News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Media: China is ready to abandon Russian aircraft engines]

China refuses to use Russian AL-31F engines on J-20 stealth fighters, preferring its own developments, the media write. Beijing really intends to go for "import substitution" in the creation of fighters, but so far this is technically impossible, experts say. However, the solution to this problem is only a matter of time.

Researchers from the National University of Yokohama, Japan, have completed the development and conducted the first tests of an experimental microprocessor built on the basis of superconducting base elents. This microprocessor is 80 times more efficient in terms of energy consumption than current computing devices made using CMOS technology. This is a huge prospect, given that 10 percent of the amount of electricity generated around the globe is consumed by computers.

Competition in the space launch market is getting tougher every year, which pushes developers to various unusual solutions. So, a small private firm SpinLaunch can test its revolutionary method of launching satellites using a centrifuge.

The Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the State Corporation ROSCOSMOS) has completed work on improving the multi-zone scanning devices of the advanced hydrometeorological satellites of the Electro-L, Arktika-M, Meteor-M and Canopus series as part of the development of on-board systems of the Earth remote sensing (ERS) spacecraft.

A team of scientists from Finland, Russia, China and the United States has demonstrated that changing the temperature difference in a graphene system can be used to generate entangled electron pairs in superconducting structures. The work is presented in the journal Nature Communications.

After that, several more bodies were made to work out the technological process and comply with quality standards. Production of Auruses in Yelabuga will take place on a full cycle: here also prepare stamping production, assembly of engines and, of course, painting of bodies.

The course taken by the Turkish leadership to develop the armed forces based on national resources is being successfully implemented in many areas. In the field of naval weapons, in accordance with the objectives of the project, the development of the Atmaka subsonic cruise missile system, a joint production of the Turkish companies Roketsan and Aselsan, is being consistently promoted.

The United Kingdom, Sweden and Italy have signed an agreement to develop a sixth-generation fighter under the Tempest program. The car may appear in the 2030s.

The UK Ministry of defence on 6 January 2021 announced the signing of a contract worth 550 million pounds from the British branch of the European missile Association MBDA to complete the development and batch production of new small-sized cruise missiles SPEAR3 for weapons of the fifth generation fighter Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II UK armed forces. The number of missiles ordered was not disclosed.

Thales Alenia Space and the European Space Agency have signed an agreement to create an ESPRIT module for the future Gateway space station. The contract amount is almost 300 million euros.

As reported by the ATO web resource.EN, the Chinese regional jet passenger aircraft ARJ21 set a record for annual deliveries - in 2020, 24 aircraft of this type produced by COMAC Corporation (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) were transferred to airlines. This was reported by the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Naval aviation is preparing to adopt hypersonic missiles

The Russian Navy is preparing to adopt the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system. In particular, it will be received by the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet. The new weapon is able to hit the target with high accuracy in a matter of minutes, and no country in the world has reliable protection against it. What advantages will the "Dagger" give to the Navy, the military historian Dmitry Boltenkov understood.

In 2021, the Russian Aerospace Forces will re-equip the first regiment with S-350 Vityaz anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as receive two new regimental sets of S-400 air defense systems and complexes. This was reported on January 9 in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The US military is dissatisfied with the night vision devices they have. On January 9, the press service of the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense announced the launch of the envision program.

The construction of the first Chinese aircraft carrier Project 002 is being completed at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The ship has a displacement of 85 thousand tons, electromagnetic catapults and is comparable in capabilities to the latest American aircraft carriers of the Gerald Ford type.

MLRS BM-21 "Grad" is in service with the armies of more than 30 countries of the world and is the most massive combat system of this class. It is designed to destroy and suppress the enemy's manpower and military equipment in areas of concentration, artillery and mortar batteries, fortifications, strong points and nodes of enemy resistance.

In 2021, state tests of the airmobile floating tank "Sprut-SDM1", intended for the Airborne Troops of Russia, will continue.

The Italian news agency ANSA on January 3, 2021, distributed a message from the Italian Ministry of Defense that the Defense Ministers of Italy, Lorenzo Guerini, Great Britain, Ben Wallace and Sweden, Peter Hultqvist, signed on December 21, 2020, a trilateral agreement on the joint development of a promising new generation fighter based on the British Tempest fighter project.

The emergence of Russia's ability to instantly disarm the United States is a fundamentally new stage in the development of combat drones and the victory of communication systems in the battle with electronic warfare systems. All this is only part of the key events in the military that took place in 2020. What are the most important innovations before our eyes that show the picture of how the wars of the future will unfold?

American developers have created "artificial chromatophores" - the basic elements of future flexible displays and active camouflage.