Electronics and optics news

In particular, we are talking about secret research that concerns aircraft, missile design and cyber weapons

British security services are investigating nearly 200 scientists in the United Kingdom suspected of passing secret information in the field of advanced weapons to China. This was reported on Monday by The Times newspaper, citing an informed source.

The Russian 5G network interferes with NATO spy planes, the Vedomosti newspaper writes, citing reports from the International Telecommunication Union at the United Nations. Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, which is not a member of the alliance, objected to the use of the 4.8-4.99 GHz band by Russian operators.

American and British engineers have created a nozzle for laser cutters that allows them to create drones — the cutter cuts out the body, and the nozzle moves components onto it, applies contact tracks and sinters them. After that, the drone can take off directly from the cutter and get to work. The paper will be presented at the CHI 2021 conference.

The American space company SpaceX plans to provide Voice over IP (VoIP) services, Ars Technica reports, referring to the corresponding application to the US Federal Communications Commission.

The Russian Armed Forces will rely on the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in modern weapons. This was announced on Tuesday, speaking at an operational mobilization meeting with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.

According to the head of the Defense Ministry, the potential of non-nuclear deterrence forces, primarily high-precision weapons, is being strengthened

The basis of the non-nuclear deterrence forces will be made up of hypersonic complexes of various bases. This was stated on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the opening of the annual operational mobilization meeting with the leadership of the Armed Forces.

In the southern military district began the teaching of the units of missile troops and artillery of great power. More than 13 thousand servicemen marched in a combined way to military training grounds in the Astrakhan, Rostov, Volgograd regions, as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories.

The military satellite, launched into orbit on February 2 by the Russian Armed Forces, is designed to detect and intercept foreign military communication lines, the specialized American website Spaceflight Now reported.

The state puts likes to its citizens

As previously reported by some media, the PRC allegedly legalized the social credit system. However, the information does not correspond to reality, since such a concept is absent in the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China and in the comments to it. In fact, on the territory of the People's Republic of China, more precisely, in some administrative-territorial units-provinces or cities, the "Assessment of Social Trust"has been introduced. Regional administrations, by an agreed decision of the executive authorities and the Communist Party of China, launch such a system, which applies to local residents or government employees.

Thanks to the automated control system, the new Russian fifth-generation fighter is able to perform tasks with minimal pilot involvement. Earlier, we recall, there was unofficial information about the development of an unmanned mode on the Su-57 aircraft.

The US Federal Communications Commission has received a request from SpaceX to launch a new service – telephone communication and voice calls. The technical part will be implemented using the Starlink network, and economically it is tied to the federal program for providing telephony Lifeline. This will make it possible to subsidize services and make it easier for the poor to access them.

The world's largest military-industrial and aerospace corporation, Lockheed Martin, showed the operation of the Mobile Radio Frequency-Integrated Unmanned Aircraft System Suppressor (MoRFIUS), designed to intercept a swarm of drones. The American company posted the corresponding video on Twitter.

The Baikal neutrino telescope, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, will start operating in March 2021. This was announced on Monday, February 8, by Grigory Trubnikov, Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russian military scientists have offered guaranteed protection against a" multi-sphere operation " by NATO. On the air of Sputnik radio, Igor Korotchenko, the editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, shared his opinion on this issue.

Russian military scientists have proposed a variant of the combat use of the Aerospace Forces( VKS), which will provide guaranteed protection against a possible multi-sphere operation of NATO, a new approach is presented in the journal "Aerospace Forces. Theory and Practice", published by the Military Training and Research Center of the Air Force (Air Force).

The attackers entered the military base of the Israel Defense Forces and stole electronic equipment from there. The incident occurred at the military facility "Tselim", which is located in the south of the country.

As noted in the first part, in modern conditions, river operations are becoming increasingly important in regions where economic and social life develops along river basins. The international market continues to see the spread of water transport technologies that can support the conduct of combat operations on rivers.

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and colleagues from the Moscow State Pedagogical University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz radiation detector based on the tunnel effect in graphene.

The British multi-purpose nuclear submarine HMS Talent of the Trafalgar type was equipped with new sensors. Presumably, we are talking about an analog of the Russian wake trace detection system, or SOKS.

At the production sites of JSC "RSC "MiG "(part of the Military Aviation Division of the UAC of the State Corporation Rostec), an "Interactive complex of technological processes" for the assembly of aircraft has been launched.