Finland buys additional K9 self-propelled howitzers in South Korea
As the Ministry of Defense of Finland reported on October 21, 2021, the country's Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen approved the purchase of five additional 155 mm/52 K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers in South Korea in 2021 and authorized the Department of Logistics of the Finnish Defense Forces to make an additional purchase of the next five such systems in 2022.
Copies of Soviet T-54s were made up for M1A2 Abrams in China
Specialists of the People's Liberation Army of China have begun to remake their Type 59 tanks, which are being decommissioned, into samples similar to those of a likely enemy.
So, an imitation of the American M1A2 was seen at one of the polygons. Army craftsmen quite close to the original (especially in the frontal projection) decorated a clone of the Soviet T-54.
The newest domestic robot "Marker" has received full-fledged machine vision
A huge set of neural networks was developed and trained for technical vision systems, which were subsequently optimized to build a dynamic semantic model of the scene in real time.
The robot "Marker" will be able to fight drones with the help of networks and drones
The robot will identify violators of various types: people without appropriate access to the spaceport, ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles
The Marker robotic platform, tested earlier at the Vostochny cosmodrome, will be able to fight off intruder drones with the help of electronic pulses, kamikaze drones and capture nets. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the NGO "Android Technology".
Ground robots acted as a conditional enemy of the US military
The US Army for the first time used ground robots as conditional opponents. According to The Drive, robots blocked the way to helicopter pads, blocked roads and performed other tasks. They were armed with M240 machine guns and Javelin anti-tank missiles.
Italy received a batch of optical sights "Shvabe"
Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant (refinery) supplied the Italian company Aurora International with sights for hunting, sports shooting and airsoft, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the company, reports.
Micron invests $150 billion in chip production expansion
The manufacturer of memory chips Micron Technology has announced an investment of $ 150 billion in the construction of new factories and the expansion of existing factories for the production of chips. Due to these investments, calculated for the next 10 years, the American company intends to meet the growing demand for semiconductor products and eliminate its deficit.
The thermonuclear reaction occurring inside the supernova is reproduced
Scientists at the University of Surrey (UK) reproduced the reactions occurring during a supernova outbreak in laboratory conditions using an accelerated beam of radioactive isotopes. For the first time, they measured the cross-section of the p-process, a thermonuclear reaction that occurs at the moment of the explosion of a massive star. The article was published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
The US Air Force will deploy an experimental nuclear reactor in Alaska
Air Force (Air Force) The United States has planned to place an experimental nuclear reactor at the Eilson base in Alaska by 2027, The Drive reports.
The new SSP-200 lifting pontoon was handed over to the Navy
The new SSP-200 ship-lifting pontoon has been transferred to the forces and means of the search and rescue service of the Navy. This was announced by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
In the USA, Russian "Karakurts" were evaluated
The Russian Navy may receive 18 small rocket ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt". The capabilities of Russian ships were evaluated in the United States. "Karakurt" demonstrates the modernization of the Russian Navy, writes The National Interest.
The former rescue tugboat is getting ready to go out into the big water
The crew arrived at the oceanographic research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", built at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar".
Warships of the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy have completed joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean
A group of ten ships of the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy made a joint patrol in the Pacific Ocean, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
An improved Cape-class patrol boat for the Australian Navy has been launched at the Henderson shipyard
The Australian Ministry of Defense announced the launch ceremony of the first (out of six ordered) patrol boat of the "Improved Cape" class for the Australian Navy, which took place at Austal Ships in Henderson (Western Australia).
The British are "populating" a new generation frigate
The British Navy began to master its new frigate. On October 21, the press service of the British Navy reported that the first sailors "settled" on the lead ship of the Type 26 project.
In the USA, the cause of the fire on the ship Bonhomme Richard was established
The US Navy has established the cause of the fire on the universal landing ship (UDC) USS Bonhomme Richard. The unsatisfactory technical condition of the ship and the low level of training of the crew led to a fire, writes the portal Janes.
The US Navy nuclear submarine damaged in the South China Sea was shown from space
Damaged in the South China Sea, the Connecticut Seawolf-type nuclear submarine of the US Navy (Navy) was captured on a picture of the Planet Labs spacecraft. The corresponding photo was shown by the publication The Drive.
Putin on PMCs in Mali: this is a private business, they are not there on behalf of the state
If the activities of PMCs come into conflict with Russian laws, the Russian Federation will react
The activities of private military companies abroad do not reflect the interests of the state, this is a private business, and if their activities conflict with Russian laws, Russia will react, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
The Russian Aerospace Forces did a good job on the positions of pro-Turkish militants in Syria
Russian aviation launched missile strikes on the whole of southern Idlib.
The terrorists' attempt to damage the Syrian army deployed in Idlib, expressed by artillery shelling of SAA positions, forced the Russian military to demonstrate the use of force to the militants.
The United States will continue to participate in Moscow-format talks on Afghanistan - Psaki
The United States is ready to participate in negotiations in the "extended troika" format on the situation in Afghanistan in the future, and could not participate in recent consultations in Moscow due to logistical difficulties, White House press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday.
