News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDELS, a division of General Dynamics Corporation) has officially presented the concept of a promising AbramsX main tank, which is an evolution of the American M1 Abrams tank. A video with a prototype demonstrator of the AbramsX tank has been published.GDELS itself stated that the AbramsX should become a "bridge" from the Abrams tanks of the latest modifications of the M1A2 SEP v.3 and SEP v.4 to a promising tank.

Dehumidification of tanks for launch vehicles in the Russian space industry continues to be a very costly and time-consuming procedure. For example, draining one tank at the Polet enterprise takes more than a dozen hours with non-stop gas supply. At the same time, the main time costs are directly related to the opening of leaks.

The Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Poland have been selected as sites for hosting the first European quantum computers, she said The European Commission on Tuesday.

The timing of the development of Legionnaire equipment will be tripled and completed by the end of 2023

The creation of equipment for a soldier of the future new generation "Legionnaire" will be accelerated – research work on the project will be reduced from the originally envisaged two to three years to one year, a source in the Russian defense industry told RIA Novosti.

The US Navy has signed a contract for the supply of a new generation of sonar buoys with the Ultra Group company.

French avionics in the cockpit of an import-substituted aircraft will be replaced by Russian widescreen displays

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has published information about the avionics of the new SSJ-New regional aircraft, which is now being created by its subsidiary Irkut Corporation.

Development of barrage ammunition in Israel and Turkey

Barrage ammunition has become one of the dynamically developing trends in unmanned vehicles, which has already formed a separate class of corresponding systems. The main idea underlying the barrage ammunition is the creation of relatively inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of conducting not only reconnaissance and surveillance, but also hitting detected targets with the help of a warhead integrated into the design.

Al Jazeera: the Belgorod submarine will ensure the dominance of the Russian Navy in the Arctic

The "Mother of submarines" is the name of the world's largest nuclear submarine K—329 Belgorod, writes Al Jazeera. It is capable of wiping entire cities off the face of the earth in just a few minutes. Vladimir Putin personally oversees the adoption and tasks of this deadly weapon.

The Iranian Space Agency, together with the Aerospace Industry Organization of the Ministry of Defense of the country, conducted a test launch of the interorbital tugboat "Saman". This is reported by the IRNA agency.

The American company General Atomics (GA) is developing a hybrid engine for the promising stealth drone MQ-Next. This is reported by Breaking Defense.

The military conflict in Ukraine has shown the enormous importance and high efficiency of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles of various purposes and classes in modern warfare. At the same time, it became obvious that it is quite difficult and very expensive to shoot down drones, especially small ones, with existing air defense systems. It seems that the solution to the problem of destroying small drones was found in the American defense company Grumman Corporation.

The Ministry of Defense of South Korea has spread information that the DPRK is going to test intercontinental liquid-fuel submarine-launched ballistic missiles in the near future.

The commissioning on September 2, 2022 of the first Indian-built aircraft carrier R 11 Vikrant represents an important and long-awaited step in the development of India's aircraft carrier capabilities. At the same time, this event was a reminder of the limits of these opportunities and the problems of their further expansion, write the staff of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Nick Childs and Douglas Barrie.

The Pentagon leadership is making feverish efforts to eliminate the gap between Russia and China in the field of hypersonic weapons. The military contractors Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, who won the fight for a contract worth almost a billion dollars, intend to arm the US Air Force with the "world's first hypersonic cruise missile" NASM capable of reaching speeds of up to mach 20 by 2027.

Does Russia have "more advanced" weapons than NATO?

What kind of weapon did Putin mean when he spoke about protecting Russia with all available means? Figaro asked this question. Russia's nuclear potential is known, but what are the means of delivery? Is the Russian leadership bluffing, proud of hypersonic missiles? Readers are asked not to check it.

The controlled version of the Falagh-2 rocket created by Iranian designers is capable of effectively destroying powerful enemy fortifications, control points, warehouses, identified accumulations of equipment, manpower and other targets.

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October 2 marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the scientific and production enterprise "Zvezda". academician G.I. Severin. It is the only manufacturer of spacesuits for astronauts in Russia. The NPP is also engaged in the creation of individual life support systems for pilots and astronauts, means of rescue of crews and passengers in case of aircraft accidents, aircraft refueling systems in flight.

An American engineer has developed a drone of an unusual design: it has three wings and one propeller on each of them. Thanks to this, it can hang in place, as well as fly in an airplane. Since the drone has a laser rangefinder, when rotating it works like a lidar, determining the distance to surrounding objects. A video describing the project is published on YouTube.

NATO intelligence has become aware of the movements of the Russian nuclear submarine Belgorod, the Italian La Repubblica reports. According to the publication, the alliance fears that its mission may be related to the test of the Poseidon super torpedo, capable of overcoming up to ten thousand kilometers underwater.

In Russia, work continues on the creation of promising helicopters

In mid-September of this year, the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet aircraft designer Nikolai Ilyich Kamov was celebrated. His name is forever associated with the history of the Russian helicopter industry.