News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Units of the Ukrainian army may have begun to receive a new modification of the Kozak-2M1 armored car with a remotely controlled combat module. One such armored car was spotted near the line of contact.

According to Western analysts, the war in Ukraine has literally brought the issue of autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) to the fore. Moreover, both belligerents seek and actually use various degrees of AI and autonomous operations.

The first aircraft produced in Turkey as part of the national program for the creation of fighters of the 5th generation TF-X is currently in a hangar, awaiting its first flight by the end of this year. This is reported by the Defense News resource.

There are more and more photos of Z-STS "Akhmat" armored vehicles present at the front or being transferred to the zone of their own, which allows us to talk about the growth of the fleet of these vehicles in the Russian army.

How scientists solve the problem of the safety of solar panels of aircraft

Russian specialists have created unique coatings to protect solar panels and spacecraft optics from micrometeoroid impacts and other extraterrestrial debris.

The Norwegian army received the first unmanned all-terrain vehicle Mission Master XT. The effectiveness of the all-terrain vehicle was tested during the Arctic Mobility military exercises in the Finnish Far North.

The Turkish company ASELSAN has made significant progress in the development of an AFAR radar, designated MURAD. Soon it should be adopted by combat aviation.

In the conditions of the actual conduct of the "civilized world" war against Russia by the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, the increased attention of Western observers is riveted by military novelties of the domestic defense industry, one of which is the BTR-82A with the Ballistic missile and cannon module.

The military conflict in Ukraine has shown that the United States, together with its NATO allies, are not able to effectively support long-term large-scale hostilities with the regular army of the enemy due to the lack of certain weapons systems and even ammunition. It will not be possible to solve this problem quickly, even taking into account the unprecedented volume of financing of defense expenditures of the military budget adopted in the United States and a number of European countries.

Newsweek: the general of the US Armed Forces told how the wars of the future will look

Geopolitical tensions on Earth have reached such proportions that they threaten to go beyond the boundaries of the atmosphere, writes Newsweek. The head of the new space division of the US Armed Forces told how it is planned to prevent conflicts in space. It won't be easy to do this, and here's why.

A variant of the Typhoon-AIRBORNE armored car, armed with a modernized ZU-23/30M1 anti-aircraft gun, was shown during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" in August.

The Russian Chrysanthemum missile is one of the most powerful anti-tank weapons. At the same time, work is underway to improve its killing power.

In 2018, the French company Safran introduced a new Geonyx inertial navigation system with the latest generation HRG CRYSTAL gyroscope, which has a guaranteed service life of 1 million hours.

The Russian industry has developed a new modification of the Tornado-G MLRS (which is an upgrade of the BM-21 Grad) using the new Spartak armored car in an elongated 6x6 version as a chassis.

The Kiev authorities continue to "brag" about the rapid development of their military-industrial complex. Just recently, the Ukrainian media spread the news about the complete restoration of a large enterprise for the production of mortars of different calibers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Israel is one of the leaders in the field of creating laser weapons that can act as an effective means of air defense. According to the head of the defense company Rafael, which also works in this area, in 2024, deliveries of laser systems to the troops responsible for the air defense perimeter, which is built around the state, will begin:

The startup Antora Energy presented a demonstration prototype of an innovative energy storage device, the basis of which is a module made of a carbon array heated to a temperature of more than 2000 °C. The module is surrounded by a layer of insulation, which guarantees the preservation of heat inside for a very long time. The idea turned out to be so convenient to implement that Bill Gates became one of the investors of the project.

Self-propelled gun "Coalition–SV" - the secret of counter-battery domination of Russia

Since the beginning of deliveries of modern long-barreled 155-mm self-propelled artillery units of Western production with a barrel length of 52 caliber (L52) to the combat units of the AFU barrel artillery.

As reported by JSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), on August 29, 2023, the first prototype of the "import-substituted" Russian short-haul aircraft SJ-100 (SSJ-NEW), manufactured by the Production Center of PJSC Yakovlev (part of the Rostec State Corporation UAC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, made its first flight there. During the tests, the stable operation of all domestic systems, controllability and stability of the aircraft in the air were confirmed.

The Russian armored car AMN -590911 "Spartak", having received a 57-mm automatic cannon, can now destroy an enemy located at a distance of 7000 meters.