News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The international scientific lunar station of Russia and China will be deployed until 2035, then its operation will begin. This is reported in the presentation that the parties presented on June 16 at the International Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021, the video concept of the station was published on the YouTube channel of Roscosmos.

IRZ has opened another testing ground for innovative communication equipment. The oDAS RADIUS system is installed in the Karakulinsky district of Udmurtia.

Teledyne FLIR will develop personal chemical detectors for the US military. According to Teledyne FLIR, the device will detect chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals, flammable gases and low or high oxygen levels, which may indicate an explosive environment.

The Mariotti Shipyard will build a new multi-purpose submarine rescue diving vessel for the Italian Navy. According to Naval News, its construction will begin by the end of 2022. It is planned to transfer the ship to the fleet in 2025.

The American company XTI Aircraft plans to obtain a type certificate and start production of the TriFan 600 three-fan aircraft by the end of 2024. According to New Atlas, a full-scale prototype of the TriFan 600 will be built in 2022.

NASA has approved the start of development of the preliminary design of the NEO Surveyor infrared space telescope, which will go into space in 2026. It is expected that in 12 years of operation, the telescope will help bring the number of known potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids with a diameter of more than 140 meters from 40 to 90 percent of their total number in this size range, according to the NASA website.

We are talking about using electricity to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen, and then by combining them again to obtain electricity and fresh water

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the automotive corporation Honda Motor have agreed to jointly develop a system that allows a closed-loop scheme to provide energy, oxygen and water to future orbital stations and objects on extraterrestrial bodies.

In the interests of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, work continues continuously on the development and creation of new engineering weapons that meet modern requirements.

The research and production association "Basalt "(part of the concern" Techmash "of the State Corporation Rostec) is developing a new generation of ammunition for the RPG-7, the first products may appear in 2-3 years, the head of the design bureau" Basalt " Nikolay Sereda told reporters.

Anti-tank grenade launchers of the future will work according to a non-standard scheme, the priority will be not to break through the armor, but to disable armored vehicles in other ways, the head of the design bureau of the NGO "Basalt" (part of the concern "Techmash" of the State Corporation Rostec) told reporters) Nikolai Sereda.

The possibilities of implementing artificial intelligence technologies in automated control systems for monitoring and controlling military infrastructure facilities will be considered by a professional audience as part of the scientific and business program of the Army-2021 forum.

Toshiba engineers managed to send quantum information over an optical fiber 600 kilometers long and set a new record. This is reported on the website of the Japanese corporation.

The program of the global satellite constellation "Sphere "will be submitted to the government for consideration in June, said Yuri Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects.

Ukrainian developers have presented the concept of an attack drone that can, among other things, hit air targets. In the presentation video, the device hits the Orion UAV rocket.

The device will be a demonstration

The first demonstration spacecraft of the Skif system will be launched in the fall of 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the Deputy General designer of the ISS im. Reshetneva Alexander Kuzovnikov in the framework of the XIV International Navigation Forum in Moscow.

According to Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, for the first time presented a model of the UP-277 medium-range air-to-air guided missile developed by it with an active radar homing head.

According to the Ukrainian resource "Ukrainian Militarny Portal", the Ukrainian state enterprise "State Kiev Design Bureau "Luch" at the next defense-industrial exhibition "Zbroya ta Bezpeka-2021" held in Kiev from June 15 to 18, 2021, presented materials on the advanced project of the medium-range anti-aircraft missile system being developed by it.

The Italian Defense Ministry's Office of Naval Weapons (NAVARM) has signed a contract with the Genoa – based T. Mariotti shipyard for the supply of a new multi-purpose submarine rescue vessel (type SDO-SuRS).

At the moment, the Arctic monitoring system, designed to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic region, has already been partially deployed

The Northern Sea Route will be constantly monitored by various satellites of the Russian space project "Sphere" by 2024-2025.

A recent study conducted by Google and published in Nature showed how artificial intelligence can be used to improve the current methods of designing semiconductor products, which are the result of more than 60 years of efforts by scientists and engineers.