News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Its construction is planned to be completed in October

The construction of the first South Korean lunar exploration spacecraft will be completed in October this year. This was announced on Monday by the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies of the country.

The unmanned aerial vehicle, recharged from overhead power lines, was presented at the MVTF "Army-2021" by the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School named after Marshal of the Engineering Troops Alexey Proshlyakov (TVVIKU).

The ANPA-M underwater drone was developed for the Russian Navy, which interested the fleet command and was presented to the Minister of Defense, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

The latest military equipment was used at the special exercises of the logistics support units of the Western Military District that were completed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. In particular, in the photo materials published by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, you can see the latest modification of the BMP-3 with the Epoch combat module.

Turkey continues to strengthen its army with unmanned aerial vehicles. According to the Anadolu news Agency, on August 29, a solemn ceremony of adopting the latest Bayraktar Akinci reconnaissance and strike UAV was held at the Chorlu airfield in Tekirdag province.

Roscosmos has already shared the first details about the Russian space station ROSS, which is planned to be launched after the completion of the ISS operation. Now new details have become known. 

Researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University of Lausanne (Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL) have long been developing robots copied from various species of living creatures, with which they study the neurobiological principles that ensure the movement of these animals. And one of the latest creations of Swiss researchers is the AgnathaX robot, which can swim in the water, like a sea eel.

The American company Astra launched the Rocket 3 light rocket for the third time, but again unsuccessfully: during the launch, one of the five engines of the first stage failed, so the flight began on a horizontal trajectory.

As part of the exhibition program of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", the latest radiation, chemical and biological reconnaissance vehicles RHM-8 on the basis of "Tiger" and RHM-9 on the basis of "Typhoon-K"were demonstrated.

It is planned to complete the tests in 2022

Preliminary tests of promising 152 mm caliber shots for the Coalition-SV artillery complex have begun. This was announced to TASS by the executive director of JSC " NPK " Techmash "(part of the holding "Technodinamika" of the state corporation "Rostec") Alexander Kochkin at the forum "Army-2021".

Rosoboronexport is waiting for a decision from India on the acquisition of a fifth-generation Checkmate light fighter and is ready to consider a corresponding request from New Delhi, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev told RIA Novosti.

The delay in the receipt by the Russian army of the first T-14 Armata tanks may " indicate a number of problems in the design," the Defence24 portal reports.

Complexes of reconnaissance drones and cycloplane platforms may appear on Russian warships. This was announced on Friday, August 27, by the head of the project group of air assets of the Foundation for Advanced Research, Yan Chibisov.

The Russian Mi-28N "Night Hunter" helicopter can be equipped with the latest unguided S-13B missile, it also has a chance to enter the standard armament of Su-class aircraft. This was announced to TASS by Alexander Kochkin, executive director of the Techmash research and production concern, which is part of the Rostec state Corporation, within the framework of the Army-2021 forum.

It will begin after the completion of state tests, if there is an appropriate decision of the state customer, the Uralvagonzavod concern reported

The production of the latest self-propelled mortar "Phlox" and the self-propelled artillery gun "Magnolia" can be launched in late 2022-early 2023, the press service of the concern "Uralvagonzavod" (UVZ, part of the state corporation "Rostec") told TASS at the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

"Coral" is designed to transport a light diver to the place of work

JSC "Concern "Marine underwater weapons - gidropribor " (part of the corporation" Tactical Missile Weapons") showed at the international forum" Army-2021 "an individual tow of a swimmer" Coral", designed to transport a light diver to the place of work.

The Mi-28NM "Night Hunter" attack helicopter can be armed with the latest unguided S-13B missile. The S-13 combines the capabilities of several unguided 122 mm caliber missiles. The new missile has a switch of the initiation unit for instantaneous detonation of the warhead and two decelerations: small and large.

In the United States of America, the second stage of the solid-fuel rocket engine of a hypersonic missile was tested. This was announced on Thursday, August 26, according to the Defense News publication.

The station can operate at a distance of up to 10 km from the information processing device

JSC "Concern" Marine underwater weapons-gidropribor "is part of the corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons") showed at the international forum "Army-2021" the station "Mayak-2014", capable of automatically detecting a swimmer at a distance of up to 500 m. This was reported to TASS by the deputy general designer of the enterprise Mikhail Kettuev.

The technical solutions being worked out during the creation of the ROSS orbital station will find their application in modules that will be sent to other planets.