News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

While energy is getting more expensive in Western countries and people are switching to bicycles, Africans buy 3.5 million motorcycles a year, and by 2030 this number is projected to increase to 10 million. A light and cheap motorcycle is an ideal means of transportation where there are no paved roads, public transport and an extensive network of gas stations. Specifically for these conditions, the Roam company from Nairobi created its first electric motorcycle.

Engineers of Wave Swell Energy (Australia) have developed the UniWave 200 offshore platform, which, due to manipulations with incoming waves, creates air pressure drops in a special chamber, powering a turbine that generates electricity.

The Belgorod nuclear submarine, used for the transfer of Poseidon nuclear unmanned underwater vehicles, was officially accepted into the Russian Navy

Russia has announced the transfer of the Belgorod nuclear submarine to the Navy. This is an important step by Moscow in opposing Washington, writes the People's Daily. It is the United States and its nuclear policy that are pushing Russia to strengthen its military potential for deterrence and counteraction.

An attempt to create an operational-tactical missile system "Thunder" in Ukraine ended in failure. Now the appearance of such a thing has become completely impossible. Now the AFU command can only hope for the remnants of the Soviet "Dots", and even that the American "partners" will give them MGM-140 ATACMS capable of hitting 300 km.

Military expert Knutov told about the tactical rifle "Stalingrad" that entered service with the Russian Federation

Military expert, director of the Museum of the Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov on Wednesday, August 3, told Izvestia about the TSVL-8 Stalingrad tactical rifle, which entered service with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

On August 1, 2022, the American corporation L3Harris announced that the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), as part of its Armed Overwatch program, selected the AT-802U Sky Warden turboprop reconnaissance and strike aircraft presented jointly by L3Harris and Air Tractor for procurement.

Russian troops need long-range artillery systems

On July 24, 2022, five months have passed since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. A line beyond which you can sum up some results, as the sailors say, look around in the compartments. And then draw new red arrows on the commander's maps. What are these five months talking about, is everything going as planned?

Every new weapon has a venerable prototype

A report on the development in Russia of a ground-based anti-ship ballistic missile (PKB) "Serpentine" with a hypersonic warhead (warhead) caused a wave of comments.

The publications of some Russian media about the development of a new hypersonic missile "Serpentine" attracted considerable attention of Western observers. Below we bring to your attention the article "Anti-ship ballistic missile of Russia", published by the War Zone resource. The author of the material conducts some analysis on the topic of the "Coil" and, to a certain extent, reveals the likely consequences of the deployment of this product. [As before, IVi's remarks are given in square brackets]

The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will be the first in the Russian Navy to take up combat duty with the Zircon hypersonic missile systems, Russian President - Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin said, speaking on July 31 at the Main Naval Parade.

According to the Ministry of Defense of India, the command of the country's Navy during the ceremony held on July 28 received the first aircraft carrier of national construction P71 "Vikrant" (IAC-1 – Indigenous Aircraft Carrier).

Putin announced: a new Russian hypersonic missile is coming, which is called "unstoppable"

These Russian missiles have no analogues in the world, and their characteristics will be the envy of any other country. Putin made it clear that Russia with the help of "unstoppable" and "invincible" weapons can hit almost anywhere in the world, writes Haber7.

Readers of the Chinese portal "Guancha" were delighted after the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Russian fleet will soon receive hypersonic missile systems "Zircon".

Captain 1st rank Dandykin told how the hypersonic missile "Zircon" works

President Vladimir Putin on the Day of the Russian Navy announced that hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will soon arrive on surface ships. The next stage is submarines and ground-based launchers. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the specifics of the operation of this hypersonic missile and why its appearance in service is of concern to the West.

South Korea has joined the list of countries capable of producing modern fighters. Flight tests of its first car of this class, the KF–21 Boramae, have begun. In fact, this is just a good car that cannot be compared with either the Su-57 or the F-35. Nevertheless, we are facing a significant event that will have great consequences, including for Russia.

Japan and the United States are planning to open a new research center that will develop next-generation 2-nanometer chips. It will be created by the Institute for Chip Research in cooperation with the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Natural Sciences (Riken). Technical support will be provided by the National Center for Semiconductor Technologies of the USA. Specialists will also be from there.

China continues testing a two-seat version of the fifth-generation Chengdu J-20 fighter developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group Corporation. The test record is published by the Telegram channel Dambiev.

The new long-range guided helicopter missile "Product 305" LMUR (Light multipurpose guided missile) developed by JSC "Scientific and Production Corporation "Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering" (KBM, as part of JSC "NPO "High-precision Complexes" State Corporation Rostec) was publicly demonstrated for the first time at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in Kubinka in August 2021.

It seems that London and Tokyo have decided to join forces to jointly create a new sixth-generation combat aircraft. Britain and Japan are developing an invisible fighter that will "put the American F-35 behind the belt".

The British Navy announced that on July 29, 2022, a baptism ceremony was held in Portsmouth and the transfer of the new experimental vessel X 01 Patrick Blackett to the fleet. The vessel, which received the prefix XV (Experimental Vessel), was specially built to provide testing in the interests of the British Navy of the latest technologies and autonomous and unmanned systems. conducted by the naval group of advanced projects and research NavyX.