News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Stanislav Orlov, aka Spaniard, is the commander and founder of the Espanyol volunteer brigade, in which football fans of various Russian clubs serve. In two years, the battalion has become one of the most innovative in the Russian Army — new techniques, techniques and methods of warfare are constantly being tested in it, and recently the unit has received the status of an official testing ground of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Sceye HAPS airship has established a new achievement that confirms the prospects of its concept. The aircraft took off at 7:36 on August 15 from an airfield in New Mexico, climbed to an altitude of 18,593 m and landed the next day at 12:21. All maneuvers during the day were carried out at the expense of energy accumulated by the solar panels of the airship, which proves the possibility of its autonomous operation.

The Cybertruck Sting family of machines has made a lot of noise on the Network, which is the result of a partnership between two companies — Archimedes Defense and Unplugged Performance. The first specializes in power and generator sets for government and defense needs, and the second upgrades Tesla cars to meet the needs of customers, including the government and the police.

New UAV aviation technologies were developed during a special military operation

Drones, which have largely changed the course of modern warfare, continue to evolve. Thus, during a special military operation, a variety of new technologies from the field of unmanned aircraft are being tested by combat. Military expert Dmitry Kornev examines the real effectiveness of new approaches and how these changes will affect the effectiveness of drones.

A new ground-based drone has entered the special operation zone

Volunteers delivered an unmanned rover "Cricket" to the units operating in the SVO zone. Such platforms are used for the evacuation of the wounded and the delivery of goods to the front line. The main feature of the model is that its route can be programmed.

infoBRICS: America's recent tests of hypersonic weapons ended in failure

America's recent tests of hypersonic weapons have become another failure, writes infoBRICS. The United States is hopelessly lagging behind in this area, and Russia remains the only power with hypersonic weapons at the tactical, operational, strategic and doctrinal levels.

The Indian organization DRDO (an approximate analogue of Rostec) confirmed the existence of the Virupaksha program. This is an ambitious project that provides for the modernization of Su-30MKI fighters by installing modern AFAR radars on them.

At the recently held Army-2024 exhibition, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation presented the 2C40 Phlox system, which drew close attention from Western experts.

The management of Tupolev conducted a major audit of the Kazan Aircraft Factory. What are the conclusions?

The plan for the production of civil aircraft will be revised — this was recently announced by the General director of the UAC, Yuri Slyusar.

Oleg Smirnov: "No one will buy a new aircraft that is worse than the AN-2 for half a billion, and carriers will stop flights to remote areas"

The domestic Baikal aircraft, which is to replace the old An-2, will cost 3-4 times more expensive in 2025 than the manufacturer promised. And it is 50 times more expensive than its second—hand biplane predecessors.

The new Russian vertical-take-off unmanned transport platform S-76, developed at the Sukhoi Design Bureau, is being flight tested. If a prototype without a skin was previously demonstrated, then in August 2024, for the first time, the developers showed a fully ready flight sample of a new cargo UAV. What kind of car is this?

The DPRK's military industry, in addition to missiles of various types, is currently independently producing armored vehicles. The main battle tanks "Jeonma-216" are also known by the Western designation M2002. When they were first shown at a parade in Pyongyang, they were given the nickname "Death Harvesters".

The Pentagon has planned another test of a new powerful long-range ballistic missile radar, the construction of which was completed in early 2021 in Alaska. Last time, another test of the LRDR (Long Range Discrimination Radar) radar at the USAF Clear Base was suspended last summer. The American military-political publication Defense News reports that the next tests are scheduled for next year.

The authorities of the Republic of Korea have agreed to reduce Indonesia's contribution to the joint project to develop the next-generation fighter KF-21 to 600 billion. won (about $440 million).

The burning of the first stage of the rocket of the German startup RFA ended in failure. During the tests, which involved all nine Helix powertrains, failed, as a result of which the company's plans were violated, which envisioned the implementation of the first orbital launch of the RFA One rocket in the coming autumn. In this case, RFA would become the first European startup to launch a rocket into space.

At the recently closed Army-2024 exhibition, the UAC presented an upgraded version of the Yak-130 aircraft. Its basic modification was created to improve the skills of pilots during their transition to generation 4, 4++ and 5 machines.

Units protecting important facilities will have the opportunity to see the situation from different devices in real time on the same screen

A software and hardware complex "Stupor" has been created in Russia, which allows real-time monitoring of the air situation around the protected object.

Continuously developing unmanned systems, according to experts, have become the main threat on the modern battlefield. An inexpensive quadcopter is capable of hitting an expensive tank or radar, and even individual soldiers' movements will not hide from unmanned reconnaissance aircraft hanging in the sky. At the last Army-2024 forum, much attention was paid to the topic of protection against such systems. TASS gathered innovative anti-drone tools and talked with experts in the field of combating drones

Drones have already been successfully tested in the area of a special military operation, Veles Logistics LLC reported

One of the winners of the Era Foundation accelerator (part of the PSB Group) in the field of military technology will launch the first batch of about 1.5 thousand copies of an aircraft-type FPV UAV resistant to enemy electronic warfare (EW). UAVs have already been successfully tested in the area of a special military operation, Veles Logistics LLC told TASS.

Among them is the Ukrainian-made Neptune anti-ship missile, developed in the second half of the 2010s. This subsonic low-altitude missile, according to open sources, has a range of 280 to 400 kilometers, depending on the modification.