Electronics and optics news

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.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia has prepared a strategy for the development of the transport industry, which the agency plans to implement from 2021 to 2030. In particular, digital passenger profile systems will be created to pay for travel using biometrics and calculate the optimal travel route, and the use of unmanned vehicles will also be regulated.

The Turkish company Baykar Makina on July 20 on its Twitter page for the first time demonstrated a render image of the conceptual design of the MIUS (UCAV) combat unmanned aerial vehicle.

The creation of a military control aircraft in the event of a nuclear war began in Voronezh on the basis of a wide-body Il-96-400M, in total, the troops will receive two such air command posts, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the defense industry.

Currently, the project of the new "Doomsday aircraft" Il-96-400M is only at the development stage. This was reported to Izvestia on Monday, July 26, by sources in the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.

The newest Russian Checkmate fighter will be equipped with the most modern complex of avionics equipment, Vladimir Mikheev, adviser to the First Deputy general director of the Concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET), part of the Rostec state Corporation, said at the MAKS-2021 air show.

The need to create a "doomsday" aircraft based on the IL-96-400M is associated with the emergence of a new generation of communication and information processing equipment, including from space, Viktor Murakhovsky, a member of the expert council at the board of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti.

Within the framework of the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021, held in Zhukovsky near Moscow on July 20-25, agreements worth 265 billion rubles were signed. This was reported on July 25 in the Telegram channel of the event.

Modern ammunition finds its own targets. The company Rafael showed a promo video of its line of SPICE planning bombs equipped with artificial intelligence.

The process of controlling a spacecraft operating in orbit and conducting satellite imagery of any point in Russia is demonstrated at the Russian Space Systems Holding company (RKS), which is taking place at the Zhukovsky Air Show MAKS-2021 near Moscow.

The complex is not ready yet, but many calculation modules are used to solve various tasks, including in the interests of Roscosmos, the MIPT noted

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), with the support of TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos) and the Foundation for Advanced Research, is developing a software package that can be used to design multi-satellite space groupings. This was told to TASS by a representative of MIPT.

The drone is supposed to be developed on the basis of a "coaxial scheme similar to the Ka-226", the modular design of which allows it to be done quickly enough, said Oleg Landin, Director of Marketing and Business Development of Russian Helicopters JSC.

The holding company "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) is creating a new generation of communication and data transmission systems for combat aircraft, they will be able to work more efficiently in the conditions of electronic suppression, the press service of the holding told RIA Novosti.

On July 22, 2021, Thales Group announced that it had received a contract from the General Directorate of Armaments (Direction Générale de l'Armement - DGA) of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France for the supply of 350 Ssogriop helmet-mounted target designation systems for equipping Dassault Rafale fighters of the French Air Force and Navy. The contract also includes the supply of 400 new wide-angle multifunctional indicators to replace the current indicators in the cabins of French Air Force and Navy fighter jets.