News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

According to information from the blogs of the Chinese social network Weibo, the two-seat fighter J-20B made its first flight. It became a development of the Chengdu J-20, which first took to the skies in 2011.

Designed to enhance the firepower of the amphibious assault and mountain battalions of the Russian Army, the 82-mm self-propelled mortar 2C41 "Drok" is made on the basis of the armored vehicle "Typhoon - airborne K-4386.

The Chinese company WM Motor presented the concept of the M7 electric sedan. According to Electreck, the car will receive three lidars with a total viewing angle of 330 degrees and almost 30 more sensors. The M7 will have a significant range for an electric vehicle — 700 kilometers.

The American company General Dynamics Land Systems has signed an agreement with the startup Epirus on the integration of its Leonidas pulsed electromagnetic weapon on the Stryker armored vehicle. According to The Drive, the developers want to offer this combination to the US Army, which plans to equip Stryker with a directed energy weapon and has already tested it with a combat laser.

India is preparing to arm itself with the first aircraft carrier of domestic construction. October 5, portal navyrecognition.com he reported that the ship INS Vikrant went to sea to check the seaworthiness.

The platform is a set of on-board service systems and structural elements designed for the development of small satellites in CubeSat 6U formats

Sputnix presented a new nanosatellite platform at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization.

The parties held talks within the framework of the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin discussed with a NASA representative during the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai the possibility of docking the Russian ship "Eagle" to the promising American lunar station.

The ministry stressed that when approving the draft Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence, comments on the priority of national interests and on the implementation of the requirements of the National Security Strategy were taken into account.

According to the statement of the head of "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin, the timing of the tests of the ship "Eagle" may be revised. The reason is the absence of a superheavy rocket.

Roscosmos will present an exposition at the congress, where visitors will see a new model of the Nauka module, a model of the Zeus orbital complex and the TEM transport and energy module

TASS, October 25. The International Astronautical Congress opens on October 25 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the event is being held in an Arab country for the first time. Roscosmos will present its exposition at the congress, where visitors will be able to see a new model of the multifunctional laboratory module "Science", a model of the orbital complex "Zeus" and the transport and energy module "TEM".

Drones will indicate the location of objects and continuously transmit their coordinates to the control center

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of flying at high speeds in a wooded area and looking for targets there - from fugitive criminals to rare animals - are planned to be created in Russia. This was reported to TASS by Boris Vishnyakov, Deputy head of the Software Complexes Department of the State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS).

The end of state tests of Russian T-14 Armata tanks will be completed in the first half of 2022. After that, the issue of starting mass production of conceptually new armored vehicles will be resolved.

One of the enterprises of the Goskomvoenprom system of the Republic of Belarus continues to develop a radar of the Rodnik family designed to detect low-altitude aerial targets.

Chinese scientists have developed a method for secretly disabling spacecraft. To do this, it is planned to place small explosive charges in the nozzles of their engines. The consequences of triggering these bombs will look like malfunctions of the engines themselves, according to an article published by Professor Sun Yongzhong from the Polytechnic Institute of Defense Industry. Excerpts of the work are cited by the South China Morning Post.

The Russian heavy drone S-70 "Hunter" successfully withstood combat tests at the Ashuluk training ground - in particular, the device carried out bombing with 500-kilogram ammunition. It is also known that the drone can hit moving targets, act under the guidance of a fifth-generation Su-57 fighter or independently. And the technologies used in it belong to the sixth generation of combat aviation. All this together makes the S-70 one of the most advanced drones in the world, according to 19FortyFive.

At the ADEX-2021 exhibition, the South Korean KAI Corporation presented a full-size mock-up of a promising Marine Attack Helicopter capable of using multifunctional MUM-T UAVs.

The Marker robotic system will be able to identify several types of targets. The robot, which was previously called deadly, will receive funds to fight drones. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the NGO "Android Technology".

Russia has recently been paying special attention to the development of aerial and underwater drones. And the military will rely on them in the future.

At the Partner 2021 international exhibition in Belgrade, the Serbian Defense Industry presented various samples of new military equipment of national production.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the "Sphere" will include communication groups "Yamal", "Express-RV", "Express", "Skif" and "IoT Marathon"

The Sphere program will include five satellite groupings providing telecom services, and five more - surveillance. This was announced on Monday by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.