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Already developed, adopted or undergoing state tests, in particular, hypersonic systems "Dagger", "Zircon", cruise missiles "Caliber", reported in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The fact that there are currently no engines for attack drones in Russia is one of the reasons for the country's lack of its own serial attack drones. This is reported by RIA Novosti, referring to an interview with the General Director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building Mikhail Gordin.

This year, an underwater drone and the latest rocket will reach the finish line

In 2021, at least two promising domestic weapons systems will reach the finish line — the beginning of testing.

The American company Metal Shark was commissioned by the US Marine Corps to develop a long-range robot boat LRUSV. According to Jane's, the agreement with the military also provides for the supply of robocat maintenance vessels, which will be created on the meringue of the Project 40 Defiant patrol ships.

Dmitry Litovkin-about new artillery reconnaissance complexes and modern trends in the development of the armed forces

The new 1B75 "Penicillin" intelligence complex has entered service. The system is able to record acoustic and thermal signals from shots and bursts of artillery shells, giving out the exact coordinates of the location of enemy guns. Data about them is plotted on an electronic map, after which our guns deliver an accurate blow to the enemy.

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed the first fully automated commercial flights of unmanned aerial vehicles, giving a small firm the "green light" to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) without direct control by dispatchers or human operators.

Sergei Sobyanin launched the construction of the Moscow State University's Vorobyovy Gory innovation cluster, the Moscow Mayor's Office reported. Previously, investments in this project were estimated at 20 billion rubles.

A brigade armed with the latest Buk-M3 and Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems will appear in the Southern Military District. It is expected that the unit will become part of one of the combined arms armies. The Buk-M3 air defense system has already received the name "anti-aircraft submachine guns"in the troops. They are able to detect and shoot down targets at a range of up to 70 km and repel massive attacks by cruise missiles. According to experts, the brigade will become a mobile reserve. The connection will protect not only the sky of the south of Russia — if necessary, it can be quickly transferred to the Crimea or to the western direction.

It is conducted by the NGO "Android Technology" - the developer of the robot "Fedora" that flew into space

The NGO " Android Technology "(the developer of the robot "Fedor" that flew into space) has started manufacturing a robot of the project "Teledroid" to perform work in outer space. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization.

Short-range anti-aircraft missile system (SAM MD) "Tor-M2" in the near future will become interspecific, it will have a ship analog, said the general director of the Izhevsk Electromechanical plant "Kupol "(part of the concern of East Kazakhstan region "Almaz-Antey") Fanil Ziyatdinov.

Mass media: Russia was removed from the discussion of the lunar station

Russian experts no longer participate in the discussion of the project of the American lunar station Gateway. It became known that they were excluded from the mailing list of letters and deprived of access to the materials.

The nuclear underwater drone "Poseidon" is being developed by Russia, because Moscow is not able to create a modern "real weapon", writes the American magazine Forbes, calling the" Doomsday " weapons unnecessary.

The Royal Navy will search for sea mines with the help of robots. January 20, portal navyrecognition.com He reported that the UK Ministry of Defense has ordered three robotic SWEEP minesweepers from Atlas Elektronik.

At the training ground near Voronezh, the military tested the first sapper robot "Uran-6"on the western border of Russia. The armored tracked vehicle, whose task is to destroy mines and other explosive objects without risking the lives and health of people, came to the engineer regiment as recently as December 2020. At its first practical application, the correspondent of "RG" was present - he mastered the basics of controlling a six-ton robot, understood why only strong men can do this, and found out why there is a big red button on the armor of "Uranus".

In the Kaliningrad region, on the eve of the Day of the Engineering Troops, engineers of the Baltic Fleet conducted large-scale exercises. At the beginning of the maneuvers, a crossing was made using a pontoon-bridge park.

In the next decade, the volume of production of thin-film solar modules in value terms will grow by about 10% per year. In gigawatts of power, the increase will be comparable to the rate shown by the rapidly developing solar power generation based on crystalline silicon.

Russian navy sailors received "coastal minesweepers". A fundamental decision was made to equip the engineering regiments of the Navy with combat robots-sappers "Uran-6". They can be used with maximum safety for the personnel to clear explosive hazards from the coast and the hinterland.

The American company General Atomics, together with the US Navy, tested the MQ-9A Block V Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle in an anti-submarine role. According to Defense News, during the tests, the device was used to search for an underwater target that simulates a submarine. The tests were conducted as part of the MQ-9B SeaGuardian maritime patrol drone development project.

As reported by the TASS news agency on January 18, 2021, JSC "Nevsky Design Bureau" (NPKB, part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation") has developed two new projects of universal ships, in particular the universal sea ship (UMK) "Varan" and a new universal landing ship (UDC). This is stated in the materials of the NPKB, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the enterprise and available to TASS.

Engineers from Switzerland and the Netherlands have developed a new algorithm for quadrocopters that allows them to stay in the air after turning off one propeller. Unlike similar algorithms developed earlier, the new one allows the drone to move controllably, not just hover in place, and also works only with the drone's own sensors, without requiring an external tracking system or GPS. The paper is published in the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and its preprint is available on the website of the University of Zurich.