News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

According to Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of one of the directions of Roscosmos, the company's specialists will create a satellite communication technology that will allow voice calls to be made using a conventional smartphone without the use of subscriber equipment.

Sometimes the term "astronomical" is used not only in a scientific context, but also to characterize unusually high financial costs. The "second coming" of man to the moon, 50 years later, as part of the Artemis mission promises to be one of NASA's most expensive projects.

The Oktava plant (part of RT-Capital, part of Rostec State Corporation) has launched the production of assault body armor "Obereg".

Ground combat robots are coming not quickly, but inevitably

Ground-based unmanned systems, or simply robots, are not developing as fast as their "flying counterparts", that is, UAVs. But even here the trend is obvious: machines will increasingly replace people on the battlefield.

Andrey Komarov, Director of Digital Transformation at Rostec State Corporation, took part in the International Conference on Machine Learning, Data Analysis and AI Technologies Data Fusion 2023, which takes place on April 13-14 at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Andrey Komarov spoke about what results the State Corporation plans to achieve under the roadmap "New Industrial Software" by the end of 2023.

It is planned that the system will be adapted both for the return of the first stage of the rocket and for one-time launches

NPO avtomatiki im. Academician N. A. Semikhatov (NPOA, part of Roscosmos) will develop a technical project of a universal transformable control system for various versions of the Amur-LNG launch vehicle. The development can be adapted both for the returnable first stage of the future methane rocket, and for launches in a one-time version, the company's press service told TASS on Wednesday.

On April 12, Cosmonautics Day is celebrated in the world. 62 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first in the world to fly into orbit. After completing one revolution around the Earth on the Vostok ship, he landed in the Saratov region. Yuri Borisov, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, told TASS in an interview about the development of manned cosmonautics, the Russian lunar program and the tests of the promising Eagle spacecraft.

Patrick Baudry said that the main struggle in the exploration of Mars and overcoming other space frontiers will unfold between the United States and, in particular, Elon Musk's companies on the one hand and Russia and China on the other.

According to the relevant media, the beginning of a large-scale re-equipment of the French Air Force is possible. At the end of March 2023, the General Directorate of Armaments of France (DGA) announced the approval of a new standard fighter "Rafale" (Rafale F4.1). However, the new aircraft of this series will be delivered by the manufacturer Dassault only in 2024. However, as the DGA additionally reported, in the coming years, all Rafale aircraft in service with the Air Force and Navy are planned to be upgraded from the current version of the F3R to F4.1.

In early April, the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding reported on successful tests of the Arena-M active protection complex installed on the T-72 tank. The defensive system repelled the attack using not only Russian anti-tank missile systems (ATGMs), but also foreign ammunition. About how domestic protective complexes for armored vehicles were created and what is the uniqueness of "Arena-M" — in the material of TASS.

New images of the equipment that will be used by NASA to implement the Artemis II project have appeared on the Web. The posters depict the astronaut's spacesuit and helmet in large-scale. The pictures are impressive, but so far they can only be used as wallpaper on the smartphone screen.

After 20 years of development and testing, LiquidPiston received a contract from the US Army to create a prototype of the army version of its XTS-210 rotary engine. This development is unique in that in the era of mass electrification of technology can make a significant competition to electric motors.

Specialists of the "Research Center named afterKeldysh, which is part of the structure of Roscosmos, is actively developing and testing ion engines, which in the future will receive a domestic-designed space tug with a nuclear power plant on board.

The absolute majority of modern means of detecting landmines are, in fact, metal detectors "sharpened" for their search. However, over the past decades, mine developers have learned (and very successfully) to deceive them. A typical example is mines without metal components. In addition, the mine detectors themselves are still far from perfect, often reacting to harmless metal objects located underground.

At the end of February, the European Union imposed the tenth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, including the Khrunichev Center (part of Roscosmos), which produces Proton-M, Angara launch vehicles, Briz-M upper stages and other products in the interests of the Russian space industry.. In an interview with TASS, the general director of the company Alexey Brewho told about how cooperation with foreign companies is taking place in the current conditions, including through the ISS, about the possibility of manufacturing products in the interests of the domestic aviation industry and about flight tests of the Angara launch vehicles.

Andrey Yelchaninov, First Deputy Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, told Interfax correspondents Alexander Belov and Artem Rukavov about the internal policy of the state corporation, international cooperation and financial assessments of the creation of a promising Russian orbital station.

Popular Mechanics: Russian Poseidon torpedoes have been recognized as a real Doomsday weapon

Unique Russian "Doomsday" torpedoes forced the United States to think about strengthening defense, writes Popular Mechanics. But they had to admit: it is very difficult to defend against the "nightmarish" Poseidon — especially considering how easy it is to make a "deadly bomb" out of it.

The Law on Accelerating the Deployment of Universal Advanced Nuclear Technologies (ADVANCE) of 2023, submitted to the US Senate by a bipartisan group, is aimed at supporting efforts to develop and implement, including diversification of supplies and technologies.

The promising MQ-25A Stingray UAV tanker, which is being developed by Boeing for the US Navy, will not be ready by the deadline specified in the contract. The first deployment of the aforementioned drones on board the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is now expected in 2026, USNI News reports, citing one of the program's leaders, Rear Admiral Tedford.

Numerous aircraft of obsolete J-6 and J-7 models, which are Chinese versions of the Soviet MiG-19 (2nd generation) and MiG-21 (3rd generation) fighters, remain in storage by the PLA.