News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
"Impossible to block": ex-head of Google said that "Dawn" will search for targets all over Ukraine
Ex-Google CEO Schmidt: the launch of "Dawn" will be an advantage of the Russian Armed Forces over the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The Russian Rassvet satellite system, after full deployment, will be almost impossible to block from the outside, said former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
200 sorties instead of one: the Ghoul FPV drones have been turned into reusable systems
At the recently completed Center-2026 exercises in Chebarkul, Uraldronzavod showed several samples of new equipment at once. "We have brought the products - at the moment we have five samples: the Berdysh heavy drone, the standard most popular product, the Ghoul-11, which is already well-known to everyone. As well as the "Ghoul-18", a proven device at the front, which we have modified to the newest version and are supplying to the Ministry of Defense.
The developer of the Rassvet satellite constellation presented ground terminals
The Russian aerospace company Bureau 1440 has introduced a line of proprietary subscriber terminals for connecting satellite communications. The presentation took place at the company's stand during the Digital Solutions exhibition and forum.
In September, the troops received more than 10,000 air force units, including Su-57 aircraft, T-90M tanks and air defense systems.
In September, more than 10,000 samples of weapons, military and special equipment from enterprises of the military-industrial complex and the National Defense Industry Complex were delivered to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Alaska commissioned the newest destroyer Ted Stevens
On Monday, October 5, the U.S. Navy commissioned the newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Ted Stevens. According to Naval Today, the ceremony was held in Whittier, Alaska.
Turkish MKE demonstrated a variant of modernization of the BMP-1 in Azerbaijan
Makine ve Kimya Azerbaijan (MKA), an Azerbaijani subsidiary of the Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKE), presented a new tower and a corresponding modernization package for the BMP-1 at the ADEX-2026 exhibition in Baku.
In tow, without getting out of the cockpit: The BREM-80 machine has been modified taking into account its experience
Uralvagonzavod Concern has completed a full test cycle of the upgraded BRAM-80 armored recovery vehicle. Mass production has already been mastered, the car is entering the army. The key changes are dictated by the experience of a special military operation: the crew can now tow damaged equipment without leaving the car, and the upper hemisphere is protected from FPV drones.
The American Navy continued its course of decommissioning obsolete ships
Over the past two weeks, the American Navy has scrapped four ships. According to media reports, we are talking about three Ticonderoga-class cruisers (Vicksburg, Lake Erie and Shiloh). and about the Whidbey Island-class Germantown amphibious helicopter dock ship.
Full-fledged space war: what will the "blocking" of Russian satellites lead to for the sake of Ukraine
Medvedev: blocking of the Rassvet satellites will lead to a full-fledged war in space
Ukraine is asking the United States to "block" the Russian Rassvet satellite system, as Kiev believes it will increase the accuracy of strikes by the Russian Armed Forces against Ukrainian targets.
Death was right on his heels. How test pilot Alexander Beschastnov died.
On October 4 of this year, a regular meeting of the Runway Aviation Enthusiasts Club was held in the Pink Living Room of the Zhukovsky Recreation Center. It was dedicated to the life and death of Alexander Georgievich Beschastnov, a Hero of Russia, a test pilot at the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute.
Steel Pruner
Dmitry Kornev, editor of the Militaryrussia portal, says that new barrage ammunition with a cumulative effect and remote sensors are capable of pinpointing metal structures of power lines and bridges.
The lead Italian destroyer of the new generation has been ordered
On September 24, 2026, the European defense procurement organization OCCAR (Organization Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'Armement) signed a contract with Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), a joint venture of the Italian Fincantieri (51% participation) and Leonardo (49%) groups, for the design and construction of a new generation lead destroyer for the Italian Navy. DDX program, with an option to build a second ship.
Hunters of the "small sky"
Military expert Artyom Menshikov says that thousands of drones could be shot down, but the law and the army bureaucracy still consider them an invisible "temporary solution"
Small pick-up crews armed with machine guns, smoothbore rifles, and interceptor drones have become the most effective response to the key challenge of modern warfare — massive UAV raids.
Kiev is asking for sanctions against the Rassvet communications system, which does not really exist yet
Zelensky appealed to US President Donald Trump with a request to impose sanctions against Russian and Chinese companies that, according to Kiev, are involved in the creation of the Rassvet satellite communications system. This is reported by the Financial Times. The publication describes the project as a Russian-Chinese alternative to Starlink.
The minesweeper Semyon Agafonov of project 12700 was launched.
On September 29, 2026, JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg hosted the launching ceremony of the Semyon Agafonov Project 12700 mine defense ship (minesweeper) under construction for the Russian Navy.Alexandrite") with the factory number 532.
Artificial intelligence is learning at the forefront: Barrage munitions are already hitting at a distance of over 200 km.
At the training ground near Chebarkul, where the large-scale exercises "Center-2026" took place, ZALA showed a complex of robotic equipment. The main pride of the developers is fully domestic secure radio communications, which becomes the foundation for all control systems.
90 nm is enough. The Russian photonic processor, created using 90-45 nm standards, wants to contrast the GPU in AI tasks
This approach eliminates the need for advanced DUV lithographic systems
Russian developers consider photonic computers as a specialized alternative to graphics processors in certain tasks of artificial intelligence.
Mikhail Gromov: I have always been known as a modest and shy person on earth, but not in the air.
On October 1 in Moscow at the Memorial Museum of Yu.The opening of the tablet multimedia exhibition "The Proletarian flies over Europe", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the record flight of the all-metal ANT-3 aircraft (pilot M.M.Gromov, flight mechanic E.Rodzevich) through the capitals of European countries, took place. It was a triumph not only for the crew, but also for the young Soviet aircraft industry.
The Vigilant Falcon: how interceptor and radar crews hunt Ukrainian drones
The combination of ground search and unmanned aircraft makes it possible to meet the enemy at distant borders
Interceptor drones today remain one of the relatively inexpensive means of combating enemy reconnaissance and attack UAVs. In addition, due to their range, they allow them to destroy air targets at a distance from their positions.
New features: "Geranium" with "tendrils" and strikes on the power line across the Dnieper River in Kremenchuk
On the night of October 1, Russian troops continued waves of long-range attacks on enemy targets in Kiev and the region. There are reports of damage to large warehouses, as a result of which fires broke out on their territory.
