News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Chief of the British Defense Staff Radakin: we must have hypersonic weapons

The chief of the Defense Staff of Great Britain, Tony Radakin, said that the country intends to start developing hypersonic weapons due to the presence of this type of weapons in Russia. He told about it in an interview with The Times newspaper.

In 2022, the development of anti-aircraft complexes "Derivation-air defense" and "Pantsir-SM-SV" should be completed, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The heavy intercontinental missile system "Voevoda" will be gradually replaced with a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" from 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

MAI will create a device for measuring astronauts' stress based on blood glucose levels

Russian scientists are planning to develop a device to measure the stress level of astronauts. In conditions close to weightlessness, researchers are testing the hypothesis of the relationship of this indicator with the amount of sugar in the blood, Izvestia reports.

BRAV The Russian Navy will re-equip the Bastion complexes with new hypersonic missiles in 2022

In 2021, coastal rocket and Artillery troops (BRAV) The Russian Navy has found a new development. The Ministry of Defense decided to strengthen the capabilities of these forces in 2022, Izvestia writes.

The Americans have decided on optics for a new generation of small arms. On January 8, the US Army press service announced the signing of a contract with Vortex Optics for the supply of XM157 "smart" sights for advanced rifles and machine guns.

After the cargo ship "Tianzhou-2" undocked from the base module of the station, the manipulator arm moved it to the side, and then returned the ship to its former place

China on Thursday conducted a successful test of moving a cargo spacecraft using a manipulator arm installed on the national space station. This is stated in the statement of the Manned Space Flight Program of the PRC in the social network WeChat.

The Laguna combat fire control complex was created and handed over to the customer, the State Military-Industrial Committee (GVPC) of Belarus reported.

Boeing Corporation showed a hypersonic aircraft model based on the Valkyrie concept demonstrated in 2018. It is assumed that it can be used to solve military or civilian tasks.

North Korea is raising the stakes amid rumors of a possible continuation of negotiations with the United States and its allies. On January 6, the Yonhap news agency reported that North Korea had launched a new ballistic missile at the Sea of Japan.

American engineering company Deere & The company, commonly known as John Deere, presented an unmanned tractor of its own design at CES 2022. The drone is built on the basis of John Deere 8R and the company plans to start selling the serial version in 2022. This is reported by Electrek.

The Chinese used the manipulator arm of the new Tiangong orbital station to move the Tianzhou-2 spacecraft. The operation was the first test of the manipulator by transferring a large spacecraft.

The Russian upper stage "Perseus" with a mock-up of the satellite entered the atmosphere over the central Pacific Ocean on January 6 at 01:08 Moscow time, according to the website of the American space forces Space-track.org . The upper stage could not bring the payload simulator into geostationary orbit — the first flight of the device created at RSC Energia ended in failure.

Currently, technical specialists of the Ministry of Defense and representatives of industrial enterprises are discussing the requirements for the helicopter

Representatives of industrial enterprises and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are finishing discussing the requirements for a promising combat helicopter and it is planned that in the next year and a half they will determine its appearance. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

We are talking about a technology called "railgun", which accelerates the projectile due to a magnetic field

The Japanese Defense Ministry intends to develop electromagnetic guns capable of countering hypersonic missiles. This was reported on Wednesday by the Nikkei newspaper.

Specialists of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of Roscosmos) have completed work on the project of a promising solar space power plant (SCES), which will provide electricity to hard-to-reach areas of the Earth, the RKS press service reported.

A new instrument complex has been developed for the machine, which allows increasing the speed and range of reconnaissance by 1.5-2 times

The latest RHM-9 radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance vehicles based on the Typhoon-K car will be put into service with the RCBZ troops in 2022. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Rostec State Corporation plans to launch production of 76 MS-21 civil aircraft by 2027, Rostec Corporation CEO Sergey Chemezov said during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

Almaz-Antey Concern, a Russian manufacturer of air defense systems, intends to increase the production of radio-electronic equipment and communications equipment, including civilian ones, against the background of a slight decline in exports, said Pavel Sozinov, the concern's general designer.

The air defense systems manufactured by Almaz-Antey Concern are the most reliable in the world and the most demanded weapons on the world market. This was announced on Wednesday, January 5, by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with the general designer of Almaz-Antey Pavel Sozinov, according to a statement on the Kremlin's website.