News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The US Navy has transferred the equipping of Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with medium-range hypersonic missiles. American sailors will receive the first ship with new weapons no earlier than fiscal year 2025. This is reported by The Drive.

At the latest exercises at the Kapustin Yar training ground, improved ammunition for the S-300V4 anti-aircraft system was tested.

The American army has begun to master a new generation of tank shells. Yesterday, November 4, the portal defence-blog.com He reported that at the Yuma training ground (Arizona), the first crews of Abrams tanks fired M1147 ammunition.

The Russian Defense Ministry has tested an improved version of the S-300V4, equipped with new missiles. Among other things, they worked out the interception of hypersonic blocks.

The "bodyguard" for the fighter made the first full flight. Yesterday, November 4, the Australian Ministry of Defense on its official YouTube channel published a video of the first flight of the Loyal Wingman drone with the landing gear retracted.

Israel is expanding its missile defense capabilities. Yesterday, November 4, the portal military.com He reported that the Israeli Defense Ministry announced the deployment of the High Availability Aerostat System, designed to detect missiles.

The artist depicted his vision of a sixth-generation Chinese fighter. According to some reports, Beijing is really ready to start flight tests of a fundamentally new combat vehicle.

Statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia plans to actively develop weapons using artificial intelligence technologies have alarmed the Pentagon.

The first samples of the gamma and neutron spectrometer were produced by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Space Research Institute (ICI) RAS has produced the first samples of gamma- and neutron spectrometer (LGNS) for exploration of the Moon from orbit and is working on them. This was reported to TASS by Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the ICI.

Such space projects will increase preparedness for various natural disasters on Earth, the department noted

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to launch three satellites in 2027 to study tropical storms and thunderstorms from space. This was announced by the director of the department Bill Nelson, speaking on Friday at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt (Maryland).

The United States has successfully tested the X-61 Gremlins unmanned vehicle. He was "captured" in flight by a carrier based on the Lockheed Martin C-130.

NASA and the private company Intuitive Machines have announced that they have chosen a landing site for the Nova-C lander, which will go into space at the end of 2022. It will deliver a drilling rig and an experimental communication system from Nokia to the area near the Shackleton crater in the southern polar region of the Moon, according to NASA's website.

The Russian Federal Nuclear Center is the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E. I. Zababakhin developed and patented an unmanned aerial vehicle with resettable wings, which is characterized by increased maneuverability. This was reported by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS), reports TASS.

The All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics named after Academician E.I. Zababakhin has received a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle of variable shape. As stated in the description of the invention, the technical solution is intended for attack drones and intelligent ammunition.

The upcoming equipping of the Russian Navy with Zircon missiles will be a powerful deterrent to any potential enemy, military political analyst Alexander Perendzhiev expressed this opinion on Sputnik radio.

The Institute of the TsNIIMash Space Agency has ordered turbojet engines for testing a reusable rocket demonstrator. Earlier, the timing of the creation of a prototype of the winged stage became known.

The cost per flight hour of the promising Russian fifth–generation fighter Checkmate will be seven times lower than that of its main competitor, the American F-35, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov said in an interview with the French edition of Le Figaro.

The Australians are continuing to test a potentially revolutionary unmanned wingman that will be able to operate in conjunction with fighter jets. The new tests included flying with the landing gear retracted.

The cost of a flight hour of a promising Russian light tactical aircraft (LTS), known as Checkmate and Su-75, will be seven times lower than that of the American fifth-generation fighter F-35 Lightning II, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov told the French newspaper Le Figaro.

The US Navy is expanding the Tomahawk missile family. November 3, portal navalnews.com He reported that the command of the US Navy has signed a contract with Raytheon Missiles & Defense for the small-scale production of Maritime Strike Tomahawk Block Va missiles.