News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Last year, the Japanese company Tetra Aviation won a cash prize of $ 100,000 for the development of a 33-engine single-seat electric aircraft of the eVTOL Mk-5 type, winning the prestigious GoFly Prize flying machine competition sponsored by the Boeing Corporation.

The Pentagon reported that by 2030, units of combat robots resembling the "Ghost Army" of the Second World War, commanded by General George Patton, will be formed in the American army. The "ghost Army" consisted of fake equipment and soldiers disguised as foreign troops and was intended to mislead the enemy.

American engineers have shown tests of a system that allows you to launch several quadrocopters from the air. A large drone with a mount for smaller devices takes off and transports them to the desired point, after which small drones unhook themselves without landing and stabilize themselves in the air in a few seconds. A recording of the tests is published on YouTube.

The American company Bell has made changes to the design of the promising high-speed reconnaissance helicopter Bell 360 Invictus. According to Defense News, Invictus will receive an open tail rotor instead of a fenestrone-a screw in the annular fairing.

On October 6, 2021, as part of the section of the Scientific Conference No. 10 " Neuromorphic computing. Artificial intelligence "of the Forum" Microelectronics 2021 " will host a round table "Domestic ECB for AI technologies as a driver for increasing the degree of UAV autonomy"

The specialists of the analytical company studied the situation on the market of solutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and published a forecast.

The Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant is waiting for the arrival of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Krasmash is listed in the list of production facilities that the minister is going to visit this week during a working trip to Siberia. The new Sarmat strategic missile system will be mass-produced at this enterprise. And the head of the Russian military department is personally monitoring all the stages of preparation for this important event not only for the army, but also for the whole country.

The US Navy conducted the first combat test of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) supersonic anti-radar missile, designed to destroy enemy missile defense systems, the American edition of The Drive reports.

The newest armored car "Typhoon-airborne" has been accepted for the supply of the airborne forces, the first batch of vehicles will be delivered to the troops in the near future, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

For the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry announced its plans to create a long-range hypersonic missile. It is planned to equip strategic aircraft with such powerful weapons.

The head of the Military Academy of the General Staff, Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, told about the plans for the development of a new hypersonic weapon.

The Russian rocket industry is amazing, said the founder of SpaceX

The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that he highly appreciates the Russian rocket industry and is studying many designs of rocket engines invented in Russia to create his own power plants.

The latest anti-aircraft systems, reflecting the latest achievements of China in the field of anti-missile technologies, were not even close to the S-500. If an export version of Prometheus appears , you need to buy it! This, in short, is the essence of the publication in the Chinese edition of Paper, where the author does not skimp on flattering assessments of the new Russian technology. The translation of the article is provided by the InoSMI portal.

For the first time, a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" can be launched in the fall. Earlier it became known that this year they want to conduct several tests of the product.

The Russian S-500 anti-aircraft missile system is significantly superior to its Chinese counterparts, The Paper writes.

India has put the first aircraft carrier of its own construction Vikrant to sea for testing. "Pride Day for India: the reincarnated Vikrant set off today for its first sea trials 50 years after its illustrious predecessor played a key role in winning the 1971 war," the Indian Navy command said.

The long-suffering Ukrainian armored car "Dozor-B", attempts to establish the production of which were accompanied by numerous scandals, decided to use it in a new quality.

On its basis, the Kharkiv Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering has created a light self-propelled flamethrower system "Speca" ("Heat"), the Defense Express edition reports.

SpaceX has installed 29 Raptor methane engines on the Super Heavy-the first stage of the Starship space system. Now it is assembled and can soon be used for the first orbital test.

The company Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, criticized the Starship spacecraft of Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It was to him that NASA gave preference when concluding a contract for the creation of a lunar module.

Import-substituting technologies for aviation and space were presented by a resident of the Technopolis Moscow SEZ, the general director of the capital's special economic zone said Gennady Degtev.

The Russian Federation is developing the latest long-range aviation hypersonic missile X-95, said the head of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky.