Electronics and optics news

The Americans have decided on optics for a new generation of small arms. On January 8, the US Army press service announced the signing of a contract with Vortex Optics for the supply of XM157 "smart" sights for advanced rifles and machine guns.

This time 49 microsatellites will be launched into low Earth orbit

SpaceX on Thursday launched a Falcon 9 rocket with another group of Starlink microsatellites. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.

The Peter the Great RVSN Academy was the first among Russian universities to train specialists in military and special purpose robotics.

The United States and Japan will sign a new defense cooperation agreement to counter emerging defense threats, including hypersonic and space capabilities, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Thursday.

Russia will transfer the Ekran-M satellite and three systems at Baikonur to Kazakhstan in 2022

Russia may transfer the Ekran-M telecommunications satellite to Kazakhstan, which has not been used before, as well as three technological systems at the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source.

The Laguna combat fire control complex was created and handed over to the customer, the State Military-Industrial Committee (GVPC) of Belarus reported.

The ex-head of Rusnano compared the energy transition with the information revolution of the XX century. A country that does not complete this process will look like it would look now without the Internet, he believes

Almaz-Antey has completed the main part of the reorganization of the air traffic control system and has re-equipped most of the airports with new equipment, Pavel Sozinov, general designer of the concern, said.

We are talking about a technology called "railgun", which accelerates the projectile due to a magnetic field

The Japanese Defense Ministry intends to develop electromagnetic guns capable of countering hypersonic missiles. This was reported on Wednesday by the Nikkei newspaper.

Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region will be the first in Russia to create an automatic design system, Pavel Sozinov, the company's general designer, said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Almaz-Antey Concern, a Russian manufacturer of air defense systems, intends to increase the production of radio-electronic equipment and communications equipment, including civilian ones, against the background of a slight decline in exports, said Pavel Sozinov, the concern's general designer.

Automated intelligence, control and communication complexes "Kestrel" have been received in Belarus in service with the 56th separate communications regiment. The latest radio equipment is placed on the platform of UAZ SUVs.

The Shanghai Pudong District Prosecutor's Office has started testing a new artificial intelligence system on real court cases, which should formulate charges against criminals. In fact, she replaces the prosecutor, but in a limited range of legal cases, and has no right to file formal charges. But the accuracy of the AI prosecutor is unprecedented – 97% of the correct charges.

The satellite constellation of the British operator OneWeb, which plans to provide all the inhabitants of the Earth with global high-speed Internet, has been replenished with 36 satellites launched into orbit by the Russian Soyuz rocket. The launch of the rocket was led by Arianespace specialists. As a result, the total number of spacecraft at OneWeb's disposal has reached 394.

As the institute clarified, the telescope is a high-precision means of monitoring bright space objects

The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences has launched a new telescope in Altai, which in the future will allow predicting dangerous approaches of objects in orbit. This is stated in the message of the institute, distributed on Monday.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) have completely switched to digital information transmission technologies, according to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

As specified in the Russian Defense Ministry, the specialists of the Main Center for the Exploration of the Space Situation paid special attention to the control of orbital groupings of foreign satellites

The space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces controlled the situation in near-Earth space and the termination of the ballistic existence of more than 400 vehicles. This is stated in the message of the Russian Defense Ministry.

More than 1.7 thousand spacecraft were launched into orbit in 2021 under the control of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, according to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Military Innovation Technopolis "ERA" hosted an IT forum, which launched the "New Year Hackathon" - a forum for IT specialists, during which participants solve case problems, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The press service of the Western Military District reported on a large batch of modern radio stations "Azart-P1", which were received by state defense order in the units and parts of the military district located in the Nizhny Novgorod region.