News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The American company General Dynamics Land Systems in April 2021 will deliver to the US Army several wheeled transport ground robots MUTT, which will pass the final tests. According to Jane's, it is planned to start small-scale production of new robots by September of this year, and at the end of the year, the US military may adopt MUTT.

Research and Production Association (NPO) "Energomash" has completed a three-month cycle of eight fire tests of the first finishing liquid rocket power unit RD-171MV, known as the "tsar-engine". This is reported by Roscosmos.

The fifth submarine of the Yasen-M project will be the first to receive the latest missile system

The newest hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon" was identified as a carrier submarine. The first production submarine with these munitions in the arsenal will be the Perm. All subsequent cruisers of the Yasen-M project will also be equipped with these complexes. The new weapon will allow submarines to deliver high-precision strikes both on enemy ships and on ground targets, experts say.

The Zenit 3-12x50 sight and other optical devices of the Shvabe holding company of the Rostec State Corporation will be tested during the expedition to Novaya Zemlya, the press service of the holding company reports.

This number will meet the needs of the Ministry of Defense in military transport aircraft of this type, said the Deputy General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation, which is part of Rostec.

The Turkish publication called sensational footage of maneuvers at the Morskoy training ground in the Crimea, which demonstrated how the Russian Orion-E attack drone hit the L-39 plane. Haber7 journalists even saw the Turkish equivalent in the ammunition carried by the UAV.

The Americans are making more and more military equipment unmanned. On March 29, Lockheed Martin on its official YouTube channel published a video of tests of the optional S-70 Black Hawk helicopter.

As reported by PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation" (PJSC "UAC"), on March 30, 2021, the program of flight tests of the first flight model of the IL-112B light military transport aircraft, built under a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, continued. The flight was carried out at the airfield of the Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing enterprise PJSC VASO (part of PJSC UAC of the Rostec State Corporation).

The main trump card of the Russian strategic forces is the Burevestnik nuclear installation. This opinion of Chinese experts is cited by the military news portal "Zhongguo Junwang".

Today, the next flight tests of the prototype of the reusable Starship spacecraft took place. They proved to be a failure on several points at once. And if the problems during the online broadcast from Boca Chica can be forgiven, then the fourth consecutive loss of an aircraft is depressing.

The first spacecraft of the new satellite system "Arktika-M", launched at the end of February and already sending unique images of northern latitudes from a highly elliptical orbit, will also make it possible to predict space weather.

For these purposes, it is planned to modify four L-39 jet combat training aircraft, for which Calspan has allocated $14.1 million, according to Defense Brief

The Office of Advanced Research Programs of the US Department of Defense (DARPA) intends to develop a combat aircraft control program in 2023, endowed with artificial intelligence (AI) and able to replace the pilot in air battles.

At the request of the Engineering Department of Rosgvardiya, experimental design work is being carried out to ensure the actions of the reconnaissance and mine clearance groups. As reported in the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, within their framework, the Krasnodar Instrument Factory "Cascade" on the basis of the armored bus "Federal-M" created a prototype of a special engineering vehicle SIM-4.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain received at its disposal an autonomous robotic boat Madfox. After extensive testing, it will be adopted as part of a new strategy of warfare with the participation of rapid reaction forces.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that the mass production of the first Russian electric car is planned to start before the end of the year. Previously, the electric car was planned to start mass production in 2020.

It is reported that at the end of January 2021, low-frequency tests of the aircraft ended

The first Russian light military transport aircraft IL-112B will make its second test flight from the airfield of the Voronezh Aircraft Factory on March 30. This was reported to TASS by a source in the aircraft industry.

Today, on March 26, a large diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" is launched at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. As already reported, it was built according to the project 636.3 of the Central Design Bureau "Rubin" for the Pacific Fleet and will be the third in a series of six similar ships that are assigned to serve on the Far Eastern borders.

The holding company "Roselektronika" of the State Corporation Rostec presented at the exhibition" Goszakaz-2021 " a comprehensive project to create a high-precision navigation and telecommunications system for the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

Russia has started mass production of the first four Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicles ordered by the Ministry of Defense. Earlier it became known that they should be delivered in 2022-2024.

American special forces will be able to hit without a miss, even on drones. March 25, portal thedrive.com He reported that the Israeli company Smart Shooter has created a new optics in the framework of the IWOO program.