News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Developed as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance Program (NGAD) for the Air Force (Air Force) The US sixth-generation fighter will receive an expensive " Chinese "and cheap" Russian " version, according to The Drive.

Self-driving cars will be able to become full-fledged road users in five to ten years, current communication technologies are vulnerable to hacking and do not allow this, Dmitry Peskov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of digital and technological development, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The icebreaker's capacity will be 120 MW

The Krylov Center has started developing an electric propulsion system for the Leader nuclear icebreaker with a shaft capacity of 120 MW. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Oleg Savchenko, Director General of the Krylov State Research Center (KGNC).

Russian specialists have developed a spacecraft for collecting nanoscale objects located in the vicinity of Lagrange points.

The Norwegian company Windcatching Systems (WCS), together with the oil and gas company Aibel, has developed a unique wind-catching system. It is a giant grid with a height of 325 meters with many small wind turbines (about 120), arranged in a staggered order. Similar to conventional land-based wind turbines, the Windcatcher is attached to the sea floor by metal piles.

The Russian Ministry of Defense, based on the military technopolis Era, develops smartphones for the Russian military, as well as specialized mobile applications for daily activities on the territory of military units.

Tsniitochmash has developed the PCM 75 collimator sight with unique accuracy and energy consumption characteristics. The device has passed preliminary tests and will be presented at the Army-2021 forum.

The mobile minelayer "Tick" will go to the state tests in the Ministry of Defense of Russia. The vehicle was created on the platform of the Typhoon-Airborne armored car. This was reported to Sputnik radio by the chief designer of Remdiesel.

Specialists of the Russian Ministry of Defense have started developing a new drug aimed at combating coronavirus infection. It is noteworthy that it will not be in the form of tablets or injections, but in the form of chewing gum.

Equipped with a new anti-tank missile defense system, the T-72B3 was demonstrated at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region.

Tank crews fired at emerging or moving targets at distances from 300 to 2000 meters. During the combat shooting, the generals, as reported by the press service of the Southern Military District, fired from T-72B3 cannons with a regular shell, as well as from a large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun.

Created under the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, the new-generation fighter may exist in two versions. One of them is intended for the actions of Europe, the second-for work in the Indo-Pacific region.

Experts from Russia and the United States are considering the possibility of modifying people who will have a long-distance space flight, for example, to Mars. In particular, it is discussed whether the spleen should be removed by astronauts to reduce radiation damage. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IBMP) RAS Oleg Orlov.

The Chinese habitable multi-module space station resembles the Soviet-Russian "Mir" and the American Skylab in terms of the volume of internal living space, writes The Drive.

The new generation of RPG-7 grenade launcher ammunition will not allow the M1 Abrams to leave the battlefield. RIA Novosti tells about the creation of a "killer" of American tanks in Russia.

Adding another round to the RPG-7B2 grenade launcher is unlikely to pose a threat to the M1 Abrams. The National Interest talks about the possible failure of Russia's plan to destroy American tanks.

On it is a tape with solar panels and microcontainers

The spacecraft, which will be able to collect nanoscale objects of extraterrestrial origin in the vicinity of the libration points (the point at which the gravitational forces of the Sun and the planet are balanced) of the planets of the Solar System, was developed at the Ryazan State Radio Engineering University named after V. F. Utkin.

The US Army has tested a prototype of the AML unmanned rocket launcher. It is an adapted HIMARS multiple launch rocket system. According to Defense News, during the tests, seven missiles simulating hypersonic PrSM were launched from AML.

Researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Center have shown that graphene can be used to create ultra-high-density hard drives, providing a tenfold leap over current technologies.

Dr. Rachid Yazami, best known for inventing a graphite anode for use inside lithium-ion batteries, said he has developed a technology that can charge electric vehicles in just 10 minutes.

The launch of the MS-21-400 project in development will depend on the demand after the start of operation in airlines of the MS-21-300/310 aircraft. This was reported to journalists by the General director of the Irkut Corporation Ravil Khakimov.