The last invisible destroyer went to sea
The third and last destroyer of the Zumwalt type went to sea for sea trials. The ship was built at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine and was named Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002). The ship is distinguished by a bizarre shape with a nose sloping into the sky, a pyramidal superstructure and flat sides. This is a tribute to inconspicuousness.
The US has begun sea trials of the last Zumwalt destroyer
The third and last ship of the Zumwalt type — Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) - has begun sea trials. In the future, such ships will become carriers of new hypersonic weapons.
Construction of the CVN-81 Doris Miller aircraft carrier has begun at the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that on August 25, at the enterprise of the Newport News Shipbuilding division, the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the construction of the Doris Miller aircraft carrier (CVN-81) will be held.
ANPA-M underwater drone has been developed for the Russian Navy
The ANPA-M underwater drone was developed for the Russian Navy, which interested the fleet command and was presented to the Minister of Defense, Army General Sergei Shoigu.
The West was afraid of the activities of the Russian "reconnaissance ship"
Western countries are concerned about the activities of the Russian oceanographic vessel "Yantar", which performs its tasks exactly where transatlantic submarine cables pass on the bottom. There is a suspicion that the Russians are thus carrying out espionage missions or preparing for future sabotage operations, the Polish newspaper Defence24 reports.
The first stage of creating a digital twin of a new generation marine engine has been completed
The Army-2021 Forum has completed its work, but the analysis and understanding of what was shown in its framework will continue for a long time.
One of the soft, but very important presentations is the creation of a digital model of a gas turbine engine for Navy warships. It is notable for the fact that the university science took the most active part in this work.
Military personnel will clean the Arctic from garbage-TOPH
The environmental division of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) of Kamchatka has started carrying out garbage collection in the Arctic, the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet reported on Monday.
The program of import substitution of medical devices will attract more than 60 billion rubles to the budget and create more than 100 thousand jobs
This was stated by Ivan Ozhgikhin, Senior Managing Director of RUSNANO Management Company, Chairman of the Management Board of the Medical Equipment Consortium, at the Innomed forum. Currently, up to 30% of the volume of medical products purchased at the expense of the budget is already produced in Russia.
AgnathaX is a new floating robot that imitates the sea eel in everything
Researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University of Lausanne (Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL) have long been developing robots copied from various species of living creatures, with which they study the neurobiological principles that ensure the movement of these animals. And one of the latest creations of Swiss researchers is the AgnathaX robot, which can swim in the water, like a sea eel.
The modernized Ukrainian T-72UA1 was unsuccessfully used in combat
The first attempt of the Ethiopian army to use the T-72UA1 tank modernized in Ukraine in battles ended in failure. One of these combat vehicles in good condition was captured recently by the militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray.
Russia has strengthened Belarus with modernized "Acacias"
JSC " Uraltransmash "(part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod" is part of Rostec) has completed the delivery of modernized self-propelled howitzers 2S3M "Acacia" to Belarus, the press service of the enterprise reported.
What equipment, except for TOS-1A and T-80BVM, was shown by Omsktransmash at Army-2021
Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (as part of JSC Concern Uralvagonzavod is part of the Rostec State Corporation) took part in the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".
The latest version of the BMP-3 with the "Epoch" module is seen at the landfill
The latest military equipment was used at the special exercises of the logistics support units of the Western Military District that were completed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. In particular, in the photo materials published by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, you can see the latest modification of the BMP-3 with the Epoch combat module.
The Serbian military police has started operating Russian UAZ "Patriot"SUVs
New Russian SUVs were chosen as the main vehicle for use in the competition of the Army International Games "Guardian of Order"
The Serbian Military Police has re-equipped its fleet with new Russian UAZ "Patriot" SUVs and started their active operation. This is reported by a TASS correspondent from the scene.
Lockheed Martin will supply ATACMS OTR to the Romanian Armed Forces
The US Department of Defense announced the signing by the command for the conclusion of contracts of the US Army with Lockheed Martin of an agreement to perform work under the ATACMS OTR service life extension program and the corresponding PU for the US Army and the Romanian Armed Forces under the "Foreign Military Sales" program.
The newest armored car for special forces K-4386 was armed with a "Cord, ATGM and "Tray"
The Russian armored car K-4386 (4x4) in the special forces version of the Z-SpN was shown for the first time at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021"
Bangladesh Air Defense Command plans to purchase new ATGMs
The command of the Bangladesh Armed Forces intends to purchase a large batch of anti-tank missile systems, which, as planned, should be produced under license by the Bangladesh Weapons Factories Directorate (Bangladesh Ordnance Factories – BOF).
Foreign ships will hide under Russian "Palm Trees"
The VII International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" has ended in Kubinka, near Moscow.
Rosoboronexport announced the signing of about 20 export contract documents totaling over €2 billion.
Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA brought down the computers of the US Department of Justice
Jeff Bezos ' lawyers presented more than seven gigabytes of data in the form of huge PDF files that cannot be opened.
The engine shutdown did not prevent the Astra rocket from taking off
The American company Astra launched the Rocket 3 light rocket for the third time, but again unsuccessfully: during the launch, one of the five engines of the first stage failed, so the flight began on a horizontal trajectory.