Ships will receive hypersonic missiles and previously unavailable capabilities

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu urged his subordinates and industry representatives not to lose the pace of re-equipping the army and navy, and to strengthen the potential of high-precision weapons at the last conference call.

As reported by the web resource Sudоstrоenie.info In December 2020, the first Russian-made gas turbine engines and gearboxes were loaded into the hold of the aft engine room of the Admiral Golovko frigate Project 22350 (factory number 923), which is under construction for the Russian Navy, at the Severnaya Verf Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC) in St. Petersburg. This is stated in a story published on January 19, 2021 on the channel of the Northern Shipyard shipbuilding enterprise on the Youtube video service.

NUST MISIS scientists in collaboration with Russian and foreign colleagues were able to improve the technology of obtaining medical alloys with shape memory. The new technique will improve the reliability of existing surgical devices and develop a number of new ones. The results of the study are published in the journal JOM.

We remind our readers that the main "standard" block of a quantum computer is a quantum bit, a qubit that can simultaneously store and process the quantum information contained in it.

At the training ground near Voronezh, the military tested the first sapper robot "Uran-6"on the western border of Russia. The armored tracked vehicle, whose task is to destroy mines and other explosive objects without risking the lives and health of people, came to the engineer regiment as recently as December 2020. At its first practical application, the correspondent of "RG" was present - he mastered the basics of controlling a six-ton robot, understood why only strong men can do this, and found out why there is a big red button on the armor of "Uranus".

In the Kaliningrad region, on the eve of the Day of the Engineering Troops, engineers of the Baltic Fleet conducted large-scale exercises. At the beginning of the maneuvers, a crossing was made using a pontoon-bridge park.

The British company Supacat has completed the development of a set of conversion of Jackal 1 diesel armored vehicles into hybrid ones without loss of driving characteristics. According to Jane's, the company also prepared the first such armored vehicle for the installation of the kit and testing. All work was completed in mid-December last year, but the company announced this only now.

It is known that armored vehicles pose a certain danger even in peacetime. It is not for nothing that warning signs are installed on military training grounds, where tanks, IFVs and other combat vehicles maneuver, calling for increased attention.

Europe is preparing a competitor to the" smart " Excalibur projectile. Yesterday, January 20, the press service of the French company Nexter Munitions announced the successful completion of the first fire tests of the KATANA 155 mm ammunition.

The crisis year 2020 for the whole country paradoxically turned out to be very successful for the production of domestic tractors and combines. Sales of agricultural machinery within the country and export of agricultural machinery have also increased sharply. What is the reason for such achievements of the whole industry and whether it will be possible to repeat this success in 2021?

According to the author, relations between Russia and the United States have reached a dangerous point after Moscow, following Washington, announced its withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty. What this step gives the two countries and why we should expect consequences for the whole world — in the article Al Araby Al Jadeed.

Russia is ready for a dialogue with the United States on intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles, if the administration of American President Joe Biden is interested in finding solutions acceptable to the parties. This was stated on January 21 by the Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.

Each test launch of the RS-28 Sarmat attracts the attention of many countries. The reason is justified - the power of the latest generation of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) is unprecedented. The United States in the near future is unlikely to be able to come up with anything to respond to this threat, writes the Chinese publication Sina.

According to journalists, a subsidiary of SpaceX has acquired two drilling platforms: after the conversion, the complexes can be used for launching Starship spacecraft.

According to an informed source, the promising Russian module "Science" for the ISS found new technical problems. Experts do not consider them fatal and do not plan a new postponement of the launch.

Rocket engines produced by NPO Energomash provided 23 of the 114 space launches conducted in 2020, Roscosmos reported.

NASA may reduce its staff working in Russia. Some of the employees who work in the office in Moscow will be dismissed. Also, the division in Star City is waiting for the reduction. Perhaps the agency will refuse to rent the houses where the astronauts and their families lived, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The work of the department at the Institute of Medical Problems will change.

The Armed Forces are showing increasing interest in UAVs

In October, the Aerospace Forces received the first batch of Orion multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as control points. The novelty was developed as part of the development work of "Pacer" and lasted for more than nine years.

Over the Baltic Sea, near the Kaliningrad coast, there were simulated air battles of the Baltic Fleet's naval aviation fighter squadron.

Candidates are required to have a higher professional education, work experience from 3 to 6 years, and readiness to study at the test pilot school for 1-1. 5 years

The Sokol plant, which is part of the Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSC) MiG (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of the state Corporation Rostec), published an ad on the Internet about the search for test pilots in Nizhny Novgorod. The corresponding message is posted on the HeadHunter portal.