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The American company Kratos has shown a conceptual image of an unmanned sensor station (Off Board Sensing Station, OBSS), which it uses together with the US Air Force research Laboratory, Breaking Defense reports. This is an inconspicuous drone with a swept wing and a V-shaped tail.

Rosatom State Corporation wants to acquire a controlling stake in the domestic developer of processors "Elbrus" JSC MCST. The decision will be made this year.

The United States has been developing various laser systems for several years, mainly designed to destroy small homemade drones. This was stated on Wednesday, December 15, by the military observer of Izvestia Alexey Ramm, commenting on the tests of the US Navy anti-submarine laser weapons.

A US Navy ship hit a training target with an LWSD laser installation

The US Central Command announced the testing of laser weapons. The amphibious transport dock of the US Navy USS Portland (LPD 27) hit a training target in the Gulf of Aden as part of a demonstration firing. This is reported by the Defense Blog.

Western journalists noted a leap in the use of stealth technologies in Russia after the presentation of the upgraded S-70 Hunter attack drone.

The mobile reconnaissance point PRP-4A "Argus" was demonstrated for the first time to the command staff of the artillery units of the Central Military District during the operational and combat training camp, which takes place at the training ground in the Orenburg region.

In a separate motorized rifle brigade of the army corps of the Northern Fleet, the new Barnaul-T air defense intelligence and control complexes were put into service.

Specialists find out the causes of the problems

The Chinese space company ExPace on Wednesday carried out an unsuccessful launch of two GeeSAT satellites. This was reported on Wednesday by the Xinhua news agency.

Six launches from Russian cosmodromes and one from the spaceport in French Guiana are planned to be carried out by Soyuz rockets under the OneWeb program in 2022, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Interfax.

It was supposed to take place on December 22, the next date is December 24

NASA postponed the launch of the James Webb orbital telescope scheduled for December 22 by at least two days due to technical reasons. As noted in the press release, "specialists are engaged in eliminating the problem on the transmission and reception line of information between the telescope and the launch vehicle."

Electronic warfare units of the Central Military District (CVO) are equipped with the latest Field-21 suppression system. So, by the end of this year, four such jamming modules will be received by units based in the Volga region. This was announced by the head of the electronic warfare service of the district Nikolay Fedorov.

The troops of the Central Military District (CVO) were armed with a batch of 30 means of radio interference "Lesochek". This was announced by the head of the electronic warfare service of the Central Military District, Colonel Nikolai Fedorov, at the operational combat training camp, which is taking place in the Orenburg region.

Radio engineering troops have received a new round of development both in structure and in areas of activity, the department noted

The radio-technical troops (RTV) of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) are capable of detecting targets flying at hypersonic speed at any altitude. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The CEO of the corporation noted that "the relevance of the development is increasing in the field of financial technologies every day, especially taking into account the trends in the development of digital worlds or metaverses."

The complex includes a satellite terminal, sensors, a computer and a solar panel

A hardware and software complex for monitoring high-voltage power transmission lines has been developed in Russia. This was reported to TASS in JSC "Satellite system "Messenger" (part of Roscosmos).

The Hunter UAV is a key development in the field of unmanned aviation for our aerospace forces. Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky told Izvestia about this on Tuesday, December 14.

Military expert Murakhovsky called less visibility an advantage of the S-70 Hunter UAV

Viktor Murakhovsky, a military expert and member of the Expert Council of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, called the advantage of the newest S-70 Hunter attack drone equipped with a flat jet nozzle. The UAV is designed in such a way that it will be less noticeable in the radar and infrared ranges than previous versions of the aircraft, the expert said in a conversation with <url>.

The gunners of the Ussuri separate Guards amphibious assault unit practiced the skills of artillery calculations at command and observation posts and firing positions, as well as conducting fire adjustments from 122-mm D-30 howitzers on a simulator.

According to the CEO of Rostec, this decision will significantly increase the capabilities of the device

A new ground control point is being created for the S-70 Hunter drone. This was announced by the General Director of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov.

According to the rector of Novosibirsk State Technical University Anatoly Bataev, the consortium will also deal with energy issues

A consortium of more than 20 organizations based on the Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) was created in Novosibirsk. One of its main goals will be the creation of hybrid integrated circuits for spacecraft that increase their power and service life, Rector of NSTU Anatoly Bataev told reporters on Tuesday.