Electronics and optics news

The US military has tested the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft as a repeater for the fifth-generation F-22 and F-35 fighters. According to Lockheed Martin, during the tests, one F-22 Raptor and five F-35 Lightning II successfully exchanged data with each other using the gateway on the U-2 and transmitted them to the ground.

The Americans first tested a prototype artificial intelligence system for unmanned Skyborg wingmen in flight. According to the US Air Force, the "brain" was installed on the UTAP-22 tactical drone of the Kratos company. The tests were successful.

American pilots can now see targets in full color. On May 5, the press service of Northrop Grumman announced the delivery of advanced LITENING guidance modules to the US Air Force and National Guard.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a government decree on submitting a proposal to the President of the Russian Federation to denounce the Open Skies Treaty (DON).

The American company SpaceX is preparing on Sunday to put into orbit the second batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites in a week, the specialized website Spaceflight Now reported.

The head of the Czech military intelligence, Jan Beroun, said that Russia was ready for accusations of involvement in the explosions at the warehouses in Vrbetice. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

To develop a computer program for the needs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, recognizing the substitution of faces in videos (the so-called "deepfake" technology), the scientific and industrial company "High Technologies and Strategic Systems"will have to.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Tuesday, May 4, successfully launched another batch of 60 mini-satellites into low-Earth orbit, which should replenish the orbital grouping of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system. This was announced by the developer company SpaceX on Twitter.

The device has no analogues in the world

JSC " Scientific and Production Corporation "Precision Instrument Systems" (NPK "SPP", part of Roscosmos) is developing digital glasses for emulating binocular vision for the rehabilitation of people with one seeing eye. This is stated in the draft plan for the implementation of the company's diversification program until 2025 (available to TASS).

Intel boasted that the rover received two COMEX-IE38 modules from the company CompuLab, which are based on the Bay Trail generation Intel Atom processors.

As of May 4, 22 spacecraft are operating as part of the Russian GLONASS orbital constellation, the Information and Analytical Center for Coordinate-Time and Navigation Support said on Tuesday.

The failures with the Altay tank only encourage Turkey to reduce its dependence on imported military technologies. Yesterday, May 3, portal defenceturk.net he reported that the company Aselsan has started testing a new tank fire control system VOLKAN-M.

European countries have started implementing the PILUM project. On May 3, the press service of the European Defense Agency (EDA) announced the official start of work on the creation of an experimental electromagnetic weapon.

The sensor is designed to determine the spatial orientation of the spacecraft relative to the inertial equatorial stellar coordinate system

The small-sized star sensor AZDK-1 for small spacecraft, created in Azmerit LLC (RKS holding, part of Roscosmos), has begun to pass flight tests. This is stated in the message of the holding, distributed on Tuesday.

The functionality of the spacecraft has been fully restored

The Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. 2 is again operating normally. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday in the press service of JSC "Corporation "VNIIEM".

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

A recent study, the results of which are published in the journal Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, found that the ever-growing mass of space debris in low-Earth orbit creates another unexpected problem. The fact is that the sunlight reflected from it, falling on the Earth, makes it difficult for astronomers to observe the stars.

The US Army is developing the a-shape (alpha-shape) technique, which will ensure the joint work of several robots in conditions of poor communication between them or even complete lack of it. It will help groups of autonomous robots achieve their goals without interfering with each other and without duplicating actions, even though they will not be able to communicate with each other.

Russian Su-30 fighters will undergo a deep modernization. Yesterday, on May 2, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Su-30SM fighters in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Navy will be upgraded to the Su-30SM2 version.

The communications and cybersecurity forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will soon receive trucks from the French automaker Renault.