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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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

The Russian Quantum Center, Rosatom State Corporation and the National Quantum Laboratory will hold the VI International Conference on Quantum Technologies from July 12 to 16. The largest event in the field of quantum technologies in Russia will be held for the first time in an online format and will bring together leading scientists from the USA, Canada, China, Germany, Great Britain, France, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Singapore. The partners were the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gazprombank and the Roscongress Foundation. 

British tanks will become more protected. June 24 portal armyrecognition.com he reported that the company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced the choice of its Trophy MV system for installation on the Challenger 3.

The passive vehicle will be in orbit, the movement of the active one must be synchronized with it

Roscosmos has patented a method for approaching spacecraft in orbit for servicing satellites. This is stated in the materials distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

The experimental satellite Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX)of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is comparable in size to a football field, has completed its work, reports C4ISRNet.

A new-generation Russian military satellite launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The American analogue of the Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower" is a system of three Surface Wave Radar (SWR) radars from Raytheon, the designer of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS.

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.