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Huawei and China's leading chipmaker SMIC have created an advanced 7-nanometer processor for their newest smartphone, a sign that Beijing has made great progress in a nationwide effort to circumvent U.S. efforts to curb its technological development.

Scientists from the University of Zurich have developed an autonomous artificial intelligence Swift, which for the first time beat human pilots in drone races. AI has previously shown its superiority in chess and Go, but now it has surpassed humans in real sports for the first time.

Units of the Ukrainian army may have begun to receive a new modification of the Kozak-2M1 armored car with a remotely controlled combat module. One such armored car was spotted near the line of contact.

Spanish military journalists who visited the Army-2023 exhibition were interested in the new Zavet-D artillery fire control vehicle, made on the chassis of the KamAZ-4386 Typhoon 4x4 armored car.

According to Western analysts, the war in Ukraine has literally brought the issue of autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) to the fore. Moreover, both belligerents seek and actually use various degrees of AI and autonomous operations.

The Norwegian army received the first unmanned all-terrain vehicle Mission Master XT. The effectiveness of the all-terrain vehicle was tested during the Arctic Mobility military exercises in the Finnish Far North.

The Turkish company ASELSAN has made significant progress in the development of an AFAR radar, designated MURAD. Soon it should be adopted by combat aviation.

Israel is one of the leaders in the field of creating laser weapons that can act as an effective means of air defense. According to the head of the defense company Rafael, which also works in this area, in 2024, deliveries of laser systems to the troops responsible for the air defense perimeter, which is built around the state, will begin:

New horizons of X-35U anti-ship missiles

The range of these products is about 180-250 km when launched from medium and high altitudes and a high-altitude flight profile in the rarefied layers of the stratosphere in the altitude range of 15-17 km.

Self-propelled gun "Coalition–SV" - the secret of counter-battery domination of Russia

Since the beginning of deliveries of modern long-barreled 155-mm self-propelled artillery units of Western production with a barrel length of 52 caliber (L52) to the combat units of the AFU barrel artillery.

In 2018, the French company Safran introduced a new Geonyx inertial navigation system with the latest generation HRG CRYSTAL gyroscope, which has a guaranteed service life of 1 million hours.

China continues to develop technologies designed to increase the combat capability of the PLA Naval Forces. According to the South China Morning Post, a successful test of the enemy submarine detection system based on terahertz wave technology was conducted.

The ongoing war in Ukraine has led to some technological innovations in the field of combat control systems (SBU) on the part of the country's defense industry. In particular, the competence of Ukrainian programmers allowed us to create a technological product for tablets and smartphones called "Nettle".

The American company Northrop Grumman demonstrated its new development, commissioned by the US government, a powerful small-sized laser installation, designated Phantom.

The drone body was made in the form of a flying wing in the form of a center section with two consoles

The Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great has developed an unmanned aviation complex to counter the micro and mini-UAVs of the enemy. The corresponding document was published on the official website of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (part of Rospatent).

The top leadership of Russia drew attention to the outer space closest to our planet: an instruction was given to create domestic satellites designed to operate in so-called ultra-low orbits. What kind of orbits and satellites are we talking about, why is the creation of such devices the most fashionable trend of space technologies today – and what exactly can they give Russia, including from the point of view of defense and security?

The X International Forum of Technological Development "Technoprom-2023" was held in Novosibirsk. Within its framework, Nikolay Volobuev, Deputy Director General of Rostec State Corporation, member of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, spoke at the panel discussion "The appearance of a new type of engineer: a competency portrait of a graduate of an Advanced Engineering School that meets the needs of the real sector of the economy" and spoke about the work that Rostec is doing to train highly qualified engineering personnel within the framework of the Advanced Engineering Schools program (WRITE).

An anthropologist specialist told when people will become half computers and will be able to give birth to "designer" children

Over the next 200 years, the development of technology may lead to the emergence of organisms whose sensory organs will be replaced by technical devices.

A complex of electronic protection against FPV drones has been developed in Russia, the system has already passed preliminary tests in the special operation zone and has shown excellent results. This was told by Denis Oslomenko, CEO of the Laboratory for Countering Industrial Espionage.

The PLA conducted naval strike and air combat exercises in the Southern Theater with the participation of recently improved fighters operating from an unnamed island airfield.