News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

During flight tests held at the Flight Training and Testing Center in the Chorlu district in the Tekirdag province in northwestern Turkey, the Akinci reconnaissance and strike UAV set a new national record, the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate Ismail Demir said.

Baykar Technologies Corporation has published a video of a long-range test flight of the Acinci drone with a combat load. The drone spent more than 13 hours in the air with a mass-dimensional mock-up of a 1.3-ton NEB penetrating bomb suspended under the fuselage.

The possible use by Russia and China of drones and weapons systems based on artificial intelligence is of concern to the Pentagon. Columnist Chris Osborne writes about this in his article for The National Interest.

The new Russian fifth-generation engine for surface ships is a big event for the Russian Navy. It will be another evidence that the Russian industry is increasing its capacity and accumulating knowledge.

The American company Saildrone has announced plans for an "attack on a hurricane" – a flotilla of marine drones will be sent to meet a dangerous weather phenomenon to study it in extremely close conditions. Most likely, these will be machines from the Saildrone Surveyor series, which recently performed their first mission in an exemplary manner. A sea-going sailing vessel without a crew made the journey from San Francisco to Hawaii and made a map of the seabed on the way.

The Croatian company DOK-ING has introduced an armored ground robot Komodo. It is designed for radiation, chemical and biological exploration and can operate at high temperatures, complete smoke and lack of oxygen. At the same time, Komodo is also suitable for ordinary engineering work.

More than a decade ago, the Chinese military tested an underwater drone capable of independently finding and attacking submarines. According to the South China Morning Post newspaper, now the details of the tests have been partially declassified. They were published by Professor Liang Golong and his colleagues from Harbin Engineering University in the journal of the educational institution.

NASA has issued a contract to Northrop Grumman Corporation involving the construction of the HALO module for the new Gateway lunar orbital station. It is considered as an element of the ambitious Artemis program.

The United States has tested the warhead of the AGM-183A ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) hypersonic complex. Earlier tests of the system failed.

The unmanned version of the Armata tank has successfully passed test tests, Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec, said on Friday.

The Hunter UAV continues testing, it will have a large combat radius, Vladimir Artyakov, first Deputy General Director of Rostec, said on Friday.

The new C-13B aircraft rocket, combining the capabilities of two previously developed products at once - C-13T and C-13OF, will be shown for the first time at the MAKS-2021 air show, Gleb Varenitsa, general director of the rocket manufacturer, the Novosibirsk Artificial Fiber Plant (NZIV), said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to the head of the technodinamika holding Igor Nasenkov, it is assumed that the vehicle in landing is the staff

The technodinamika holding of rostec state Corporation conducts experimental design work (OKR) Parachute within which to create a cargo parachute system for the landing of armored vehicles "Typhoon" and "Tiger". This was announced to journalists by the general director of the holding, Igor Nasenkov.

The head of the holding, Igor Nasenkov, said that the suspension system, cargo containers and the Cadet-100D parachute are being finalized in order to increase the weight of the transported cargo from 160 kg to 190-200 kg.

The head of the Technadinamika holding, Igor Nasenkov, said that they are also creating an electronic parachute insurance system that will allow checking the performance of the insurance devices directly on the plane[.

The head of the Technodinamika holding, Igor Nasenkov, clarified that the main quality of the new systems is controllability, the parachute can turn around the 360-degree axis in 12 seconds

The new Cadet-100D parachute systems are planned to be delivered to the troops as early as 2023 to replace the main parachute of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation D-10.

The Defense Research and Development Organization of the Ministry of Defense of India (DRDO) has successfully tested versions of extended-range 122-mm rockets for MLRS developed by the national industry at the Chandipur test site.

A ceremony of the transfer of new weapons for the ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was held in Iran, at which a number of new models of weapons that recently went to the troops were lit up.

In Ukraine, an electronic panel for the modernized T-64 "Crab" tank was shown. It is surprising that for some reason such equipment was demonstrated not inside the combat vehicle, but outside, although it is clear that wires are connected to it.

The concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET) of the Rostec state Corporation will present the universal air data module MVD-90-2 at MAKS-2021. The product is intended for conducting flight tests of experimental aircraft models. The use of the module during the first flight of the aircraft allows you to identify the slightest deviations from the reference values and make appropriate adjustments to the design of the test apparatus.