Electronics and optics news

For the first time in Russia, a digital mock-up of a nuclear submarine has been created at Sevmash (part of USC). The project was implemented within the framework of a single design and production space created by the enterprise and four design bureaus.

Reuters: in 2022, several models of smart weapons will appear on the American market

In 2022, several models of smart weapons will appear on the US market at once. This is reported by Reuters.

On January 7, Lockheed Martin Corporation announced the signing of a contract with the US Department of Defense as part of the modernization of 25 AH-64D Apache attack helicopters of the Egyptian Air Force to the latest version of the "E".

Sheltered Wings company will supply XM157 smart sights for advanced weapons of the US Army

The US Army has chosen a sighting system for next-generation small arms. The XM157 smart fire control system will be supplied by Sheltered Wings. This is reported by the Army Times.

The US Air Force decided to wait and did not approve a new project of the RVS refueling video system for the Boeing KC-46 flying tanker. According to Breaking Defense, the military is not satisfied with the work of the tanker's panoramic view system. This is a separate set of cameras that should determine what kind of aircraft is flying up to the tanker for fuel.

To control near-Earth space and observe artificial objects in Earth orbit, the specialists of the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) propose using the latest photonics technologies and original methods of ground-based processing of optical information.

Google and Ford, together with four other partners, founded the Ripple project, which offers the introduction of radar standards for small electronic devices with an emphasis on "respecting the privacy" of their users.

The South Korean defense company LIG Nex1 has completed sea trials of the Sea Sword-II unmanned boat. According to the creators, the success was a big step forward in the development of unmanned offshore platforms.

With the military personnel of the motorized rifle unit of the combined arms association of the Air Defense Forces, stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory, the training of anti-aircraft gunners of MANPADS began on the universal complex simulator "Cone".

Russian products were exported to Norway, Ireland, Finland and Germany

The optics of the Shvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation were received last year by domestic enterprises and profile companies from Norway, Ireland, Finland and Germany, the company's press service reported on Tuesday.

The United States has not yet fully deployed the new generation of positioning satellites, but is already preparing to send an improved version of them into space. January 10, portal defensenews.com He reported that the US Space Force has ordered ten satellites of the GPS III Follow-on version (GPS IIIF).

The Drive: Russia may be involved in the damage of the Norwegian submarine cable

An underwater fiber optic cable laid between the Norwegian mainland and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been disabled or damaged as a result of a mysterious incident.

The Minister of Defense considers it important to continue equipping troops with high-precision complexes, the latest intelligence, navigation, communications and control systems

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu set a task in 2022 to continue equipping the armed forces with high-precision weapons, to introduce artificial intelligence technologies into the troops.

The Ministry of Defense of Japan intends to start full-scale development of electromagnetic guns capable of shooting down hypersonic missiles from fiscal year 2023.

Experts from Zhejiang University have developed a pulsed laser emitter with a power of one megawatt. According to the South China Morning Post, it weighs one and a half kilograms and is small enough to place it on a satellite. The emitter will be able to identify and track targets, as well as quickly transmit information.

The communications units of the Army Corps of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, received the latest communication systems last year.

The dynamics of the supply of new models of communication equipment to the troops allowed the Strategic Missile Forces to fully switch to modern digital information transmission technologies.

As reported in Roscosmos, the first launch of the Glonass-K2 satellite is planned to be carried out in 2022

More than 10 Glonass satellites are in production by Academician M. F. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems JSC (ISS, part of Roscosmos), including four of the latest generation. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

In 2021, more than 170 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space missiles were detected by the on-duty means of the Russian missile defense system, specialized means of space and missile defense control systems.

Experts have completed the deployment of components of the world's largest and most powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWTS) worth $ 10 billion to study the processes of evolution of the Universe, follows from the broadcast, which is conducted by NASA.