News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Crew Dragon's main competitor in the field of manned space flights is systematically unlucky. The CST-100 Starliner project is developing much slower than SpaceX's brainchild. The next test flight, this time manned, is scheduled for April 2023. Representatives of NASA and Boeing reported on the degree of readiness of the ship for the most important test before the start of full operation.

Wired: ex-director of Google will build the perfect military machine with artificial intelligence

The former CEO of Google wants to introduce artificial intelligence into the US armed forces, Wired reports. Eric Schmidt is going to equip the American army with a machine learning system that will allow for virtual side and testing of equipment using computer models.

Hit air targets at a distance of up to four hundred kilometers! This is an extremely ambitious goal set today for the Russian Navy – and work in this direction has already begun. However, for success in this case, it is necessary to solve at least two tasks – however, they are not too difficult, and the effect will be extremely high.

Specialists from BAE Systems have started assembling the first prototypes of the Challenger 3 tank together with their colleagues from the Ministry of Defense. As specified in the military department of the country, funds for the implementation of the modernization program of combat vehicles of this type have already been budgeted, and the work, according to the ministry, is proceeding at a faster pace.

Igor Alekseev, Marketing and Development Director of RBS-Harpy LLC, noted that the survivability of drones is up to 90%

The small tactical reconnaissance drone (MT UAV) showed maximum efficiency in solving the tasks of special forces units in the special operation zone in Ukraine. This was stated to TASS by Igor Alekseev, Marketing and Development Director of RBS-Harpy LLC.

Kongsberg Digital has received a contract for the supply of new simulators from Capital, which implements Project Selborne, a program for modernization and training of Royal Navy sailors.

How artificial intelligence is used in air defense systems, aviation and tank troops, said military expert Yuri Knutov. On Sputnik radio, he commented on the words of Elon Musk, who called AI the main threat to humanity.

Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group) will organize a large-scale exposition of the country's leading defense enterprises in the Russian pavilion at the world's largest defense exhibition IDEX 2023, which will be held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) from February 20 to 24.

According to the head of Petrozavodsk Valery Lyubarsky, tests of a prototype of the Orion-25 ekranoplane developed by the Moscow company "Ekranoplanostroitelnoe Association "EO "Orion" and built in Petrozavodsk at the Petrozavodsk Engineering Plant "Avangard" LLC (former shipbuilding plant) have begun on Lake Onega in Petrozavodsk Bay.

Moscow offered Delhi the technology of a new tank for further joint development

At the Aero India 2023 aviation exhibition, which opened on February 13 in Bangalore, its organizer, the Ministry of Defense of India, received an interesting offer. Through the mouth of Vladimir Drozhzhov, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, our country expressed its readiness to share the technologies of the Armata family of next-generation armored vehicles in order to use them for the joint development of the main battle tank (MBT) for the Indian national army.

The hull workshop of the country's largest defense company BAE Systems has been granted permission to build the first Type 26 frigate of the British Navy in Govan County, located in the south-west of the city of Glasgow in Scotland. Work in this direction is expected to begin in 2024.

The new generation KF51 Panther tank of the German Rheinmetall concern is unlikely to be in Ukraine.

According to "RG: Russian weapons", the stated deadlines of 15-18 months are completely unrealistic, since so far there is no such combat vehicle, in fact, and what they are showing us is just a running model.

The US Air Force Command is trying to find out information about the remote control of a large drone that flew next to a fighter jet. This was stated by the chief of staff of the American Air Force, Charles Brown.

The Americans, despite all their economic opportunities, are still trying to catch up with China and Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons.

Russia has begun testing a new unmanned tiltrotor with a smart wing. This was reported in the press service of the National Technical Initiative (NTI) Project Support Fund. According to the developers' plans, the aircraft will take off and land vertically, being also equipped with an autopilot.

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Alexander Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport, told TASS in an interview on the sidelines of the Aero India airshow about the prospects for promoting Russian military products on the national arms market, and what other joint projects Russia is ready to offer to its long-time strategic partner.

The American military-industrial company Northrop Grumman managed to exchange data between a reconnaissance UAV and a fighter acting as an enemy.

Blue Origin has created two new departments within the framework of the Blue Alchemist project, one of which is engaged in the project of the orbital station, and the second is devoted to economic activities on the Moon. NASA has already received a commercial offer from them for the use of some technologies for processing lunar regolith in the Artemis mission. It is reported that operating solar panels, electrical wiring and protective materials for lunar structures have already been successfully created from an exact imitation of regolith.

Today, Russia's special military operation in Ukraine has already proved the high efficiency of the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAVs). It is worth noting that drones are classified into the following types: reconnaissance (can be used, in particular, to adjust fire on the battlefield), shock (for strikes on ground targets), reconnaissance-strike, bomber, multi-purpose, fighter (for the destruction of air targets), broadcast and others.

On the occasion of the next anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, various events are taking place in Iran. Among other things, an exhibition of achievements of the Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is being held in Isfahan.