News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Preparations for the construction of an experimental energy storage facility under the Form Energy project have begun at the Sherburn County Generating Station in Becker, Minnesota. This is a $760 million technology demonstrator that will have a record capacity of 10 megawatts/1 gigawatt-hour. It is planned that it will work in conjunction with Xcel Energy's Sherco Solar, the largest solar power plant in the United States with a capacity of 710 MW, which is being built next door.

What are future pilots being trained on today and are there any prospects for a new project

The enterprises of the S7 group of companies are developing a new Russian training aircraft. It is designed for four seats and is intended for initial pilot training in Russia. The board will be composite, the engine for it will also be developed by its own S7 design bureau in Rybinsk.

The new UDC, being built at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch, will receive promising Ka-65 Minogue helicopters in an anti-submarine version. This was reported by a source familiar with the situation.

In Britain, a close bond has been established between officials and weapons developers, thanks to which taxpayers' funds allocated for defense projects are used to enrich corporate capital, and not to finance work.

The Israeli Defense Ministry announced the completion of a series of comprehensive tests of the David's Cloak missile defense system. Testing of the complex was carried out in the south of the country, it was also attended by developers from the company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, as well as defense companies Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems.

More and more states are betting on hypersound. In addition to Moscow, Washington and Beijing, several other players have joined the competition for leadership in this area. However, only one country has serial products that have passed the entire test cycle.

Iran has officially announced the commissioning of a new MiG-29 electronic warfare simulator. This was stated by the commander of the Iranian army, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, who visited the Shahid Sattari Aviation University in southwest Tehran.

A whole group of Russian spacecraft has started working in near-Earth orbit. Some of them are truly unique, including those created by student and even school teams. Before our eyes, an industry of private space design bureaus is growing in Russia, which in the coming years can create entire satellite groupings in orbit.

Chinese designers have developed the world's largest turboprop amphibious aircraft

Active use of hydroaviation for military purposes occurred in the first half of the twentieth century. Until the advent of effective means of air defense, seaplanes and amphibious aircraft solved a wide range of tasks, often making an important contribution to victory in a battle or even a local war. But as jet aviation rose to its feet, seaplanes and amphibious aircraft lost their advantages and gave way to their young counterparts one niche after another.

This article presents the views of experts on the possibility of the Iranians creating a BR with a nuclear warhead (warhead) and the prospects for the construction of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

The French company ONERA has shown the first conceptual model of a hypersonic aircraft. The work is being carried out within the framework of the Espadon project. They started about four years ago, but became known only recently.

It also allows you to significantly reduce the consumption of ammunition, said the editor of the publication "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Alexey Leonkov

Upgraded during the special operation, the corrected artillery shell "Krasnopol-M" allows you to hit moving targets, and also allows you to significantly reduce the consumption of ammunition. Alexey Leonkov, the editor of the Arsenal of the Fatherland, told TASS about this.

On July 6, 2023, the Turkish company FNSS Savunma Sistemleri presented to the public a video showing the characteristics and amphibious capabilities of the ZAHA armored amphibious vehicle.

On July 6, 2023, BAE Systems Corporation announced the receipt of a $37 million contract from the US Department of Defense commissioned by NSPO (NATO SeaSparrow Program Office) for the development and manufacture of a prototype of a new NGELS (Next Generation Evolved SeaSparrow Missile Launch System) fixed-ship launcher for Raytheon Technologies RIM-162 ESSM anti-aircraft guided missiles (Evolved SeaSparrow Missile) Block 2 in the interests of the US Navy and NATO countries.

How to teach a neural network to recognize jellyfish and fish at sea depth

Russian scientists have developed a vision system for observing the underwater world, which automatically detects natural and artificial objects in the depths of the sea. The neural network recognizes fish, animals, algae and even translucent jellyfish.

The German Rheinmetall arms concern has added a new XT class in the 4×4 variant to the autonomous ground-based robotic complexes (A–UGV, hereinafter referred to as RTK) of the Mission Master series. The diesel power plant and the one–ton load capacity are distinctive features to the previously developed 8×8 Mission Master SP (Silent Partner, Rus. - "Silent Partner").

Speaking in March 2023 at the symposium on combat operations of the Association of Aerospace Forces (AFA Warfare ), the head of the Pentagon profile Department Frank Kendall (Frank Kendall) this is how he described the problem faced by the US Aerospace Forces: "We are united in our commitment to modernize the Aerospace Forces and implement the changes we need to be competitive with our task - China, China, China".

According to the definition of the Missile Defense Agency of the US Department of Defense (Missile Defense Agency, MDA), the zonal protection complex at extreme altitudes (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, THAAD) provides a missile defense system (ABM) of the US Armed Forces "a global mobile rapid deployment capability to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles inside or [only] outside the atmosphere during their final (terminal) flight phase". 

In the United States, the military department conducted "successful" tests of an artificial intelligence model with some "secret data". This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency, referring to the US military.

The US Army has been testing new Oshkosh FMTV A2 trucks for four weeks, designed to replace the old FMTVS.