News of new developments in the military-industrial complex
The IDF adopted the MBT "Merkava 5"
According to foreign media reports, after the start of serial production, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) adopted the first main battle tanks "Merkava 5" (Merkava V ) under the designation "Barak" ("Lightning"). Thus, the fifth generation of this tank model, which appeared in 1978, began to enter the troops.
The T-600 heavy copter was first used to launch an anti-submarine torpedo
During the recent NATO naval exercises off the coast of Portugal, BAE Systems demonstrated the capabilities of its new unmanned UAS system based on the Malloy Aeronautics T-600 UAV, which launched a training anti-submarine torpedo.
Solar Airship One Airship: a round-the-world trip in 20 days without any fuel
Euro Airship has announced a round-the-world trip on a new type of airship for 2026. It is called Solar Airship One and differs in that it does not use any fuel or energy reserves for flight. All the necessary electricity is extracted from the energy of the sun right during operation and the only thing that the airship needs to replenish is water reserves.
Ukrainian freak: armored car with Speka missiles – a pathetic imitation of the TOS-2
Two years ago, the Dozor-B armored car, known for its unreliability, was presented for the first time, which, according to the developers, was turned into a light mobile flamethrower system "Speca" ("Heat").
The ships will stand – and go on a course that can be predicted
Research and forecasts of the development of naval forces
An analysis of the scientific literature on the prospects for the development of naval forces of foreign countries shows that at present the creation of modern forces and means for conducting armed struggle at sea, combat training and maintaining the Navy in constant combat readiness proved to be only capable of highly industrially developed states with a powerful military-economic potential and a high level of scientific development and technology.
Frigates for the Black Sea
The updated appearance of the patrol ships of project 11356 is presented
The loss of the flagship cruiser "Moscow" and the large amphibious assault ship (BDK) "Saratov" (both died last year), the disabling of another BDK and a submarine as a result of the rocket attack on Sevastopol on September 13, as well as the forced repair of several combat units due to damage, breakdowns and, if necessary, scheduled repairs led to to the fact that the Russian Navy (Navy) has a certain shortage of ship personnel on the Black Sea.
The struggle for the Persian Gulf in the XXI century
The Americans have released drones and opened a hunt for tankers, Iran responds adequately
First of all, let's consider what the Persian Gulf in general and the Strait of Hormuz in particular are.
Russian long-range cruise missile X-DB: the reasoning of Western analysts
Russia claims that it has introduced a new long-range X-BD air–launched cruise missile and that it is currently arming its Tu-160 strategic bombers with this weapon - this is the leitmotif of many Western media of recent days.
Pressure from above: what the fifth-generation Russian fighter is capable of
And how the Su-57 aircraft will change the combat capabilities of the Russian Aerospace Forces in a special military operation
A batch of upgraded fifth-generation Su-57 aircraft and generation 4++ Su-35S fighters was handed over to the Russian Aerospace Forces by the UAC Aviation plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on September 28.
The first Taiwanese-built submarine is ready
On September 28, 2023, at the enterprise of the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation CSBC in Kaohsiung, a presentation ceremony, the official naming and launching of the first diesel-electric submarine of Taiwanese construction, called SS 711 Hai Kung ( 海 ,, - "Haikun"), took place.
The jet version of the Iranian Shahed-136 barrage munition
A new documentary about their UAVs is to be shown in Iran. So far, the advertisements of this video have been posted on the Internet. Among other things, they showed footage of tests of a new version of the barrage ammunition from the Shahed line, only with a small turbojet engine.
Taiwan presented the first submarine of domestic production
At the shipyard in the port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan today presented its first Narwhal submarine of domestic production. At a ceremony dedicated to this event, the president of the unrecognized island state, Tsai Ing-wen, said that the appearance of her own submarine was an important milestone for the country.
Rostec inspection equipment will help to abandon imported analogues
Shvabe Holding of Rostec State Corporation has handed over inspection X-ray introscopes of the Sapphire-IR line to a production enterprise in Vladimir to detect prohibited items in parcels and bags. The supplied devices are not inferior in their functions and characteristics to foreign analogues and will help to avoid the purchase of foreign inspection equipment.
The Atom electric car has reached the tests
In Russia, tests of the domestic Atom electric car, which is being created by the company of the same name, have started. To be more precise, the functional automotive platform of the future electric car will be tested, and not its prototype.
MISIS has created a bioprinter that prints soft tissues directly on wounds
MISIS announced the creation of a bioprinter that prints soft tissues directly on the wounds of patients, which has already been tested on animals and has proven its high efficiency. There are no world analogues of a bioprinter with such capabilities today.
The first four prototypes of the latest M-SHORAD short-range air defense system with a combat laser have been transferred to the US Army
The first prototypes of the latest SHORAD short-range air defense system with a 50-kilowatt laser have entered service with the US Army, the press service of the Ground Forces reports on its website.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine criticized the "new" Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle BMP-1LB
The Ukrainian army adopted an infantry fighting vehicle of its own design, for the first time new armored vehicles were seen at the front in early June of this year. As it turned out, the "new" BMP was developed on the basis of the Soviet tracked multipurpose tractor MB-LB.
Bio-research from the ISS will be transferred to the Russian orbital station
First of all, the ROS will conduct research on the radiation safety of the crew, it is also planned to study the effect on the body of conditions outside the Earth's orbit, during flights to the Moon and into deep space, said Yuri Smirnov, a leading engineer at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The barrage of the Iranian missile "358" is presented to S. Shoigu
According to the official footage of the visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei SHOIGU to Tehran, the Iranian government showed the guest a curious barrage surface-to-air missile, known in the West only under the index "358". According to experts, this is the first time that the authorities of the Islamic Republic have acknowledged their role in the development of this unusual weapon, samples of which were previously supplied to pro-Iranian forces in Yemen and Iraq.
The US Navy is deploying a ground-based mobile missile launcher SM-6
On September 18, 2023, during joint exercises with the Danish Navy, the US Navy for the first time carried out the transfer to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the deployment of a ground-based mobile launcher of Raytheon Standard SM-6 multi-purpose (anti-aircraft) quasi-ballistic missiles, which can be used to defeat both air, ground and surface targets. It is reported that the exercises "to protect convoys" with the deployment of this launcher ("SM-6 modular launcher system") on Bornholm will last about a week.
