News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Russia is not going to scare anyone with new types of weapons, but is developing them, like everyone else, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, June 4, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Roscosmos has announced plans to improve the location accuracy of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS to 10 cm after 2030. This was announced on Saturday, June 5, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the materials of the state corporation posted on the public procurement portal.

Missions will be sent in 2028-2030

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to send two missions to study Venus. This is stated on Wednesday in a statement of the organization published on the official website.

The T-16 tractor, created on the heavy interspecific unified Armata platform, is less well-known than its "close relative" - the T-14 tank, which annually participates in parades.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, stressed that the demonstration of a real satellite would be "the best example for investors to invest in the development of orbiters".]

A fundamentally new spacecraft, being developed under the Sphere program, will be created by the end of 2022. This was announced to journalists on Thursday on the sidelines of SPIEF-2021 by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Russia is considering the possibility of creating a reusable super-heavy rocket that could be used for flights to the moon. Earlier it became known that the appearance of the carrier "Yenisei" will be revised.

Former Polish army commander Waldemar Skrzypczak believes that Russia has weapons equipped with artificial intelligence systems. He said this in an interview with the Internet portal Onet.pl.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Thursday, June 3, that the preliminary design of a promising Russian orbital service station (ROSS) will begin in Russia before the end of the summer.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has published a recording of the firing of a new self-propelled artillery installation "Bogdana". The author boasts that the artillery system is made on domestic equipment from Ukrainian metal, and the caliber of the gun meets NATO standards. See the video of the tests in the article.

The sixth generation of cellular communication (6G) may appear in Russia in 2035. Izvestia writes about this, referring to the forecast of the Radio Research Institute (NIIR) and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

In Ukraine, they tried to create a 125-mm gun of increased power 50L "Vityaz", which, according to some propagandists from Nezalezhnaya, was supposed to compete with the gun of the T-14 tank on the Armata platform.

A demonstration sample of the system is planned to be demonstrated to representatives of the Ministry of Defense at the Army-21 forum

The concern "Techmash" (located in the control loop of the holding "Technodinamika" of Rostec) plans to start production of a light multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) of 80 mm caliber in 2024. This was reported to journalists by the head of the holding "Technodinamika" Igor Nasenkov on the sidelines of the Congress of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia.

The engine power at the maximum take-off mode is 3100 hp, while the specific fuel consumption is at the level of the best world analogues

The United Engine Building Corporation (UEC) of Rostec plans to start mass production of the TV7-117ST engine for the latest IL-112B military transport aircraft in 2023. This was reported to TASS by the general designer of UEC-Klimov (part of the UEC of the state Corporation Rostec") Vsevolod Eliseev.

According to sources in the Ministry of Defense, the latest stealth missiles have been developed for the Russian Iskander complex, which will radically improve its combat qualities.

Tests of the planning bomb "Drill" can be completed in 2022. The readiness of the new ammunition TASS revealed the head of the holding "Technodinamika" Igor Nasenkov.

The latest uninhabited combat module "Epoch" in the near future may become the main one for Russian infantry fighting vehicles of three generations. Moreover, this product is already being installed on promising IFVs on the Kurganets-25 medium platform, and is also being tested on the BMP-3.

The UAC previously reported that the "Hunter" will hit air and ground targets in the framework of network-centric interaction with the fighter

The pilot of the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter will simultaneously coordinate the actions of four new heavy strike unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) "Hunter". This was reported to TASS by a source in the aircraft industry.

Foreign customers are showing interest in the Russian reconnaissance and strike drone "Orion-E", said the head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation (FSVTS) Dmitry Shugaev.

China has a new anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPC) in service. May 31 portal globaltimes.cn he reported that the company China South Industries Group (CSGC) has handed over the first self-propelled air defense systems of a new type to the army.

Experts drew attention to the photo, which shows a model of a new Chinese low-visibility helicopter. The basic version, most likely, was the Z-20-a "copy" of the American UH-60 Black Hawk.