Hypersonic remaking: How new systems are changing the global arms market
Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them
The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).
State tests of "smart" ammunition for "Terminators" will start in April
State tests of 30-millimeter ammunition with remote detonation for combat vehicles supporting Terminator tanks will start in April 2021, the general director of the company developing these shells, NPO Pribor (part of the Techmash concern), told RIA Novosti.") Yuri Nabokov.
The Russian army will receive more than 800 tanks and other armored vehicles this year
A batch of new T-90M "Proryv"tanks is expected to arrive
The Russian army this year will be reinforced with more than 800 units of new and modernized armored vehicles - tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armored personnel carriers (APCs), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
The future of the Russian unmanned T-14 Armata is revealed»
The Russian T-14 Armata tank "will not be mass-produced in an unmanned version and is rather used for testing the relevant technologies." The corresponding future of the combat vehicle was revealed to Izvestia by the industrial director of the Rostec weapons complex, Bekhan Ozdoev.
Serial deliveries of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of new T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks have begun"
The Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, Rostec) has started serial deliveries of new T-90M Proryv tanks to the Russian Defense Ministry, the UVZ press service told Interfax.
Russian artillery will receive systems with elements of artificial intelligence
This will significantly reduce the time of fire control and eliminate operator errors
An automated guidance fire control system (ASU) for barrel artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) is being developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS at the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 by the press service of the holding company " High-precision Complexes "(part of the state Corporation"Rostec").
"Dita", sister of "Dana" and " Zuzana»
The Czechoslovak development of the ShKh vz. 77 Dana continues to transform into new versions of the ACS. On February 22, the Excalibur Army company introduced a new modification of the self-propelled artillery system called Dita.
EDA will combine self-driving vehicles into an intelligent swarm
The European Defense Agency (EDA) has launched a project to develop a swarm of autonomous all-terrain vehicles ARTUS (Autonomous Rough-terrain Transport UGV Swarm) launch event. Ground-based unmanned military vehicles are supposed to be combined with the help of artificial intelligence
Everyone needs light machine guns
The Kalashnikov Concern expects to start mass production of the new RPL-20 belt machine gun after its adoption and testing in the military, said the general director of the concern Dmitry Tarasov.
The US military bought a lot of ancient, but domestic chips
GlobalFoundries has signed a contract with the Pentagon to supply several batches of chips for the US Army. Their purpose is unknown, and the first shipment is scheduled for 2023. All chips will be 45-nanometer, although by 2023 the main chip suppliers are going to master the 3-nanometer process.
Special purpose boat for the Russian Navy laid in Tatarstan
The ceremony of laying the hull of the thirteenth serial special purpose boat of the project 21980 was held at the Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky (part of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation), the press service of the corporation reported.
The manufacturer spoke about the interest in the Russian ships " Karakurt-E"
About ten foreign countries are showing interest in the Russian small missile ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt-E", said RIA Novosti on Tuesday, Deputy General Director of the shipbuilding corporation" Ak Bars " for external cooperation Alexander Emelyushin.
What prevents Russia from creating a large military fleet for Iran
Iran, according to its representatives, for the first time in its history began to build "large warships". Is this ambitious country preparing a full-fledged navy to confront the United States? Is she able to do it on her own? Maybe Russia should help Iran in this?
France has begun developing a new type of strategic nuclear submarine
France has announced the start of work on a promising strategic nuclear submarine. It is assumed that each such ship will be able to carry 16 ballistic missiles.
Interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on arms exports
The newspaper "Kommersant" under the headline "The tension has long grown so that you no longer notice additional shades": Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on the export of weapons " published an interview with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.
Named the best Russian weapons on the world market
Russia occupies 21 percent of the global arms market, with 47 countries among its customers. Over the past decades, a lot of advanced systems have been released, which are actively sold abroad. The National Interest named the five most outstanding.
Russia and Turkey are working on various areas of the MTC-FSMTC
Russia and Turkey are discussing various areas of military-technical cooperation, Deputy head of the Russian Federal Customs Service Alexey Frolkin told reporters, answering a question about the progress of negotiations on a new batch of S-400.
Expert on the Su-57E: I am sure that many countries will "try it on"."
Russia is ready to sell the latest Su-57E fighter to strategic partners, and consultations are already underway with individual countries, Rosoboronexport reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political analyst Andrey Koshkin expressed confidence that the car has a great export potential.
The maneuver of two Su-57s was captured on video from a drone
The super-maneuverability of the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters attracted the attention of Internet users, who appreciated the video of flights at the Aviadarts competition in 2018.
The bombs and missiles hit home
In the Kaliningrad Region, pilots of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation performed bombing and rocket firing as part of a planned combat training.























