News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The Russian army is close to arming itself with new wheeled armored vehicles. On August 19, the TASS news agency reported that state tests of the latest K-16 armored personnel carrier and the K-17 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle on the Boomerang platform have begun.

Russia may have a flying aircraft carrier, the basis of which will be a heavy military transport aircraft Il-76. He will use the Molniya UAV, which is capable of solving, among other things, shock tasks.

The Kronstadt company has started the preliminary design of the heavy strike unmanned aerial vehicle "Thunder". Currently, it is being worked out.

After the development and adoption of the first Chinese mass self-propelled artillery Type 83 (analogous to the Soviet 2S3) in the early 80s, the command of the People's Liberation Army traditionally pays great attention to the development of this type of weapons. For example, the 155-mm PLZ-05, created already in the new century, can compete with the best foreign models in terms of its tactical and technical characteristics.

Russian Orion combat drones will be equipped with electronic warfare systems. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert, director of the Museum of Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov told what advantages the UAV will have.

The Orion attack drone will receive an electronic warfare system (EW), which will provide protection against missiles, and will be able to suppress the enemy's electronic systems. The UAV developer chooses the optimal EW system concept. This was announced by the general director of the company "Kronstadt" Sergey Bogatikov in an interview with RIA Novosti.

After determining the causes of the Il-112B crash, it is possible to make technical changes to the aircraft, Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec, said on Friday.

The Ares shipyard, located in Turkey, will create a drone that destroys submarines. This was stated by the general director of the shipyard Utku Alanc on Friday during the IDEF-2021 exhibition in Istanbul, Daily Sabah reports.

The postponement of the launch is associated with the need for additional confirmation of the declared characteristics of its devices, aggregates and propulsion system

The launch of the Russian automatic station "Luna-25" on a natural satellite of the Earth has been postponed to May 2022. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Roscosmos on Friday.

In Kiev, at the rehearsal of the parade in honor of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, modernized Soviet BMP-1s were seen. Only ten units.

These infantry fighting vehicles received a single-seat combat compartment "Spis"("Spear"). It was created to replace the Shkval module, first shown 20 years ago on the BMP-1U, also at the parade in the Ukrainian capital.

Within the framework of the Navy cluster, the forum will show the latest technical developments for the Navy

The Russian Navy will present a new combat module and a promising unmanned aerial vehicle at the Army-2021 international military-technical forum, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-chief of the Navy, told reporters.

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has suspended test flights of a prototype Il-114 passenger aircraft after the crash of the Il-112B. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the corporation.

Robert Strider, Deputy Director of the US Office of Military Hypersonic Projects, revealed plans for the development of the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile during a speech at a conference on space and missile defense in Alabama. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the publication of The National Interest.

The promising carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) MQ-25 Stingray, developed by Boeing for the US Navy, for the first time refueled the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye long-range radar detection and control aircraft (AWACS) in the air. The corresponding video was published on Twitter.

The secure communication platform eXpress, recognized as the corporate messenger of the year, will be presented for the first time at the Army-2021 forum

According to the developers, the eXpress platform has extensive capabilities that make communication in the organization fast and convenient, providing high information security. The solution is included in the Unified Register of Russian Computer Programs and Databases (the register of domestic software) and is certified by the FSTEC.

Military personnel will be able to receive better food, and the command will be able to monitor the organization of the process at every stage thanks to artificial intelligence and digital technologies.

It is proposed to integrate the software platform that manages the catering organization into the already existing automated system of identification and accounting of military personnel "Passport".

American pilots will be able to independently determine what damage their attack will cause. On August 20, the press service of the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) announced the completion of the development of bombs within the framework of the Dialable Effects Munition program.

The company Firefly Aerospace conducted a static burn of the first stage of the promising Alpha launch vehicle. Its start may take place soon.

"Tablet-M-IR "will be able to quickly exchange information with such complexes as "Yastreb-AV", "Smile-M", said Vladimir Pimenov, General Director of the Signal Research Institute

The Russian mobile artillery fire control system "Tablet-M-IR" will be able to direct guided artillery shells "Krasnopol-M2" and "Kitolov-2M".

Its flight range is up to 14.5 thousand meters

The newest guided missile of the air-to-surface class "Product 305E", designed for modernized Russian combat helicopters, was presented for the first time at the international military-technical forum "Army-2021", a TASS correspondent reports.