News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

In 2018, the French company Safran introduced a new Geonyx inertial navigation system with the latest generation HRG CRYSTAL gyroscope, which has a guaranteed service life of 1 million hours.

The Russian industry has developed a new modification of the Tornado-G MLRS (which is an upgrade of the BM-21 Grad) using the new Spartak armored car in an elongated 6x6 version as a chassis.

The Kiev authorities continue to "brag" about the rapid development of their military-industrial complex. Just recently, the Ukrainian media spread the news about the complete restoration of a large enterprise for the production of mortars of different calibers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Israel is one of the leaders in the field of creating laser weapons that can act as an effective means of air defense. According to the head of the defense company Rafael, which also works in this area, in 2024, deliveries of laser systems to the troops responsible for the air defense perimeter, which is built around the state, will begin:

The startup Antora Energy presented a demonstration prototype of an innovative energy storage device, the basis of which is a module made of a carbon array heated to a temperature of more than 2000 °C. The module is surrounded by a layer of insulation, which guarantees the preservation of heat inside for a very long time. The idea turned out to be so convenient to implement that Bill Gates became one of the investors of the project.

Self-propelled gun "Coalition–SV" - the secret of counter-battery domination of Russia

Since the beginning of deliveries of modern long-barreled 155-mm self-propelled artillery units of Western production with a barrel length of 52 caliber (L52) to the combat units of the AFU barrel artillery.

As reported by JSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), on August 29, 2023, the first prototype of the "import-substituted" Russian short-haul aircraft SJ-100 (SSJ-NEW), manufactured by the Production Center of PJSC Yakovlev (part of the Rostec State Corporation UAC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, made its first flight there. During the tests, the stable operation of all domestic systems, controllability and stability of the aircraft in the air were confirmed.

The Russian armored car AMN -590911 "Spartak", having received a 57-mm automatic cannon, can now destroy an enemy located at a distance of 7000 meters.

Bhavanjot Singh, senior scientific and Technical manager of the American Army Command for the Development of Combat Capabilities (DEVCOM), for the first time mentioned the possible equipping of the four-legged unmanned ground vehicle Vision 60 (Q-UGV) produced by Ghost Robotics with an army rifle Next Generation Squad Weapon.

The Ukrainian army will remain without a new domestic self-propelled mortar, the company "Ukrainian Armored Vehicles" has frozen work on a promising 120-mm mortar complex "Smereka".

China continues to develop technologies designed to increase the combat capability of the PLA Naval Forces. According to the South China Morning Post, a successful test of the enemy submarine detection system based on terahertz wave technology was conducted.

Western resources monitoring the state of the Chinese fleet report on the launching of the new Type 052DL destroyer, which is being built at the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry shipyard, on August 30, 2023.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the military-technical forum "Army-2023" signed a state contract for the supply of the latest self-propelled artillery units (ACS) 2C43 "Malva" on a wheeled chassis to the Russian armed forces. In the same place, in Kubinka near Moscow, the novelty itself was presented at the exposition of promising weapons samples. About the ACS, unique for the Russian army, in the material of TASS.

On the eve of the HeliRussia-2023 exhibition, UEC-Klimov JSC held a regular conference of the General Designer of the enterprise Vsevolod Eliseev. The purpose of the annual event is to communicate with the operators of aircraft on which Klimov engines are installed.

One of the main novelties of the last International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023" that attracted wide attention was the new wheeled armored personnel carrier with the formula 8x8, officially designated as BTR-82A (improved), and unofficially having the factory designation BTR-22, presented by Military-Industrial Company LLC (MIC).

The new domestic protected snowmobile with an armored body 33GT-34039B can not be afraid of off-road. It will be good even in mountainous conditions, for example on passes up to 4650 meters high.

The drone body was made in the form of a flying wing in the form of a center section with two consoles

The Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great has developed an unmanned aviation complex to counter the micro and mini-UAVs of the enemy. The corresponding document was published on the official website of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (part of Rospatent).

The American company Northrop Grumman demonstrated its new development, commissioned by the US government, a powerful small-sized laser installation, designated Phantom.

Against the background of the active use of UAVs in the Ukrainian conflict and their constant improvement, Russian developers are creating new products in the field of unmanned aviation.

The Malachite Design Bureau, which is developing the new P-750B Serval submarine, modified it to accommodate minisubmarines inside the hull, and also proposed a number of other solutions related to equipping a submarine with a VNEU.