News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The hypersonic aircraft missile, code-named "Gremlin", will take off in two years: tests are scheduled for 2023. In some documents, the product is called GZUR-hypersonic guided missile. In terms of its dimensions, the Gremlin will be smaller than the previously adopted X-47M2 Dagger.

State tests of 30-millimeter ammunition with remote detonation for combat vehicles supporting Terminator tanks will start in April 2021, the general director of the company developing these shells, NPO Pribor (part of the Techmash concern), told RIA Novosti.") Yuri Nabokov.

The Czechoslovak development of the ShKh vz. 77 Dana continues to transform into new versions of the ACS. On February 22, the Excalibur Army company introduced a new modification of the self-propelled artillery system called Dita.

Firefly Aerospace, owned by Ukrainian entrepreneur Maxim Polyakov, is to launch the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) 2 research spacecraft from General Atomics in 2022.

Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them

The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).

According to Chinese military blogs on the social network Weibo, the Saudi King Abdulaziz Center for Science and Technology (KACST) presented at the IDEX-2021 defense exhibition in the UAE a large three-engine reconnaissance and strike UAV Al EQAB-1, which was developed jointly with the Chinese company Tengoen Technology.

France has announced the start of work on a promising strategic nuclear submarine. It is assumed that each such ship will be able to carry 16 ballistic missiles.

In "Vesti Nedeli" showed an interesting report about various Russian UAVs, with 5m30c there they talk about the Orion reconnaissance and strike UAV coming into service with the Russian Aerospace Forces.

This will significantly reduce the time of fire control and eliminate operator errors

An automated guidance fire control system (ASU) for barrel artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) is being developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS at the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 by the press service of the holding company " High-precision Complexes "(part of the state Corporation"Rostec").

State tests of the KUB-UAV drone are planned to be completed this year, and its export version is being developed, said Dmitry Tarasov, General Director of the Kalashnikov Concern.

The European Defense Agency (EDA) has launched a project to develop a swarm of autonomous all-terrain vehicles ARTUS (Autonomous Rough-terrain Transport UGV Swarm) launch event. Ground-based unmanned military vehicles are supposed to be combined with the help of artificial intelligence

The Russian heavy attack drone S-70 "Hunter" is capable of hitting targets on command from the Su-57 fighter, said test pilot Yevgeny Frolov, who controls the "Hunter"from the ground.

One of the Russian medium-altitude strike drones of long flight duration "Orion" made 38 sorties in Syria, including 17 with strikes on terrorist targets, according to the story of the program "Vesti Nedeli" of the TV channel "Russia 1", dedicated to unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Federation.

Tests of the latest T-14 Armata tank with ammunition from Rosatom specialists began in Kubinka. And that's a good sign.

At the IDEX-2021 exhibition, the T-14 Armata tank is being presented for the first time outside of Russia. Attention to this presentation is hyped.

Rosatom State Corporation is working on a standard ammunition for the T-14 Armata tank. - The projectile will be ready by the time the installation batch of tanks is delivered to the Russian Armed Forces at the end of 2021,-said Andrey Terlikov, general designer of the vehicle developer, the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering, at the IDEX 2021 exhibition in Abu Dhabi. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

As reported by the Tatar-Inform news agency on February 20, 2021, the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, which has production in Kazan, signed a State Contract for the supply to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of an installation batch of heavy unmanned aerial vehicles of long flight duration "Altius-RU". This is reported in the materials of the meeting of the board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan.

Test active protection system (KAZ) tanks "arena-e", is able to reflect all the tank hazardous munitions, including the U.S. Javelin anti-tank missiles will be completed soon, said on Sunday, RIA Novosti General Director - chief designer of the Ural design Bureau of transport machine-building (UKBTM, part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod") Andrey Terlikov.

Russia debuted in the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (zrpk) "Pantsir-С1М", modified by the enterprises of the holding "Precision complexes" (included in "rostec") at the end of the combat use of the complex against terrorists in Syria, reported the press service of the Corporation. A number of countries are already interested in the new ZRPC.

The machine gun, in particular, received a more ergonomic butt, a new fire control handle with a trigger guard, and changed sighting devices

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has carried out a deep modernization of the 5.45-mm AK-12 assault rifle. This was reported to TASS during the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 in the press service of Kalashnikov.

Chief designer of the company Igor Zarakhovich said that Remdiesel is testing more than 10 modifications of the Typhoon-K armored car.]

JSC "Remdiesel" is testing more than 10 modifications of the armored car "Typhoon-K". This was stated in an interview with TASS on the eve of the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021, which will be held from February 21 to 25 in Abu Dhabi, said the chief designer of the enterprise Igor Zarakhovich.