News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The American company Astra Space launched the Rocket 3.2 rocket for the third time, but again faced failure. The rocket went into space for the first time and reached a maximum altitude of 390 kilometers, but it did not have enough speed to enter a stable orbit due to incorrect selection of the fuel mixture. During the next launch, the company will not modify the rocket itself (only the fuel composition), and will install a payload on it for the first time.

The Israeli company Eviation announced the completion of the prototype of the passenger electric aircraft Alica and the beginning of preparation of the aircraft for the first flight. According to Flightglobal, the company intends to start flight tests of the aircraft in 2021. the developers plan to complete the alice certification in the second half of 2023.

A company that develops processors for Intel for use in the field of artificial intelligence was attacked by the pay2key encryption group, which is associated with Iran. The attackers immediately began to merge the stolen data.

The first samples of fully "unmanned" autonomous sea vessels may appear in three years, said the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.

The Russian Defense Ministry intends to conduct a series of naval exercises, in which nuclear submarines of Project 885 "Yasen" will aim at targets hypersonic missiles "Zircon" installed on frigates of Project 22350 "Admiral Gorshkov".

The American press has become aware of some details about the work of the US military on air-based microwave weapons. Now the Pentagon is working on the possibility of placing energy weapons on fighter jets, and earlier test launches of missiles with microwave warheads from B-52 strategic bombers took place.

The resumption of flight tests of the Il-112B light military transport aircraft has been postponed again. It is now planned to perform a second flight almost two years after the first ascent in the air in February 2021. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the aircraft industry.

The new video shows the appearance of the Avangard hypersonic complex — one of the main innovations of the Russian military-industrial complex.

the modular system of rescue of crews of submarines can solve an old problem of fleet

The absence of a series of rescue vessels (SS) of submarines (PL) based on the project 21300 with a deep-sea diving complex (GVK) indicates not so much the organizational, technical and financial difficulties of creating a domestic GVK even for work at depths up to 300 meters, but the need to clarify the conceptual directions of development of such vessels.

The missile defense system of the central industrial region is ready to respond to new challenges of the United States

At the end of November, a new missile defense system was successfully tested at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, which will soon take its place in the missile defense system of Moscow and the central industrial district. This is not the first test of a missile with unique ICBM interception capabilities.

The French and British fleets will receive a new anti-ship missile.]

The Franco-British company MBDA announced the completion of test tests of anti-ship missiles Sea Venom/ANL. Their culmination was a shooting conducted by the DGA (General Directorate of Armaments of France), during which the missile's ability to find a real target was tested in the presence of a large number of friendly and neutral vessels in the area of attack.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a fundamental decision to arm the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet with a hypersonic complex "Dagger". According to the Izvestia TV channel, training of personnel and infrastructure for the maintenance and operation of hypersonic weapons will begin in 2021.

The Northern Fleet will receive a hypersonic missile system

The range of the hypersonic missile system "Dagger" can get the countries of Scandinavia, the Baltic States and a significant part of the Northern Sea Route, if this weapon is adopted by the Northern Fleet, the media write. According to expert assessment, currently there is no technology capable of intercepting the "Dagger".

chinese designers crossed a double-barreled 35 mm automatic gun with a three-axis shaanxi tactical vehicle. this installation, designed to combat air targets, was called pgz09.

the people's liberation army adopted the type 90 anti-aircraft artillery system in the 1980s. it is based on technologies borrowed from the swiss gdf-002 oerlikon gdf system.

russian prime minister mikhail mishustin signed a decree on conducting an experiment on the operation of autonomous (unmanned) vessels from december 10, 2020 to the end of 2025, the corresponding document is published on the official website of the government. 

The Russian Space Systems Holding Company (RKS, part of the State Corporation ROSCOSMOS) is developing a data transmission technology using radiophotonics for use in the equipment of promising relay satellites. the innovations solve the problems of flexible and broadband frequency conversion within the satellite repeater, as well as reduce the weight and size of the equipment of new satellites.

Renesas Electronics has expanded the RA4 series of microcontrollers with a new group of 32-bit microcontrollers, which has been designated RA4M3. These microcontrollers use the Arm Cortex-M33 core, which operates at a frequency of up to 100 MHz.

The second launch of the Angara-A5 heavy rocket in six years, which took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region), was shown on video. The corresponding video was published by Zvezda TV channel.

The head of Roscosmos said that he offered NASA to finance the creation of such a docking gateway.]

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, suggested that NASA Finance the creation of a docking gateway compatible with the Russian ship at the American lunar station, so that if necessary, the Russians could save the US crew.

the international association "global energy" presented the first annual report "10 breakthrough ideas in energy for the next 10 years", co-authored by scientists from around the world. The report reflects the main provisions of research aimed at combating global climate change, including through the development of energy efficiency and energy conservation, as well as renewable energy technologies.