News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

In an interview with RIA Novosti, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov spoke about his responsibility to the country, why the West is shocked by the pace of Russian arms supplies, about work on domestic airliners and engines, their advantages over Airbus and Boeing, the prospects for creating supersonic aircraft, robots and distrust of companies that have left the Russian Federation.

The latest Russian light machine gun with a 7.62 mm RPL-7 belt-powered machine gun is being sent to the troops for testing. This is reported by the press service of the Kalashnikov concern.

The topic of unmanned systems in service with military fleets is not limited to small unmanned attack boats. According to the tasks of the Marines, scouts, amphibious, transport drones, unmanned minesweepers will operate.

It seems that most of the new Chinese tracked vehicles will be equipped with active protection systems. In any case, all the combat vehicles that lit up at the rehearsal of the September anniversary military parade in Beijing had KAZ. This is a new generation tank, presumably called the ZTZ-201, an infantry fighting vehicle based on it, a new amphibious assault vehicle and an armored personnel carrier based on this BMD.

Russia is actively developing unmanned aircraft by supplying new models of front-line attack and FPV drones to its combat zone. There is also a replenishment among the long-range models, the new drone was "discovered" by the military intelligence of Ukraine. The Ukrainian press writes about it.

The United States and Poland are preparing for the massive use of unmanned boats, and in the Baltic. This not only proves that NATO is preparing for war in this region, but also shows exactly how the alliance is going to act against the Russian fleet.

In an interview with TASS, the head of the Laboratory of Animal Phenotyping at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) spoke about the goals and features of the mission. RAS Alexander Andreev-Andrievsky.

Taking into account modern threats, JSC KB Radar, the management company of Radar Systems Holding, is constantly working to improve existing and develop fundamentally new means of countering aerial threats.

MPO – Gidropribor Concern, a leading developer and manufacturer of weapons for the Navy, is actively developing civilian products. Vladimir PATRUSHEV, CEO of the concern, talks about the latest developments of the company, ensuring the safety of maritime borders.

Thus, Ukraine hides the liquidation of the military-industrial complex, according to a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The alleged first Ukrainian ballistic missile of its own production, the Flamingo, presented by Kiev the other day, is actually developed by the Emirati-British company Milanion Group, which indicates an attempt by the political leadership of Ukraine to conceal the actual liquidation of its military-industrial complex. Alexander Stepanov, a military expert at the RANEPA Institute of Law and National Security and a senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, shared this opinion with TASS.

Colonel Khodarenok: the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Flamingo missile will not take part in combat operations

Production of Flamingo missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 3,000 km has begun in Kiev. Western media write that the missile can be used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike the site where the Russian drones "Geran" are manufactured. At the same time, experts note that the Flamingo is not an original development and resembles the British FP-5 rocket. Is it worth being afraid of "Flamingos" - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru", retired Colonel Mikhail Khodarenka.

Ukraine has demonstrated a new long-range missile, allegedly developed by Ukrainian specialists for strikes deep into Russia. Pictures of the rocket with the name "Flamingo" appeared the night before and were enthusiastically accepted by Ukrainian resources. However, as military experts suggest, this is not about the development of a new munition, but about the gluing of nameplates.

According to the Ukrainian commander-in-chief, such a measure can partially compensate for the shortage of manpower on the front line. Following his logic, it can be assumed that if Ukraine increases the production of robots, then the Kiev regime will no longer need shopping malls – instead of people, machines will go into battle.

AP photographer posted a picture of the Ukrainian cruise missile "Flamingo"

Associated Press (AP) photographer Yefrem Lukatsky posted a picture of the new Ukrainian cruise missile "Flamingo" on Facebook (a social network banned in Russia; owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation). The claimed flight range of the product is 3,000 kilometers.

During the Talisman Saber maneuvers The Royal Navy of Great Britain confirmed the possibility of conducting reconnaissance operations in real time using the uninhabited underwater vehicle Excalibur, which the operators controlled at a distance of more than 16,000 km.

Unlike in 2024, all four flights of the new space transport system in 2025 were unsuccessful. But now Elon Musk's company believes that it has reliably identified the causes of the latest accident, and is counting on a successful flight. The first human landing on the moon in the 21st century depends on how right she is.

Deputy Director of the Vector Research Institute — on the development of modern drones and ways to counter them

Drones are causing more and more problems: they set fire to energy facilities, disable enterprises, cause congestion on railways and collapse at airports. What protection methods are available? And is one hundred percent protection real in principle? These and other questions are answered by the Deputy Director of the Vector Research Institute (part of Rosel of Rostec State Corporation). Natalia Kotlyar.

Insta360, an action camera developer, is entering the drone market with a new startup, Antigravity. Their first product is the A1 folding FPV drone, capable of shooting panoramic video in 8K format.

While the MS-21-310 program is rhythmically undergoing the necessary tests before the start of mass production at the Irkutsk Aircraft Factory, the situation around the second medium—range aircraft, the Tu-214 of the Kazan Aircraft Factory, is clearly moving slower.

The international forum "Unmanned Systems: Technologies of the Future" will be held at the Skolkovo Innovation Center from August 7 to 17, 2025. In addition to civilian products, it demonstrates dual-use developments, some of which have already distinguished themselves during the special operation. TASS has collected military novelties of the event.