News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The first Indian aircraft carrier "Vikrant" has successfully passed mooring tests, according to the portal N+1. Experts checked the operation of its four LM2500 gas turbine engines, transmission, variable stroke propellers and control system.

Serial deliveries of the t-14 Armata tank will begin in 2021. The unmanned version of the car will not go into the series, although the artificial intelligence of the tank is entrusted with important missions - for example, pointing weapons.

In the southern military district (SE), military tests of a new mobile laboratory for measuring equipment (PLIT-A2-4/4M) have been completed, and deliveries of these complexes to the Armed Forces will begin in 2021.

Chemezov spoke about the successful use of Kalashnikov drones in Syria

rostec expects orders for combat drones from the defense Ministry, said the head of the state Corporation Sergey Chemezov. At the same time, the military Department asked to speed up the creation of this type of weapon. According to Chemezov, the drones created by the Kalashnikov concern have already been baptized in Syria and have proven themselves well.

Americans are actively moving to create semi-Autonomous drones. On December 6, the press service of the company General Atomics announced the tests of the Avenger drone under the control of artificial intelligence.

In this photo, you can see the coaxial-radial grid on the fifth-generation su-57 fighter. Its purpose is to reduce the radar visibility of the fighter.

Its development will cost less than 120 billion rubles, said the head of the state Corporation Sergey Chemezov

Rostec expects that the Sukhoi Superjet New-an import-substituted version of the short-haul Sukhoi Superjet 100 with a domestic engine and components-will appear in 2024.

The government of the Russian Federation has approved a list of modern technologies that will be used to conclude special investment contracts (SPIC).

Chinese physicists have assembled an optical circuit that demonstrates quantum superiority. They chose boson sampling on a 100-mode optical interferometer as a task to demonstrate the speed of a quantum device. According to the authors ' calculations, their quantum computer copes with this task 100 trillion times faster than a conventional supercomputer. The work is published in the journal Science.

Who are they competing with?

On November 10, the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) launched the non – nuclear submarine Ahn Moo-the second boat of the first sub-series of the KSS III program. It marks the transition to serial construction of a new generation of submarines.

The Department of procurement of the Ministry of defense of South Korea (Defense Acquisition Program Administration - DAPA) decided to equip the third batch of 50 main tanks of South Korean production K2 Black Panther German transmission, which is part of the power plant of the tank with the engine of national production, writes Brian Kim in an article for the publication "Defense News".

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos state Corporation, reported on preparations for the launch of the ExoMars interplanetary space station as part of a joint search with the European space Agency (ESA) for traces of life on the red planet.

"Sea ships that can operate without a captain and crew enter our internal waters, and we create unmanned sea vessels ourselves, including in the underwater version, in this case in the field of defense, "Putin said, speaking at a conference on artificial intelligence during the main discussion"Artificial intelligence is the main technology of the XXI century".

The Karabakh war, its course and results are actively discussed, including in Russia. It is not uncommon to hear statements that the victory of Azerbaijan over Armenia is actually the victory of Turkish weapons over Russian ones. And it was not Armenia that lost the war, but Russia. Are such statements true? Is the Karabakh war really a Wake-up call to our "defense industry", which did not do everything for the Russian army? Why don't we still have strike drones? MK asked the analyst, Deputy Director Of the center for strategy and technology analysis (CFTC), to answer these questions) Konstantin Makiyenko.

According to a source in the military-industrial complex, Russia is creating an unmanned helicopter that should track enemy UAVs.

What threat to Russia is the modernization of the American MQ-1C Grey Eagle

The US army requires that the MQ-1C Grey Eagle drones, designed to participate in multi-domain operations, have a synthetic aperture radar, indicators of moving targets, and radio and radio intelligence tools. Having received such opportunities, as the authors of the idea believe, American UAVS will be able to" look " at the territory of US opponents, including Russia.

South Korean soldiers will not part with smartphones even on the battlefield. Yesterday, December 5, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Administration of defense acquisition programs (DAPA, Defense Acquisition Program Administration) announced the purchase of "combat information devices" (combat information device) from the company LIG Nex1.

More and more clarity is emerging about how exactly Russia plans to use heavy attack drones in future armed conflicts. What role is assigned to these machines, in particular the Hunter UAV, why these devices may need artificial intelligence – and how will all this work in conjunction with the su-57 fighter?

The largest German arms concern Rheinmetall presented one of its latest developments-a robot scout and combat support Mission Master Armed Reconnaissance.

On November 30, 2020, an official ceremony was held at the naval base of the southern fleet of the PLA Navy in Sanya (Hainan island) for the introduction of a new project of the main hospital ship, called the southern medicine 13, into the PLA Navy. The new hospital ship is built at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group shipyard in Shanghai and has a displacement of 6000 tons.