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Promising high-precision air-to-surface ammunition is the first to be received by the foreign air force

At the end of November, the American military-political publication The National Interest conducted an audit of air-to-surface ammunition in order to determine those that have an optimal efficiency-to-cost ratio. Suddenly, the Russian ammunition became the leader. However, it has not yet been adopted by the Russian aerospace forces.

As reported by the American web resource C4ISRNET in the material Burak Ege Bekdil " Turkish firm develops AI-powered software for drone swarms "(Burak EGE Bekdil "Turkish firm develops software based on artificial intelligence for a swarm of drones"), a private Turkish company MilSOFT said that it has developed software based on artificial intelligence for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles.

The state Duma has introduced a bill to strengthen the protection of personal data of judges, prosecutors, investigators and individual military personnel. According to the bill, law enforcement agencies will be able to prohibit the dissemination of information about their employees and their property, regardless of whether there is a threat to their lives.

the Expert spoke about the possible consequences of theft of equipment from the Il-80 Vzpu

At the Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield, an Il-80 Vzpu (air control point of the Russian armed forces) was robbed, which is also called the "doomsday plane". The airship arrived in this city for planned work on modernization and extension of the resource. The military observer of the Newspaper tells about the consequences that the incident can lead to.Ru " Mikhail Khodarenok.

Chinese physicists have assembled an optical circuit that demonstrates quantum superiority. They chose boson sampling on a 100-mode optical interferometer as a task to demonstrate the speed of a quantum device. According to the authors ' calculations, their quantum computer copes with this task 100 trillion times faster than a conventional supercomputer. The work is published in the journal Science.

The government of the Russian Federation has approved a list of modern technologies that will be used to conclude special investment contracts (SPIC).

Americans are actively moving to create semi-Autonomous drones. On December 6, the press service of the company General Atomics announced the tests of the Avenger drone under the control of artificial intelligence.

Chemezov spoke about the successful use of Kalashnikov drones in Syria

rostec expects orders for combat drones from the defense Ministry, said the head of the state Corporation Sergey Chemezov. At the same time, the military Department asked to speed up the creation of this type of weapon. According to Chemezov, the drones created by the Kalashnikov concern have already been baptized in Syria and have proven themselves well.

In the southern military district (SE), military tests of a new mobile laboratory for measuring equipment (PLIT-A2-4/4M) have been completed, and deliveries of these complexes to the Armed Forces will begin in 2021.

The chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov the workshop in the Admiralty heard the report of the Deputy commander of the Navy Vice-Admiral Vladimir Kasatonov on the audit of a number of structural units of the Navy in the Krasnodar region and the Crimea.

Serial deliveries of the t-14 Armata tank will begin in 2021. The unmanned version of the car will not go into the series, although the artificial intelligence of the tank is entrusted with important missions - for example, pointing weapons.

The largest German arms concern Rheinmetall presented one of its latest developments-a robot scout and combat support Mission Master Armed Reconnaissance.

More and more clarity is emerging about how exactly Russia plans to use heavy attack drones in future armed conflicts. What role is assigned to these machines, in particular the Hunter UAV, why these devices may need artificial intelligence – and how will all this work in conjunction with the su-57 fighter?

South Korean soldiers will not part with smartphones even on the battlefield. Yesterday, December 5, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Administration of defense acquisition programs (DAPA, Defense Acquisition Program Administration) announced the purchase of "combat information devices" (combat information device) from the company LIG Nex1.

Why EW funds did not affect the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

Fighting has stopped in Nagorno-Karabakh, and Russian peacekeeping forces have been deployed to the Republic. Currently, Azerbaijan and Armenia are engaged in the separation of forces and means, the transfer of territory, as well as mine clearance and search for bodies of the dead. Over the past three weeks, there has not been a single armed clash between the Armenian and Azerbaijani military.

Prospects for the development of situations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

Acting us Secretary of defense Christopher Miller at his first briefing at the Pentagon announced to the media that by January 15 next year, the United States will reduce its military contingents in Afghanistan and Iraq – the number of troops in each of the countries will be 2.5 thousand people. Currently, there are about 4.5 thousand American troops in Afghanistan, and 3 thousand in Iraq.

What threat to Russia is the modernization of the American MQ-1C Grey Eagle

The US army requires that the MQ-1C Grey Eagle drones, designed to participate in multi-domain operations, have a synthetic aperture radar, indicators of moving targets, and radio and radio intelligence tools. Having received such opportunities, as the authors of the idea believe, American UAVS will be able to" look " at the territory of US opponents, including Russia.

According to a source in the military-industrial complex, Russia is creating an unmanned helicopter that should track enemy UAVs.

"Sea ships that can operate without a captain and crew enter our internal waters, and we create unmanned sea vessels ourselves, including in the underwater version, in this case in the field of defense, "Putin said, speaking at a conference on artificial intelligence during the main discussion"Artificial intelligence is the main technology of the XXI century".

Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Roscosmos, said that all three Gonets-M communications satellites launched on Thursday were put into their calculated orbits and taken over.

The Soyuz-2.1 b rocket with Gonets-M communications satellites and a device in the interests of the Ministry of defense launched from the launch pad N 3 of the Plesetsk State test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The launch was carried out by a combat crew of the VKS Space forces.