News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The Russian army is practicing methods of psychological warfare in modern conditions. On March 22, the TASS news agency reported that the scouts conducted a training capture of the settlement of a conditional enemy by a non-military method — using SMS mailings, drones, leaflets and negotiations.

Rostec will show a wide range of developments at the MAKS-2021 aerospace salon, including a "fundamentally new" aircraft, RIA Novosti reports, citing the press service of the state corporation.

Experts in the field of Naval forces saw in one of the photos a new ship under construction at an Iranian shipyard. We are talking about a large catamaran, which may act as the flagship of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The main problem here is not in delivering people to the planet, but in creating a "self-sufficient base" on it, the head of SpaceX noted.]

Flights and landings on Mars of the Starship spacecraft ("Starship") of the American company SpaceX ("Space-ex") will become a reality in the next few years. This was written on Tuesday in the "Twitter" head of the company Elon Musk.

The participants of the Air Combat Evolution project have published a report on their first phase. Among other achievements, it describes the successful simulation of close-range air combat with the participation of smoothly working in a pair of F-16 fighters, controlled by AI.

Japanese company Man-Machine Synergy Effects has shown a prototype of a large humanoid robot with arms and head, controlled by a VR stand. The operator inside the stand moves his hands, and the stand converts these movements into similar movements of the robot.

A unique simulator for training parachutists, which includes a virtual reality helmet, was created by the Technodinamika holding, part of the Rostec State Corporation. As the general director of the holding, Igor Nasenkov, told TASS in an interview, during training, a parachutist can practice jumps, both during the day and at night, in various weather conditions.

The best way to deal with the drones will be other drones. This is the opinion of Lockheed Martin, which presented its new creation - "flying microwaves" called MoRFIUS.

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, together with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the British company Rolls-Royce and the Finnish fuel company, launched a project to study the impact of biofuels on the fuel systems and engines of passenger aircraft. According to Airbus, as part of the project, participants will also assess the amount of emissions from aircraft engines running on biofuels.

According to foreign media, Russia is adapting its "White Swan" for the future. At the end of 2020, the latest version of the Tu-160M2 strategic bomber took off in Kazan for the first time with new engines. In early March of this year, the aircraft flew to the Zhukovsky airfield to continue testing.

What simulators will soon be available to the troops, what new products are already being developed for the Russian army, as well as the most advanced air exercise machines on a movable base that allow you to experience the feeling of a real flight.

The United States intends to modernize the missile defense software due to the appearance of hypersonic weapons in Russia, RT reports, citing a document from the American Missile Defense Agency.

Modernization of the AI-222-25 engine is aimed at increasing the resource characteristics, increasing its reliability

A sample of the upgraded AI-222-25 engine for the Yak-130 will be ready by mid-2021, and it will be tested by the end of the year. This was reported to journalists by the head of the Salyut production complex (part of the UEC is part of Rostec) Alexey Gromov.

Russia is preparing to adopt the self-propelled gun "Magnolia", reports"RIA Novosti". These guns will be handed over to Arctic units performing tasks in extreme climatic conditions.

According to the general director of the center. Keldysh, xenon is used because in orbit the cost of a kilogram of xenon is very close to the cost of a kilogram of conventional " air "

The Keldysh Research Center (part of Roscosmos) plans to study the use of an alternative to xenon in ion engines. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Vladimir Koshlakov.

Interesting materials (slides) about the main directions of development of anti-tank missile systems in the Russian Federation from the report of S. A. Bakaneev "Conceptual ideas and main results of research of military scientific schools of the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy" at the XXIII All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) in 2020.

The improvement of the Ansat helicopter used for sanaviation by the Republican Clinical Hospital (RKB) of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan was carried out.

Meet the concept of a promising light fighter F-36 Kingsnake. According to experts in the field of aircraft engineering, in the future, such a machine will be able to replace the legendary F-16.

The US Space Agency conducted fire tests of the engines of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which in the foreseeable future should launch astronauts to the satellite of our planet. The carrier can make the very first start this year.

The US Ground forces showed elements of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) complex. They will be used for training purposes.