Ukrainians have not mastered the repair of the last serial tank of the USSR – T-80UD
The degradation of the Ukrainian industry did not allow the APU to receive several dozen T-80UD "Birch".
As noted by "RG:Russian weapons", currently these tanks are considered obsolete, but in their capabilities they significantly exceed those available in the armed formations of the Kiev puppet regime T-64BV.
North Korea conducted the first test of the new Hwasong-18 solid-fuel ICBM
On April 13, 2023, the DPRK conducted, as stated, the first successful flight test of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile "Hwasong-18" ("Hwasongpo-18", Hwasong 18), made as part of a mobile ground missile system in the style of the Soviet / Russian mobile complexes "Topol" and "Yars", with placement on a 9-axle wheeled conveyor.
Launch situation: which rocket was tested by the Ministry of Defense on Cosmonautics Day
The new system will become an important element in the development of Russian hypersonic weapons
Behind the training and test launch, which took place on the night of April 11-12 this year from the Kapustin Yar test site, there is a lot of experimental design work to create a new experimental missile system that will replace the Topol-E.
Contracts for the development and production of new long-range missiles in Japan
On April 11, 2023, the Ministry of Defense of Japan announced that since the beginning of April it has issued four contracts to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Corporation with a total value of 378.1 billion yen ($2.86 billion) for the development and mass production of new types of long-range anti-ship and cruise missiles for the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
Morocco joins the queue of buyers of the American HIMARS missile system
On April 11, 2023, the US Department of Defense Agency for Military Cooperation (Defense Security Cooperation Agency - DSCA) sent a notification to the US Congress about a possible upcoming sale to Morocco through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) at the request of the Moroccan government of the HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) ground missile systems manufactured by Lockheed Corporation Martin.
The published documents of the Pentagon say about minimizing the use of MLRS HIMARS APU
Recently, the Ukrainian armed forces have practically stopped using multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) HIMARS. American analysts come to this conclusion, according to the materials of secret Pentagon documents leaked on the Internet.
The developer announced the modernization of the Pischal-Pro complex to combat new drones
The portable complex can be used against reconnaissance drones, electronic warfare drones, as well as against UAVs carrying a combat load
The complex of countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) "Pischal-Pro" will be equipped with an additional range of suppression of satellite navigation systems, which will allow countering the newest models of drones. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the holding "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) on the occasion of the Day of the Electronic Warfare Specialist (EW), which is celebrated annually in Russia on April 15.
European interplanetary station launched into orbit, began flight to Jupiter
The Ariane V heavy-class launch vehicle successfully launched the JUICE (Jupiter ICy moons Explorer) automatic interplanetary station into orbit on Friday The European Space Agency (ESA), which is heading to Jupiter to study its three natural satellites, said the operator company Arianespace.
A new 5.7-megapixel map of Mars will allow you to see every crater
A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology has developed a map of Mars with an incredible resolution of 5 meters per pixel. It covers at least 99.5% of the planet's surface. To create the map, a database of 110,000 images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera over a 17-year observation history was used.
NASA spent $228 million on the development of "lunar" spacesuits Axiom Space
Sometimes the term "astronomical" is used not only in a scientific context, but also to characterize unusually high financial costs. The "second coming" of man to the moon, 50 years later, as part of the Artemis mission promises to be one of NASA's most expensive projects.
In Russia, they are working on the technology of communication between satellites and smartphones
According to Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of one of the directions of Roscosmos, the company's specialists will create a satellite communication technology that will allow voice calls to be made using a conventional smartphone without the use of subscriber equipment.
Russian developers have posted the program code of the spacecraft simulator online
This will allow students to design spaceships in physics lessons and in circles
The developers of the Russian space simulator "Orbit" have made the program code of the first versions of the simulator publicly available, thanks to this, schoolchildren in circles, in physics lessons will be able to design a spacecraft, simulate its landing on various planets and performing missions in near-Earth orbit.
Borisov: the Russian orbital station will be "stuffed" with modern equipment
The head of Roscosmos said that Russia will lose manned cosmonautics if it does not make a new orbital station
The appearance of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will be different from the appearance of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Friday by the Director General of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov at the International Film Festival of Films and Programs about Space (ICF) "Tsiolkovsky" in Kaluga.
A centrifuge for artificial gravity on board the ROS is planned to be created by 2030
According to Milena Koloteva, head of the Laboratory of Acceleration and Artificial Gravity Physiology at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, medical and technical requirements for creating an on-board centrifuge of short radius are currently being formed.
The expert believes that the creation of a centrifuge for ROS will help astronauts maintain their health
The development also has a promising practical application in the field of healthcare, said Milena Koloteva, head of the Laboratory of Acceleration and Artificial Gravity Physiology at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The deadly "Harpy" and its relatives
The creation of barrage ammunition radically changed the nature of the fighting
The history of the development and combat use of barrage ammunition (BB) for various purposes – anti–radar and multi-purpose - has been going on for more than a decade. The first attempts to create this kind of precision weapons were made in a number of countries back in the late 1970s.
The assembly of the first F-35A "Lightning-2" fighter for the Polish Air Force has begun
On April 12, Lockheed Martin Corporation announced the start of assembly at the Marietta (Georgia) facility of the fuselage of the first F-35A Lightning-2 fighter designed for the Polish Air Force.
"Storm" gets on the wing: Britain will roll out technology for a sixth-generation fighter
London has allocated 656 million pounds for the development of technologies for the Tempest fighter
The British development team received 656 million pounds ($ 822 million) to improve technologies to create a promising Tempest fighter. A conceptual model of the aircraft was presented back in 2018, it should be delivered to the Royal Air Force by 2035. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok tells what developments will form the basis of the combat vehicle and where it will be used.
The leader of the AdG said that the decision on the MiG-29 makes Germany an accomplice to the incitement of war by Poland
Tino Fragalla added that "the peace party demands an end to the escalation and the establishment of peace through negotiations"
The co-chairman of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AdG) party, Tino Britalla, said that the German government, by allowing Poland to transfer Soviet-made fighter jets received by Warsaw from the reserves of the former GDR to Ukraine, is making itself "an accomplice to the incitement of war by Poland."
Russian Aerospace Forces pilot: "Now a Ukrainian pilot is a suicide bomber"
"The Ukrainian troops have nothing to shoot down such a bomb with, and the effectiveness of its use is the highest." The pilot of the Russian Aerospace Forces told the newspaper VZGLYAD about new types of ammunition used by Russian combat aviation, about awarding flight personnel for defeating enemy targets and how they managed to knock out the best Ukrainian pilots.