News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The possibilities of implementing artificial intelligence technologies in automated control systems for monitoring and controlling military infrastructure facilities will be considered by a professional audience as part of the scientific and business program of the Army-2021 forum.

Toshiba engineers managed to send quantum information over an optical fiber 600 kilometers long and set a new record. This is reported on the website of the Japanese corporation.

The program of the global satellite constellation "Sphere "will be submitted to the government for consideration in June, said Yuri Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects.

Ukrainian developers have presented the concept of an attack drone that can, among other things, hit air targets. In the presentation video, the device hits the Orion UAV rocket.

The device will be a demonstration

The first demonstration spacecraft of the Skif system will be launched in the fall of 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the Deputy General designer of the ISS im. Reshetneva Alexander Kuzovnikov in the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

According to Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, for the first time presented a model of the UP-277 medium-range air-to-air guided missile developed by it with an active radar homing head.

According to the Ukrainian resource "Ukrainian Militarny Portal", the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, presented materials on the advanced project of the medium-range anti-aircraft missile system being developed by it.

The Italian Defense Ministry's Office of Naval Weapons (NAVARM) has signed a contract with the Genoa – based T. Mariotti shipyard for the supply of a new multi-purpose submarine rescue vessel (type SDO-SuRS).

At the moment, the Arctic monitoring system, designed to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic region, has already been partially deployed

The Northern Sea Route will be constantly monitored by various satellites of the Russian space project "Sphere" by 2024-2025.

A recent study conducted by Google and published in Nature showed how artificial intelligence can be used to improve the current methods of designing semiconductor products, which are the result of more than 60 years of efforts by scientists and engineers.

The test launch of the promising GBSD strategic ballistic missile will take place at the end of 2023. It is being developed to replace the aging Minuteman III. According to Airforce Magazine, GBSD will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the largest partner with which negotiations are being conducted is the European Space Agency

Russia and China are negotiating with many partners on the possibility of their participation in the project of the International Scientific Lunar Station. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the press conference of the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

Chinese television for the first time showed the automatic landing of cargo from the board of the Feihong 98 drone - a remote-controlled version of the Y-5B light multi-purpose aircraft, which, in turn, is a licensed copy of the Soviet An-2.

What many experts from different fields call "intuition" and "professional flair", it will soon be possible to develop through simple training from scratch. This conclusion was reached by experts from the Research Laboratory for the Development of combat Capabilities of the US Army. They were interested in the project of researchers from Augusta University (USA), who developed a method for recognizing camouflaged objects.

Created by the American military-industrial corporation Northrop Grumman in the interests of the Air Force (Air Force) The US strategic stealth bomber B-21 Raider, called the" coolest "aircraft in the world, will be invulnerable to Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-500 "Prometheus", writes The National Interest.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited a test site in the Nizhny Novgorod region during a working trip, where he got acquainted with the Ka-52M attack helicopter, which received a new set of weapons. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited the Smolino test site in the Nizhny Novgorod Region during a working trip, where he checked the progress of the state defense order.

The first picture of the new Chinese QBV-191 light machine gun has appeared. It will use cartridges of 5.8x42 mm caliber.

The Project 20386 Mercury stealth corvette may become an experimental vessel and not be part of the Russian Navy, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexey Rakhmanov, told Interfax.

Air Force (Air Force) The United States has completed the first phase of demonstration tests of the semi-autonomous precision weapons system Golden Horde ("Golden Horde"), for the first time hitting six bombs at once Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb (CSDB), reports Defense News.