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The Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation will spend 500 million rubles to develop a new underwater drone for the Navy
Serial production of the advanced marine robot is scheduled for 2024-2025
Russia plans to develop a promising uninhabited underwater vehicle with increased autonomy by 2024, according to public procurement materials.
Wanted: UK charges militants in the case of the death of a Russian pilot
UK blamed four terrorists for the death of pilot Filipov in Syria
The investigative Committee of the Russian Federation intends to apply for the arrest of four militants on charges of the death of Russian pilot Roman Filipov in Syria in 2018. Then his plane was shot down, but he ejected. On the ground, he blew himself up because he was surrounded by militants. Filipov was posthumously awarded the Hero's Gold star.
Putin instructed the defense Ministry to sign an agreement with Sudan on the creation of a logistics center for the Russian Navy
Russia will create a logistics center For the Navy in Sudan on the Red sea, according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation.
Chinese threat: Britain fears for its defense industry
Britain will take measures to protect the defense industry from foreign influence
The British government is determined to protect the country's defense industry from Chinese investors. The draft law prepared for this purpose largely repeats the measures already taken in other Western States. European countries and their allies fear that China will use the economic crisis caused by the pandemic to influence the geopolitical situation.
I could tell British intelligence, the representative of "Aeroflot»
Another spy scandal has affected an employee of a leading Russian airline. An Aeroflot representative in the UK has been arrested on suspicion of high treason. How could this treason have been committed, what information did the accused allegedly have access to – and who should be held accountable along with him?
The Senate proposed to cut the budget of the NASA program to land people on the moon
The US Senate appropriations Committee published a bill on the NASA budget for 2021. The Agency will be able to receive only a part of the requested amount for the implementation of the Artemis program to return people to the moon, but scientific programs and the development of new automatic devices and telescopes will be fully funded, according to the website SpaceNews.com.
Rules for responding to emergencies in peacetime and combat will be the same
How to protect yourself from any misfortunes? And who will manage measures to protect and eliminate from all sorts of troubles? The response prepared by the Russian Ministry of emergency situations to these questions can be reduced to one short formula: the same people should be responsible for eliminating all troubles at any time according to the same unified rules. In other words, the response system should be unified, whether it is wartime or peacetime.
Contract for the first two us nuclear missile submarines of the new type Columbia
On November 5, 2020, the US Navy signed a $ 9.474 billion contract with the General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard (GDEB, part of the General Dynamics Corporation) in Groton, Connecticut, for the construction and testing of the first two us nuclear - powered missile submarines of the new generation-SSBN 826 Columbia and SSBN 827 Wisconsin.
Early S-400s: rostec handed over another set of systems to the defense Ministry
Almaz-Antey concern prematurely delivered the last regimental set of s-400 "Triumph" s-400 "Triumph"to the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation. The weapons are very competitive, which the US does not like at all.
The military-industrial complex told what "Sea launch" may be of interest to the Ministry of defense
The floating spaceport "Sea launch", owned by the S7 group, may in the future be of interest to the Ministry of defense for launching military satellites, believes Alexander Ivanov, a member of the Board of the Military-industrial Commission of Russia, who oversees the rocket and space industry.
Experts: lack of landfills and legal framework hinders the development of drones in Russia
Russia does not have the necessary legal framework for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, said Roman Meshcheryakov, Director of the center for intelligent robotic systems at the Trapeznikov Institute of management problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russian scientists create the most sensitive video camera in the world
A team of scientists from the NTI Quantum communications Center at nust MISIS is developing the world's first prototype of an infrared photon video detector - a camera so powerful that it can "see" the movement of single particles of such radiation.