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The Spektr-RG Space Observatory helped astronomers see the early stages of the event of the tidal destruction of a star by a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The light from the source went to the Earth for 2.5 billion years, further observations of it will help determine the mass of a supermassive black hole and the rate of accretion of matter to it, according to the website of the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Hybrid production systems allow you to simultaneously increase the shape using laser spraying, and remove excess by the traditional milling process. As a result, in one process, you can first create a rough blank, characteristic of additive manufacturing,and then bring it to perfection by processing parts on a CNC machine.

Russia has developed a system that will allow you to check the content for the presence of prohibited information. The system is designed for the media, politicians and bloggers. It will help to avoid administrative and criminal liability for information published before the ban. The project was presented at the intensive "Archipelago 2121".

The Ministry of Defense intends to create a phone and a mobile application for it specifically for military personnel.

A special feature of military gadgets will be secure communication. Thanks to a secure special channel, it will become almost impossible to listen to the phone during a conversation.

The control system can begin to be installed on fighters from 2024

The system for monitoring the technical condition of the aircraft in real time is planned to be installed on Su-57 fighters from 2024.

Military pilots will be able to control the Su-57 multifunctional fifth-generation fighter with the help of eyes and speech. Special programs are being developed for this purpose.

China and Russia should respond decisively to the involvement of the United States of outer space in the military confrontation of major powers and resist the creation by the Americans, together with their allies, of an improved radar facility for deep space (Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, DARC).

The Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has started working on a pilot project for assembling and painting aircraft and conducting technical control using Augmented reality (AR) technologies.

UEC Production Director Valery Teplov noted that digital technologies will reduce the engine production time by half

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, as part of the Rostec State Corporation) is introducing computer vision technologies. This was reported to TASS by the director of production of the corporation Valery Teplov.

The pilot of the Russian fighter of the 5th generation Su-57 will be able to control the aircraft with eye movements in the future, Nikita Dorofeev, head of the cabin department of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, told the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine.

Compatibility of VideoMost software with Astra Linux Special Edition OS has been confirmed

Compatibility tests of the domestic videoconferencing product VideoMost with the special-purpose operating system Astra Linux Special Edition have been completed, the press service of the Astra Linux group of companies reports.

The Syrian army continues to operate the Kvadrat anti-aircraft missile systems (NATO designation SA-6 Gainful), which are an export version of the Kub systems. The army of a friendly country began to receive them from the Soviet Union in the early 70s, almost immediately after the appearance of this modification.

On Tuesday, July 27, Russia submitted to the UN a draft convention on countering the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes.

Russian radars located in the Rostov region near the border with Ukraine "distorted" the images taken by the European Sentinel-1 satellite, writes Defense Blog.

Russia has developed a new radar system-a simulator of false targets, which is intended for use as beacons in air navigation and hidden identification of "friend-foe". The model was first presented at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The private aerospace company SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) enterprise will participate in the competition for the launch of 150 military satellites under the program of the Space Development Agency (AKR, a structural division of the US Department of Defense) at the end of 2024, according to the agency's website.

In Iraq, the existing BMP-1 fleet continues to be improved. Some of the armored vehicles in the troops received paired ZU-23-2s instead of a combat compartment with a 73-mm 2A28 "Thunder" smoothbore gun and a 7.62-mm PKT machine gun.

An Israeli AH-64 Apache combat helicopter made an emergency landing in the West Bank of the Jordan River.

According to a number of sources, during the flight, all control systems of the Israeli combat vehicle suddenly failed.

Rostec has developed a device that allows aircraft to navigate in conditions of poor visibility, the press service of the state corporation reported.

The construction of the first "Doomsday aircraft" of a new type has begun in Voronezh. The car is created on the basis of the Il-96-400M. In the foreseeable future, such aircraft will replace the Il-80 air command posts.