Electronics and optics news

In the Chinese province of Shandong, a giant radar was built aimed towards Japan, which allows you to observe the launches of ballistic missiles, says the American edition of Defense News, referring to satellite images obtained in February by Maxar Technologies.

For the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of electronic warfare systems operating during a special military operation.

Perhaps this is not as impressive a sight as missile launches or air strikes. However, the military knows what a difficult and responsible mission is carried out by electronic warfare specialists in a combat situation. Their main task is to cover groups of Russian troops from enemy missiles and aircraft. Calculations of electronic warfare complexes cope with this task successfully.

Serbia has confirmed receipt of the FK-3 anti-aircraft missile systems delivered by military transport planes of the PLA Air Force to Belgrade. The official display of the new SAMs will take place at the end of the month.

The special operation emphasized the role of precision weapons

The United States and Britain have today retargeted their commercial satellite systems Starlink and OneWeb to collect intelligence information in the interests of the armed formations of Ukraine. A plan is being hatched to disconnect Russia from the GPS system. How can all this, coupled with the ban on the import of software (software), affect the performance of combat missions by our troops in the combat zone, the production of high-precision weapons by the defense industry?

The small-sized radar station (MRLS) "Volna", designed for round-the-clock and all-weather search, detection and tracking of ultra-small drones, is being put into trial operation.

SberAutoTech has started testing drones in the passenger transportation service mode. The fleet of self-driving cars has been on the roads of Moscow and the Moscow region since December 2020. Cars are being tested in conditions of dense urban traffic, taking into account various weather conditions and time of day. In the spring of 2022, the company started the next stage — testing the unmanned passenger transportation service.

The numbers are getting bigger, but the future is getting harder to calculate

In March 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defense received another proof of the high level of cooperation between the Ukrainian military and the military of the NATO bloc.

Experts explained why the American HELWS laser will not be able to shoot down drones in combat conditions

The United States tested the High Energy Laser Weapon Systems (HELWS) system with a laser cannon, which was integrated into the Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) anti-aircraft missile system. "Newspaper.Ru" was looking into how the US is doing with the development of laser weapons and what its main problem is.

Yaroslavl Radio Plant joined the RKS holding

The new production asset will allow the Russian Space Systems Holding to increase capacity to expand the range of space products. Yaroslavl Radio Plant has become an active participant in the Program of Strategic Transformations of Space Instrumentation Enterprises.

In the modern world, spy satellites can receive information about almost any objects. In order to keep the details of the equipment and the very fact of moving any objects secret, Chinese scientists suggest using the "invisibility cloak" developed by them.

Russian UAVs will receive a digital catalog for automatic recognition of NATO equipment

Russian reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles will receive a digital catalog that will allow them to automatically recognize military equipment of NATO countries, an informed source told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

Rostec State Corporation bought the blocking share of the developer of electronics on Baikal processors — the Edelweiss company. It is noteworthy that representatives of the electronic market associate this company with the founder of the supercomputer company "T-platforms" Vsevolod Opanasenko.

The Russian Academy of Sciences appreciated the decision of ESA to terminate participation in the lunar programs of Roscosmos

The European Space Agency removes its instruments from Russian lunar missions. A European camera and a drill will not go to the moon. In the Russian Academy of Sciences "Newspaper.Ru" told what Dmitry Rogozin's comment "a woman with a cart is easier for a mare" means.

Import substitution in the optical industry became the central topic of the meeting of the Council of Chief Technologists, which was held under the leadership of Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation Oleg Bochkarev, the press service of the holding "Shvabe.

A large archive of documents describing the program of strengthening the information influence of London in the countries of the former Soviet Union has been found on the Internet. The documents posted online, presumably by hackers of the Anonymous group, are a set of instructions for combating "Russian disinformation" and pro-Russian media in the CIS.

In Russia, the Storm 3450E3R rack server appeared under the Depo brand. This is the most localized server, since it is assembled in Russia and is based on the Depo development board, on which the Elbrus-8SV CPU of the domestic MCST is located. All hardware is controlled by the Russian OS "Alt Server" 10 of the company "Basalt SPO".

The US suddenly eased anti-Russian sanctions. Now the import of software, hardware, services and technologies related to telecommunications, the Internet, and online communication is allowed in the country. The reasons for the indulgences have not been established.

The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, reported news that deserves special attention. According to the general, in the area of the Kalininskoye settlement of the Mykolaiv region, our anti-aircraft missile gunners shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle of the Valkyrie type.

Military Watch Magazine (USA): The perfect fighter for the Ukrainian conflict? Why Russia does not have enough Su-57 to turn the situation around

Thanks to the unique capabilities and functions, it is the Su-57 that could become the ideal fighter for the Ukrainian conflict, writes MWM. It is estimated that only six to eight fighters are in service.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addressed the State Duma on Thursday with an annual report on the results of the government's activities.