News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The defense Ministry has approved a program for testing advanced military helicopters Mi-28NM and Mi-26T2B at high altitudes in the Elbrus region, sources in the defense Ministry told Izvestia. They will be held until the end of the year. Flights to the highlands are a necessary stage for completing tests and starting mass production of vehicles on orders for the Aerospace forces (VKS). According to experts, this is a difficult challenge for helicopters, but it should improve their export prospects.

More than 2.5 thousand new types of weapons and military equipment delivered to the Ground forces in 2020, said commander-in-chief Oleg Salyukov

State tests of a new line of samples of artillery and mortar weapons on various types of chassis, which is being developed as part of the development work "Outline", are scheduled to be completed next year. This was announced by the commander-in-chief of the Land forces, General of the army Oleg Salyukov.

A group of Chinese scientists has developed the world's most powerful quantum computer, achieving quantum supremacy. It can perform a single task 100 trillion times faster than the best supercomputers. This is reported by the publication Science Alert.

The new robotic system from the German concern Rheinmetall received the designation "mission Master" (Mission Master ). The idea behind its creation is to create a family of robotic machines suitable for performing a whole set of tasks.

It became the only example of Russian engine building included in the list compiled by the leading profile magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Russian Tu-160M strategic bomber with the latest NK-32-02 engines was included in the list of the most significant world achievements in the field of engine construction for 2020, compiled by the leading profile magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology and published in the latest issue of the publication.

Chris Osborne, editor of The national Interest magazine, called the method of fighting drones being tested in Russia an unprecedented innovation. We are talking about an interceptor drone that shoots a network of so-called net guns.

The Russian fifth-generation su-57 fighter and its Chinese competitor J-20 can perform similar tasks, but " specialize in slightly different areas." Comparison of aircraft leads the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

Drones - "bodyguards" for fighters will take to the skies next year. December 8, portal defensenews.com reported that under the Skyborg program, the US air force has signed three contracts for the Assembly of guided drones for aircraft.

"Bereshit-2", according to the developers ' plans, should land in 2024

Israel plans to launch its second lunar station, Bereshit-2, in 2024. SpaceIL writes about This on Twitter.

Closed in 2011, the company Aptera suddenly announced itself, introducing a new product-a three-wheeled "solar" electric car that does not need to be recharged. According to representatives of the company, the new model, equipped with a battery of 100 kWh, is able to overcome the mileage of 1600 km.

the US is preparing, Russia is fantasizing, China is flying

On the first day of December, the Chinese Chang'e-5 spacecraft made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. After the lunar landing, he began collecting samples of lunar soil. At the moment, the samples have already been collected and the take-off module has successfully put them into lunar orbit.

Promising high-precision air-to-surface ammunition is the first to be received by the foreign air force

At the end of November, the American military-political publication The National Interest conducted an audit of air-to-surface ammunition in order to determine those that have an optimal efficiency-to-cost ratio. Suddenly, the Russian ammunition became the leader. However, it has not yet been adopted by the Russian aerospace forces.

It makes no sense to extend start-3 at the cost of abandoning the most promising weapons

When in 2018, the Russian President first announced the development of new types of weapons in Russia, Western experts unanimously claimed that this is fiction, "Putin's cartoons".

As reported by the American web resource C4ISRNET in the material Burak Ege Bekdil " Turkish firm develops AI-powered software for drone swarms "(Burak EGE Bekdil "Turkish firm develops software based on artificial intelligence for a swarm of drones"), a private Turkish company MilSOFT said that it has developed software based on artificial intelligence for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Last week, it became known about the Chinese government's plans to dramatically increase the use of weather modification technologies, in particular, seeding clouds with silver microparticles.

China has successfully launched its own "artificial sun" -the HL-2M thermonuclear reactor. This is a great achievement for the state and for the entire nuclear energy sector of the country.

The us Navy's shipbuilding and weapons command issued a request for information about unmanned aerial vehicles that could be launched from submarines. According to Defense News, the request was published in October 2020, but it became known about it only now.

The Ministry of defense decided to start purchasing self-propelled artillery units "Sprut-SDM1". In terms of fire capabilities, the vehicles are not inferior to tanks, while they are able to overcome water obstacles and land by parachute.

The United States, following China, plans to launch a mission to collect lunar soil. NASA has announced that four companies have won contracts to mine lunar rocks, according to Guancha. Attention is drawn to the amounts of these contracts. For example, one of the companies is ready to implement a mission for just one dollar.

It is possible to jointly develop such an aircraft with foreign partners

rostec is developing the concept of a light single-engine fifth-generation fighter at its own expense, the head of the state Corporation Sergey Chemezov told reporters.