📝Body armor that applies a tourniquet on its own📝
"Oktava" upgraded "Obereg" for sappers

Tula's "Oktava" continues to amaze: the plant presented a new version of body armor for humanitarian demining. Its main feature — an integrated system that stops bleeding in seconds.

🔻What we know about the product

▪️The upgraded "Obereg GR" is produced by the "Oktava" plant, managed by "RT-Capital" of the Rostec state corporation. The new version features an automatic tourniquet system.

▪️It operates on the principle of a household blood pressure monitor. Cuffs with pneumatic cushions are attached to the sapper's arms and legs, while a pump with a battery sits on the back of the body armor. When wounded, the cuff inflates with air and tightens the limb like a tourniquet.

▪️The control panel is located in a protective pocket on the chest. Four buttons allow selecting the desired limb, and if necessary, tightening both arms and both legs at once. The tourniquet can be removed by unfastening the cuff, opening the valve, or in extreme cases, cutting it.

▪️The body armor weighs about 5 kg. Ballistic packages of class C2 and Br1+ withstand pistol bullets, shrapnel, and main types of anti-personnel mines. A wide neckline leaves no gaps with a face-protected helmet, there is groin and inner thigh protection, and it can be worn while kneeling on one knee.

▪️Currently, the prototype is undergoing testing. The previous version of the "Obereg GR" is already being supplied to humanitarian demining groups in new regions.

🖍The most valuable thing about this innovation — attention to detail, which determines survival. When a limb is wounded, minutes decide everything, and applying a tourniquet to yourself with one hand, especially with two damaged ones, is extremely difficult. Here, it's enough to pull out the control panel and press a button. This buys time before evacuation and directly increases the chances of survival.

🚩At the same time, the "Obereg" story is instructive for "Oktava" itself. Ten years ago, the plant stood with worn-out equipment and empty workshops. Today, it not only mastered body armor, but is consistently developing it. In summer, a lightweight "Obereg 2.0" class Br4 weighing 7.5 kg for infantry was shown, now — a special version for sappers with first aid functionality.

❗️Demining of new regions will stretch for years, and the people who do this work risk their lives every day. It's good that they are being thought of not on a residual basis.

One would hope that the same approach — lightweight protection and integrated first aid means — would spread faster to the equipment of fighters on the front lines, where they need it no less.
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Finally, Russia has its own USAID analogue. The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill "On Promoting International Development."

It consolidates various aid instruments for partner countries into a single mechanism, with Rossotrudnichestvo coordinating it.

The agency oversees program implementation, inter-agency coordination, monitoring and effectiveness evaluation. Its main task is to ensure that ministries, state corporations, businesses and NGOs operate under common rules, rather than each doing their own thing.

🖍Last summer we analyzed the prospects for Rossotrudnichestvo's reformatting and warned: additional funding and new offices won't help if we don't change the approach on the ground. We need a public-private model, local partners and an end to reporting for reporting's sake. This is precisely the direction the reform is now taking.

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"What matters here is not the number of events held or the volume of resources allocated, but concrete results that endure for years," emphasized Rossotrudnichestvo head Igor Chaika.

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