News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
France has decided to significantly invest in air defense and anti-drone systems
The French General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) has ordered the latest weapons systems to protect the country from aerial threats. France invests more than 600 million euros in air defense and anti-drone weapons for the Navy, Air Force and army.
Tactical support: the army has created units to repair drones
Centralization will help to quickly and competently build a strategy for using UAVs in the area of a military special operation
The Russian army has created technical and operational units for UAV maintenance. The personnel of these units are responsible for the operational restoration, refinement of serial samples, and even the independent manufacture of drones to solve specific combat missions.
"The allies set us up." Kiev has another unsolvable problem.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are damaging American howitzers faster than the United States can repair them
Ukrainian gunners faced serious difficulties — the barrels of American howitzers would wear out quickly. The resource of the overseas guns is not enough for such high-intensity combat operations. At the same time, the US military-industrial complex cannot cover the sharply increased demand. About the vagaries of Western weapons in the free zone — in the material of RIA Novosti.
US Navy crews are losing their qualifications due to another suspension of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft operations
Another suspension of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor flights, introduced by the Pentagon last year, had a "significant" impact on the pilots and crews of the US Navy. Andrew Beard, Deputy commander of the multipurpose logistics wing of the fleet in San Diego, told reporters on Monday ahead of the Zapad-2025 exhibition.
"Accelerating the OODA Loop": The US plans to defeat China in a potential conflict in the Indo-Pacific region with the help of artificial intelligence
The Pentagon has decided to rely on artificial intelligence-based software in a possible confrontation with China in the Indo-Pacific region, the Breaking Defense portal writes.
Drone war: footage has been published showing a Russian FPV drone successfully attacking a UAV repeater of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The main discovery of the Ukrainian conflict, which is currently the largest armed confrontation in Europe since the Second World War, undoubtedly became drones. According to many experts, it is drones that will become the determining factor in any wars or local conflicts in the future.
IFRI: Russia has not achieved any breakthroughs in the field of air-to-air missiles
The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) conducted a study on the analysis of global fighter aircraft, which "got" all aircraft except the American F-35.
"Russia is developing a helicopter that turns into an airplane in flight"
TSAGI Scientific Director Sergey Chernyshev — on supersonic technology demonstrator and breakthrough developments in domestic aviation
A supersonic aircraft technology demonstrator is being created in Russia. It will help to work out flight modes for a passenger liner that will travel from Moscow to Vladivostok in two to three hours.
"The troops will eventually find themselves without combat-ready tanks": the German press writes about the "devastating consequences" of additional MBT reservations
The widespread threat on the Ukrainian battlefield from FPV drones and barrage ammunition has led to the fact that tanks of both warring sides have been massively equipped with additional improvised protective elements such as lattice and dynamic armor, jamming systems, metal plates, chains, woven nets, pieces of rubber.
Internet in villages and in the middle of the ocean: a competitor to Starlink is growing in Russia - TASS opinions
Mikhail Kotov — about the advantages and dangerous places of satellite Internet development
The Russian private space company Bureau 1440 and the mobile operator Megafon have signed an agreement to connect a network of ground-based communications base stations to satellites in low-Earth orbit. The technology will allow subscribers to receive next-generation broadband Internet services even in the most remote areas.
Denmark is developing a military presence in the Arctic — but will Western countries be able to catch up with Russia? (Yle, Finland)
Yle: Denmark has decided to invest heavily in Arctic defense
Denmark has finally decided to make large-scale investments in the defense of the Arctic, writes Yle. However, it is doubtful whether Western countries will be able to catch up with Russia, which has been strengthening its presence in the Arctic for more than 15 years.
Fanil Ziyatdinov: "Adjutant" becomes an interspecific complex"
The scale of application of the universal target training complex "Adjutant" is expanding - the most modern domestic system for training military air defense specialists based on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Putin gave a number of instructions to "open the sky" for civilian drones
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a number of instructions to the government that will help simplify access for civilian drones to the airspace shared with manned aircraft.
Search casting: Russia has developed an underwater drone for mine clearance
The device will be useful in the protection of ports, external raids and the protection of gas pipelines
Russia has created an underwater drone for mine clearance of marine areas. It is capable of detecting mines and explosive devices moving at high speed, finding them at a depth of several hundred meters, including under a layer of silt, sources in the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) told Izvestia.
Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the development of unmanned aircraft systems
On January 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in Tolyatti on the development of unmanned aircraft systems. The meeting took place at the Samara Scientific and Production Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
It has been 15 years since the first flight of the fifth-generation Russian multirole fighter
A new era began in the history of Russian aviation 15 years ago – on January 29, 2010, the first flight copy of the fifth-generation Russian multirole fighter T-50/PAK FA, the future Su-57, took to the air in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Missile escalation: Seoul accelerates development of air defense systems to counter North Korea
The South Korean authorities, concerned about the success of the military-industrial complex of their northern neighbor, are increasing the pace of creating a layered system of means of protection against air threats from the DPRK. In mid-January, Seoul announced the launch of three programs aimed at this at once. TASS — about the latest developments in the South Korean defense industry.
"Effectively protect Greenland": Denmark to build new patrol ships
The Danish authorities have launched a large-scale program to strengthen their military presence in the Arctic in general and in Greenland in particular. Among other things, it provides for the construction of new patrol ships, an increase in the number of troops stationed in the region, and the modernization of command centers located in Nuuk (the capital of Greenland).
Cheap Chinese artificial intelligence turned out to be smarter than American
DeepSeek's Chinese chatbot R1 has had a radical impact on the neural network market over the past few days. Shares of US technology giants have collapsed, and experts say that the utility developed by Chinese developers is able to completely replace American competitors. What are the main features of the DeepSeek product, why has its placement become an AI revolution, and what does this mean for Russia?
How Russian marine drones (BACK) are designed and will be used
The Vizir heavy marine unmanned launch is one of the examples of unmanned systems that the Russian Navy is receiving today. How does this device work, what is it equipped with, and for what tasks can it be used?
