Defence releases footage of armored military units inspecting cars at a checkpoint, advancing in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, allegedly. IMAGES
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