News of new developments in the military-industrial complex
Drones — AI feed base
What awaits Russian developers and manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles in the next few years? In the mode of free discussion at the conference "Geoscan Technologies 2023" on April 11, visionaries of the industry spoke on this topic
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.
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 war on the seabed: responses from NATO and EU member States
The increasing risk of confrontation with Russia and acts of sabotage that occurred on September 26, 2022 on the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea accelerated the implementation of plans in NATO and European countries to protect underwater infrastructure, such as communication cables, oil and gas pipelines, and production sites in waters of the exclusive economic zone.
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.
Within the framework of the "Week of High Technologies", they talked about the mechanisms of accelerated innovation implementation for the Russian Defense Ministry
Effective practices and mechanisms for accelerated innovation implementation became the subject of the business agenda at the thematic session devoted to the development of dual-use technologies and technological sovereignty of Russia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
These professions of the future are not afraid of artificial intelligence
Founder and Chairman of the Association of Artificial Intelligence Policy of Turkey Zafer Kucukshabanoglu wrote about how AI will affect professions and which of them will come to the fore with the development of artificial intelligence.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
Rostec has launched the production of assault bulletproof vests of increased protection class
The Oktava plant (part of RT-Capital, part of Rostec State Corporation) has launched the production of assault body armor "Obereg".
When the machines rise up
Ground combat robots are coming not quickly, but inevitably
Ground-based unmanned systems, or simply robots, are not developing as fast as their "flying counterparts", that is, UAVs. But even here the trend is obvious: machines will increasingly replace people on the battlefield.
Andrey Komarov: "We expect to reach the world level at a faster pace"
Andrey Komarov, Director of Digital Transformation at Rostec State Corporation, took part in the International Conference on Machine Learning, Data Analysis and AI Technologies Data Fusion 2023, which takes place on April 13-14 at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Andrey Komarov spoke about what results the State Corporation plans to achieve under the roadmap "New Industrial Software" by the end of 2023.