News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The US Air Force and the Twelve energy company have created aviation fuel from carbon dioxide, water and energy from renewable sources. The military believes it will help them reduce their dependence on foreign oil and reduce carbon emissions. At the end of this year, they will decide whether to scale the technology and produce synthetic fuel in large quantities.

The station should be operational between 2025 and 2030

American companies Blue Origin and Sierra Space have announced plans to build a commercial space station. The corresponding statement was posted on the companies' website on Monday.

The crew arrived at the oceanographic research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", built at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar".

The station will consist of an inflatable living module, a docking module, a propulsion compartment, a robotic manipulator and a laboratory

The first independent commercial space station can be created by 2027. The corresponding statement was published on Thursday on the website of the American corporation Lockheed Martin.

The Chinese Zhuzhong rover and the Tianwen-1 probe resumed their work on Mars after half a month of being in "sleep mode," the Chinese Lunar Program said in a statement.

The launch of a rocket with a payload model weighing 1.5 tons took place on October 21 at 10:00 Moscow time

The first South Korean Nuri launch vehicle (KSLV-II) was unable to launch a mock-up payload into orbit due to a malfunction of the third stage. This was announced by the Minister of Science and Information and Communication Technologies Im Hye Suk, KBS TV channel reported on Friday.

It became the first cargo ship to dock to the module

The Progress MS-17 cargo transport ship, which undocked from the Poisk small research module on Thursday night, docked at the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, follows from the broadcast on the Roscosmos website.

The British Navy began to master its new frigate. On October 21, the press service of the British Navy reported that the first sailors "settled" on the lead ship of the Type 26 project.

The US Army and Navy have tested prototypes of hypersonic weapons systems. Earlier it became known about the tests of the HAWC air-based missile.

On October 20, the command of the Turkish Navy received the first medium-altitude long-duration UAV (MALE) Aksungur manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

Military aviation will not remain aloof from the unprecedented pace of technology development. According to experts, in the current century, armed struggle will be radically different from the ways and methods of warfare of the past. Artificial intelligence technologies will be introduced into manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.

The American Heritage Foundation Research Institute has published an analysis of the US military potential. The assessment turned out to be the worst in recent years.

According to analysts of the institute, the power of the military potential is only 2/3 of what should be in reality. The problem is also a rather outdated technique that does not meet the challenges of the time.

According to the CEO of Roscosmos, first you need to find out what burned down, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin suggested finding out which device burned down in the sky over the United States, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation.

The preparation of astronauts for landing on the Moon was shown in Russia. The corresponding video was published on the YouTube channel of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, RIA Novosti reports.

The Pentagon reported that the reason for the failure of the hypersonic glider tests in Alaska was a malfunction of the accelerator. - The failed accelerator is not part of the hypersonic program, - DefenceNews quotes the words of the representative of the US military department Timothy Gorman. The accident occurred shortly after the launch vehicle took off from the Pacific Cosmodrome on Kodiak Island.

As a result of the explosion and fire in the powder shop of the plant near Ryazan, 16 people were killed, another one received burns of 80% of the body surface. This was stated by the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of Russia Alexey Kuznetsov.

The Verkhneturinsk Machine-building Plant of the Technodinamika holding has produced the first samples of test parts of shell casings for field and tank artillery. The production of trial products is carried out at the site of a new mechanical workshop, where commissioning works are carried out. The cost of the production site was 400 million rubles.

Scientists at the University of Surrey (UK) reproduced the reactions occurring during a supernova outbreak in laboratory conditions using an accelerated beam of radioactive isotopes. For the first time, they measured the cross-section of the p-process, a thermonuclear reaction that occurs at the moment of the explosion of a massive star. The article was published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 was compared with American aircraft. Expert Alexey Leonkov noted that the Su-57 is ahead of competitors in terms of weapons systems and rates of robotization. Also, the radar station and electronic warfare systems of the Russian machine are better than the solutions used in the F-22 and F-35.

The Australian Ministry of Defense announced the launch ceremony of the first (out of six ordered) patrol boat of the "Improved Cape" class for the Australian Navy, which took place at Austal Ships in Henderson (Western Australia).