News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Cadets and teachers of the Air Force Academy in Voronezh showed their new development, a reconnaissance robot disguised as a stone. The video of the device tests was published by Zvezda.

The hybrid rocket engine of the young British company Pulsar Fusion has become the first step of an ambitious project that includes the development of its thermonuclear technology for practical use. At least, they promise to do it by 2025, and in 2027 they will already send a rocket with such an engine into space. If the venture is successful, the travel time to Mars may be reduced by half.

Roselectronics Holding of Rostec State Corporation, with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, has started developing the first domestic innovative radio–absorbing materials for anechoic chambers - shielded rooms designed for testing electronic equipment. Serial production of new products and delivery to customers is planned in January 2025.

Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Roscosmos, revealed on his Twitter account the planned names of the new modules of the promising Russian orbital service station (ROSS). According to him, they will be named after Russian regions.

In 2022, the Russian Armed Forces will receive parachutes for landing dog handlers with service dogs, tests of the system for such jumps should be completed by the end of 2021. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Technodinamika holding of Rostec State Corporation.

Russia has created a new version of a secure laptop for classified information. It was presented at the international telecommunications summit in Moscow.

The targets are designed for training combat swimmers, snipers and special forces

The domestic company NPO "Special Technologies" has developed unique targets for training combat swimmers, snipers and special forces. This was announced by the vice-president of the Russian Army Tactical Shooting Federation, founder of the NGO "Special Technologies" Andrey Rudder.

Russian engineers have designed an aircraft for intercontinental flights in the stratosphere. It can be called a conditional analogue of the British Skylon.

The company Zeva Aero from the USA presented a prototype of an aircraft in the form of a flying saucer. The developers believe that their development will interest the military. This is reported by New Atlas.

Rosoboronexport plans to bring heavy attack drones and kamikaze drones to foreign arms markets. This was announced on November 25 by the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev on the eve of the international arms exhibition EDEX 2021.

The range of Russian military equipment on the international market will be expanded due to heavy attack drones and kamikaze drones.

Rosoboronexport is conducting 10 contract negotiations on the delivery of the Orion-E reconnaissance and strike drone abroad, the head of the company Alexander Mikheev said.

Australians are learning to fight robots. On November 24, the press service of BAE Systems Australia announced the delivery of twenty M113 AS4 robotic infantry fighting vehicles to the Australian Ministry of Defense.

The new academic year, which starts in the Armed Forces on December 1, the marines of the Pacific Fleet will begin, among other things, with the development of a modern small-sized robotic intelligence system 1K144 "Sectarian". The first batch of such equipment was received by a Marine unit stationed in Primorye.

The progress of modernization works was checked by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko

An upgraded version of the MiG-31 interceptor fighter with an electric control system is undergoing state tests in the Russian Federation. This was reported by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko representatives of the aircraft factory "Sokol".

State tests of an armored personnel carrier and an infantry fighting vehicle based on the Boomerang platform are scheduled to begin in the spring of 2022, the head of the 154th military representation, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Chikin, told reporters at the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant.

Scientists of Perm National Research Polytechnic University have come up with a technology that allows to reduce the noise level produced by airplanes. The results of the study are published in the journal Akustika.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) checked the combat readiness of multiple rocket launchers "Alder". The corresponding video is published on YouTube.

A probe will be launched to one of them

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch on Wednesday the DART probe (Double Asteroid Redirection Test - "Experiment to change the orbit of a double asteroid"), which is designed to test the first of its kind protection of the Earth from potentially dangerous space objects.

The new S-550 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) based on the S-500 Prometheus air defense system will provide anti-missile and anti-space defense of strategic objects of Russia together with its predecessor. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source close to the Russian military department.