Russia defence & technology updates

[gadeshi]

Admiral Makarov - a Project 1135.6R/M missile frigate for Black Sea Fleet has started State trials in the North Sea:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/84555/

 

[gadeshi]

Military HR service in Zvezda film:

 

[gadeshi]

More military videos from Zvezda Channel:

 

[gadeshi]

Combat Robots in Russian Army - A Zvezda film:

 

[gadeshi]

More military videos from Zvezda Channel:

 

[gadeshi]

Goblin's video about Armata platform:

 

[Imaxxx]

Continuing on the Armata topic:

Sure Shot: T-72, T-90 to Get Armata Tank's Electronic 'Brain' for Fast Targeting
17:36 10.10.2016

Russia's T-72 and T-90 main battle tanks will be capable of destroying enemy armored vehicles with a single shot after they are equipped with the Armata tank's 'electronic brain', according to the Russian newspaper Izvestia.

© SPUTNIK/ EUGENE BIYATOV
Tanks A Lot: Russia's Advanced Armata T-14 'Already in Serial Production'

The newspaper Izvestia quoted a Russian Defense Ministry source as saying that the Russian main battle tanks T-72 and T-90 will soon be equipped with the automatic target tracking system and computer unit used in the advanced Russian tank T-14 Armata; it will enable the T-72 and the T-90 to destroy enemy armored vehicles with the first shot.

"We plan start to test the modernized T-72 and T-90 in the next few years," the source said, citing the current tests of the Armata tank's automatic target tracking system.

The source also pointed to the fact that all the three tanks are equipped with the same Kalina fire control system, which will simplify the process of installing the Armata tank's electronic brain in the T-72 and the T-90.

© SPUTNIK/ ALEXEY FILIPPOV
A T-72 tank during the military machinery show at the Alabino training ground held as part of the international military-technical forum ARMY-2016

Izvestia also quoted military expert Alexey Khlopotov as saying that the use of the automatic target tracking system and the computer unit will help to significantly increase the efficiency of military hardware on the battlefield.

"The main advantage of such systems is a complete exclusion of the human factor from the targeting process, which is especially important in stressful combat conditions. Each and every shot is on target; [the targeting system] becomes absolutely precise and is conducted much faster than when guided manually," he said.

© SPUTNIK/ RAMIL SITDIKOV

The T-90 tank
Earlier this year, it was reported that Russia is planning to modernize its 150 T-72 main battle tanks to the T-72B3M version. The upgraded vehicles will be comparable to the more advanced T-90, but with much lower costs.

© RIA NOVOSTI. VITALY ANKOV
Old Dog Learns New Tricks: T-72 Gets Upgraded for Urban Combat

Currently, there are 500 T-90A and T-90AM tanks in service with the Russian Armed Forces. However, the bulk of the Ground Forces rely on Soviet-era T-72 and its numerous modifications.

Experts said that in order to upgrade its ground forces, Russia will modernize its ageing main battle tanks while working on the newest T-14 Armata.

Russia will spend 2.5 billion rubles ($37 million) to upgrade 150 T-72Bs to the advanced B3M standard, Izvestia quoted Uralvagonzavod deputy director Alexey Zharich as saying in March 2016.
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[Imaxxx]

Admiral Makarov - a Project 1135.6R/M missile frigate for Black Sea Fleet has started State trials in the North Sea:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/84555/

Just adding: Russia calls it the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate aka the Talwar class guided missile frigates. 4000T displacement. 3rd in this class for Russia.

 

[pmaitra]

Using your boots to blow air - Russian style:

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[gadeshi]

Just adding: Russia calls it the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate aka the Talwar class guided missile frigates. 4000T displacement. 3rd in this class for Russia.

Not Talwar but Trikand (both use Shtil-1 VLS instead of 1-shot launcher).

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[gadeshi]

PFI (Prospective Research Fundation) has built and opened plants biotech cluster in Nikitskiy Botanic Garden in Crimea:
http://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/84581/

 

[Imaxxx]

Not Talwar but Trikand (both use Shtil-1 VLS instead of 1-shot launcher).

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Per wiki Trikand is Talwar class:
Class and type: Talwar-class frigate
Name: INS Trikand

The first 3 ships INS Talwar, Trishul, Tabar were built at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard and 3 follow on ships ie Teg, Targash & Trikand at the Yantar shipyard where the above Admiral Makarov has been built.

The first 3 have the Klub while the next 3 have Brahmos. Sure, given that the first ship INS Talwar was launched in 2000 vs 2011 for INS Trikand design must have evolved somewhat.

 

[gadeshi]

Today, October the 11-th we celebrate 114 years from the birth day of prominent Soviet heavy aircrafts designer and scientist Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasischev (1902-1978):

 

[gadeshi]

Russian Police Ka-226P pursuits illegal fishers:

 

[Bahamut]

Russian face recognition algorithms turned heads in Florida

14 Oct '16
International biometrics systems developers were interested in a range of face recognition solutions by Vocord, a Russian company, during a sizable global forum in Florida earlier this fall, announced RVC, Russia’s national fund of funds for innovation. Most eye-catching were solutions that enable identification of a person by a set of parameters simultaneously, the source emphasized.

The Russian developer and manufacturer of smart video surveillance and audio registration systems displayed its most recent neural network enabled face recognition algorithm at Global Identity Summit, an international biometrics forum that was held in Tampa, FL, on September 19-22.

The Russian company presented its VOCORD FaceControl face recognition system, based on its proprietary algorithm that had beaten all global competitors at the recent MegaFace competition, as well as a modernized face recognition system based on innovative 3D computer vision technology called VOCORD FaceControl 3D.

“Biometrics solutions, and specifically face recognition systems, are on the rise, with an estimated 30% of the market—at least—located in North America. Entering the U.S. and Canadian markets is our strategic goal within a year. We expect the strategy to be as successful as it has been with the Asian markets,” CEO Timur Vekilov said.

 

[Bahamut]

New lasers to fight cancers and analyze gases under way in Russia

17 Oct '16
Rostec, Russia’s largest government-owned umbrella corporation for technology development, has announced a project to develop new 2-5µm infrared quantum-cascade type semiconductor lasers, Hi-news.ru reported. The solution is expected to help fight cancers through targeted destruction of cells in malignant tumors.

The new lasers may have much broader applications, the developers believe. They could be used for optical and space communications, high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, and in highly sensitive spectral gas analysis.

“We are currently working on the fundamental part of the effort, and are also thinking of what applied direction to prioritize from the potential demand viewpoint,” Rostec CEO Igor Kozlov said.

When the new lasers may materialize and hit the market has yet to be announced

 

[Bahamut]

Russian researchers develop new multiple sclerosis solution

7 Oct '16
Collaborative researchers at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, St. Petersburg Municipal Multiple Sclerosis Center #31, and two private companies in St. Pete, Pharmasintez and Xenetic, have developed a new form of vaccine to treat multiple sclerosis, one of the deadliest neurodegenerative diseases of autoimmune nature. Results of the effort have been described in an article published in English-languageNeurotherapeutics.

The key component of the new vaccine candidate is said to be liposomes that act like lipid bubble-like transporters containing fragments of myelin, a protein that structurally insulates nerve fibers. In an experiment, three protein fragments were selected. One revealed a certain therapeutic effect at the initial stages of the disease, while the other two can keep pathology at bay in a remission period. Lab research led the scientists to the conclusion that combinatory introduction of all the three fragments inside liposomes produces the best possible effect.

The vaccine candidates were tested in a series of clinical trials on healthy volunteers and multiple sclerosis patients in five sizable national centers in Russia. It is now known that the solution offers a good level of drug tolerance, and the likelihood of complications is fairly low.

With the project now past preclinical trials and two phases of clinical ones, the developers are hoping for success in phase 3, which would enable widespread use of the vaccine in multiple sclerosis therapy. There are more than 200,000 multiple sclerosis patients aged 15 through 25 in Russia.

 

[Bahamut]

With St. Pete super-crystal, new drugs could become easier to develop

13 Oct '16
Researchers at St. Petersburg-based ITMO University have put together an optically active nanodimensional super-crystal with unusual architecture that is believed to enable the separation of organic molecules. This is expected to help simplify new drug development technology considerably. The results of the research have been published in English in Scientific Reports.

The super-crystal is an assembly of achiral semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) a few nanometers in size, which are arranged in a helix. The QD-based super-crystal is said to exhibit giant optical activity and almost complete dissymmetry in optical absorption (or chirality, which is a geometric property of some molecules and ions that are non-superposable on their mirror image). Such super-crystals could be widely used in pharmacology to identify chiral biomolecules.

“As with any chiral nanostructure, such super-crystals have wide applications. In pharmacology, they could be used to recognize chiral medicinal molecules. Arranged in a helix around the molecules, QDs can display unusual shared properties that could increase the molecules’ absorptive characteristics by a hundred times or more. That, in its turn, would help boost the accuracy of identifying the molecules in a solution substantially,” said Ivan Rukhlenko, the head of ITMO’s nanostructure modeling and design laboratory.

In addition to pharmaceutical science, the optically active super-crystals could be used in a range of technical applications to polarize light.

 

[Bahamut]

With St. Pete super-crystal, new drugs could become easier to develop

13 Oct '16
Researchers at St. Petersburg-based ITMO University have put together an optically active nanodimensional super-crystal with unusual architecture that is believed to enable the separation of organic molecules. This is expected to help simplify new drug development technology considerably. The results of the research have been published in English in Scientific Reports.

The super-crystal is an assembly of achiral semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) a few nanometers in size, which are arranged in a helix. The QD-based super-crystal is said to exhibit giant optical activity and almost complete dissymmetry in optical absorption (or chirality, which is a geometric property of some molecules and ions that are non-superposable on their mirror image). Such super-crystals could be widely used in pharmacology to identify chiral biomolecules.

“As with any chiral nanostructure, such super-crystals have wide applications. In pharmacology, they could be used to recognize chiral medicinal molecules. Arranged in a helix around the molecules, QDs can display unusual shared properties that could increase the molecules’ absorptive characteristics by a hundred times or more. That, in its turn, would help boost the accuracy of identifying the molecules in a solution substantially,” said Ivan Rukhlenko, the head of ITMO’s nanostructure modeling and design laboratory.

In addition to pharmaceutical science, the optically active super-crystals could be used in a range of technical applications to polarize light.

 

[gadeshi]

Mi-28NM has conducted its maiden flight:
A rare photo - Mi-24P gunship with R-73RMD-2 training imitator attached:

And Belorussian AF Mi-24P in action: