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The violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender near the Crimean Peninsula was shown from space. The corresponding image obtained by the European Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellite was demonstrated on Twitter by the user Gerjon_.

It is already being installed on Russian border patrol ships

The work of the automated communication complex "Rokot", which ensures the safe exchange of information between ships and coastal services, was demonstrated at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

More than 120 thousand cyber attacks on Russia's critical infrastructure were committed in 2020, most of them came from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Army General Nikolai Patrushev.

In the West, the militarization of space and cyber warfare on the Internet are coming to the fore when developing new weapons. The NATO command also pays close attention to the development of hypersonic weapons and combat robots.

Many countries are interested in developing electromagnetic weapons, which are called "invisible killer". With its help, you can instantly disable radars, computers and other electronic equipment, paralyzing the entire control system. Many countries are interested in this type of weapon, and Russia is no exception.

Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin, speaking at the Armed Forces Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, said that when preparing proposals for the US defense budget, the possibilities of new wars were taken into account.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started using a new system for recognizing faces, silhouettes of people and cars in Russia. "The system is already being used in five regions of the country," Andrey Telenkov, CEO of the Ntechlab developer company, is quoted by TASS. - The solution for silhouettes causes serious interest of our customers, we have a lot of requests."

The instruments are intended for the Chinese mission to study the asteroid Kamoaleva

TASS, June 23. Specialists of the Institute of Space Research (IKI RAS) plan to develop three instruments for studying the plasma shells of asteroids and comets. They can be used in the Chinese space mission starting in 2024 to study the asteroid Kamoalev and comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro. This was told by the director of the ICI RAS Anatoly Petrukovich at an online meeting of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on space.

Terrorists create computer games that involve users in game situations of committing terrorist attacks, said Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB of Russia.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense published a video demonstrating the capabilities of an air-based combat laser system. The tests, according to the agency, were successful, and the drone was shot down.

Earlier it was also reported that Admiral Vinogradov will receive new missile weapons and air defense systems

The new ship's automated control system (CASU) 3R-60U-1155 will be installed on the frigate of the project 1155M "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet.

The command of the Colombian Navy has initiated the process of acquiring new navigation radars for its light frigates FS-1500 of the Almirante Padilla class.

In addition, contracts are being prepared for the creation of coastal infrastructure for the maintenance of electronic weapons installed on ships of a foreign customer

Concern "Granit-Electron" (part of the corporation "Tactical missile weapons") in the near future will upgrade all ship-based automated control systems (CASU) 3R-60UE on ships of a foreign customer.

It monitors the surface and air situation and provides information about it to the command posts of the coastal surveillance system and the national Coast Guard forces

The over-the-horizon radar station (ZG radar) "Sunflower-E" was presented at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) in St. Petersburg.

The widespread use of unmanned vehicles: flying, surface and underwater, is an important part of the modernization of the Russian Navy. Drones will rid the ships of some intelligence tools, providing in return more advanced and powerful tools for monitoring the situation, and will allow the fleet to successfully resist new threats - for example, hypersonic weapons.

Russian specialists will work together with their colleagues from the United States in the field of detecting ransomware hackers-this will be facilitated by the agreement concluded by the presidents of the two countries. This was announced on Wednesday at the IX Moscow Conference on International Security by the director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov.

Russia is working on the issue of supplying Belarus with new radar stations, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) of Russia told Interfax.

It seems that Tesla has acquired one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. At the moment, the installation has a performance of 1.8 exaFLOPS, and the bottom line is that this is only a third of the future Dojo supercomputer. 

Elon Musk's company plans to deploy a total of 12 thousand satellites with a total cost of about $10 billion, according to Reuters]

Elon Musk's company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) plans to provide wireless Internet around the world by September using the Starlink satellite system. This was reported on Tuesday by Reuters with reference to the president of the American aerospace corporation Gwynne Shotwell.

The Israelis conducted a series of tests of a powerful laser system installed on the aircraft. With its help, it was possible to destroy the drones.