News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Russia has transferred an Orion drone to the Crimea, which is inferior in its capabilities to the Ukrainian Bayraktar TV2 of Turkish production, Defense Express writes.

Iran has a new high-tech ATGM. On July 7, the Tasnim news agency reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) received a missile called "Almaz".

The US Special Operations Command has announced its readiness to begin clinical trials of "anti-aging pills" on its employees as soon as funding for the next 2022 is approved. Preclinical tests have already been conducted, no negative effects have been detected. In addition, this is not a drug, but a nutraceutical, the use of which is not controlled by the authorities, and therefore experiments on special forces can be carried out on a large scale.

It became known about the beginning of construction in one of the remote areas of China of a secret facility, which, according to some experts, may become the Chinese equivalent of the notorious American "Zone 51" in the Nevada desert.

The South Korean company Hyundai Rotem has handed over two multi-purpose ground wheeled robots to the army for testing. According to Aju Business Daily, these are the first unmanned vehicles that will be used in the South Korean army. The military tests will last six months.

The South Korean company SK Innovation aims to become one of the three industry leaders by 2022: it will invest $ 26 billion in the production of batteries for electric vehicles to increase it five times.

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense system has been successfully tested with combat launches of anti-aircraft guided missiles, said Sergey Babakov, head of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS).

The US Department of Defense announced that the US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has signed a contract with Raytheon for the implementation of the engineering development and preparation for mass production (EMD) of the advanced long-range LRSO missile defense system.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the UPVS-5 installation for obtaining water in the Arctic is being developed.

The US Air Force has shown the most detailed image of a promising strategic bomber-the"invisible" B-21 Raider. In the future, it will replace such machines as the B-1B, B-2 and B-52.

The ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have received a new anti-tank missile system with an ATGM "Almaz". According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, the solemn ceremony of the transfer of weapons took place on Wednesday.

The Turkish army will arm itself with the first medium-class ground drones. July 6, portal c4isrnet.com he reported that the Turkish Defense Ministry is testing four models of tracked robotic vehicles.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain tested the cargo drone T150 of Malloy Aeronautics in an improvised operation to rescue a sailor overboard. The task of the drone was to find a dummy in the water, drop it a simulation of rescue vehicles and continue to hover over it until the rescue team arrived.

German airlines H2Fly and Deutsche Aircraft are going to create a 40-seat hydrogen airliner. According to New Atlas, they plan to develop an aircraft by 2030. The liner will be able to fly up to 1,850 kilometers with a cruising speed of 520 kilometers per hour.

The US Space Force plans to receive digital models of early warning satellites for rocket launches for medium Earth orbit from Raytheon and Millennium Space Systems by the end of 2022. According to Breaking Defense, these satellites will allow you to observe the launches of cruise, ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

Scientists from the Laboratory of Materials Science and Engineering of the National University of Singapore have developed a foamed material that allows robots to sense objects and can independently recover from damage like human skin.

The promising new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense system has successfully passed tests with live missile launches. This was announced by the head of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Sergei Babakov.

The MC-21-310 prototype aircraft arrived in Zhukovsky to continue testing. The airliner arrived from Ulyanovsk after being painted on Spektr-Avia, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Equipped with a new PD-14 engine, the aircraft showed itself well in the sky.

Engineers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a robot the size of an insect. He is able to move through mazes with the agility of a cheetah and penetrate into the most inaccessible places, writes the Tech Xplore portal.

The Russian Typhoon-AIRBORNE amphibious armored vehicle, which is being prepared for delivery to the Russian army, has received an upgraded combat module with a 30 mm cannon, which has a unique range of destruction for its class of weapons, Igor Zarakhovich, the chief designer of the company developing this machine, Remdiesel JSC, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.