News of new developments in the military-industrial complex
Elon Musk said that his ship can land astronauts on the Moon until 2024
NASA previously reported that such a landing is not yet possible due, in particular, to delays in the development of spacesuits
The head of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, expressed the opinion that the Starship spacecraft can land astronauts on the Moon earlier than 2024. He posted the corresponding entry on Twitter on Saturday.
Electromagnetic gun from science fiction went on sale
The American company Arcflash Labs has opened a pre-order for the world's first manual electromagnetic gun GR-1 ANVIL. It can accelerate a ferromagnetic projectile with a diameter of 10-12 centimeters to a speed of 60 meters per second - this is comparable to a powerful air rifle.
Scientists have developed a new generation of fabric in the form of bulletproof chain mail
An international team of scientists has developed a protective transformer fabric that can change its internal structure. It resembles an old chain mail-the particles of the material are located close to each other, which allows you to block external mechanical influences.
Adaptive engines will not suit American fighters
The head of the US Air Force program for fighters and advanced aircraft, Dale White, said that the engines of the AETP project will not suit existing American fighters. According to Air Force magazine, they are too different from those that are already used on airplanes.
The Ukrainian "destroyer" of the Crimean bridge received Czech chassis
The LCD-360MC "Neptune" anti-ship missile system "has become even cooler," says the Ukrainian information and consulting agency Defense Express.
The characteristics of the Russian replacement of the Ukrainian An-124 are revealed
The Russian advanced aviation complex of transport aviation (PAK TA), which should replace the An-124 Ruslan aircraft of Ukrainian production, is necessary for the transportation, in particular, of armored vehicles created on the Armata platform, self-propelled artillery guns, rocket launchers, multiple launch rocket systems, Sprut-SD anti-tank combat vehicles and MiG-31BM interceptor fighters, writes the Military-Industrial Courier.
The US has tested an intercontinental ballistic missile
The Americans successfully launched the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Her May tests, we recall, ended unsuccessfully.
The US plans to bomb the Taliban until the fall
The US Air Force has carried out several air strikes on the positions of the radical Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) over the past 24-48 hours and will continue to provide air support to the Afghan security forces at least until August 31.
Indonesia returns to the KF-21 project
Indonesia will not decide on the choice of new fighters in any way. August 11, portal defenseworld.net He announced that Indonesia is returning its engineers to the headquarters of the KAI company to continue work on the promising KF-21 aircraft.
MAI-411 made the first high-altitude flight
The MAI-411 aircraft assembled in Dagestan made its first flight to the mountainous region of the republic. In the future, MAI-411 is planned to be used to deliver tourists to the high-altitude area. It takes six hours to get there by car.
Secret documents now do not need to be swallowed
At the Army-2021 forum, a Russian development will be presented — shredders with the highest level of secrecy, which allow" dusting " secret documents.
In five years, the Dragonfly device will go to search for life on Titan
When the Cassini mission explored Titan from the orbit of Saturn, scientists received a lot of new information, but each answer gave rise to a dozen new questions. To answer some of them, in 2019, NASA approved the development of the Dragonfly research vehicle (Dragonfly). It will not be possible to make it universal, so the other day we decided on the priority goal of the mission – it will be the search for life in any form.
A drone with an infrared search and tracking system accompanied several targets
The American company General Atomics has tested the Avenger jet attack unmanned aerial vehicle with the Legion Pod infrared search and tracking system. With its help, the Avenger autonomously tracked and escorted several targets.
The Americans will create a manipulator for autonomous refueling of Apache helicopters
The US Army has signed a contract with re2 Robotics to develop a robotic arm for refueling AH-64 Apache attack helicopters in combat. The robot arm will autonomously bring the refueling gun to the filler neck of the tank and independently determine when the helicopter has received enough fuel.
The Ukrainian colonel called the new Russian missile an ultimatum weapon
Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zhdanov in his material for the publication "Glavred" suggested that the Sarmat missile system being prepared by Russia will have no analogues in the world, and that no air defense system will be able to intercept this missile.
The new chameleon robot changes its color to match the color of the environment
South Korean engineers have developed a new and relatively inexpensive technology of active camouflage using heat-sensitive pigments.
Photos of the first production vehicles of the new Ukrainian Neptune missile system are presented
The new version of the anti-ship complex uses the Tatra T815 as a standard chassis. The prototypes were placed on the basis of KrAZ cars.
Business Insider compared the latest submarines of Russia and the United States
Moscow continues to increase its advantage in the submarine fleet over the United States, which has always had a significantly larger number of surface ships. The United States, which has once again started a rivalry of powers, is trying to keep up. Military columnist Peter Suchiu wrote about this for Business Insider, who decided to compare the latest Russian submarines with American ones.
Russia has developed a satellite platform for monitoring power grids and pipelines
Roscosmos reported that the process of obtaining international patents for bringing the product to the international market is now underway
A universal satellite platform that will allow collecting and transmitting information about the state of power grids and pipelines is being tested in Russia. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos distributed on Wednesday.
A rocket from SpaceX was again chosen to launch a mission to the Moon
Intuitive Machines has chosen the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to launch its third mission to the moon — IM-3. Before that, the carriers created by Elon Musk's company were chosen for the IM-1 and IM-2 missions.