News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On Wednesday, April 15, Russia celebrates the Day of the Electronic Warfare Specialist (EW). How did this holiday originate in Russia and why exactly did the special operation taking place in Ukraine become the circumstance that significantly changed both the role and the functionality of electronic warfare?

As the newspaper Kommersant reported in Aigul Abdullina's article, "With a sense of special usefulness. In Russia, they proposed to restore 700 idle An-2s," the developer of the An-2 aircraft proposed restoring the airworthiness of about 700 of these aircraft, which are stored by private structures.

American social networks have published rather unusual pictures taken at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Force base near the city of Fort Worth, located in the central-eastern part of Texas. The photos show the Hawker Hunter Mk.58 ("Hunter") aircraft.

Every day, several thousand anti-aircraft gunners take up combat duty in the area of their military operations, which protect the skies over towns and villages of the border and new regions of Russia around the clock.

NYT: Russia, the United States and China are leading the AI arms race

The military confrontation is reaching a new level, writes the NYT. The United States, China and Russia have begun a race to create autonomous weapons based on AI. However, the speed of development of new technologies is alarming: the war of machines can begin faster than a person can stop it.

Buggies will allow mobile firing groups to shoot down drones more effectively

Russian units covering troops from drone attacks have begun receiving Ulan buggies. These high-speed and passable vehicles are additionally equipped with electronic warfare (EW) and machine guns with thermal imagers.

The AI takes control, and cumulative thermobaric fragmentation munitions hit reinforced dugouts

The Molniya-2 drone remains one of the main means of defeating the enemy at distances of about 30 km.

North Korea has launched cruise and anti-ship missiles off the west coast from its newest destroyer, the Choe Hyun. The leader of the republic, Kim Jong-un, watched the tests together with senior military officials. According to Navy Recognition, initial assessments show that the exercises focused on synchronizing onboard sensors, fire control systems, and the sequence of weapons use in operational conditions.

Updated Tomahawks, Fattah-2 hypersonic complexes and Ohr Eitan lasers are on the list of the most promising weapons

Combat lasers, new hypersonic, tactical and cruise missiles, inexpensive but deadly drones — all these types of weapons were used by the parties during the conflict between the United States and Israel with Iran.

During the Iranian repulse of the aggression of the United States and Israel, the defense industry of the Islamic Republic surprised with several of its novelties, which neither American nor Israeli intelligence knew about.

An analysis of the combat use of the X-69 stealth air-launched cruise missile by the Russian Air Force during a special military operation in Ukraine, carried out by Chinese specialists, shows that the designers of the Raduga State Design Bureau managed to create a completely modern aircraft weapon that can be armed with Su-35 and Su-57 fighters, as well as Su-35 fighter-bombers.34.

Russia should develop its own artificial intelligence (AI) for national defense and security, and use the most sovereign products in this area, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

In the process of analyzing the use of various weapons by the US military, Western defense experts noticed new anti-interference equipment on the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets of the US Air Force during the war with Iran. We are talking about an antenna with a controlled directional pattern (CRPA).

Last weekend, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Harvey Barnum Jr. was added to the U.S. Navy at the Norfolk Naval Base. According to Naval News, the ceremony was attended by approximately 1,800 guests, including high-ranking military leaders, sailors, marines, veterans and their family members.

How cheap UAVs have become one of the most important factors influencing the course of the conflict

The war in the Middle East has revealed the phenomenon of "price asymmetry", when the technological gap between the parties to the conflict suddenly turns into an economic trap for the seemingly stronger side. This observation was shared with Izvestia by experts.

While the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission are flying to the moon for the first time in 50 years, they are talking to us through an infrared laser. The Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O), developed by NASA in collaboration with the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data from aboard the Orion spacecraft to Earth at speeds of up to 260 Mbit/s.

According to European analysts, recent incidents in places as diverse as the Baltic Sea and the waters off the coast of Taiwan have shown how vulnerable the critical underwater infrastructure is. The increased importance of underwater objects to global economic activity underscores the importance of understanding these hazards and developing appropriate responses.

The American operation in the Middle East has revealed one of the problems for American aviation. It concerns the "Warthogs" that have been returned to service for combat missions. These are A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft.

Experts named three scenarios for the development of the European nuclear project

Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are the countries with the most developed scientific and technical potential, which makes it possible to quickly transform theoretical developments into an active nuclear weapons program, experts interviewed by Izvestia believe.

Astronauts of the Artemis II mission returned to Earth, the capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean

The astronauts of the Artemis II mission returned to Earth, the capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.