News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

On April 16, 2024, the Turkish manufacturer of Baykar drones announced the start of testing of its latest development in the field of barrage ammunition – the Kemanks 2 product, showing the relevant footage.

The Pentagon's DARPA research agency reported that the X-62A fighter, piloted by artificial intelligence, is successfully conducting simulated air battles with pilot-controlled aircraft. The relevant footage was shown on April 17.

On April 11, 2024, in the boathouse of the Finnish shipbuilding company Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) in Rauma, the official laying ceremony for the Finnish Navy of the new type of lead corvette Pohjanmaa, out of four contracted under the promising Finnish program Laivue 2020 ("Flotilla 2020"), took place. The ceremony of the first steel cutting and the start of construction of the lead corvette took place at RMC on October 30, 2023.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu instructed to simplify the procedure for adopting promising weapons, including robotic systems that have been successfully tested in the zone of special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine, the military department reported on Wednesday.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, checked the implementation of instructions on the development of robotic complexes, advanced weapons systems, as well as providing military personnel.

The Finnish company Patria has started developing its own wheeled self-propelled artillery system (ACS) by integrating the 155 mm gun of the 155 K 98 towed self-propelled howitzer into the base of the Sisu E13TP truck with the 8x8 wheel formula.

The developers have improved the drone detector, which is widely used in the area of its

A new version of the Bulat drone detector is being prepared for mass production, Izvestia found out. It has integrated artificial intelligence, which has been trained to scan more than 150 unique frequency signatures of various UAVs, said the developers of Bulat, a team of 3mx volunteers.

The pro-Iranian Shiite militia Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada operating in Iraq presented footage of a 122-millimeter guided missile in one of its propaganda materials. Such projectiles are manufactured in Iran and are actually guided missiles.

Space power plant projects face a range of engineering challenges. One of them is the transfer of energy collected by solar panels in geostationary orbit to Earth. The British company Space Solar not only offered a concise technical solution, but also successfully tested its reduced prototype.

Engineers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States have proposed a method that will help future colonizers of the Moon and their equipment to withstand dangerous lunar dust. We are talking about an electrodynamic dust shield, somewhat reminiscent of the work of a broom.

Mikhail Kotov — on the reasons for the three attempts and the significance of the new Russian heavy-class launch vehicle

On the eve of Cosmonautics Day, on April 11, the Russian Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicle made its first launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome. However, it was possible to realize this only on the third attempt. But the Orion upper stage was put into a reference orbit, then it separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle and delivered the Gagarinets small satellite, developed by a private company, to low Earth orbit. After that, a mock-up of the payload was placed into geostationary orbit.

GDELS, the European division of General Dynamics, introduced a heavy version of the Piranha armored personnel carrier, developed in Switzerland in the 1970s and has since undergone several stages of modernization.

A marine drone with American and Soviet parts was found off the coast of Romania

An unusual marine drone was discovered in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania. It combines Soviet and American details.

Unmanned platforms have been developed for Russian sappers for any task

Robotization is becoming the main direction of the development of technology used by sappers — such a conclusion can be drawn following the results of the Day of Innovations of the Engineering Troops, which was held on April 12 at the Karbyshev Military Engineering Academy. At the event, manufacturers presented a wide range of ground-based drones. They should make the work of sappers safer and more efficient, whose profession is considered one of the most dangerous among military specialties. For more information about promising developments in this area, see the Izvestia article.

It is known that the latest modification of the Vepr mine clearance combat vehicle is equipped with the latest TMT-S roller minesweepers. Such trawls allow you to trawl both conventional anti-tank mines and modern anti-ship and anti-bottom mines. The latter are actively used by the armies of the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance.

The adjacent territories of Ukraine and Russia are gradually turning into a giant "combat laboratory" for testing and testing a wide variety of concepts for combating the massive use of UAVs - a problem that is not even overdue, but overripe.

The special military operation became a test for Russian anti-aircraft gunners and their equipment, an occasion to confirm the high characteristics of domestic anti-aircraft systems and make them even more perfect. On the eve of the Air Defense Forces Day, celebrated on April 14, TASS selected significant events that happened during the special operation in the Russian air defense.

The APU uses prototypes that have not been tested by any NATO country

Ukraine is being used as a testing ground for new models of weapons and military equipment of Western companies in combat conditions. Moreover, promising systems that have not yet been adopted in NATO countries are being transferred to the Armed Forces.

There are certain oddities in the recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar strategic Missile range of the Russian Armed Forces. Military and political commentator Yuri Podolyaka writes about this in his Telegram channel.

The Pentagon is going to work out a scenario in space for the rapid deployment of a satellite orbital grouping in response to the threat posed by spacecraft of a potential enemy. During the exercises, the US military will use two satellites that private aerospace companies will develop specifically for this mission. Thus, the United States wants not only to "send a signal" to other countries that they will be able to quickly resist "aggression in orbit", but also to show exactly how they will do it.