News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

On September 28, 2023, at the enterprise of the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation CSBC in Kaohsiung, a presentation ceremony, the official naming and launching of the first diesel-electric submarine of Taiwanese construction, called SS 711 Hai Kung ( 海 ,, - "Haikun"), took place.

A new documentary about their UAVs is to be shown in Iran. So far, the advertisements of this video have been posted on the Internet. Among other things, they showed footage of tests of a new version of the barrage ammunition from the Shahed line, only with a small turbojet engine.

At the shipyard in the port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan today presented its first Narwhal submarine of domestic production. At a ceremony dedicated to this event, the president of the unrecognized island state, Tsai Ing-wen, said that the appearance of her own submarine was an important milestone for the country.

Shvabe Holding of Rostec State Corporation has handed over inspection X-ray introscopes of the Sapphire-IR line to a production enterprise in Vladimir to detect prohibited items in parcels and bags. The supplied devices are not inferior in their functions and characteristics to foreign analogues and will help to avoid the purchase of foreign inspection equipment.

In Russia, tests of the domestic Atom electric car, which is being created by the company of the same name, have started. To be more precise, the functional automotive platform of the future electric car will be tested, and not its prototype.

MISIS announced the creation of a bioprinter that prints soft tissues directly on the wounds of patients, which has already been tested on animals and has proven its high efficiency. There are no world analogues of a bioprinter with such capabilities today.

The first prototypes of the latest SHORAD short-range air defense system with a 50-kilowatt laser have entered service with the US Army, the press service of the Ground Forces reports on its website.

The Ukrainian army adopted an infantry fighting vehicle of its own design, for the first time new armored vehicles were seen at the front in early June of this year. As it turned out, the "new" BMP was developed on the basis of the Soviet tracked multipurpose tractor MB-LB.

First of all, the ROS will conduct research on the radiation safety of the crew, it is also planned to study the effect on the body of conditions outside the Earth's orbit, during flights to the Moon and into deep space, said Yuri Smirnov, a leading engineer at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the official footage of the visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei SHOIGU to Tehran, the Iranian government showed the guest a curious barrage surface-to-air missile, known in the West only under the index "358". According to experts, this is the first time that the authorities of the Islamic Republic have acknowledged their role in the development of this unusual weapon, samples of which were previously supplied to pro-Iranian forces in Yemen and Iraq.

On September 18, 2023, during joint exercises with the Danish Navy, the US Navy for the first time carried out the transfer to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the deployment of a ground-based mobile launcher of Raytheon Standard SM-6 multi-purpose (anti-aircraft) quasi-ballistic missiles, which can be used to defeat both air, ground and surface targets. It is reported that the exercises "to protect convoys" with the deployment of this launcher ("SM-6 modular launcher system") on Bornholm will last about a week.

The enemy conducted another test of an underwater drone with a 200 kg warhead. We are talking about an underwater vehicle, which in the Ukrainian nomenclature is designated as "Marichka".

The specialists of the Progress THREAD, which belongs to Rostec, have created the world's first automated CNC welding plant for performing high-precision welding work in very cramped modules of nuclear reactor installations.

How humanity uses the resources of small space bodies for the development and protection of the Earth

The delivery of soil from the asteroid Bennu to Earth can give rise to large-scale scientific research and industrial study of such cosmic bodies, scientists believe.

Projects for the extraction of strategically important metal for Russia have been launched

Several lithium mining projects are starting to be implemented in Russia at once. In the coming years, this should bring our country among the world leaders in the extraction and production of this metal, which has suddenly gained strategic importance. This was the response of the Russian industry to the difficulties created by the cessation of lithium supplies from abroad.

Published materials about the appearance of the US Army of the future. If you believe what they contain, the United States plans to build a robotic army, saturated with unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned vehicles. What is even more interesting is that the United States is clearly learning the lessons of military operations in Ukraine. What will the war of the future look like in the minds of Americans?

The latest unguided S-8KL aircraft missile has been extended the range of destruction, the decision was made based on the experience of combat use of assault aircraft in the special operation zone. This was stated by the developers of the ammunition from the Institute of Applied Physics.

The Russian defense industry demonstrated a portable jamming device designed to be installed on mobile equipment in order to combat enemy drones.

At the DSEI 2023 defense exhibition in London, the British army presented a new version of the Ajax armored vehicle, which has been developed for many years to replace the CVRT in service since 1970.

The latest means of destruction are able to stay in the air for a long time and destroy specified targets on command

The Russian Aerospace Forces have received several types of new missiles at once. They are capable of covertly patrolling in the air, and on command from the ground to go to a given area and hit targets, sources of Izvestia in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation explained. Also, missiles can fly along difficult routes and change the direction of the combat approach several times when attacking a target. They are very difficult to detect or intercept. The first products have already been used in the zone of a special military operation. According to experts, the development will give the Russian VKS new opportunities.