News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

The use of the Tosochka heavy flamethrower system in Ukraine has become bad news for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was written by the Polish edition of Interia.

Even before the start of the SVO, the Bundeswehr conducted exercises in Lithuania and Georgia many times, preparing to face off with "someone in the east." But the events in Ukraine accelerated the remilitarization of Germany, the French "Pointe" (Point) notes. The magazine lists the projects with which Paris and Berlin want to defeat the enemy. New models of planes, tanks, missile defense.

The Naval News resource reported that France has joined the joint Belgian-Dutch Mine Counter Measures (rMCM) program for the construction of a new generation of mine-fighting ships. The corresponding memorandum of understanding was signed by the Ministries of Defense of Belgium, the Netherlands and France on August 30, 2023.

The ships of Project 20380 will be able to hit coastal targets at a considerable distance

The Russian fleet is waiting for a large-scale missile reinforcement. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is working on options for equipping all corvettes of the 20380 project with Kalibr cruise missiles, and in the future — supersonic Onyx, sources told Izvestia.

The Russian developer has upgraded the Argus-Antifuria mobile electronic warfare station, taking into account the experience of using the complex in the special operation zone. This was announced by a representative of the NGO "Kansite".

The joint Moon exploration program with Moscow is still in the fog

In recent years, China has been rapidly increasing its activity in space. The country produces more than fifty space launches a year from four spaceports, and its satellite grouping already exceeds the number of the satellite grouping of the United States Government. However, the most important from a propaganda point of view for Beijing are the programs of the near-Earth orbital station and lunar exploration.

The American company Sikorsky presented a prototype of the Raider X helicopter being developed as part of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program. As stated in the company, the readiness of the machine is 98%.

It can be controlled remotely at a distance of 1.5 km from the operator

In Russia, a mobile installation for mounting machine guns "Black Widow" has been created, equipped with a machine vision system for recognizing enemy manpower and equipment. This was reported to TASS in the Scientific and Production Association (NGO) "Gran".

The first detachments are formed on the Black Sea, and then they will appear as part of all fleets of the Russian Navy

Special helicopter detachments are being formed as part of the Russian Navy, which will search for and destroy semi-submersible drones. The Ka-27, Ka-29 and Mi-8 will perform this task.

Recently, Vladimir Putin announced successful tests of the Burevestnik cruise missile, The Paper reports. This deadly weapon with a nuclear installation has an outstanding flight range and is able to effectively pass through the enemy's missile defense. The emergence of this deterrent has deeply disturbed the West.

The US military-industrial company Raytheon will create a working version of a rotating detonation engine without moving parts called Gambit. The Pentagon is going to equip cruise missiles designed for fourth-generation fighters like Grumman F-14 Tomcat and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon with this type of engines.

Developed as part of the Army's high-energy laser Prototype Program (IFPC-HEL) and dubbed "Valkyrie", the system can generate pulses with a power of up to 300 kW. It was designed to protect American troops from approaching unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles.

Russia faces the task of replacing outdated AN-26 and AN-72 transporters in the fleet of the Armed Forces, which have been flying for more than half a century. The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that a solution had been found for them, but did not disclose details. Experts name three possible candidates for the renewal of the fleet of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – IL-112B, TVRS-44 Ladoga and a completely new Il-212 project. Which of them has a higher chance of getting into service?

A group of scientists from Germany conducted an experiment and found out that the problem of lunar dust, and at the same time roads and landing sites on the surface of our satellite can be solved thanks to a properly selected lens, which will play the role of a concentrator of sunlight, and local material — regolith.

The BR-1 and BRG-1 robotic platforms used in the special military operation zone for mining and medical evacuation will receive artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Kirill Kuznetsov, chief designer of the Yakovlev Production Center aircraft, SaM146 engines were used on the first prototype of the liner to accelerate the test program

The PD-8 engine, created for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100), was first launched on this aircraft. This was announced by Kirill Kuznetsov, chief designer of the Superjet 100 production Center Yakovlev, at the plenary session of the VI All-Russian Congress of Engineers, which opened in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

This will make it possible to make security corridors for aviation over the line of combat contact

The arsenal of the Russian army will be replenished with helicopters equipped with fundamentally new electronic warfare (EW) complexes. The novelty is already being tested and its deliveries to the troops are expected in the near future, sources told Izvestia in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Ka-52M will be equipped with an all-round radar for all-weather and round-the-clock reconnaissance

The Russian Ka-52M attack helicopter will be equipped with a ventral radar station of circular view, with which it will be able to conduct all-weather round-the-clock reconnaissance and provide target designation, the combat capabilities of the helicopter with the new radar are planned to be tested in the area of its own, an informed source told RIA Novosti.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, the T-72B3M and T-90 are the most popular tanks and have proven themselves well in the area of their own

The Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (part of the Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ) of the Rostec State Corporation) supplied the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with a batch of T-90M "Breakthrough" and T72B3M tanks with additional protection. This was reported in the press service of the UVZ on the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the enterprise.

AT: the new Russian missile "Burevestnik" is able to overcome the defense of the United States

Russia has unveiled a new intercontinental missile "Burevestnik", which can launch a new nuclear arms race, writes AT. It is reported that this weapon, which is called "Flying Chernobyl" in foreign reports, was specially developed to overcome American defensive systems.