News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

During the upcoming military-technical forum "Army-2021 "at the Vostochny airfield in Ulan-Ude, at the site of weapons and military equipment, it is planned for the first time to demonstrate the latest armored vehicle" Typhoon", which this year entered service with the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District.

Russia is completing tests of the latest hypersonic missile "Zircon", which will be used both on submarines and on ships, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission and a member of the Marine Board under the Russian government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The substitute for the "aluminum coffin" is a step away from mass production. May 16, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that the US Department of Defense and BAE Systems have signed a new contract for the development and supply of AMPV tracked combat vehicles.

The Novosibirsk manufacturer of sighting equipment of the Shvabe holding is preparing for hunters and fans of practical shooting two new models of prismatic sights, created specifically for self-loading carbines.

Increasingly, the hardest and most dangerous work goes to robotic machines. In the future, robots can completely replace a person on the front line. A new video from Hanwha Defense shows its latest developments for the army.

Interplanetary missions will be included in the national planetary exploration program

China plans to launch new missions to Mars and Jupiter to explore these planets and return rock samples to Earth. This was stated by the chief designer of the national Mars mission "Tianwen-1" Zhang Rongqiao.

The spacecraft should be launched in 2029

Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Lavochkin NPO for the development of a technical proposal for the new generation Venera-D space complex for basic space research. This is stated in the documents on the public procurement website.

The company Hydromea has introduced an underwater robot with a camera and wireless control using optical signals. Wireless communication allows you to control the robot and receive video from it at a distance of up to 50 meters.

[b]According to the China Daily newspaper, the factory in Wuhan is capable of producing up to 240 spacecraft per year.]

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has launched the first production line in China using smart technologies for the construction of small orbiting satellites. This was reported on Friday by the China Daily newspaper.

During the latest tests, the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), called the "killer" of Russian air defense systems (for example, the S-400 "Triumph"), flew more than 400 kilometers, breaking its own range record, the Defense News publication reports, citing Lockheed Martin.

Russian protected armored vehicles of special purpose K-43269 "Shot" continue to improve. At the parade in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, among the new products from the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" you could see the latest version.

The Turks "crossed" the machine type MRAP with MLRS. On May 13, the head of the Defense Industry Department under the Turkish presidential administration, Ismail Demir, posted a video of testing a new modification of the Vuran machine on his official Twitter page.

The fourth-generation J-10C multirole fighters, equipped with local WS-10B Taihang engines instead of the Russian AL-31F series, began to enter service with the People's Liberation Army Air Force, the Defense News publication reports, commenting on the pictures of the aircraft with the new power unit that appeared on the network.

The Brazilian Air Force Command and Embraer signed a memorandum of understanding providing for joint requirements development, conceptual design and development of a multi-purpose UAV.

The latest anti-aircraft artillery complex ZAK-57 "Derivation-AIR DEFENSE", armed with an automatic gun of 57-mm caliber, successfully hit unmanned aerial vehicles of various types during tests, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (UVZ, part of Rostec) told RIA Novosti.

The weight of the fairing was reduced by almost two tons, Rostec reported

The weight of the head fairing of the upgraded Proton-M launch vehicle decreased by almost two tons due to the use of innovative developments of the Romashin ONPP Technologiya (part of the Rostec State Corporation). This was told to TASS in the press service of Rostec.

China has landed the Tianwen-1 spacecraft on the Red Planet. This is the first time a Chinese spacecraft has landed on another planet.

The Chagall drone, developed by Kazakh military scientists, has successfully passed the next test, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the republic reported on Saturday.

The new Chinese ballistic missile JL-3 Type 094 submarines can have a range of 10 to 14 thousand kilometers and surpass the existing American and Russian counterparts, writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin, commenting on the report of the newspaper The South China Morning Post.

Work continues on the creation of a promising means of protecting the respiratory organs of military personnel from harmful substances, chemical and bacteriological weapons.