With the wishes of piece and happiness,
General Director
Doctor of Technical Science, Professor
Member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences

Valery A. GRIGORYAN

   Important events

· NII Stali participated in the exhibition of police equipment INTER-POLITEX-2007 that was held at Russian Exhibition Centre (VVC), Moscow from October, 30 to November, 2.

This exhibition took an important place among similar international forums with a record number of participants, a lot of them from abroad.

All of the foreign guests appreciated the considerable improvement of Russian engineering standards and considered many of new products to have reached the international level.

It means that a lot of enterprises working in the security field not only could survive, but also secured their position and started financing new projects.
You can look through new personal protection products presented at the exhibition here >>>

· On October 11-12, 2007 NII STALI will host the IX-th international scientific and practical conference called "Latest trends in design and application of materials in personal protection equipment".

Leading body-armor designing and manufacturing companies from Russia and abroad are going to take part in the conference.

For more information please contact the organizing committee of the conference:

Ms. Larissa Khapalina: Tel.: (++7 495) 485 1447

Mr. Evgeny Chistyakov: Tel.: (++7 495) 485 7070.

In June 2007 NII Stali participated in the VII-th International Exhibition of Military Equipment, Technology and Armament (VTTV-Omsk-2007).

There were rather few new products related to armored vehicle protection or anti-tank weapons.

At that exhibition NII STALI presented training software for T-90 MBT and BMP-3 IFV.

· In May NII STALI participated in the MILEX-2007 IV-th international exhibition of military equipment (Minsk, Byelorussia).

The exhibition was held in the usual exhibition area of BELEXPO. There were not any significant changes in the exhibition ideology. The number of exhibitors reduced almost twice as compared to 2003, including foreign one. But the number of foreign delegations accredited at the exhibition increased more than thrice and amounted to 50.

As compared to previous exhibitions at MILEX-2007 there were fewer products related to armored vehicles protection. Most exhibits belonged to IT, optics and electronics. Fewer products belonged to weapons, ammunition and personalprotection equipment. And there were very few novelties in protection systems.

NII STALI НИИ had a common stand with the Institute of Applied Nano Technologies and demonstrated a number of new products with application of nano technologies to body armor.

· Valery.A.Grigoryan, Alexander I. Egorov, Mikhail J.Alexeev and Nikolay S. Dorokhov, executives of NII STALI, have been awarded with the Prize of the Government of RF in science and technology for "Development of new-generation multi-purpose ERA system which ensures non-penetration of domestic tanks by up-to-date antitank weapons" (Act No. 104-6 of the Government of RF dtd. 19.02.2007).

From October 17 to October 20 INTERPOLITEX-2006 international exhibition was held in Moscow at the Russian Exhibition Center (VVC). It was the 10th anniversary of the exhibition. NII STALI has participated in all of them. Below there is a brief review of the latest one (concerning products for ballistic protection).

Monograph edited by Valery A. Grigoryan, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, member of RARAN academy.

Particular problems of terminal ballistics

600 pages; 300 diagrams and illustrations

Price: 90 USD

The book is aimed at familiarizing the reader with the up-to-date principles of designing ballistic protection.

more info >>>

· In July-August 2006 two international exhibitions of arms and combat equipment for ground forced were held in Russia: RUSSIAN EXPO ARMS, Nizhniy Tagil-2006 and International Defence Exhibition of Land Forces (MVSV-2006). Our company participated in both exhibitions, and not only with a stand, but also in live demonstrations.
About new products in protection shown at the exhibitions: see here.

Demonstration of electromagnetic protection system in Nizhniy Tagil

Demonstration of ERA system in Krasnoarmeysk at MVSV-2006 exhibition

Is there any future for the MBT?

The answer to this question was a most interesting one of the issues on agenda of the traditional 8. Research-and-Application Conference "Urgent Security Problems" which was held in St. Petersburg in early April 2006 (organized by NPO "Spetsmaterialy").

The conference was first held eight years ago, when it was dedicated to thorough discussion of body armor. Recently the range of issues discussed at the conference has been widened and now includes protection of combat vehicles.

This year, after the much-talked-of interviews of Mr. Serguey Ivanov, Minister of Defence of RF, and some Army high-rank officials the position of the MBT as a self-contained armament system of the Army has staggered. Therefore the response of the tank-building community was expected.

Some speakers at this conference managed to bring out clearly that MBTs do have a future. You can see one of the reports here (in Russian).

The same issue is discussed in the article "Is there a need for tanks in modern warfare" published in "Armament. Politics. Conversion." (2001, No.1).