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Four-legged drones can push snipers on the battlefield. On October 13, Ghost Robotics and SWORD Defense Systems presented a joint development - a sniper fire system for the Vision-60 robot at the US Army Association (AUSA 2021) exhibition.

The US Air Force has completed a series of tests of the new GBU-72 concrete-piercing bomb weighing 2.3 tons, during which it was dropped from the F-15 Strike Eagle heavy fighter-bomber. The striking capability of the GBU-72 will be significantly higher than that of the comparable GBU-28, which the US military has been using for three decades.

The multiplicity of the sight is variable and ranges from 5 to 20

The sniper sight of large multiplicity with a wide range of corrections was developed in Russia at the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev (KMZ, part of the Shvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation). This was reported to TASS by the General director of KMZ Alexander Novikov.

Terrorists are already creating their own cyber units, this can, for example, lead to acute interstate conflicts up to armed clashes, said Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting of special services in Moscow.

Seventy-year-old HYDRA 70 rockets have received modern capabilities. On October 12, the press service of BAE Systems announced the successful use of APKWS ammunition against aerial targets.

The United States did not invite Russia to the first multilateral meeting dedicated to developing a strategy to combat ransomware viruses, but does not exclude its participation in such events in the future, said a senior representative of the American administration.

The ballistics input system, taking into account the distance or angle of the target location, allows the fighter to quickly and accurately change the firing settings, said Alexander Novikov, General Director of KMZ

The newest 3-12x50 sight for installation on large-caliber machine guns was developed in Russia at the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev (KMZ, part of the sHvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation). This was told to TASS by the General director of KMZ Alexander Novikov.

Baikal Electronics, a developer of domestic chips from the Baikal line, has entered into a partnership agreement with four design centers for the production of motherboards on its processors in Russia.

This opinion was voiced by the former Pentagon director of software. The United States has already lost the battle in the field of artificial intelligence to China, which is moving towards global domination, using advances in new cyber capabilities.

To launch three small satellites into low Earth orbit, the company used the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock gateway module, which arrived at the station in December 2020

The American aerospace company Nanoracks launched three research satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. This was announced by the company's press service on Twitter.

The Astra Linux Group of companies and the IT Expertise company, the developer of the SAKURA software package designed to ensure information security, have signed an agreement on technological partnership, the press service of the GC reports.

A brigade or regiment of S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems, having received the Pantsir-SM complexes, will become a self-sufficient unit. Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky told Izvestia about this on Tuesday, October 12.

sHvabe Holding presents a number of sights for hunting and sporting weapons at an exhibition in Belgrade, the press service of the holding reported.

The Russian navigation satellite system GLONASS will switch from using the "Soviet" time UTS (SU) to the world coordinate time (UTC). This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the presentation of the general designer of the system Sergey Karutin.

Russia expects to increase the supply of weapons sights to Serbia in the coming years, the CEO of the sHvabe holding (part of Rostec) said Alexey Patrikeev.

In Algeria, the T-90SA will receive the TacNet tactical link control system from the German Rheinmetall concern. Blogger KAD-GHANI told about this on his Twitter page.

Currently, the army of this state has the second fleet of combat vehicles of this model after India, numbering, according to various reference publications, more than six hundred units.

Russian energy companies continue to use foreign software and hardware, which makes them vulnerable from the point of view of cybersecurity. Such conclusions were made following the results of the next meeting of the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council of Russia on information security.

Roselectronics Holding of Rostec State Corporation installed and put into operation radar equipment ahead of schedule during the modernization of the airfield base of the Belbek civil airport under construction in Sevastopol.

The design of highly elliptical and small navigation satellites of the GLONASS system is beginning in Russia, Nikolay Testoyedov, CEO of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 51 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit in mid-October, according to data from the specialized website Spaceflight Now.