News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The Chinese company One Space Technology has successfully launched a new suborbital rocket OS-X6B. 3D printing is used for the production of media components.

In 2023, the European T-Wing Consortium will conduct the first flight tests of the NGCTR-TD passenger tiltrotor demonstrator, which is being developed for inter-city transportation. According to Flightglobal, the developers are currently testing a composite tiltrotor wing in a wind tunnel at the Italian research center CIRA.

Neutron research reactor PIK, which is Gatchina near St. Petersburg, went to the next stage energy start — his power has begun to raise the level of 10 MW, and the output of the reactor operating power of 100 MW is planned EN 2022. The conclusion of the reactor on the energy mode of operation is stated in the message on the website of the Kurchatov Institute.

The British company GKN Aerospace has started to develop a route urban aircraft Skybus, which will transport passengers in cities like a bus. According to Aviation Week, the UK Agency for Research and Innovation has allocated 4.5 million pounds ($6.2 million) for the project.

Thanks to the automated control system, the new Russian fifth-generation fighter is able to perform tasks with minimal pilot involvement. Earlier, we recall, there was unofficial information about the development of an unmanned mode on the Su-57 aircraft.

A production aircraft with an all-electric powerplant may appear by 2030, according to Andrey Dutov, General Director of the N.E. Zhuklovsky Institute Research Center.

The issues of additional supplies of hypersonic and high-precision long-range weapons were discussed at a meeting held by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the Military-Industrial Corporation NPO Mashinostroeniya JSC in Reutov near Moscow on Friday, February 5.

Russia is creating the world's first anti-tank missile system capable of shooting down drones. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Vadim Kozyulin told how difficult the task is to be solved by engineers and designers.

Russian engineers have started ground testing of a flying laboratory based on the Yak-40, equipped with a superconducting electric motor. It is installed in the nose of the aircraft.

The fact that there are currently no engines for attack drones in Russia is one of the reasons for the country's lack of its own serial attack drones. This is reported by RIA Novosti, referring to an interview with the General Director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building Mikhail Gordin.

As reported on February 5, 2021, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan, test flights of the new reconnaissance unmanned aircraft complex "Shagala"took place. The UAV was developed by military scientists of the National Defense University of Kazakhstan named after the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy (NUO).

On February 4, 2021, China successfully conducted tests to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile at the Korla test site in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

For the first time, Russian specialists have designed a rocket engine without using paper drawings. In the future, it is intended to be used on the new Irtysh rocket, also known as the Soyuz-5.

Russia in the next two years does not plan to create a fifth-generation fighter-interceptor MiG-41, such information is reported by military expert Peter Butovsky in the American magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology.

This year, an underwater drone and the latest rocket will reach the finish line

In 2021, at least two promising domestic weapons systems will reach the finish line — the beginning of testing.

Mass production of biofuels for aviation is less cost-effective compared to the production of aviation kerosene from oil. Therefore, without the introduction of a carbon tax, it is not able to compete with traditional jet fuel, said Jay D. Kiesling, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, deputy director of the Biological Sciences Laboratory at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, chief Executive Officer of the Joint Institute for Bioenergy, in an interview with Global Energy.

The British multi-purpose nuclear submarine HMS Talent of the Trafalgar type was equipped with new sensors. Presumably, we are talking about an analog of the Russian wake trace detection system, or SOKS.

The maximum range of its launch for some types of targets reaches 200 km

State joint tests of a promising export long - range air-to-air missile RVV-BD were conducted in Russia, according to the corporate newspaper Vimpel of the State Design Bureau Vimpel (specializing in the development of air - to-air missiles, part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation, KTRV).

[b]Russia plans to launch more than 600 communication and remote sensing satellites, President Vladimir Putin said earlier.]

FSUE "Space Communications" and JSC "Gazprom Space Systems" plan to invest more than 140 billion rubles in the "Sphere" program. This was announced by the Deputy General Director for Development and operation of communication Systems of FSUE "Space Communications" Evgeny Buidinov and Deputy General Director for Business Development of JSC "Gazprom Space Systems" Igor Kot.

For the Russian army, a multi-purpose unarmored SUV based on the Strela car will be developed. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the "Military-Industrial Company" (MIC) Alexander Krasovitsky.