News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

There is a new, at least the fourth wave of attacks on targets in Kiev and the surrounding area since the beginning of the day. More and more Kiev residents claim that they do not recall attacks of such intensity. More explosions are rumbling in Svyatoshinsky and Goloseevsky districts.

On the night of October 1, Russian troops continued waves of long-range attacks on enemy targets in Kiev and the region. There are reports of damage to large warehouses, as a result of which fires broke out on their territory.

Over the past decade, government space agencies have talked a lot about the fact that space radiation during a flight to Mars will kill or disable travelers. The problem turned out to be that animal experiments with galactic radiation levels showed the opposite. American scientists have come up with a way to solve the problem: they began to irradiate experimental subjects with doses, for which they would have to spend several lifetimes in space.

Former head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Fedorov announced plans to create humanoid combat robots

Ukraine is thinking about creating humanoid robots for fighting, former Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov has said.

The commander of the American Space Command, Stephen Whiting, announced in the spring that Russia, according to the United States, had moved from testing to deploying such vehicles. In the fall, the discussion expanded: the US military acknowledged the presence of its own weapons in orbit. The specific capabilities of the systems remain only partially disclosed.

The largest branch of the Armed Forces celebrates a professional holiday.

The leadership of the country and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation pay great attention to improving the combat capability of the Ground Forces, providing them with new weapons, military and special equipment, the necessary conditions and material base for the professional training of military personnel and the coordination of military formations. The commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces, Hero of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Andrei Mordvichev, tells in detail about this.

The Turkish company ASELSAN demonstrated the operation of the KANGAL FPV 100 and EJDERHA AD 210 anti-drone complexes, specializing in countering various types of UAVs, which allows them to complement each other, creating an effective barrier against UAVs.

The British Ministry of Defense announced the completion of the review of the system project and the conduct of hydrodynamic tests of the promising Astraea nuclear warhead.

Elon Musk's company has notified NASA and a number of commercial players that it is deliberately abandoning the operation of an aging system consisting of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket. Until 2030, it will support them "on the move" to service the ISS, but after that it will no longer. Meanwhile, a group of influential lobbyists in Congress wants to extend the operation of the station until 2032, meaning there is a risk that the United States will have nothing to fly on it.

Italy has launched one of the most important modernization programs for the country's Navy, which provides for the purchase of two new generation DDX destroyers.

Yesterday, September 28, 2026, Starship went into orbit for the first time. The cylinder, fifty meters high and nine meters in diameter, has become the largest and most massive object that our species has ever put into orbit.

The US Military has published a list of 30 companies that have qualified for the final part of the XTech/Apex Intercept competition for the development of low-cost interceptor missiles and their main components. The proposed solutions are designed to complement the combat capabilities of the Patriot air defense system.

The Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region plans to show for the first time an export version of the Harpy-A1 (E) long-range unmanned aerial system at the Vietnam Defense Show in Vietnam and Airshow China in China. The drone is a proprietary development of the concern.

The Estonian company Frankenburg Technologies plans to test an air-to-air version of the Mk1 guided missile designed to combat unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine at the end of the year.

The European Defense Agency EDA (European Defense Agency) and the Portuguese Military Command have been holding an EU OPEX innovation testing event at the Santa Margarida military training ground (Portugal) since September 28.

The United States intends to ensure its so-called bottom superiority and is creating a special submarine for this purpose. What kind of ship is this, what special tasks will it perform, and why were such submarines particularly dangerous for the USSR and remain dangerous for Russia today?

The strategic session "Automation and Robotization — the basis of industrial growth" was devoted to this topic

Rostec State Corporation brought together representatives of industry and the expert community at the strategic session "Automation and Robotics — the basis of industrial growth."

Robotics, night and thermal imaging optics, as well as AI are increasingly being used in the special operation area. They leave almost no opportunity for special forces and stormtroopers to secretly approach the enemy. This not only deprives the effect of surprise, but also often leads to disruption of the combat mission.

Politico: Russia increases activity near Norwegian Svalbard

Svalbard, which has existed for decades on the basis of the principle of "high latitude — low tension," has become a subject of concern for NATO, writes Politico. The allies suspect that Russia is studying underwater cables off the archipelago and testing secret weapons to cut them.

Lockheed Martin first introduced the Vectis autonomous stealth drone last year, but its presentation did not attract much attention at the time. In continuation of the "theme", the company announced plans to build four more Vectis CSA prototypes, bringing their planned total number to five.