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The formation of unmanned logistics corridors can become an extremely promising step for the development of cargo transportation in Russia and increase the attractiveness of Russian transport routes for foreign contractors. This opinion was expressed in an interview in the journal "Vestnik GLONASS" by the head of the Research Department of integrated transport development of JSC NIIAT Tatyana Mikheeva. 

The American company Sierra Nevada Corporation presented the MC-145B Wily Coyote combat aircraft. According to The Drive, it is based on the Polish PZL M28 Skytruck and can carry AGM-144 missiles, GBU-39/B aerial bombs, small drones and other ammunition.

The Skyborg artificial intelligence system for unmanned wingmen has taken to the sky for the second time — this time on the Avenger jet unmanned aerial vehicle. According to the US Air Force Research Laboratory, the flight lasted two and a half hours.

In the United States, when preparing for future conflicts, we should pay attention to modern technologies that will significantly affect the pace of hostilities. It is clear that we are talking about a military strategy to confront, first of all, Russia and China.

A patent for an invention for a new electrically conductive coating that can withstand thermal effects up to 250 degrees Celsius was obtained by engineers of the Shvabe holding company from Kazan.

In the Kaliningrad Region, the Borisoglebsk-1 electronic warfare system was successfully used against drones.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) last week published a "joint opinion" on the "Proposal on the regulation of artificial intelligence based on the European Approach"released in April.

According to the estimates of the US Air Force command, one of the components of the US strategic nuclear shield – the Minuteman III land-based ICBM needs to be replaced, since many of them have already passed half a century, and their service life is already expiring. After all, they were adopted back in 1970.

The official launch of the telescope is scheduled for 2027

SKA, the world's largest radio telescope under construction, will be equipped with equipment that will allow it to become part of the largest global networks that combine the capacities of the largest radio telescopes in the world. This was announced to TASS by the director General of the SKA Observatory, Professor Philip Diamond.

The pilots of the united Russian military base Kant in Kyrgyzstan for the first time performed combat training tasks using the new complex "Electronic polygon".

Launched on June 25, 2021 at 22: 50 Moscow time from Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk Region with a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket, the Kosmos-2550 spacecraft is the first "active" radar reconnaissance satellite 14F139 "Pion-NKS" of the space complex of marine reconnaissance and target designation 14K159 "Liana", writes the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant (VOMZ) will fulfill the contract by the end of 2021 and provide the Kalashnikov concern with a batch of updated collimator sights, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

Almost all quantum computers created so far are quite large devices that completely occupy the space of the laboratories allocated for them.

Development in It will take at least ten years for the Russian instrument-making industry to create 5G networks. However, the first implementation of domestic infrastructure components may take place before 2023. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Competence Center of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) for Wireless Communication Technologies and the Internet of Things at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Dmitry Lakontsev at the conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" (CIPR). His quotes are quoted by TASS.

The notorious American ARES aircraft received a "dome" similar to the famous droid from "Star Wars". Probably, we are talking about a satellite communication system.

The United States is a leader in the research of artificial intelligence technologies, which is also facilitated by competition with Russia and China. On Thursday, June 24, the director of the Joint Center for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence of the Pentagon, Lieutenant General Michael Gron, told reporters at a press conference.

It is planned to present a control boat based on the BC in the near future, the Kalashnikov press service reported

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is developing the latest control boat based on the BC boat platform. This was reported to TASS by the Kalashnikov press service at the International Naval Salon.

Delivery of more than 30 new and modernized radar stations is planned to the radio engineering troops of the Central Military District (CVO) by the end of the year, the press service of the CVO reported on Friday.

Private information is generated for each target, which reflects all the data from the moment of detection until the moment of leaving the sector

The Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower-E" has unique qualities in comparison with foreign analogues and can simultaneously track more than 300 surface and air targets on an area of about 150 thousand square kilometers.

The country is interested in a Russian radar station to solve problems of preventing drug smuggling and transportation through the Straits, said the designer of the NPC NIIDAR Mikhail Skolotnev

NIIDAR specialists have developed a mobile radar station on an initiative basis to solve civil socio-economic tasks to control a 200-mile economic zone. This was announced in an interview with TASS at the MVMS-2021 by the designer of the NPC NIIDAR Mikhail Skolotnev.