artificial intelligence for the first time during the flight replaced the co-pilot of the us air force aircraft

This week, the artificial intelligence artuid, created on the basis of an algorithm for playing chess, acted as a co-pilot during a training flight of the U-2 aircraft. The US Air Force expects that this AI can be modified for use on other models of combat aircraft. The development of artificial intelligence has already become one of the key areas of the Pentagon's innovation programs.

South Korea will protect its destroyers and frigates with American anti-submarine helicopters. December 17, portal defensenews.com reported that the administration of defense procurement programs (dapa, defense acquisition program administration) announced the selection of sikorsky mh-60r seahawk helicopters.

Omsk plant "Polet" will be able to produce 4-6 launch vehicles of the "Angara" family per year after the modernization of the production site, said the head of the Khrunichev Center Alexey Varochko.

NPO Energomash has conducted a successful test firing of the rocket engine RD-171МВ. This was announced on Friday, December 18, the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

This year, four launches were also planned, but they were postponed due to the pandemic, the head of the state corporation noted.]

Roscosmos plans to launch approximately six British OneWeb communications satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021. This was stated on Friday by the General Director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The patent for such a simulator was received by the company "Center for training and training of personnel"

The company "Center for Simulator Construction and Personnel Training" has received a patent for a simulator for astronauts, which will use an exoskeleton and augmented reality to simulate weightlessness to prepare for in-ship activities. This is stated in the patent distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property.

The telescope has found several dozen previously unknown objects both in the Milky Way and beyond.]

The ART-XC telescope of the Spektr-RG Space Observatory has completed a second survey of the entire sky. This is written by the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences on its website.

This is partly due to the complex process of approving draft treaties within the US administration, said Acting Deputy Director of NASA for International Relations Michael Gold

The initial skepticism of the Russian side regarding the proposed agreements on the development of the Moon by the United States was caused by incorrect interpretation of the content of this document in a number of media, but later Russia revised its attitude to the treaty.

China rejoices – the country's lunar program has taken a new height. Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated the entire Chinese people on the successful return of the lunar soil capsule to Earth. However, this huge success is only the first step towards the implementation of China's much more ambitious plans in space. When and with what missiles will China be able to send a man to the moon and even to Mars?

Robot dogs will help scientists in the study of Martian caves

Scientists have proposed to explore the Martian caves with robotic "dogs". Without fear of getting lost or stuck, they will be able to significantly expand the possibilities of missions on the surface of the planet.

the company from the united states began to provide commercial services for radar survey of the earth's surface from space in a resolution of 50x50 centimeters per pixel. This is the best indicator available on the market, and the images themselves are formed in such a way that even a layman can work with them.

The President spoke about the "antidote" at the annual press conference

At the final press conference on December 17, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is "actively working" on an "antidote" to the future hypersonic weapons (GZO) of other countries. The President did not specify which systems are in question, but information about some of them has previously appeared in open sources. Experts note that protection against such weapons is an extremely difficult, but feasible task. how it is going to be solved in our country-izvestia understood.

The Ministry of Defense of Israel, together with the Directorate for Defense Research and Development, completed a series of tests of the David's Sling anti-missile system as part of the layered missile defense system. According to the Israeli Air Force, during the tests, the complex successfully intercepted a target simulating a missile.

In 2021, a new Space Systems Command will start working in the United States

In the United States, preparations for the formation of the Space Systems Command have been completed. In general, the tasks that will face the new structure have already been defined, and the command is expected to begin its work in early 2021. "Newspaper.Ru " - about the next step of the United States to militarize space.

the truth and myths about the light scalpel

In February 2020, near the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, an American anti-submarine aircraft P-8A Poseidon was illuminated and blinded by a laser from a Chinese destroyer. This incident, some believe, marked the beginning of the open use of laser weapons as an independent system. From that moment on, they started talking about the rapid spread of laser weapon combat systems (LO).

Military Watch was impressed by the idea of creating a hypersonic strike squadron from MiG-31K.]

The publication Military Watch reacted to media reports about the decision to arm a squadron of MiG-31 fighters with hypersonic "Daggers", which is based in the north of the Kola Peninsula near the border with Finland.

According to Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company, the vehicles have successfully passed preliminary tests.]

State tests of the latest armored personnel carrier (BTR) K-16 and wheeled infantry fighting vehicle (BMP) K-17 on the promising platform "Boomerang" will begin in 2021. This was announced to TASS on Friday by the General director of the "Military-Industrial Company" (LLC "MIC") Alexander Krasovitsky.

Development from China helped designers from North Korea to create their own tracked armored personnel carrier, which received a large number of modifications.

It is known that in the 70-80 years, many samples of weapons that entered the army of the People's Republic of China were copies of foreign, mainly Soviet military equipment.

A cyber police will appear in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. On Friday, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov told about the adoption of the relevant decision by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Determine the type of target, its parameters, find out the course and nationality — the Ministry of Defense is testing the latest system of automatic illumination of the surface situation "Strategy"in the Black Sea. This development of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) will allow Russia to significantly secure the southern borders and prevent violations of the state border. "Strategy" closes all the means of tracking available to the Black Sea Fleet. About the system and its capabilities - in the material RIA Novosti.