News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

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.

The newest corvette of the project 20386 " Mercury "is the first of the Russian ships to be built entirely according to the"stealth" concept. This was told to RIA Novosti by two knowledgeable sources.

The main Command of the SV and specialists of educational institutions will demonstrate to the business and scientific community, as well as to all visitors of the Army-2021 forum, the best achievements of scientific and technical thought, embodied in modern and promising models of VIVT.

The new Russian space station, designed to replace the International Space Station (ISS), will be able to stay in low-Earth orbit forever, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

For the implementation of the project, a state order is needed, said the company's General director Alexey Rakhmanov

Design bureaus and enterprises belonging to the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are able to develop and build underwater robotic systems for the protection of the Arctic shelf and drilling platforms.

The Kharkiv design bureau has been developing a new Ukrainian BMP-U since 2018. It is not known when the first prototype will be made, however, in order to somehow report on the work done, the creators of the combat vehicle decided to publish the tactical and technical characteristics.

As reported in Roscosmos, the heads of space agencies expressed hope for continued cooperation in areas of interest

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, and Philippe Batista, President of the French National Center for Space Research (CNES), held talks in a video conference format. This is stated in the message of the Russian state corporation, distributed on Tuesday.