Electronics and optics news

[b]Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company LLC, noted that the Boomerang is the most powerful wheeled armored personnel carrier available in Russia today.]

The domestic armored personnel carrier "Boomerang" can be controlled even from a mobile phone. This was stated on the air of the RBC TV channel by Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company LLC.

Roscosmos in the coming years will focus on the creation of an orbital group for environmental monitoring, said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.]

Experts have started working on satellites that can detect carbon emissions. This was announced on Sunday by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos expects sanctions pressure aimed at depriving the state corporation of a new contract with OneWeb, said the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Russia is not going to scare anyone with new types of weapons, but is developing them, like everyone else, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, June 4, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Roscosmos has announced plans to improve the location accuracy of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS to 10 cm after 2030. This was announced on Saturday, June 5, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the materials of the state corporation posted on the public procurement portal.

Roscosmos does not rule out NASA's participation in the project of a new space station, but this issue will be resolved later, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

The first meeting on electronic warfare was held on June 4 in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Headquarters. The heads and representatives of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat, positively assessed the prospects for training specialists in electronic warfare from the CSTO member states in educational institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

According to the developers, the adoption of the bill will create conditions for the development of the commercial sector of the DSZ from space and will contribute to the development of the Russian data market

The draft federal law on remote sensing of the Earth from space, which will eliminate legislative gaps and help the development of the private sector in this area, is undergoing public discussions. This is stated on the official portal of regulatory legal acts.

The Soviet T-72 tank in the 90s was one of the most common modern tanks in the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that proposals for their further modernization have begun to appear in many countries.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin spoke about the threats in the near future that the Russian military sees. According to him, the most serious security challenges and threats are caused by several recent trends in the world.

Former Polish army commander Waldemar Skrzypczak believes that Russia has weapons equipped with artificial intelligence systems. He said this in an interview with the Internet portal Onet.pl.

The device will be used for weather forecasts and disaster prevention, Xinhua news agency reports.]

China has successfully launched the Fengyun-4-bi meteorological satellite into the specified orbit. This was reported on Thursday by the Xinhua news agency.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, stressed that the demonstration of a real satellite would be "the best example for investors to invest in the development of orbiters".]

A fundamentally new spacecraft, being developed under the Sphere program, will be created by the end of 2022. This was announced to journalists on Thursday on the sidelines of SPIEF-2021 by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The sixth generation of cellular communication (6G) may appear in Russia in 2035. Izvestia writes about this, referring to the forecast of the Radio Research Institute (NIIR) and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

Moscow and Washington are in contact about a hacker attack on JBS, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday.

The share of foreign electronics in public procurement in 2020 decreased from 51% to 43%, and should decrease even more due to the government decree on the minimum share of purchases of goods of Russian origin, which entered into force on January 1, 2021, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) said at the plenary session "Electronic industry as a technological basis for sovereign and innovative development" of the first International Industrial Forum "Intelligence of Machines and Mechanisms", held in Sevastopol.

The State Design Bureau Yuzhnoye named after M. K. Yangel of Ukraine has signed a contract with ISILAUNCH for the launch of the Sich 2-30 (2-1) remote sensing satellite from the SpaceX launch pad. This was announced on Monday, May 31, by the Minister for Strategic Industries of the country Oleg Urusky.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to return half of the costs of Russians when switching to domestic electronic components and software.

The launch of the first radar Earth observation satellite "Obzor-R" is planned for next year. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", said the deputy director of the Department of navigation space systems of Roscosmos Valery Zaichko.

The Office will have its own budget

The Ministry of Defense will form an office for working with artificial intelligence with its own budget by December 2021. This was announced on Monday by Mikhail Osyko, a member of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation.