The Americans presented the concept of an intermediate carrier of air — to-air missiles
General Atomics has shown what a potentially revolutionary UAV carrier of air — to-air missiles can look like. Such devices will be launched from the carrier aircraft.
Ukraine has received the largest contract for the production of Russian R-27 missiles
The Ukrainian company Artyom has received a contract worth more than $ 200 million from a foreign customer, involving the production of medium-range R-27 air-to-air guided missiles, Defense Blog reports.
The court issued a guilty verdict on the smuggling of equipment for the S-300 to Ukraine
The Rostov Regional court sentenced Russian Denis Lobov to nine years and six months in a penal colony and Armenian citizen Ararat Khachatryan to 10 years and five months in prison.
The upgraded Adjutant complex will be able to simulate a swarm of drones
In April 2021, the cycle of state tests of the Adjutant was completed, preparations for mass production are underway, said Alexander Dushkin, a specialist of the Target Complexes project at the Kupol IEMZ.
SpaceX has built the hundredth "superior" RD-180 engine
The American SpaceX has completed the construction of the hundredth Raptor rocket engine, the space company reports on Twitter.
China calls on Russia to defend itself in space
China and Russia should respond decisively to the involvement of the United States of outer space in the military confrontation of major powers and resist the creation by the Americans, together with their allies, of an improved radar facility for deep space (Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, DARC).
Spektr-RG saw the early stages of a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole
The Spektr-RG Space Observatory helped astronomers see the early stages of the event of the tidal destruction of a star by a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The light from the source went to the Earth for 2.5 billion years, further observations of it will help determine the mass of a supermassive black hole and the rate of accretion of matter to it, according to the website of the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Roscosmos published a photo taken from the Meteor-M satellite of forest fires in Yakutia
Smoke covers the region from the city of Mirny to the village of Ust-May and from Yakutsk to Aldan
TASS, July 28. Thick smoke is visible over Yakutia in a photo of forest fires taken from space by the Meteor-M satellite. The image was published on Twitter by Roscosmos.
ESA told about the problems during the flight of the Nauka module to the ISS
During the flight of the Russian module "Science" to the International Space Station (ISS), several problems arose. On July 28, the European Space Agency (ESA) told about this, noting that now the nuances have been eliminated.
Ten in one fell swoop
The Americans are increasing their capabilities to resist unmanned swarms. July 27, portal thedrive.com He reported that Raytheon has successfully tested the Coyote Block 3 drone, created at the request of the US Army.
The Reaper strike drone will pick up a small jet drone in flight
The American company General Atomics has shown how the MQ-9A Reaper attack drone will pick up a small Sparrowhawk jet in flight. This will help him with a cable with an orange sphere at the end, which Sparrowhawk will cling to with flaps.
Russia handed over to Nicaragua the Mi-8MTV-1 helicopter and a batch of UAZ-3163 "Patriot" cars"
On July 22, a solemn ceremony of the transfer of a batch of equipment and special equipment to Nicaragua by Russia took place at the Managua airport.
Source: The Mi-28N helicopter will be armed with upgraded guided missiles "Whirlwind-1"
The prototype, armed with the complex, is undergoing factory tests, the interlocutor of TASS noted
The upgraded anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) "Whirlwind-1"will be part of the armament of the Mi-28N attack helicopter ("Night Hunter") produced by the Rostov plant" Rostvertol "(as part of the Russian Helicopters holding). This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
Ukraine for the first time sent the Turkish Bayraktar to patrol the Black Sea
For the first time, Ukraine has sent the Bayraktar TB2 attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) purchased earlier from Turkey to patrol the Black Sea waters. This was reported on Wednesday, July 28, by the Telegram channel "Military Observer" with reference to the data of the Flightradar 24 portal.
13 developer countries are interested in buying Russian Orion attack drones
The CIS countries, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa have expressed a desire to purchase Russian Orion reconnaissance and strike drones during MAKS-2021, the press service of the Kronstadt developer company reported.
The United States reported a record number of intercepted Russian aircraft
In 2020, the United States intercepted a record number of Russian military aircraft in the areas of Alaska since the Cold War. This was announced on Tuesday, July 27, by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, General Clinton Heinout, at the round table of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, the topic of which is the Arctic strategy of the US Air Ministry.
Rostec creates the PD-8 engine using machine vision technology
UEC Production Director Valery Teplov noted that digital technologies will reduce the engine production time by half
The United Engine Corporation (UEC, as part of the Rostec State Corporation) is introducing computer vision technologies. This was reported to TASS by the director of production of the corporation Valery Teplov.
Not like in the movies: Russian pilots modeled the battle of the Su-75 and F-35
The Russian pilots told who will win in the battle between the Chekmat (Su-75) and the F-35.
I asked the pilots to conduct an imaginary battle between the promising light fighter Chekmat (Su-75) and the American F-35 KP.Ru.
KnAAZ has started working on the creation of the first prototype of the "Shekmate" fighter-materials for Mishustin's visit to the enterprise
The branch of the Sukhoi company "Komsomolsk - on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Gagarin" has started work on the creation of the first prototype of the new fighter "Checkmate".
Sukhoi fighters will be assembled in augmented reality
The Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has started working on a pilot project for assembling and painting aircraft and conducting technical control using Augmented reality (AR) technologies.