News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

China plans to extract gigawatts of energy from space

Chinese scientists want to receive megawatts and gigawatts of energy from space. To do this, they plan to put a huge power plant into geostationary orbit.

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Zircon shipboard hypersonic missile, and the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems will soon be put on combat duty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Almost all quantum computers created so far are quite large devices that completely occupy the space of the laboratories allocated for them.

The Agency for Procurement, Technology and Logistics of the Japanese Ministry of Defense has completed the development of a multi-purpose UH-2 helicopter to replace the outdated UH-1J. According to Janes, now it will be transferred to the Japanese Ground Defense Forces for operation.

Already this year, the Turkish special forces will receive new armored personnel carriers. FNSS showed the testing process of a new specialized armored personnel carrier PARS IV with enhanced protection against mines and IEDs.

At a meeting in the Kremlin with graduates of military universities, Vladimir Putin said that among the new weapons systems are the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Zircon hypersonic ship missile, and the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems.

The notorious American ARES aircraft received a "dome" similar to the famous droid from "Star Wars". Probably, we are talking about a satellite communication system.

The United States is a leader in the research of artificial intelligence technologies, which is also facilitated by competition with Russia and China. On Thursday, June 24, the director of the Joint Center for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence of the Pentagon, Lieutenant General Michael Gron, told reporters at a press conference.

It is planned to present a control boat based on the BC in the near future, the Kalashnikov press service reported

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is developing the latest control boat based on the BC boat platform. This was reported to TASS by the Kalashnikov press service at the International Naval Salon.

The country is interested in a Russian radar station to solve problems of preventing drug smuggling and transportation through the Straits, said the designer of the NPC NIIDAR Mikhail Skolotnev

NIIDAR specialists have developed a mobile radar station on an initiative basis to solve civil socio-economic tasks to control a 200-mile economic zone. This was announced in an interview with TASS at the MVMS-2021 by the designer of the NPC NIIDAR Mikhail Skolotnev.

In 2020, Uralvagonzavod supplied the Ministry of Defense with a batch of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles on the Aramat platform for state tests, according to the annual report of the Rostec state Corporation for 2020.

The newest anti-submarine missile APR-3ME was launched into mass production. The first batch has already been delivered.

According to the data provided, Russia for the first time tested the Altius unmanned aerial vehicle with a bombing strike. The tests were conducted at one of the military training grounds.

After a thorough analysis of the data obtained during the test flight on May 22, the company will be able to continue preparing for the remaining three test flights

TASS, June 25. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has updated the license of Virgin Galactic, which allows sending passengers into space. Information about this appeared on the Virgin Galactic website on Friday.

I'm looking for new weapons systems. For ex-super-athletes. So that they can fly past the air defense systems of Russia and China. The customer is the Pentagon. The agency decided to equip its AH-64 Apache with combat-ready systems. Better late than never?

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the Zurich Higher Technical School have demonstrated that materials created from nanoscale structures thinner than a human hair do not allow microparticles flying at supersonic speed to break through them.

The passive vehicle will be in orbit, the movement of the active one must be synchronized with it

Roscosmos has patented a method for approaching spacecraft in orbit for servicing satellites. This is stated in the materials distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

The holding company "High-precision Complexes" noted that the complex can be equipped with both new-built ships and ships undergoing modernization

The Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK) is capable of destroying the latest means of air attack and fully provides the solution of the ship's air defense tasks.

"Sprut-SDM1" was developed and created on the basis of the self-propelled anti-tank gun "Sprut-SD"

The completion of state tests of the Octopus-SDM1 light tank is scheduled for the beginning of 2022. This was reported to TASS in the holding "High-Precision Complexes "(part of the Rostec state Corporation) during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

The MiG-41 interceptor fighters currently being developed could be based on such aircraft carrier platforms, said one of their creators, Valentin Belanenko

The technical problem of creating offshore platforms for deck aviation of the Russian Navy can be solved with the help of "floating berths" - non-nuclear aircraft carriers with a flight deck of about 500 meters.