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The experimental satellite Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX)of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is comparable in size to a football field, has completed its work, reports C4ISRNet.

A new-generation Russian military satellite launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The American analogue of the Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower" is a system of three Surface Wave Radar (SWR) radars from Raytheon, the designer of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS.

The United States is a leader in the research of artificial intelligence technologies, which is also facilitated by competition with Russia and China. On Thursday, June 24, the director of the Joint Center for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence of the Pentagon, Lieutenant General Michael Gron, told reporters at a press conference.

It is planned to present a control boat based on the BC in the near future, the Kalashnikov press service reported

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is developing the latest control boat based on the BC boat platform. This was reported to TASS by the Kalashnikov press service at the International Naval Salon.

Delivery of more than 30 new and modernized radar stations is planned to the radio engineering troops of the Central Military District (CVO) by the end of the year, the press service of the CVO reported on Friday.

Private information is generated for each target, which reflects all the data from the moment of detection until the moment of leaving the sector

The Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower-E" has unique qualities in comparison with foreign analogues and can simultaneously track more than 300 surface and air targets on an area of about 150 thousand square kilometers.

The country is interested in a Russian radar station to solve problems of preventing drug smuggling and transportation through the Straits, said the designer of the NPC NIIDAR Mikhail Skolotnev

NIIDAR specialists have developed a mobile radar station on an initiative basis to solve civil socio-economic tasks to control a 200-mile economic zone. This was announced in an interview with TASS at the MVMS-2021 by the designer of the NPC NIIDAR Mikhail Skolotnev.

The Starlink company intends to provide the entire Earth with satellite Internet by the fall. This is reported by Reuters.

According to the verification scenario, the brigade was brought to an increased degree of combat readiness, the personnel received weapons, and the equipment was removed from temporary storage

More than 600 military signalmen of the Guards Tank Red Banner Army of the Western Military District were raised on a training alert in preparation for the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercises "West-2021". This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of the district.

The violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender near the Crimean Peninsula was shown from space. The corresponding image obtained by the European Sentinel-2 remote sensing satellite was demonstrated on Twitter by the user Gerjon_.

It is already being installed on Russian border patrol ships

The work of the automated communication complex "Rokot", which ensures the safe exchange of information between ships and coastal services, was demonstrated at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

More than 120 thousand cyber attacks on Russia's critical infrastructure were committed in 2020, most of them came from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Army General Nikolai Patrushev.

In the West, the militarization of space and cyber warfare on the Internet are coming to the fore when developing new weapons. The NATO command also pays close attention to the development of hypersonic weapons and combat robots.

Many countries are interested in developing electromagnetic weapons, which are called "invisible killer". With its help, you can instantly disable radars, computers and other electronic equipment, paralyzing the entire control system. Many countries are interested in this type of weapon, and Russia is no exception.

Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin, speaking at the Armed Forces Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, said that when preparing proposals for the US defense budget, the possibilities of new wars were taken into account.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started using a new system for recognizing faces, silhouettes of people and cars in Russia. "The system is already being used in five regions of the country," Andrey Telenkov, CEO of the Ntechlab developer company, is quoted by TASS. - The solution for silhouettes causes serious interest of our customers, we have a lot of requests."

The instruments are intended for the Chinese mission to study the asteroid Kamoaleva

TASS, June 23. Specialists of the Institute of Space Research (IKI RAS) plan to develop three instruments for studying the plasma shells of asteroids and comets. They can be used in the Chinese space mission starting in 2024 to study the asteroid Kamoalev and comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro. This was told by the director of the ICI RAS Anatoly Petrukovich at an online meeting of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) on space.

Terrorists create computer games that involve users in game situations of committing terrorist attacks, said Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB of Russia.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense published a video demonstrating the capabilities of an air-based combat laser system. The tests, according to the agency, were successful, and the drone was shot down.