News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

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.

MC-130J Commando II aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) The US dropped a cargo simulating a pallet with AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise stealth missiles, The Drive reports.

The American company Relativity Space presented the project of the reusable space system Terran R. It can be called a smaller version of SpaceX's Starship.

The United States is preparing to take to the skies the first bombers of a new generation. June 10, portal thedrive.com he announced that Northrop Grumman has completed the assembly of the first two samples of the B-21 Raider aircraft.

The wonderful material graphene has received a new very useful application — a group of engineers from the University of Cambridge upgraded with its help a classic computer hard drive. They used graphene as a replacement for the old carbon-based coating that protects the plates inside the disk. Only two layers of graphene were enough to reproduce the same performance characteristics, and increasing the coating thickness to four layers increased them many times.

The unmanned surface vehicle from the Pentagon's "Master of the Phantom Fleet" program made a journey of 4,421 nautical miles (about 8,187.7 kilometers). According to the US Navy, 98 percent of the route it was in autonomous mode, but the captain led it through the Panama Canal.

The Ukrainian complex of protection of military transport aircraft of the An-26 type from guided missiles with infrared homing systems has passed state tests. According to Defense Express, it includes combined devices for the release of false thermal targets and an optoelectronic suppression station.

In 2021, spending on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in Europe will reach $ 202 billion and continue to grow at a double-digit rate until 2025. This forecast is given by IDC analysts.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, when creating a promising bomber, special emphasis is placed on protecting the aircraft from the enemy's air defense and missile defense with the help of electronic warfare.

The research and production enterprise (NPP) of the defense industry "Radar MMS" will create a fully electric helicopter-type UAV and a tiltrotor by 2022. This was announced by the company's executive director Ivan Antsev in an interview with TASS.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced the government's plans in June to consider the concept of a new Russian space station.

In Ukraine, they do not give up hope to bring to mind the long-suffering BTR-4, which has already been rejected by several states. The Ukrainian military department reported on the allegedly successful tests of the version "with improved characteristics for overcoming water obstacles."

According to an informed source in the military-industrial complex, the new Russian stealth bomber will be reliably protected from all types of weapons. The aircraft's armament will be placed inside the fuselage.

The device is intended for shooting the landing sites of Soviet lunar rovers and American astronauts on the moon

Igor Potashny, director of the Roscosmos research and Analytical Center, said during the presentation of a private lunar microsatellite that the state corporation will monitor the fate of the project.

As reported, for a year and a half after launching, the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov (the 14th and last in the Project 22460 series), which is being defended at the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg and has not yet been put into operation, received a new combat module on the forecastle, which the previous ships of this project were not equipped with.

Currently, active protection systems are being created in many countries, in some of them, for example, Israel and Turkey, tanks with KAZ have already taken part in battles.

The competition for the performance of research works was won by the main scientific institute of Roscosmos-TsNIIMash

Russia plans to consider the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the problems of the orbital group of remote sensing of the Earth (ERS), follows from the materials posted on the public procurement portal.