NYPD breaks contract with Boston Dynamics
Since December last year, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has decided to use a modified Spot robot to perform explosive disposal missions so as not to endanger police officers. It was used several times to check the interior of a home that had been burglarized before police officers entered.
The special technique of the "Alpha form" will allow the combat robots to work together even without communication
The US Army is developing the a-shape (alpha-shape) technique, which will ensure the joint work of several robots in conditions of poor communication between them or even complete lack of it. It will help groups of autonomous robots achieve their goals without interfering with each other and without duplicating actions, even though they will not be able to communicate with each other.
New guided cargo parachute systems are being developed for the Airborne Forces
This year, the Airborne Forces will receive more than 13 thousand sets of modern landing equipment and parachute systems. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. These funds, among other things, will be used to equip two more paratrooper battalions with BMD-4M armored vehicles.
The submarine of the People's Republic of China received a missile to hit targets across the entire area of the United States
The new strategic nuclear submarine of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA) is capable of carrying a missile that can hit targets throughout the United States. This was reported on May 2 by the South China Morning Post, citing military sources.
The US will bomb Russia and China not by GPS, but by the stars
The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.
The Foreign Ministry appreciated the attempts to pass off the development of the US missile defense system as a defensive project
The attempts of the United States to present the development of a global missile defense system as a defensive project are nothing more than a"smoke screen". This opinion was expressed on Monday, May 3, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
Space junk makes our skies too bright
A recent study, the results of which are published in the journal Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, found that the ever-growing mass of space debris in low-Earth orbit creates another unexpected problem. The fact is that the sunlight reflected from it, falling on the Earth, makes it difficult for astronomers to observe the stars.
Solar probe "Parker" became the fastest man-made object in history
Engineers and scientists are celebrating the setting of a new historical record – for the first time, the creation of human hands has accelerated to a speed of more than half a million kilometers per hour. The solar probe "Parker" is currently moving at a speed of 532,000 km/h and makes its eighth orbit around our star. Its onboard instruments actively collect information about magnetic fields, high-energy particles, and take pictures of the Sun.
SpaceX is preparing to conduct another test of a prototype ship for a flight to the moon
The next prototype of the American Starship spacecraft, being developed for manned flights to the Moon and Mars, can be launched in a test suborbital flight on May 4 or 5, the specialized website Next Spaceflight reported.
At the Vostochny cosmodrome, the Fregat upper stages are being prepared for two launches"
Both subsequent launches will be commercial. They will be produced in May and July.
The work with the two Fregat upper stages is carried out by specialists at the Amur Vostochny cosmodrome. One of them is filled with fuel components and compressed gases at the filling and neutralization station.
US warplanes conducted hours of reconnaissance near Russia's Black Sea borders
Two American reconnaissance planes flew for hours near Russia's Black Sea borders on Monday, according to monitoring by Western aviation resources that tracked them using transponder signals.
Italian F-35A fighters in Estonia
On April 30, 2021, four Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters of the Italian Air Force arrived at Emari Air Base in Estonia to participate on an eight-month rotation basis in the NATO mission to patrol the airspace of the Baltic States (Baltic Air Policing - VAR). This is the first deployment of fifth-generation fighter jets in the NATO Baltic mission, and the first relatively long-term deployment of the F-35A in close proximity to the Russian borders in the West.
Su-30SM2: getting closer to the Su-35
Russian Su-30 fighters will undergo a deep modernization. Yesterday, on May 2, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Su-30SM fighters in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Navy will be upgraded to the Su-30SM2 version.
Pashinyan announced the creation of two strongholds of the Russian military base in the south of Armenia
Two strongholds of the 102nd Russian military base have been established in the Syunik region bordering Azerbaijan and Iran in the south of Armenia, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
Proletären (Sweden): huge NATO exercises in Europe-not "aggression"?
The Russian exercises near the Ukrainian borders have excited everyone. But the giant NATO exercises "Defender of Europe-21", sometimes taking place very close to the borders of Russia, for some reason do not bother anyone. NATO, led by the United States, wants to take Russia into the ring. It is a shame that Sweden is also following their lead, the author believes.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran announces the start of work in Vienna on the text of the agreement on the return to the JCPOA
The participants of the negotiations in Vienna on the Iranian nuclear issue have started drafting the text of an agreement on the resumption of compliance with the JCPOA, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
Afghanistan sees an increase in attacks against government forces in early 2021-report
The number of attacks on Afghan government forces in January - March 2021 increased by 37% compared to the previous observation period, Western media reported, citing the quarterly report of the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
The military of the Russian Federation and Turkey conducted a patrol in the north-east of Syria with a length of 100 km
It passed without incident, said the senior column of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Andrey Titov
For the first time, Russian and Turkish troops conducted joint patrols over the longest distance of more than 100 km in the province of Hasakah near the city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria. It passed without incident, the senior column of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel Andrey Titov, told reporters.
Source: The ship repair complex in Tartus will receive new opportunities in 2022
According to the agency's interlocutor in the military-industrial complex, this will happen after a floating dock is delivered there from Russia
Equipped in Tartus in the point of logistics support (PMTO) The Russian Navy ship repair complex in 2022 will receive new opportunities for the repair of ships and submarines after a floating dock is delivered there. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
The source called the service life of the world's largest submarine "Dmitry Donskoy"
The last nuclear submarine of the Russian Navy, the Project 941 Dmitry Donskoy, which is the largest operational submarine in the world, will last until the full production of fuel in a nuclear reactor, which will happen within the next three to four years, a source in the shipbuilding industry told RIA Novosti.