News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

A company from Scotland, AWS Energy, has announced the successful completion of the first stage of testing an existing prototype of an offshore power plant that uses wave energy. The installation was named "Waveswing" and worked for six months at the landfill of the European Marine Energy Center in the Atlantic Ocean near the Orkney Islands. At the same time, the average performance of the system turned out to be 20% better than the calculated ones.

Modern technologies are gradually blurring the line between manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. So, during a series of test flights at the US Army training ground Yuma, Arizona, a demonstration mission of the Black Hawk helicopter was carried out completely offline as part of the Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) program.

In Zhuhai, Guangdong Province in southern China, the China 2022 Airshow - the Zhuhai International Air Show has started.

The Defense Industry Department of the Republic of Turkey (SSB) has announced the start of construction of the STM500 attack submarine for the country's Navy. The model was developed by the Turkish company Savunma Teknolojileri ve Mühendislik (STM).

A solemn ceremony of launching the new frigate "Amiral Ronarc'h" was held in Lorient. She is the lead ship among five "defense and offensive" frigates ordered by the French Navy. Due to weather conditions, the event was incomplete, the frigate was never brought to the completion pier.

The fourteenth International Airshow China will be held in Zhuhai city of China's southern Guangdong Province from November 8 to 13. Taking into account the fact that combat drones show their high efficiency in military conflicts, Chinese engineers pay special attention to the development of the latest UAVs for various applications.

The British Army and Navy have tested a new solution that allows military helicopters to exchange important information in combat conditions.

The press service of Perm National Research Polytechnic University reported that the new method allows to reduce the power consumption of the equipment, and to provide a high level of fault tolerance.

The scope of application of exoskeletons that reduce the load and increase the physical characteristics of a person continues to expand today: they are used in medicine, industry, and power structures are also actively "looking at" these technologies.

MWM: Zircon" with a speed of Mach 9 in the coastal defense system

"Zircons" will be integrated into a coastal defense system like the Bastion system, where their direct predecessor, the R–800 Onyx missile, is already being used, writes MWM.It is expected that the "Zircons" will be used to defeat not only surface, but also ground targets.

Tehran has made great strides in the development of missile technology. In particular, the Bavar 373 SAM can hit enemy ballistic missiles at a distance of over 300 kilometers.

The Australian Navy has signed a contract with the military contractor Anduril (USA) for the development and construction of a large underwater drone the size of a bus — XL-AUV.

The information that appeared in the spring of this year about the development of a new coastal missile system armed with a hypersonic missile "Zircon" has been confirmed. According to a source familiar with the situation, a prototype of a mobile launcher for "Zircon" has been developed and is already being tested.

For more than a decade, the U.S. Air Force has been planning to acquire a successor to the KC-46 tanker, known as the KC-Y, before embarking on a program to produce a next-generation clean tanker called the KC-Z. However, service leaders, primarily Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, hinted that the Air Force may abandon the KC-Y altogether and simply continue to purchase more KC-46s before starting to implement the KC-Z program.

Nihon Keizai: Japan is thinking about creating its own hypersonic missiles by 2030

Against the background of the difficult situation in the world, Japan has thought about security, writes Nihon Keizai. The growing external threats prompted her to start developing hypersonic missiles. Tokyo hopes that the new weapon will help it deter opponents.

Ukraine has decided to focus on creating a fleet of marine drones, a week ago the attack of marine drones on Russian ships in Sevastopol led Kiev to think that this is the best option. Zelensky made a corresponding statement.

Perhaps the main caliber of Russian small arms will be changed, and this will affect the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifles. At least, the relevant statements are made by gunsmiths. Why has the caliber of automatic weapons already been changed in the USSR, what can the new caliber be and for what is such a reform supposed to be?

We talk about new technologies in the domestic helicopter industry

The aviation industry today strives not just to create new planes and helicopters, but to control the condition of already flying machines, to know in advance about emerging problems and not to repair, but not to allow breakdowns.

Using the Falcon Heavy superheavy space rocket from SpaceX, the Pentagon launches a new generation Tetra-1 small satellite and another military spacecraft into geostationary Earth orbit, information about which is not reported.

The United States no longer considers the previously existing approaches to the development of a limited number of large satellites and large ground-based systems justified. It took many years and a lot of money to implement these goals, now it is not relevant. The Pentagon's position was voiced by Assistant Secretary of the US Air Force for Space Frank Calvelli.