News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

At DSEI 2025 (London), BAE Systems presented the concepts of two new classes of warships, which, according to the developers, can change the methods of naval warfare by the British Navy.

About 50 thousand square meters will cover the area of the exposition of the 18th International Exhibition and Conference on Civil Shipbuilding, Shipping, Ports, Ocean and Shelf Exploration Neva-2025, which will be held from September 23 to 26 at the Expoforum Exhibition and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg. According to the organizing committee of the event, more than 700 exhibitors will present their advanced developments and technologies covering all aspects of the marine industry.

The other day, the American company Epirus announced the results of a demonstration conducted for the military of the Leonidas high-power microwave complex (HPM), which creates electromagnetic interference to combat swarms of robotic devices.

The Vineta machine-building enterprise will present at the Neva-2025 exhibition a range of equipment designed for the preparation and treatment of water and fuels and lubricants.

The German authorities seem to have been persistently pursuing a course for many years aimed at destroying the export potential of their own military-industrial complex. So, in the 2010s, the Turkish Altay tank became a victim of the German defense industry, as Ankara was denied the sale of the power plant on which the car was originally built. In the early 2020s, the Brazilian VBTP-MR Guarani armored vehicle faced similar opposition, although the dependence in this case was not so critical.

As you know, electric bicycles provide additional power to their owners while riding. But what about hiking enthusiasts who travel dozens of kilometers a day with heavy backpacks? They should try on the Dnsys X1 exoskeleton.

According to Western analysts, the use of various types of ballistic missiles during recent and ongoing conflicts has highlighted their importance in future military operations, not only in terms of the need for them to be available to the parties to the conflict, but also in terms of the possibility of effective protection against them. In addition, due to the change in Russia's nuclear doctrine, the need for the West to maintain the effective potential of the BR is becoming more and more obvious.

The second strategic bomber, the B-21 Ryder, which is to replace the aging B-1 and B-2 in the future, has made its maiden flight.

Semiconductor materials, which are subject to increased requirements, are grown by molecular beam epitaxy

The flight sample of the first Russian installation for growing semiconductors in space has passed all tests and has been sent to the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported in the press service of the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (IFP) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

As an exception, the MGM-51 Shillelagh 150mm ATGM was developed in the 1960s to be launched from the 152 mm rifled M81E1 cannon of the M51 Sheridan tank. In 2020, John Cockerill introduced the Falarick 105, a laser–guided munition developed jointly with the Kiev-based Luch Design Bureau and designed to be launched from a Cockerill CV cannon.

Compared to existing artillery systems, the electromagnetic railgun has a number of advantages: first of all, it does not require explosives, which are always difficult to store, especially on board a ship, and it can hit targets at much greater distances (up to 200 km) and is cheaper than a rocket, provided, however, that the projectile is accurately guided.

The exhibition featured mainly ground-based equipment

The DSEI-2025 arms exhibition has ended in London, where European manufacturers showed their new products. This year, the main focus was on land technology: in particular, the Challenger 3 tank, new armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, ground robots and other systems were presented. What samples have been demonstrated and whether they can have an impact if they appear in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO as a whole — in the Izvestia material.

The Franco-British SCALP/Storm Shadow cruise missile, which has been in operation since 2003, is considered by Kiev as one of the main assets designed to strike at operational depth due to its range (exceeding 500 km with a warhead weight of 450 kg). The European countries that have provided the Armed Forces with this weapon of destruction are striving together to create a more worthy successor based on combat experience.

Rheinmetall, together with Lockheed Martin, presented the Fuchs JAGM product, a demonstration model of a highly mobile combat vehicle designed to combat threats on land and in the air.

Cambridge Aerospace– a startup founded in Britain at the end of 2024, presented its first two products at the DSEI 2025 defense exhibition (London) – the Skyhammer and Starhammer interceptors designed to combat drones and missiles.

Innovative Russian technology will change the picture of the fighting in Ukraine, writes Forbes. Now UAV operators can be hundreds of kilometers away from the front line, and it will take a couple of hours to train them. It will be possible to carry out the service literally from home.

Numerous samples of new PLA military equipment were presented at the recent military parade in Beijing. Among them is the LZI83 medium tank, which is characterized by a more complex design compared to similar models that were previously demonstrated by China.

Bloomberg: NATO faces a critical shortage of protection against drones

The success of Russian drone production has posed a difficult task for NATO, Bloomberg reports. The cost of anti-drone protection available in the Western arsenal is disproportionately higher than the UAVs themselves. And those are critically lacking.

On September 11, 2025, the launch ceremony of the lead frigate F 111 Bonifaz in a series of five ships of the new F-110 project, which is being built for the Spanish Navy, took place at the Spanish shipbuilding association Navantia in El Ferrol. The ceremony was attended by Queen Sofia of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

The new product makes the combat work of UAV operators as safe as possible

The Orbita remote control system allows you to control the flight of tactical drones operating on the front line from anywhere in the world. The novelty has already arrived in the area of the special operation. Many innovative solutions were used in its manufacture: for example, neural network algorithms that assist the operator, help to stabilize the drone in flight, find and attack the target. Experts note that the system makes the work of UAV operators as safe as possible, since they do not need to be in the frontline zone.