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In the near future, testing of unmanned vehicles without a test engineer on board may begin in some Russian cities, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports, citing a source in the Ministry of Transport.

The US Army tested a Stryker armored vehicle with a prototype of a 50-kilowatt laser installation during a live-fire exercise at the Fort Sill base in Oklahoma. The military plans to receive four such vehicles by October. They will use a laser to fight drones, artillery and mortar shells.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade asks Russian software developers to speed up the adaptation of their products to Russian processors "Elbrus" and "Baikal". Deputy Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Oleg Bocharov sent a corresponding letter with a request to Russian software developers at the end of July.

The American company GA-ASI reported that the US Army drone "Avenger" is now able to track targets offline. It uses the Lockheed Martin Legion sensor system to detect military and civilian objects.

The kit provides various types of maintenance of components of air defense systems

The Russian defense company JSC "GPTP " Granit", a subsidiary of JSC " Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey", presented a mobile set of repair and diagnostic equipment "REDCOM"in Istanbul on Wednesday. This was reported to the TASS correspondent by the company's representative Yevgeny Gladilin.

The heads of the space departments of the BRICS countries signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of exchange of satellite data for remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing), Roscosmos reported.

The peculiarity of the" Sula " is the compact size of the antenna web, which allows you to track the movement of satellites, the Almaz-Antey concern reported

The newest radar station (radar) for observing space objects "Sula" developed by the company " Radiophysics "(part of the concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey") it is capable of detecting space debris at a distance of up to 6 thousand km.

The new combat module "Hunter" developed and produced by NPO Elektromashina (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern is part of Rostec) has been put into mass production, the press service of the concern told reporters.

The Turkish defense company Meteksan Defense Industry Inc. has announced the development of a new ground-based laser system called NAZAR. This is a missile defense system. It was first presented at the 15th International Defense Industry Exhibition IDEF 2021.

The championship on the management of flying drones and ground-based robotic complexes will be held within the framework of the military-technical forum "Army-2021".

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championship on the management of unmanned aerial vehicles and robotic complexes "Dronbiathlon" will be held on August 25 and 26 within the framework of the International Military-Technical Forum (IMTF) The army-2021, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The United States and Canada have agreed on concrete steps to modernize the Joint Aerospace Defense Command of North America (NORAD). This is stated in a joint statement of the defense ministers of the two countries.

The ambitious project of creating a global mobile satellite communication system "Ether "has been excluded from the national program"Digital Economy". The project implementation costs were estimated at 299 billion rubles. At the same time, 30 billion rubles from extra-budgetary sources should have already been allocated for the design of this system.

The units of the PGRK RVSN are fully equipped with unique simulators for training mechanics-drivers of autonomous launchers of the Yars mobile missile system.

On April 16, NASA announced the conclusion of a contract worth $2.9 billion for the construction of the lander with SpaceX

TASS, August 16. Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, filed a lawsuit in a US federal court on Monday against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in connection with the award of a contract for the development of a lunar lander to SpaceX, headed by entrepreneur Elon Musk. This was reported by the online portal The Verge.

The Brazilian company Embraer has started flight tests of the electric agricultural aircraft EMB-203 Ipanema. During the first flights, specialists checked the controllability of the aircraft, the temperature control system and operational safety.

Specialists of the observatory of the Astronomical Scientific Center (ANC), located in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, will be involved in the creation of scientific equipment for the new Russian orbital station, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The concern will also present at the forum devices that provide the ability to control a helicopter using instruments

The concern" Radio-Electronic Technologists "(KRET) of the Rostec State Corporation will present for the first time at the Army-2021 forum a new navigation system for START 1a light helicopters. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of KRET.

From August 22 to 26, the congress "Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age and Artificial Intelligence Technologies" will be held as part of the scientific and business program of the MVTF "Army-2021".

The Guards tank Army of the ZVO received five unified command and staff vehicles (UKSHM) R-149MA1, which increased the combat capabilities of communication units.