News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Reliability, proven by multi-kilometer marches, mobility and impressive firepower-Russian paratroopers are preparing to adopt a self-propelled artillery gun 2S42 "Lotus". The car has already passed acceptance tests and confirmed all the declared tactical and technical characteristics. About the features of a promising self-propelled gun and other novelties developed for the Airborne Forces - in the material RIA Novosti.

Next year, four new Strela vehicles will be developed for the Russian military. The corresponding contract was signed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

according to the general director of the "military-industrial company" alexander krasovitsky, whose words are quoted by the tc "zvezda", it is planned to create multi-purpose armored and unarmored vehicles, as well as platforms for the installation of special equipment on their base.

the new regional passenger aircraft il-114-300 made its first test flight on wednesday, the press service of rostec reported.

Purchases of the "Hunter" will be included in the state armament program for 2024-2033

Serial deliveries to the troops of strike drones "Hunter "will begin in 2024, said in an interview with" Interfax " First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov.

New Doomsday aircraft to replace the Il-80 will be created on the basis of the Il-96 airliner, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

The Russian MS-21 aircraft made its first flight with domestic PD-14 engines. This is a great victory for the Russian aviation industry, which allows Russia to return to the world elite of civil aviation. And although the Russian engine is slightly inferior to the American one in terms of efficiency, it also has a number of undeniable advantages over its overseas competitor.

The line of new aircraft will be created on the basis of the Il-114-300, which made its first flight, and the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter can get a two-seat version, First deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission Andrey Yelchaninov said. In an interview with Interfax, he spoke about working on a new "strategist", a sixth-generation fighter and strike drones.

The rapidly growing family of electric transport modules has been supplemented by an autonomous capsule-robotaxi Zoox from Amazon Zoox. Zoox is a former American startup engaged in the development of self-driving cars, it was acquired by Amazon earlier this year.

the ms-21 medium-haul passenger aircraft will receive a fully domestic wing made of composite materials next year, first deputy chairman of the board of the military-industrial commission of the russian federation andrey yelchaninov said in an interview with interfax.

The American company Astra Space launched the Rocket 3.2 rocket for the third time, but again faced failure. The rocket went into space for the first time and reached a maximum altitude of 390 kilometers, but it did not have enough speed to enter a stable orbit due to incorrect selection of the fuel mixture. During the next launch, the company will not modify the rocket itself (only the fuel composition), and will install a payload on it for the first time.

The Israeli company Eviation announced the completion of the prototype of the passenger electric aircraft Alica and the beginning of preparation of the aircraft for the first flight. According to Flightglobal, the company intends to start flight tests of the aircraft in 2021. the developers plan to complete the alice certification in the second half of 2023.

A company that develops processors for Intel for use in the field of artificial intelligence was attacked by the pay2key encryption group, which is associated with Iran. The attackers immediately began to merge the stolen data.

The first samples of fully "unmanned" autonomous sea vessels may appear in three years, said the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.

The Russian Defense Ministry intends to conduct a series of naval exercises, in which nuclear submarines of Project 885 "Yasen" will aim at targets hypersonic missiles "Zircon" installed on frigates of Project 22350 "Admiral Gorshkov".

The American press has become aware of some details about the work of the US military on air-based microwave weapons. Now the Pentagon is working on the possibility of placing energy weapons on fighter jets, and earlier test launches of missiles with microwave warheads from B-52 strategic bombers took place.

The resumption of flight tests of the Il-112B light military transport aircraft has been postponed again. It is now planned to perform a second flight almost two years after the first ascent in the air in February 2021. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the aircraft industry.

The new video shows the appearance of the Avangard hypersonic complex — one of the main innovations of the Russian military-industrial complex.

the modular system of rescue of crews of submarines can solve an old problem of fleet

The absence of a series of rescue vessels (SS) of submarines (PL) based on the project 21300 with a deep-sea diving complex (GVK) indicates not so much the organizational, technical and financial difficulties of creating a domestic GVK even for work at depths up to 300 meters, but the need to clarify the conceptual directions of development of such vessels.

The missile defense system of the central industrial region is ready to respond to new challenges of the United States

At the end of November, a new missile defense system was successfully tested at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, which will soon take its place in the missile defense system of Moscow and the central industrial district. This is not the first test of a missile with unique ICBM interception capabilities.

The French and British fleets will receive a new anti-ship missile.]

The Franco-British company MBDA announced the completion of test tests of anti-ship missiles Sea Venom/ANL. Their culmination was a shooting conducted by the DGA (General Directorate of Armaments of France), during which the missile's ability to find a real target was tested in the presence of a large number of friendly and neutral vessels in the area of attack.