News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

According to an informed source, the latest Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 will be able to carry more than a dozen different unmanned aerial vehicles in the fuselage compartments. To do this, the aircraft will be upgraded.

In the Netherlands, a naval special forces exercise for the first time used a gravity jet suit to get on a ship captured by a simulated enemy.

According to experts, it will be able to determine the landing site for astronauts, as well as collect samples of lunar soil

Russian scientists are considering the possibility of delivering a robot MARFA to the moon, which will be able to collect soil samples for research. This was stated by the scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Lev Zeleny during the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The results of scientific research and samples of devices were demonstrated to the experts of the optoelectronic industry and representatives of the leading technical universities of the Russian Federation by the participants of the final round of the corporate project of the Shvabe holding "The Power of Light-2021".

In the Moscow region, the construction of a serial plant for the production of attack drones has begun

At the industrial site in Dubna, near Moscow, builders have begun the construction of the first plant in Russia, in the workshops of which they will mass-assemble attack unmanned aerial vehicles. The Kronshtadt company intends to invest more than four billion rubles in the project.

Roscosmos recalled that the rocket is designed for a certain cost of the launch service, so it is also designed for foreign customers

The satellites under the Sphere program are to become the first payload of the Amur methane launch vehicle with a return stage. This was reported to TASS by the Executive Director of Roscosmos for Advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

The Director General of Roscosmos noted that the first basic module is already in operation

The Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has been tasked with ensuring the readiness of the first base module for the new Russian space station in 2025. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

As stated on April 15, the president of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) Art Chang, Taiwan is implementing a national project to develop a new generation fighter for the country's Air Force.

First Deputy head of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital group and promising projects Yuri Urlichich noted that budget and extra-budgetary investments in the program will be equal

Roscosmos expects that the program for the creation of the multi-satellite group "Sphere" will be approved in the first half of the year.

The company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies) has introduced three new unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian use. The presentation of the new products took place on Wednesday in Moscow as part of the ZALA EXPO exhibition.

[b]In the event of a failure of one of the engines, it will be turned off, and the others will be forced, said Igor Pshenichnikov, chief expert of the Department of Advanced Programs and the Sphere Project of Roscosmos.]

The system of withdrawal from the launch pad is being created for the new Russian methane launch vehicle "Amur", it will be triggered in the event of a launch accident.

Earlier, the press service of Roscosmos reported that the decision to continue the operation of the International Space Station by Russia will be made after 2024, based on its technical condition

Russia will launch the Nauka module into orbit and will not reduce the program of experiments in orbit until the national space station appears. This was written by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the comments on his Facebook page.

NASA has developed the SHIELDS telescope probe, which is designed to study the heliosphere (the region of near-solar space that provides protection for all objects in the Solar System) and detect particles entering the Solar System from interstellar space.

Next week, for the first time, NASA will use a reusable spacecraft and a reusable first stage of a launch vehicle simultaneously for a manned launch to the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced at a press conference by NASA head of the manned flight program Kathy Lueders.

A subsidiary of Rostec-JSC "RT-Techpriemka" - and the Flight Safety Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation intend to implement a project to introduce advanced machine learning in the production and operation of military aircraft.

The British continue to build the lead frigate of the latest Type 26 project. On April 16, at the shipbuilding enterprise of the BAE Systems Maritime — Naval Ships division of BAE Systems Corporation in Glasgow (former Yarrow Shipyard), the bow section of the frigate HMS Glasgow was withdrawn from the boathouse.

Alexander Bloshenko, Director of the State Corporation for Advanced Programs and Science, did not rule out that in the future, gene and cell technologies and medical effects on individual organs will be used.

Previously, it was assumed that this would happen in May

The carrier of unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon" the nuclear submarine "Khabarovsk" of project 09851 will be launched next autumn. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Israeli designers have begun to copy Russian unmanned technologies, said the chief designer of the company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov group of companies") Alexander Zakharov.

The basis of the new system is the Lancet barrage munition developed by ZALA Aero

The world's first "air mining" system designed to defeat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with barrage ammunition has been developed in Russia.