News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Russia used the latest laser system "Badass" in Ukraine

Russia used its latest development in the field of laser weapons in Ukraine, said Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov. According to him, this laser "burns through" objects and can "absolutely freely" shoot down drones at a distance of five kilometers. The previous domestic laser complex "Peresvet", according to experts, could also shoot down drones, but only in ideal weather.

Lunar agriculture has made a big step forward: scientists from the University of Florida for the first time grew seedlings in soil delivered from the Moon. This success marks an important milestone in the work on future deep space missions, and also provides useful information about the composition and fertility of space soil. There is not much lunar soil on Earth, so the experiment was not easy.

A unique 180-meter dam may appear in China by 2024. It will be built using 3D printing and artificial intelligence, which will take over the management of the entire construction process of the structure. People will not take part in the construction.

Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, presented the company's annual report for 2021 to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among the key achievements of the Corporation is an increase in consolidated revenue by 9.9% to 2.06 trillion rubles, as well as a significant increase in the production of civilian products – its share in sales reached 45.5%.

Russian scientists decided to land on Venus in a new way

Scientists of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed using a new landing scheme for the Venus-D project. This is an original idea that will be used in Russian cosmonautics for the first time. One of the project managers and co-author of the article, head of the laboratory of spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres Lyudmila Zasova told the newspaper.Ru", why an extra revolution around the Sun is needed to land on the planet, what devices will be used and what will the Americans' exit from the mission lead to.

At Uralvagonzavod (as part of the UVZ Concern, part of Rostec State Corporation), a solemn dispatch of a train of T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation took place. This was reported by the press service of the UVZ.

The Su-25 attack aircraft returned safely to the airfield after two Stinger portable air defense systems hit its engine.

The navigator of the aviation squadron of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation told about the case in the zone of the special operation in a television story.

Independence-class Coastal Stealth Ships (LCS) The US Navy can be decommissioned ahead of time. Six of them were found to have structural damage.

The US Air Force announced the successful test of the AGM-183A hypersonic missile

In the USA, the AGM-183A hypersonic missile was successfully tested as part of the ARRW program. While the Pentagon is testing the development partially, checking the operation of the launch vehicle, without directing the warhead to any targets. Prior to that, the program was plagued by failures, such tests were not recognized as successful for more than a year.

A Ukrainian drone with valuable information was intercepted by the Russian Armed Forces (RF Armed Forces) near Kharkiv. Denis Kulaga, a correspondent of the Izvestia TV channel, reported this on May 17.

General Delomudrov explained why the supply of the T-90M "Breakthrough" to the Russian army will increase

The ground forces of the Russian Armed Forces have been replenished with a batch of the latest T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks, which are manufactured at Uralvagonzavod (UVZ). "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what the features of this machine are and what its prospects are.

In their opinion, the United States is only at the beginning of the way to create such weapons, significantly lagging behind Russia

The United States is only at the beginning of the way to create hypersonic weapons, significantly lagging behind Russia.

Researchers from DeepMind have developed a multimodal neural network capable of performing various types of tasks. For example, she can control a robot, play games for Atari, write text and describe photos. The article about the algorithm is published on arXiv.org , the authors also talked about it on the DeepMind website.

The Polish Armed Forces will purchase Gladius unmanned systems, including reconnaissance UAVs, barrage ammunition, command and control systems, as well as relevant logistics and personnel training components. This was announced on May 6, 2022 by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. According to the minister, the package with a total cost of almost 426 million euros is primarily intended to equip Polish artillery regiments in the east of the country.

Turkey has finally decided on the timing of the start of serial production of the main battle tank of its own design Altay, which in the future should replace the American M60 and German Leopard tanks in service in the Turkish army.

The 4th State Central Interspecific Landfill "Kapustin Yar", located in the Astrakhan region, celebrated the 76th anniversary of its formation.

Russia, in response to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, should amend the military doctrine clarifying the conditions for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in response to possible aggression, as well as equip the Kalibras and Iskanders in the western direction with nuclear warheads.

As reported, at the beginning of May 2022, the Black Sea Fleet commissioned the patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) - the fourth ship of project 22160 built for the Russian Navy and the second, built at LLC Shipbuilding Plant "Gulf" in Kerch. The ship's commissioning activities were carried out without publicity in Sevastopol in the context of an ongoing special military operation.

Specialists of the 10th separate repair and evacuation regiment restore damaged samples of military equipment as soon as possible and return it to the front line. This is what the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda writes about.

Samara enterprise of the United Engine Corporation Rostec "UEC-Kuznetsov" improves product quality by introducing robotic equipment for applying special hardening coatings to parts.