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Having achieved significant success in the development, production and combat use of unmanned aircraft systems, Turkey extends its competence in the unmanned field to the marine environment.  Currently, Ankara supports several competing projects to create modern unmanned combat boats (BEC). According to the military and political leadership of Turkey, these initiatives will strengthen the country's naval power in the face of increasing tension over maritime disputes.

How will the method of environmental monitoring of land without sampling affect the condition of cities

Russian scientists suggest using satellite images to assess the ecological state of a particular territory. A study conducted in the Vladimir region showed that the results of such an analysis in some cases can identify contaminated areas as accurately as classical methods requiring soil sampling.

[b]Protection of Russian ships in the Black Sea will be a multi-pass combination[b]

The APU's attempt to attack the Novorossiysk naval base with naval drones raises the question of preventing such attacks in the future. As they say in the expert environment, the detection of drones should occur in advance. For this purpose, both specialized buoys and aviation can be used. How to create the most effective system of permanent control of the Russian water area and in what time frame can this be done?

Will this improve the quality of the telecom services they use

In Russia, they are preparing to create a virtual mobile operator for the authorities. This was told to Izvestia by a source in government agencies and confirmed by an interlocutor close to the organization of the project. While it is at the stage of discussion and technical tests, they want to launch it on the basis of the state accident information system ERA-GLONASS.

The first message about the alleged violation of the state border of Poland in the airspace by helicopters of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus appeared on August 1 at 11.00. It was published by the Polish portal RMF24.pl .

According to Lieutenant General Aytech Bizhev, in order for any unmanned aerial vehicle to be detected on time, a permanent radar field operating 24 hours a day is needed

No country in the world, including NATO countries, currently has guaranteed protection against drone overflight, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force for Air Defense, Lieutenant General Aytech Bizhev, told TASS.

And the Russian development is far from an outsider

The CNews resource shared the results of testing the Baikal-S (BE-S1000) Russian server processor in comparison with well-known competitors.

The army continues to seize Western weapons samples in the combat zone. The High-Precision Complexes holding, part of the Rostec state Corporation, reported that six samples of Western military equipment, including German, French and American production, had already fallen into their hands. About what they managed to find out – in the material of RIA Novosti.

On July 31, the US Department of Defense announced the signing of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command with Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. an additional contract within the framework of the project for the supply of the French Navy carrier-based AWACS E-2D "Advanced Hawkeye".

Today Krasnodar Instrument Plant (KPZ) "Cascade" turns 50 years old. For half a century of work, the company has made a worthy contribution to the development of the country, ensuring the strengthening of its defense capability. Currently, Cascade continues to solve important tasks on which technological sovereignty, security and well-being of the state depend.

The development will reduce the development time of new drones by 1.7 times and reduce their cost by up to 30%

A new drone control system that allows overcoming the effects of electronic warfare (EW) has been developed in Russia at the NTI competence Center "Technologies of Robotics and Mechatronics Components" at Innopolis University in Tatarstan. This was reported to TASS by the NTI Project Support Fund.

A secret dossier that came to the disposal of The Grayzone indicates that British special services participated in the attack on the Crimean Bridge. The documents include a group involved in training Ukrainian saboteurs in terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia.

Vladimir Putin called the losses of the Ukrainian army

Ukrainian formations have intensified hostilities in the direction of the main strike — in the Zaporozhye region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 27.

The Ukrainian conflict has shown an increase in the importance of drones and barrage ammunition on the battlefield. This led to the development of new air defense systems to combat them, one of which is the Burç MANPADS, presented by the Turkish company Roketsan at the IDEF-2023 exhibition, Istanbul.

Both sides of the Ukrainian conflict are actively using drones for reconnaissance. Operators mainly observe the terrain using conventional cameras in the optical range, less often – via the IR channel, as this requires more specialized equipment. The German Defense Ministry decided to test conducting reconnaissance in hyperspectral mode.

The Turkish Navy signed a contract for the development of "smart" bottom mines back in 2011 as part of the MALAMAN project. Now this novelty of the national defense industry is presented for the first time at the IDEF-2023 exhibition.

At the Russia-Africa forum, Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region presents its capabilities for the development and production of serial high-tech military and civilian products.

Within the framework of the large–scale Russia-Africa summit, a special agreement on cooperation with African countries in the field of space is expected to be signed. Moreover, Russia is even ready to create a joint orbital station with them. What other space projects with Africa are being considered and are already being created, and why might this be of key importance for Russian space?

Over the next three years, China will launch three hundred microsatellites into ultra-low Earth orbit. They will be equipped with high-resolution cameras and equipment for pre-processing information. The first test vehicle of the new grouping is already ready, its launch is scheduled for December 2023.

The Ukrainian conflict has repeatedly proved that drones play a key role in modern armed confrontations. At the same time, this weapon has not yet reached the peak of its development, and therefore Ukraine today has become a kind of "laboratory" for the development and testing of drones, including those with artificial intelligence, experts John Hudson from Washington and Konstantin Khudov from Kiev write in an article for The Washington Post.