News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Consolidation of efforts of federal and regional authorities, the scientific and academic community, as well as organizations and enterprises - leaders of the domestic IT industry, will reduce the transition time to domestic platforms and solutions using the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

The first flight of the promising strategic bomber B-21 is scheduled for 2023. This is stated in the official message of Northrop Grumman. A public presentation of the aircraft will be held at the end of 2022.

After the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin gave the order to transfer the country's nuclear deterrent forces to a special combat duty regime. This step was designed to prevent direct military intervention by the West in the armed conflict in Nezalezhnaya and became a guarantor of preventing a possible third World War.

How sea complexes are tested

Marine underwater weapons (MPO) have always served as one of the main shock and defensive means of the Russian Navy. And it continues to play an extremely important role in ensuring the combat stability of the naval strategic nuclear forces of our country.

An unusual amphibious drone was developed by scientists from the Chinese University of Behai, Imperial London College and the Swiss research Institute Empa: it can fly, then dive into the water, then quickly emerge from under the water and rush back into the sky.

The crew paid special attention to the detection of underwater targets at long distances

The crew of the guard ship of the Baltic Fleet "Intrepid", undergoing sea trials in the sea ranges of the Baltic Fleet, checked the operability and effectiveness of the ship's sonar system, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

JSC "Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician A.L. Mints" (RTI) and JSC "NPC "NIIDAR" (NIIDAR) — leaders in the field of creating complex radio engineering systems. Specialists of the institutes create both separate equipment and complex radar stations (radars) and hardware and software complexes.

Last week, China commissioned the world's first 88-meter semi-autonomous Zhu Hai Yun drone ship, capable of transporting and launching unmanned vehicles of various classes, and then controlling their actions.

Russia will soon put about 50 new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on combat duty, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

As reported by JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), on May 21, 2022, the ice-resistant self-propelled platform "North Pole" of the project built at this enterprise in St. Petersburg for the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) entered factory sea trials for the first time. 00903 (factory number 02404).

A video appeared on the Network from the Kamchatka Kura test site, where training combat units arrived after the first launch of the Sarmat heavy ballistic missile. The operator of Zvezda managed to shoot rare shots.

The California company Marine Advanced Robotics has made significant progress in creating an unusual modular vessel WAM-V, the prototype of which was first released 16 years ago.

Rosatom will build a huge plant for the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and industry for 26 billion rubles. At the same time, the products will be focused mainly on the domestic market.

In the last few days, there has been a lot of talk about the "revived" Moskvich plant and the production of a certain electric car on its basis.

The project of the second Chinese interplanetary station "Tianwen-2" has passed into the engineering design stage, and the device itself will be launched into space in 2025. It is expected that the station will be able to deliver soil to Earth from the Kamoalev Earth quasi-satellite, as well as study the active asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS, according to the website Space.com .

The US Air Force reported that on May 14, 2022, a successful flight test of the promising American air-based hypersonic missile AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was carried out for the first time.

The enterprises of the aircraft manufacturing sector of the military-industrial complex of China have established strong relations with the Pakistan Air Force, which has been achieved, among other things, thanks to the success in the development of aircraft engines.

Roselectronics Holding (part of Rostec) has created a portable multifunctional radar station (radar) to protect critical infrastructure facilities, the Rostec press service reported.

The head of Roscosmos threatened that a new hypersonic nuclear missile would "demolish half the coast of a hostile continent"

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the Sarmat nuclear hypersonic complex is capable of "demolishing half of the coast of the continent", which Russia considers hostile, writes the Daily Mail. Readers of the tabloid speculate about the development of a conflict of this magnitude.

The US Navy and Marine Corps are changing their concept of unmanned ships (vessels). Last month, it became known about the refusal of the US Navy from the project of an unmanned large-displacement submarine. The question is also raised about the future of an average unmanned ship.

The Starliner spacecraft docked to the ISS during a test flight

Boeing has completed a long series of failures related to the development of the Starliner ship. He was able to reach the ISS in unmanned mode, despite a number of emergency situations in flight and failures during previous attempts. Now, if the landing goes well, the first people will be able to go on it to the space station at the end of 2022.