Electronics and optics news

The Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation this year ahead of schedule received all parties of equipment "Ratnik", delivered about 18 thousand sets, reported on Thursday in the state Corporation"rostec".

Today on the market there are 4 and a half representatives of the iron hands, which are very common. These are Fanuc, Yaskawa, ABB, Kuka (I won't mention rare earth samples). Next to them are Universal Robots-cool guys whose robots look like a nice pile of aluminum pipes and plugs, which are very actively promoted on the market.

Disclaimer. Robots are very reliable guys. The average Robert of a normal brand can work like hell for years without interruption, requiring only short breaks for maintenance and calibration checks.

On the day of rocket troops and artillery, units of the 150th motorized rifle division of the southern military district (SE) in the Rostov region mastered the upgraded 2s19m2 "Msta-S" self-propelled howitzers.

in Britain, announced a record since the "cold war" investment in defense

The UK will significantly increase its defense spending - the corresponding plan was made by the country's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to the expert, the growth of spending on defense is a global trend, but London's plans differ from the practices of other European countries in the intention to develop high technologies, and not increase the cost of maintaining troops and monetary satisfaction.

Two American companies announced the completion of the world's first air battle between a real pilot and a virtual fighter controlled by artificial intelligence. This experiment is the first step towards delivering a similar technology to us air force fighter pilots, which will allow them to "fight" virtual opponents using augmented reality.

Unmanned marine vehicles are becoming more and more popular for civil and military purposes. Departments are increasingly ordering the development of drones and are keenly interested in existing samples.

The South of Russia will be protected by wheeled thermobaric flamethrowers. The southern military district (SE) will be the first to be re-equipped with the latest heavy flamethrower systems TOS-2 or Tosochka, sources in the Ministry of defense told Izvestia. Now the new cars are completing state tests.

Former F-22 Raptor fighter pilot and Red Six company founder Daniel Robinson piloted an experimental Berkut 560 aircraft produced by Freeflight Composites with an augmented reality headset for atars (Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System) aircraft developed by Red Six.

The us army is intensively developing high-tech equipment for Marines and a new generation of personal weapons, which are designed to provide a decisive advantage for American soldiers in combined-arms combat.

The covert Shores blog published satellite images "distorted" by Russian radars. "The Sentinel-1 satellite uses C-band radar aperture synthesis. This is 5.4 gigahertz, with a bandwidth of 100 megahertz.

The Hungarian army received the first Leopard 2 tanks - they will replace the Soviet T-72 in the ground forces. According to the military, the transition to a new type of tank caused a lot of problems-starting with the fact that the Leopard does not fit into the hangars built for the T-72.

the First launch of oneweb communications satellites from the spaceport is scheduled for December 2020

TASS, November 18. Communications satellites of the British company OneWeb were sent from Florida to the Vostochny cosmodrome in preparation for their launch into orbit. This was reported on the company's Twitter.

Russian space systems is developing a satellite grouping management system based on artificial intelligence, the holding's press service reported.

Thousands of fake accounts created to participate in the information war have been identified in social networks. The main purpose of the bots was to discredit Russia in Armenia and Armenians in Russia, and "threads" from them lead to Azerbaijan, Turkey and Britain. This is the first sign of a new political reality, in which the military-political Alliance of Moscow and Yerevan will be tested for strength.

The growth rate of new technology companies in Russia is one of the lowest in the markets of developing countries, according to the BCG report, which was reviewed by Kommersant. According to him, the Russian Federation accounts for about 3% of the total number of such companies (more than 10 thousand) based in emerging markets since 2014.

Memory devices based on switching resistance have significant advantages over the memory elements used today. Employees of the MIPT atomic layer deposition laboratory together with colleagues from Korea studied the effect of surface defects in one of the electrodes on the properties of a resistive memory cell.

The European space Agency has officially approved the design of the new ARIEL space telescope and allowed the process of its creation to begin. It is expected that the telescope will be launched in 2029 and will conduct the first large-scale study of the atmospheres of thousands of exoplanets of various types, according to the Agency's website.

According to recent data, Samsung has prepared a long-term investment plan in which it plans to invest $116 billion in chip production to surpass TSMC. Bloomberg reports that the company plans to start mass production of 3-nm chips by 2022.

The recently ended war in Nagorno-Karabakh has sparked new speculation about the end of the age of tanks. This was written about in both Russian and foreign publications.