News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

It is reported that at the end of January 2021, low-frequency tests of the aircraft ended

The first Russian light military transport aircraft IL-112B will make its second test flight from the airfield of the Voronezh Aircraft Factory on March 30. This was reported to TASS by a source in the aircraft industry.

Today, on March 26, a large diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" is launched at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. As already reported, it was built according to the project 636.3 of the Central Design Bureau "Rubin" for the Pacific Fleet and will be the third in a series of six similar ships that are assigned to serve on the Far Eastern borders.

The holding company "Roselektronika" of the State Corporation Rostec presented at the exhibition" Goszakaz-2021 " a comprehensive project to create a high-precision navigation and telecommunications system for the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

Russia has started mass production of the first four Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicles ordered by the Ministry of Defense. Earlier it became known that they should be delivered in 2022-2024.

American special forces will be able to hit without a miss, even on drones. March 25, portal thedrive.com He reported that the Israeli company Smart Shooter has created a new optics in the framework of the IWOO program.

In the family of Chinese wheeled four-axle armored ZBL-08 appeared "ambulance", designed to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield.

Currently, such special vehicles began to arrive in the units of the Tibetan Military District of the People's Liberation Army. They have the necessary medical equipment that allows them to start saving the lives of fighters at the moment of their transportation to the hospital.

Work on the creation of the first Russian humanoid robot that will go into outer space has begun at the head institute of Roscosmos TsNIIMash and the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. This was reported on Saturday, March 27, by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of Roscosmos.

The launch of the orbiter is scheduled for 2024

The lunar gamma - ray and neutron spectrometer (LGNS) for geological exploration of the Earth's natural satellite from orbit will be created and will be tested in 2022-2023. This was reported to TASS by the head of the Department of nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research (ICI) RAS Igor Mitrofanov.

In the Center for Engineering and Technical Support of Rosgvardiya and in the training center "Novsky" ODON named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky, the department's specialists demonstrated the actions of the units in conditions close to combat, including the clearance of objects with the help of robotic means.

The Pentagon creates an unmanned fighter armed with air-to-air missiles

The US and NATO air forces have dominated the skies since the end of the cold War, but a new generation of Russian and Chinese fighter jets and air-to-air guided missiles is rapidly changing the rules of the game. To overcome the gap that has appeared in the United States, the LongShot program is being developed, which can completely change the course of air battles.

The Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle is scheduled to launch into orbit on April 26 with the secret NROL-82 satellite in the interests of the US National Office of Military Space Intelligence, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced.

According to new information, the adaptation of the Russian spacecraft of the new generation to the Angara rocket has been shifted. Now it is planned to be completed at the end of August.

The new short-range combat system is able to overcome the defenses of neighboring states

After the missile tests conducted by the DPRK on Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that the situation on the Korean Peninsula " has recently become more complicated due to the regular military maneuvers conducted by the United States and the Republic of Korea and the implementation of missile launches by the DPRK."

In the Network there was a video of the use of the Orion strike drone missile on the L-39 aircraft. The second part of Alexander Rogatkin's report "Winged Hunters", dedicated to domestic drones, was released on the channel "Russia-24".

Russian President Vladimir Putin has successfully tested his new "deadly" Zircon hypersonic missiles, which are capable of reaching targets in the United States in a matter of minutes. This is how the British tabloid Daily Express reacted to the tests that took place in the Arctic.

Robots are becoming more and more independent of humans. The American company Agility Robotics has shown the capabilities of its humanoid robot Digit, which last year went into mass production.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has presented a robot-caver DAEDALUS, which in the near future will be engaged in the study of lunar caves.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain has launched the Vixen research program, which can open the design of a deck-based unmanned aerial vehicle. According to Naval Technology, the military plans to use the promising device as an unmanned slave for fighters with a shortened take-off and vertical landing of the F-35B Lightning II, as well as in the role of a tanker.

Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in Europe in 2021 will reach $ 12 billion, and by 2024 their growth will be measured at a double-digit rate. This forecast was made in the research company International Data Corporation (IDC).

In total, since the first flight of the IL-76, about 1 thousand aircraft were produced in 22 modifications

New aircraft can be created in the future on the basis of the military transport IL-76, which made its first flight in 1971. This was stated by the first Deputy General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Managing Director of PJSC "IL" Sergey Yarkov.