News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The US Army will receive the most powerful laser weapons in the world

The United States is developing a new pulsed laser weapon. According to the expectations of the US military, it should become more powerful than all currently existing models, and at once by three orders of magnitude.

The South Korean company KAI has planned to roll out the first flight model of the promising KF-X fighter for April 2021. According to Flightglobal, the company's specialists are currently completing the assembly of a combat aircraft, which, according to current plans, will make its first flight in 2022.

Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) The United States has announced its intention to evaluate the practical use of jetpacks and other compact individual vehicles. According to Flightglobal, in early March of this year, the agency announced a tender for the development of concepts and projects of jetpacks, thanks to which the military intends to determine how such devices could be used in the military.

The Chinese corporation AVIC has tested a promising seaplane AG600 water discharge. According to Flightglobal, the flight tests of the aircraft took place on March 4, 20221 in Hubei Province and were considered completely successful. Now the developers have begun to prepare for testing the AG600 by dumping water on a real fire source. These checks are planned to be carried out by the end of this year.

The US Space Force, together with the Air Force Research Laboratory, launched a weather rocket, the Terrier-Terrier-Oriole, on March 3, 2021, with experimental equipment for studying the Earth's ionosphere. This, according to SpaceNews, was stated by the head of the project for the study of the ionosphere at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Todd Peterson.

Naval aviation will be connected to the "killer" networks. The Navy will receive a unique automated control system (ACS). Thanks to the new aircraft, helicopters and drones in real time will be able not only to transmit, but also to receive the coordinates and parameters of targets from ships, submarines and ground surveillance systems.

Experts will begin construction of the first hotel in space in 2025. This is stated in the publication of the Daily Mail on March 1. It is specified that the hotel will be designed for 400 people.

Czech company RETIA at the IDEX-2021 exhibition in Abu Dhabi demonstrated a multi-purpose three-axis radar ReGUARD, designed to detect and track ground and low-flying air targets.

In Japan, a ceremony was held to launch a Mogami-class frigate. In the future, the country intends to build several dozen such ships.

The Chinese military industry has created several types of portable anti-tank missile systems of the third generation, which are analogs of the American FGM-148 Javelin.

The most famous of them is the Red Arrow-12 ("Red Arrow-12"), which has been in mass production for 6 years. Last year, it was reported about the beginning of export deliveries - Algeria purchased the first batch.

Miniature drones will be little distinguishable from insects. On March 2, the press service of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed a new development — a miniature flying robot with insect wings.

The development and introduction of three-dimensional printing is called the industrial revolution. Printed parts are lighter and stronger, raw materials are used without waste, there is no need to modify the finished products with a"file". Additive technologies are used for the manufacture of elements of turbojet and helicopter engines, combustion chambers. The state, prospects and development of additive technologies were discussed at an open table organized by the D. I. Mendeleev Russian State Technical University.

The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States until the end of 2021 will begin testing on-board collision warning systems with drones for passenger aircraft. According to Flightglobal, the systems will be tested at five international airports: Atlantic City in New Jersey, Columbus in Ohio, Huntsville in Alabama, and Seattle/Tacoma in Washington and Syracuse in New York.

The British company Rolls-Royce has completed ground tests of a prototype of the high-speed electric aircraft ionBird, being developed as part of the ACCEL research program. According to Flightglobal, the company's specialists are currently preparing the aircraft for the first flight, which should take place before the end of March 2021.

A multi-purpose unmanned complex "Molniya", the jets of which will be launched by a swarm from a carrier aircraft, is being developed in the interests of the Russian Aerospace Forces, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

In Kerch, the formation of the hulls of the future universal landing ships "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko"began. Work on domestic helicopter carriers is carried out taking into account the experience gained in the construction of ships of the Mistral type.

The Council of Chief Designers approved the schedule for the creation of the Soyuz-5 space rocket complex. This was announced on March 1 by the press service of the state corporation "Roscosmos".

Russian engineers are working on a promising UAV AR-10 "Argument", made on the basis of the training aircraft SR-10.

The payload capacity of the device will be about 100 tons, the Global Times newspaper notes

The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) plans to create a super-heavy launch vehicle for a manned mission to the moon in approximately 2030. This was reported on Monday by the Global Times newspaper.

The Gulf shipyard in Kerch (Crimea) has started building helicopter carriers, TASS reports, citing a source in the Russian military-industrial complex.