The Swiss company Stadler will ship 23 tramcars of the Metelitsa (Blizzard) variety to Saint Petersburg. The tramcars will be made by the Stadler Minsk factory. The first six cars will be handed over to the customer by late July 2017. It is the first large order for the innovative tramcar Metelitsa that Stadler has…
The Belarusian automaker Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ trademark) will ship 100 buses to the Russian city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan, representatives of the company said. The Belarusian low-floor large-capacity buses MAZ 203 will be used to transport passengers during the world football championship that will take place in Kazan in 2018. The…
Belarus increased truck exports by 24% YoY in January-June to 1,847 units, Belstat said in a statistical report. Truck exports to the CIS states grew by 13.5% to 1,546 units at the average price of $140,123 apiece (down by 10.8% YoY), other foreign countries – 301 units (up 2.4 times), average price – $116,598 (down…
The Russian Helicopters holding is intensively working up an issue to establish an authorized technical maintenance center in Iran with the Iran Helicopter Support and Renewal Company (IHSRC), according to the holding’s Deputy Director General Alexander Shcherbinin. “The Russian Helicopters company is discussing the potential supply of Ka-226T and Ansat light utility helicopters to Iran’s…
Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is allocating over 1.9 billion rubles ($29 million) to upgrading carrier rocket engines, rocket boosters and spacecraft, according to materials published on Russia’s official public procurement website. The contracted upgrades include replacing engine parts and materials, increasing engine reliability and reducing defects and failures during test flights. Roscosmos also plans…
Russia’s S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia General Director Vladimir Solntsev said that state space corporation Roscosmos started working on designing a new super-heavy class carrier rocket on the basis of the RD-171 liquid-fuel rocket engine. “We are working on a super-heavy class rocket with an engine that we already have – the…
Under order from RSC Energia, Roselectronics has designed a single CCTV system used to monitor astronaut activity in space. The system will be tested in 2017. It was developed on the basis of the Orlan-MKS spacesuit currently used by Russian astronauts and designed for eight hours of continuous operation. A single TV camera block attached…