News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Boeing Corporation's manned CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will be ready to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2024, said Mark Nappi, director of the Boeing spacecraft development program.

On August 4, 2023, the Bulgarian shipbuilding and ship repair plant "MTG Dolphin" (MTG Dolphin) in Varna launched the head multifunctional patrol ship (corvette) "Hrabri" (tail number "12"), under construction for the Bulgarian Navy, from two ordered units of the MMPV 90 project of the German company NVL Group (part of the German Lürssen group).

The invention of the plow in the Middle Ages did not help European peasants get out of poverty. To a large extent, this happened because their rulers used the wealth gained as a result of increased production to build cathedrals. Economists say that something similar can happen to artificial intelligence (AI) if it enters our lives in such a way that the advertised benefits will be available only to a select few.

The device can perform tasks virtually without operator intervention and can also be used in conjunction with a drone port

The research and production enterprise "Radar MMS" will present at the Army-2023 forum a new electric drone-helicopter that can conduct reconnaissance and go for recharging in fully automatic mode. This was announced to TASS on the sidelines of the Archipelago-2023 forum in Novosibirsk by the executive director of Radar MMS Ivan Antsev.

Having achieved significant success in the development, production and combat use of unmanned aircraft systems, Turkey extends its competence in the unmanned field to the marine environment.  Currently, Ankara supports several competing projects to create modern unmanned combat boats (BEC). According to the military and political leadership of Turkey, these initiatives will strengthen the country's naval power in the face of increasing tension over maritime disputes.

The Center of the National Technological Initiative (CNTI) has set a deadline for the start of serial production of the Partizan, an unmanned version of the TVS-2MS aircraft. It is assumed that the car will go into production in 2024.

A small American company Catalina Aircraft from Florida on July 25, 2023 announced a project to resume production of the famous flying boat of the 1930s-1940s Consolidated PBY Catalina in an updated form under the name Next Generation Amphibious Aircraft (NGAA) Catalina II. The updated Catalina II amphibious aircraft should be equipped with turboprop engines, improved wing mechanization and modern avionics and is offered for both civil and military applications.

The device has already been bought for 2.6 million rubles by a private logistics company

At the Archipelago 2023 exhibition, which takes place from July 28 to August 7 in Novosibirsk, a hybrid drone for cargo delivery to the northern regions was presented. The device has a load capacity of up to 10 kg and a flight range of up to 240 km.

Ukraine intends to put hundreds of unmanned boats into service with the Navy

This week, the head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, Alexey Danilov, officially acknowledged that Kiev is striking Russian targets with its unmanned boats. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok figured out which marine drones are equipped with the Ukrainian Navy and what means Russian sailors can oppose them.

How will the system for monitoring the movement of fragments smaller than 10 cm in orbit be arranged

Russian scientists are creating a monitoring system in the near-Earth space of debris less than 10 cm in size. Despite its small size, a collision with such an object of spacecraft almost always leads to an accident.

The company "Information Satellite Systems named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev" has developed and manufactured a new container for transporting spacecraft.

The container is equipped with engineering systems for automatically maintaining the set parameters for climatic conditions, cleanliness and mechanical loads.

And the Russian development is far from an outsider

The CNews resource shared the results of testing the Baikal-S (BE-S1000) Russian server processor in comparison with well-known competitors.

Photos of a new Ukrainian mine clearance machine, which was previously developed in Kharkiv by local designers, have appeared on the Internet. They were published by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.

At the end of June 2023, the US Army announced that two of the five teams that were asked to submit detailed replacement options for thousands of American M2 Bradley BMPs from 40 years ago had been selected. As you know, the Bradleys are currently undergoing a brutal baptism of fire in Russian minefields during the AFU counteroffensive.

Deputy Director of the Progress RCC Subbotin: The first launch of the Amur-LNG rocket is expected in 2028-2030.

Two new space launch vehicles are being created today in Russia to replace the well-deserved developments of the Soviet era. What is unique about the Soyuz-5 and Amur-LNG rockets, what are the difficulties of implementing these projects, and why are they extremely important for the future of Russian cosmonautics?

The development will reduce the development time of new drones by 1.7 times and reduce their cost by up to 30%

A new drone control system that allows overcoming the effects of electronic warfare (EW) has been developed in Russia at the NTI competence Center "Technologies of Robotics and Mechatronics Components" at Innopolis University in Tatarstan. This was reported to TASS by the NTI Project Support Fund.

Researchers from Melbourne's Royal University of Technology have reported a new success in the development of proton batteries. They managed to triple the energy density of the device, now it reaches 245 Wh/kg. For comparison, commercial lithium-ion batteries have this parameter of about 260 Wh/kg, while the new technology has a number of advantages over them.

The second American manned and partially reusable spacecraft, the CST—100 Starliner, did not fly into orbit in April. The test mission with the crew on board once again failed, the launch was first postponed to July, and later postponed indefinitely.

Islamabad intensifies scientific research in the interests of the military

The leadership of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is consistently making efforts to develop promising materials in order to reduce the technological gap from the leading countries.

North Korea has declassified materials on the creation of an active protection complex in this country. It is reported that during the tests, a special ammunition fired from a KAZ mounted on a tank destroyed a rocket-propelled grenade of an RPG-7 clone.