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What are the military of Russia and Belarus working out at the Zapad-2021 exercises

Until September 16, joint maneuvers "West-2021"will be held in Russia and Belarus. As part of the exercises, the military has already worked out the capture of the coast, the mass release of paratroopers with night vision devices in the dark, bombing attacks from a height of 1 km and firing cruise missiles in the Barents Sea.

The military of the Baltic Fleet, as part of the joint exercises of the land forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021", organized the defense of the sea coast and an operation for landing a marine landing with the involvement of the Northern Fleet marines. This was announced on Sunday, September 12, by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Czech scientists from the University of Chemical Technology in Prague have invented mini-robots for extracting microplastics from the world ocean. This is reported by the ScienceNewsForStudents portal.

Experts from Seoul National University have developed a material that can change its color depending on the environment. This is reported by the journal Nature Communications.

At the Zapad-2021 exercises, Platform-M shock robotic complexes armed with grenade launchers were used for the first time at military training grounds near Kaliningrad, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Hyundai Motor has presented the concept of an unmanned hydrogen transport platform — a small low car without a cab, which can be used independently or as a tractor truck.

It is possible to train drones to act independently in a critical situation, said the executive director of the enterprise Ivan Antsev

The latest technologies allow us to train drones to make decisions independently and can find application in the event of a real military threat. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the executive director of the scientific and production enterprise "Radar mms" Ivan Antsev.

Forbes magazine writes about a new Russian robot. The device made an autonomous hundred-kilometer march. And "Marker" is also a platform on which technologies and systems are tested. Then the Russian military will install them on existing drones. The author admires the speed with which Russian developments are turning into real weapons.

At the international military-technical forum "Army-2021", Russia presented a new product-an underwater drone. Its main task is to explore the seabed, but if necessary, it can also attack. The timing of commissioning has not yet been reported, but the manufacturer has already told about the characteristics of the device.

Scientists from Scotland have created robots based on the mechanics of the movement of tapeworms. The development of engineers from the University of Glasgow will be able to be used in prosthetics, rescue operations and industry, the Evening Standard newspaper reports.

The developers of the Printosens company of the Mordovia Nanocenter, which is part of the RUSNANO Group's FIOP investment network, have released the second version of the cyber glove and created new software for controlling robotics, for example, working under water and in laboratories with high risks for the safety of employees.

The United States tested the concept of the "ghost fleet" with the launch of the SM-6 rocket. In the future, the Navy wants to get a whole fleet of robotic ships.

The company "Yandex" will launch unmanned taxis for passenger transportation in 2021. This is reported by RBC with reference to the corresponding draft government decree supplementing the law "On experimental legal regimes in the field of digital innovations".

For the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry will test combat robots of the Uran-9 family in real conditions. The robots will guard special objects and fight with the drones of a conditional enemy at the Zapad-2021 exercises. This is reported by Izvestia, citing a source in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The autonomous 100-kilometer march of the Russian Marker platform has attracted the close attention of foreign military analysts.

The vehicle, created as a means of supporting infantry and reconnaissance of the terrain, covered 40 kilometers off-road and 60 kilometers on dirt roads in 5 hours and 41 minutes. The neural network independently built a three-dimensional map of the area and chose a route.

In China, a prototype of a two-legged robot Jet-HR2 was created, which was taught to fly with the help of fans. Details about the development of the engineers of the Guangdong Institute of Technology are set out in the preprint of the report, available at arXiv.org.

Roscosmos plans to explore the possibility of using autonomous transport robotic systems for the anti-terrorist protection of its facilities, according to materials on the state procurement website.

Ukrainian scientists have developed a radiometric remote sensing system for all-weather detection of drones. The development of the staff of the National Aerospace University named after Zhukovsky "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" was presented at the Sikorsky Challenge-2021 festival of innovative projects, Defense Express reports.

The underwater robot-drone "Surrogate", which simulates a portrait of a submarine with the help of acoustics to deceive the enemy, was designed in Russia, a representative of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT)"Rubin" told RIA Novosti.

The Russian robot "Marker" as part of the control tests independently passed 100 kilometers, patrolling the borders of the settlement, at the same time another robot was training to release a swarm of drones, the press service of the Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI) told RIA Novosti.