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Washington, amid the actions of Elon Musk, sends SATCOM satellite antennas to Kiev

The United States has announced that it will send SATCOM satellite communication antennas to Ukraine, which can work without Elon Musk's Starlink network. Now, with the help of the Pentagon and thanks to the owner of SpaceX, the APU will have an even more stable communication system. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about US plans and whether supplies will help Kiev.

Expert Khodarenok: the Vampire UAV control system promised by the USA may not be needed by Kiev

The United States plans to supply Ukraine with a system to combat unmanned aerial vehicles "Vampire" by mid-2023. The conclusion of the contract is expected within the next few months. About what this will mean for the course of hostilities in the framework of a special military operation - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

The Wagner Center, a free office and production site for companies and startups whose work is aimed at strengthening Russia's defense and scientific power, has started operating in the Northern capital. NEVSKY NOVOSTI visited the "PMK Wagner Center" and learned how to become its resident.

We talk about new technologies in the domestic helicopter industry

The aviation industry today strives not just to create new planes and helicopters, but to control the condition of already flying machines, to know in advance about emerging problems and not to repair, but not to allow breakdowns.

The trained algorithms are incredibly effective in detecting non-obvious relationships in complex systems or signs of approaching events that are invisible at first glance. Therefore, they are increasingly being used to analyze the telemetry of remote equipment in order to respond to possible failures in advance. A logical field of application is cosmonautics, where predicting any incidents will give operators on Earth precious time to plan a response.

The United States sent the newest reconnaissance aircraft to the borders of Ukraine

On October 31, an American Challenger 650 reconnaissance aircraft was flying in Romanian airspace, a number of Russian media reported, citing data from the Flightradar24 web service. Earlier, the same aircraft was spotted in Poland. "Newspaper.Ru" - about the purposes of such flights in the sky near the border of Ukraine, about the ability of such aircraft to detect an aerial target and systematically adjust the work of air defense.

Using the Falcon Heavy superheavy space rocket from SpaceX, the Pentagon launches a new generation Tetra-1 small satellite and another military spacecraft into geostationary Earth orbit, information about which is not reported.

The United States no longer considers the previously existing approaches to the development of a limited number of large satellites and large ground-based systems justified. It took many years and a lot of money to implement these goals, now it is not relevant. The Pentagon's position was voiced by Assistant Secretary of the US Air Force for Space Frank Calvelli.

A hacker from the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) "Joker" hacked the American DELTA command and control program, which is actively used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on November 1 by the head of the press service of the DPR, Daniil Bezsonov.

A new modification of the anti-drone gun has been developed by specialists of the company "Laboratory PPSH" (countering industrial espionage). The new electronic warfare system, called the LPD-802, was developed on the basis of the LPD-801 anti-drone rifle used by our troops in the SVO zone.

According to the SpaceNews web resource, on October 25, 2022, Elon Musk's SpaceX company began accepting pre-orders for a flat-panel antenna for the terminals of the Starlink system, which will allow ground vehicles to use the Starlink broadband service while driving.

Austrian physicists have developed a new architecture for building universal quantum computers, which reduces the number of physical qubits for calculating complex mathematical problems. This was reported by the press service of the University of Innsbruck.

The most "quiet" PLA command is deployed to Mongolia and Kazakhstan

As a result of the 2017 military reform, the Lanzhou Military District and part of the Chengdu Military District of the PLA became the Western Command (Western Combat Command Zone) with headquarters in Chengdu. Its area of responsibility includes Chongqing, Xinjiang Uygur, Tibetan, Ningxia–Hui Autonomous Regions, Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan provinces.

According to experts, this is especially important during a special military operation, when oil depots and refineries in border zones may be attacked from the air

The Government of the Russian Federation has instructed the Ministry of Energy to work out the issue of restricting drone flights over the most significant objects of the fuel and energy complex (fuel and energy complex) by November 1, according to a letter dated October 14, which State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Energy Anastasia Bondarenko sent to energy companies. The Izvestia newspaper writes about this on Monday with reference to the letter.

The T-72M1 "Tomas" tank, for the repair and modernization of which Czech supporters of Ukrainian neo-Nazis raised funds, will soon be sent to the APU.

Foreign Affairs: the US does not have the strength to fight Russia and China at the same time

The United States is threatened by a conflict with China and Russia at the same time, writes the FA. Such a prospect does not bode well for America, and it will lose, the author believes. He sees the problem in the doctrine adopted by the Pentagon in 2015.

We are talking about the involvement by the West of components of civil infrastructure in space, including commercial, in armed conflicts, said Konstantin Vorontsov, Deputy director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

TNI: it's time to use British cyber troops against Russia

Britain and the United States support Ukraine in cyber operations against Russia, the author of TNI admits. In his opinion, it is time to discuss the use of cyber attacks directly against Moscow.

Thales announced on October 25 that the Luxembourg Defense Directorate announced the purchase of 80 new armed command, communications and intelligence (CLRV) armored vehicles, which will allow the country's armed Forces to continue to effectively perform their tasks.

The statement by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Konstantin Vorontsov at the UN that Russia reserves the right to consider US commercial satellites used for military purposes to help Ukraine as a "legitimate target for retaliatory strike" caused an ambiguous reaction among Russian users of social networks.