News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

In a few days, according to the plan, the Artemis-1 mission should start, within the framework of which several hundred colonies of terrestrial yeast will be sent on a journey through the Solar System. At the time of launch, all of them will be in a live and active state, and the purpose of the experiment will be to check how long they can live. The BioSentinel project has a horizon of 18 months, but can be extended if necessary.

The Forum has become a record for the amount of contracts concluded

The Army-2022 Forum has become a record in terms of the amount of contracts concluded — it exceeded 500 billion rubles. The main agreements relate to the supply of strategic weapons, hypersonic missiles, drones and armored vehicles.

On behalf of the US Army, the Boeing division and the Finnish-Norwegian company Nammo jointly developed and tested an artillery shell with a ramjet engine (RAMJET) for long-range shooting. According to Nammo representatives, during toasts at the Andøya training ground in Norway, a Ramjet 155 projectile was fired from a cannon, and its RAMJET successfully ignited. In flight, the projectile demonstrated stability and good controllability of the combustion process of the engine.gorenje

On August 20, the results of the six-day work of the scientific and business program of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" were summed up at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center.

Within the framework of the Army-2022 forum, a meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Commission on Innovative Projects and Technologies in the third quarter was held on August 20.

Russia's program to create its own space station is already in operation

Roscosmos showed a mock-up of a new Russian orbital station during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022". The station will provide a better view of the Earth from outer space than the current Russian part of the ISS.

The Indian Navy will receive the long-awaited aircraft carrier "Vikrant" (INS Vikrant) on September 1, 2022. It is expected that the ceremony of putting the ship into operation will take place in the port of Kochi, the country's top leadership will take part in it.

The fire-hazardous situation on the territory of Russia once again raises the question of the expediency of using only water to extinguish forest fires. In case of intense fires, water evaporates before reaching the earth's surface, which devalues the work of aviators and reduces it to zero.

The press service of Roscosmos publishes information on preparations for the launch into low-Earth orbit of the first satellite of the promising Sphere project. At the moment, the Fregat upper stage is being prepared, which will launch the first Sphere satellite into its orbit. A planned health check of the onboard equipment and equipment of the Frigate is underway.

Rostec State Corporation's Roselectronics Holding has developed a modernized automated communication line monitoring station OPK-32D2M. It detects radio emission sources in the range from 1.5 to 30 MHz in real time at a distance of up to 2500 km.

Founded by immigrants from Ukraine, Highland Systems (UK, UAE) positions itself as "a company engaged in research, development and project management, and specializing in the development and implementation of the latest technologies." Among its recent developments are armored vehicles, a marine trimaran and the unusual diesel-electric submarine Kronos, which deserves special attention.

The agreement is planned to be signed with the manufacturer of this military equipment - AeroVironment company

The US Ground Forces are expected to sign a contract within the next 30 days for the development of 10 Switchblade 600 barrage ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), intended primarily for the destruction of armored vehicles. This was reported on Monday by the weekly Defense News .

In 2029, the US will have a new intercontinental ballistic missile

On March 5, 2022, the US Air Force announced the official name of the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) USA – LGM-35A Sentinel. Previously, it was called GBSD (Ground Based Strategic Deterrent) – "Ground-based strategic deterrence System". What lies behind the change of this name?

"Russian Space Systems" will develop the latest technologies for drones and aviation

The development of new domestic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a take-off weight of up to 30 kg in partnership with the leaders of the Russian market of space instrumentation, avionics and ground-based aviation equipment is being launched by the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation).

Military observer of Izvestia Anton Lavrov — about the purpose of Russia's deployment of hypersonic weapons in the Kaliningrad exclave

On Thursday, August 18, three upgraded MiG-31I aircraft with suspended Kinzhal hypersonic missiles landed at the Chkalovsk military airfield near Kaliningrad.

Within the framework of the Army-2022 forum, the ERA technopolis specialized exposition presents joint developments of researchers and operators of scientific companies of the military innograd with leading universities, research organizations and industrial enterprises.

Leading experts in the field of quantum technologies at the international military-technical forum "Army-2022" discussed their development in Russia. Speaking with welcoming words to the audience at a round table organized by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Rector of the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI) Sergey Erokhin stated the importance of this industry for the state and business.

Russia sent fighter jets with hypersonic missiles to the area of Denmark

The only purpose that the Russian maneuver to transfer the MiG-31 serves is to deter NATO, a Danish military expert said in an interview with TV2. In his opinion, this is not a cause for concern

General Popov explained why the Russian Armed Forces deployed MiG-31 with Dagger missiles near Kaliningrad

Three Russian MiG-31 interceptor fighters equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were deployed to the Kaliningrad region. They are capable of hitting targets at a range of up to 2 thousand km. at a speed that makes it impossible to intercept them with modern missile defense systems. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out for what purpose it was done.

At the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum, Ural Automobile Plant JSC (as part of United Machine-Building Group LLC) presented a prototype of an unmanned truck on the Ural-432067-73 chassis with a 4x4 wheel formula. Although the machine was originally developed for the Russian Armed Forces, however, it is offered for both military and civilian applications (which was emphasized by the original "two-sided" paint scheme of the machine).