Electronics and optics news

China's plans to achieve world leadership in the design and manufacture of microchips are threatened by a "chronic shortage of personnel," the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

NASA has chosen the winner among the finalists of the next Explorers program competition in the category of small research vehicles. It was the COSI space gamma-ray telescope, which will be launched into near-Earth orbit in 2025 and will study galactic gamma-ray sources, according to the NASA website.

Civilian sights, protection and optical surveillance systems for rescuers and law enforcement agencies are presented by Shvabe Holding at the Interpoltech-2021 International Exhibition of state Security Equipment taking place in Moscow, the company's press service reports.

This will allow for a phased transfer of the military communications system to digital methods of processing and transmitting information

The communications troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will receive more than 12 thousand samples of modern equipment this year. This was announced by the head of the Main Communications Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on the eve of the Day of the Signal Troops.

Specialists of the communications troops of the Southern Military District (SE) conducted a large-scale radio training on data exchange, ensuring stable continuous communication between the field control points of formations and military units, air Force and air defense units, as well as military bases in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Armenia.

A serviceman of the Ukrainian army demonstrated the effectiveness of the tank's thermal imaging sight on his YouTube channel.

The thermal smoke equipment exposed a fairly dense smoke screen, and if nothing but the cloud itself was visible in the optical device, then during observation through the thermal imager, all nearby objects were guessed without much difficulty.

The Russian military base in Tajikistan will be completely re-equipped with modern means of communication by the end of the year.

The acoustic reconnaissance module "Ataka-Rustle", created by specialists of the subsidiary holding "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) to detect drones by sound, has successfully passed factory acceptance tests, the state corporation told reporters on Wednesday.

The head of the Ministry of Defense clarified that we are talking about the node of the missile attack warning system in the city of Baranovichi and the Navy radio station in the city of Vileika

The heads of the military departments of Russia and Belarus, Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Khrenin, signed documents on Wednesday extending the validity of agreements on the deployment of two Russian military facilities on the territory of the republic.

Artificial intelligence can be used for network monitoring

The experts of the Russian Security Council propose to take additional measures to combat fakes published on the Internet, said the press secretary of the Russian Security Council Yevgeny Anoshin.

The US Army has postponed military operational tests of Microsoft augmented reality helmets due to a problem with their wide viewing angle. According to Military Times, the wide panels stretch and distort the image a little. In addition, the effect of a mosquito net was found in some helmets — when lines separating pixels are visible when viewed.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States decided to create a gamma-ray telescope Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI). They want to launch it in 2025.

The devices were delivered to the airport by the AN-124 aircraft

The AN-124 aircraft delivered two communication satellites to the airport of Krayniy (Kazakhstan) in preparation for the December launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

Roselectronics Holding of Rostec State Corporation organizes the release of tracker bracelets based on LoRaWAN Internet of Things technology. The devices will allow remote supervision of children and the elderly. The use of LoRaWAN protocols for data transmission does not require SIM cards and cellular networks, and also provides a confident determination of coordinates in enclosed spaces or underground.

The official launch of Russia's first interuniversity quantum network with open access, which united the campuses of the National Research Technological University "MISIS" and the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI), took place on Wednesday in Moscow, the press service of MTUCI reported on Thursday.

The introduction of self-driving cars will radically revise the economy of transportation and reduce the cost of travel. This was stated by Tatiana Mikheeva, Head of the Research Department of Integrated Transport Development of JSC NIIAT, in an interview with Vestnik GLONASS magazine. 

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the law on ratification of the agreement on the joint (unified) communication system of the armed forces of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the press service of the head of state reported.

The ground forces are equipped with modern means of communication and automation of the Unified Tactical Control System (ESU TK), which allows for the control of troops and weapons in close to real time.

Russian law enforcement agencies and special services should introduce modern information technologies, including artificial intelligence, according to experts of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

On September 28, a representative of Mitsubishi Corporation sent a letter to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in which Mitsubishi confirms the absence of any plans to restart the Mitsubishi SpaceJet regional aircraft program. The text of the FAA and Mitsubishi correspondence is posted on the page of official documents of the US government.