Technologies 2024, November

US Army resumes a program to develop a new generation of armored vehicles

US Army resumes a program to develop a new generation of armored vehicles

The US Army Command conducted the so-called. Industry Day with the participation of 300 representatives of leading defense companies in order to inform them about the changes made to the list of requirements for the new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) and the new acquisition strategy. SV

The main advantages of using digital video surveillance systems

The main advantages of using digital video surveillance systems

At all times, people have sought to make their existence safe and limit their possessions from unauthorized entry. For this, a variety of methods were used: installing a fence or a high fence, booking windows and doors, hiring guards. But all these ways didn't give

The space is virtual, the fight is real

The space is virtual, the fight is real

The "digital fortress" of the Pentagon is preparing for effective defense. As expected, in December this year, should be promulgated a new strategy of the United States - cyber, which has so far been tentatively named "Cyber Strategy 3.0". However, one of the main "players" on the cyber war field

Vacuum plane

Vacuum plane

The authors of the airship-glider believe that it will be able to move large amounts of cargo over great distances without spending a single gram of fuel. Airships can lift large loads without effort, but they need engines to move horizontally. Gliders - on the contrary, make long non-motorized flights

Laser strike

Laser strike

Obviously, in twenty or thirty years, the Boeing-747-400F Freighter ("Air Truck"), equipped with an experienced laser aviation system ALTB (Airborne Laser Testbed), will be perceived the same way as we see the plane of the Wright brothers today - archaic and somewhere even ridiculous. But now it is

Steam powered space

Steam powered space

Steam could do serious work not only in the 19th, but also in the 21st century. The first artificial Earth satellite, launched into orbit on October 4, 1957 by the USSR, weighed only 83.6 kg. It was he who opened the space age for humanity. At the same time, the space race between the two powers began

The era of other wars has come

The era of other wars has come

Natural disasters of recent years are prompting serious reflections "Climate weapons: bluff or reality?" - this is the title of an article by Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, published in September on the pages of "VPK" (No. 35). The author answers this question in the affirmative, and we are absolutely

USA will improve the efficiency of lasers

USA will improve the efficiency of lasers

Northrop Grumman Corporation intends to build on its enduring advances in laser technology through the US Department of Defense's Robust Electric Laser Initiative (RELI), which is seen as a first step towards more efficient, compact and lightweight systems

Iran is losing the world's first cyber war

Iran is losing the world's first cyber war

Iran secretly approached computer security experts in several Western and Eastern European countries this week and offered very large sums of money to come to Tehran and try to help fight against the self-replicating computer virus Stuxnet, which continues to infect

US Department of Defense is developing a flying SUV-transformer

US Department of Defense is developing a flying SUV-transformer

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense (DARP) is working on the creation of a flying combat transformer - a lightly armored SUV that could take off in the event of an aggravation of the situation on the battlefield. A working prototype should be ready by 2015

Battle robots

Battle robots

Combat Robot (or Military Robot) is an automatic device that replaces a person in combat situations to save human life or to work in conditions incompatible with human capabilities for military purposes: reconnaissance, combat, demining, etc. Combat robots are not

Will a new theater of operations appear over our planet?

Will a new theater of operations appear over our planet?

Starting from the day the world learned about the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of US President R. Reagan, and to the present time, a considerable amount of science (and unscientific) fiction on the topic of "Star Wars" has moved into professional military-political publications and even statements of the highest military leaders

Russia will create new anti-missile weapons

Russia will create new anti-missile weapons

Russian specialists are developing advanced anti-missile weapons, said the commander of the Space Forces, Lieutenant General Oleg Ostapenko. He said that new radar stations are expected to be deployed in dangerous areas. In addition, Russia intends

Transparent armor

Transparent armor

Bulletproof glass from Gus-Khrustalny is an insurmountable obstacle for all types of automatic small arms The growth of terrorist activity, contract killings of businessmen and merchants, attacks on collectors, local wars and armed conflicts, protests by radical

Solar panels

Solar panels

Solar panels are an excellent way to generate electricity. The disadvantage today is their short service life and fragility. But this drawback was overcome by American scientists who made self-healing panels. The magnitude of each element that makes up the whole

Developed a universal laser anti-missile device

Developed a universal laser anti-missile device

American scientists have created a laser device that is capable of protecting aircraft from heat-seeking missiles. A gadget the size of a DVD player sends a high-energy infrared beam towards the pursuer, which heats the missile's thermal sensor and thus, as it were

NASA is working on a system for launching spacecraft with horizontal launch

NASA is working on a system for launching spacecraft with horizontal launch

Engineers of the Space Center. Kennedy (USA) proposed a well-forgotten new concept of spacecraft launch. A wedge-shaped apparatus equipped with air-jet engines must take off after an independent or jet sled run on electrified rails

Russians have come up with the best "stealth technology"

Russians have come up with the best "stealth technology"

In Russia, there have long been unique technologies with the help of which the "visibility" of any moving objects - from an airplane to a car - can be significantly reduced. It's all about the plasma generators, which, enveloping the masked object, makes it invisible for radiation

The Pentagon will control the brains of the soldiers

The Pentagon will control the brains of the soldiers

The Pentagon announced the start of the project "Remote control of brain activity using ultrasound". The US Department of Defense intends to install a gadget on the inside of the helmet in order to stimulate those zones that are responsible for alertness and cognitive activity, as well as

Modern English-language trends

Modern English-language trends

Modern technologies are developing quite rapidly. New engineering solutions are so quickly becoming a part of our daily life that we sometimes do not even pay attention to them. It should be so. Has anyone heard about digital television ten years ago? More recently, GPS

Climate Weapons: Bluff or Reality?

Climate Weapons: Bluff or Reality?

Food for Thought and for Serious Concern The global catastrophic events of the summer of 2010 once again exacerbated the discussion about the possibility of artificial human intervention in the natural environment and the use of climate as a weapon of mass destruction. Moreover, such accusations

Secret X-37B may "disappear"

Secret X-37B may "disappear"

The American unmanned aerial vehicle X-37B was not observed by astronomers from July 29 to August 14. This was reported by the Australian website news.com.au. In May, amateur astronomer Ted Molzan from Toronto observed the flight of the X-37B and concluded that the device was checking the operation of the installed

South Korean robots shoot North Koreans

South Korean robots shoot North Koreans

The border between the DPRK and South Korea is becoming a more and more dangerous place every day. It was recently revealed that on July 14, the South Korean armed forces placed two patrol robots worth $ 330,000 each on combat duty on the border with North Korea. On Samsung robots

Guardium ground robotic vehicle

Guardium ground robotic vehicle

Guardium ground robotic vehicle of the Israeli company G-Nius, one of the divisions of IAI (Israel Aircraft Industries - Taasiya Avirit) and Elbit Systems (Elbit Maarahot). The Israeli company G-NIUS has developed a ground robotic vehicle Guardium, which can be used for

Russia is developing a "flying" laser

Russia is developing a "flying" laser

Russia is developing an airborne military laser. A laser installation based on the IL-76 aircraft is capable of knocking out enemy reconnaissance means in space, in the air and on the water. How effective is this technology, the correspondent of "Vesti FM" Elena found out

Intellect versus fanaticism

Intellect versus fanaticism

The Israeli military-industrial complex creates the latest means to fight terrorism For many decades, Israel has been fighting against the enemy, using and constantly improving the strategy and tactics of small guerrilla sabotage and terrorist war in combination with political and propaganda pressure on

Modular weapons turn the ship into a transformer

Modular weapons turn the ship into a transformer

Eglin Air Force Base in Florida has successfully tested the new modular ExLS launcher for vertical launching of weapons. A unique system is a set of structures for installation on ships of any missile weapons, such as anti-aircraft missiles Nulka, RAM 2, SM-2, cruise missiles

Transatmospheric Kinetic Interceptor Test Successful

Transatmospheric Kinetic Interceptor Test Successful

Details of testing a new ground-based missile defense (GMD) missile on June 6, 2010 have been revealed. Military and commercial contractors have announced that they have successfully tested the capabilities of the new kinetic interceptor. Behind this seemingly routine news of a US missile defense shield is testing

China conducts secret experiment in orbit

China conducts secret experiment in orbit

China is quietly conducting these days an experiment on the purposeful convergence of satellites in orbit. Apparently, Chinese specialists are successfully preparing to inspect spacecraft remotely. Including foreign ones. Saturday, August 13, the Chinese spacecraft

Air Force Commander: Russia cannot make drones on its own

Air Force Commander: Russia cannot make drones on its own

Russian technologies for creating unmanned aerial vehicles do not meet modern requirements for this type of weapon, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Colonel-General Alexander Zelin said on Saturday on the Ekho Moskvy radio station

Cellulars can be not only phones, but also buses

Cellulars can be not only phones, but also buses

US military researchers are testing a prototype of puncture-free, deflation-free "airless" tires designed to drive non-stop military SUVs through "hot zones" of war. In case of successful implementation, the new technology can be

The Chinese figured out how to sink American aircraft carriers

The Chinese figured out how to sink American aircraft carriers

China is developing a ballistic missile that experts say can damage large ships, including aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy

Arms race at hypersonic speed

Arms race at hypersonic speed

The US Air Force tested the X-51A Waverider, which managed to gain a speed 5 times the speed of sound, and was able to fly for more than 3 minutes, setting a world record previously held by Russian developers. The test was generally successful, hypersonic

The technical design of the promising aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy will be ready by the end of 2010

The technical design of the promising aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy will be ready by the end of 2010

The technical design of the promising Russian aircraft carrier will be ready by the end of 2010, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, told RIA Novosti

The development of a nuclear space engine began in the Russian Federation

The development of a nuclear space engine began in the Russian Federation

The development of a megawatt-class nuclear power plant for space technology of a new generation has begun in Russia. The task is entrusted to the Keldysh Research Center. The director of the Center tells Interfax-AVN about the importance of this project for the Russian cosmonautics

Liquid Armor

Liquid Armor

British arms company BAE systems has presented a material that can be used to produce a new generation of body armor. The novelty is a liquid thickener, the chemical formula of which the company is keeping secret. It is proposed to be used in combination with traditional

The Stargate Opens

The Stargate Opens

Military psychics have revealed the secrets of their work. Two Russian generals and two of their overseas colleagues decided to talk about what for many years was the strictest secret. Disputes over the concepts of "parapsychology" and "extrasensory perception" have been going on for many decades. What's behind

Commander-in-Chief of the Navy: The reason for the Bulava's failures is the violation of production technology

Commander-in-Chief of the Navy: The reason for the Bulava's failures is the violation of production technology

The only reason for the unsuccessful test launches of the Bulava ballistic missile is the violation of the technology for the production of missile systems. Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, said this on the air of Echo of Moscow. He recalled that out of twelve launches of the newest missile, only five were recognized

A four-core high-performance processor "Elbrus-4C" was created in Russia

A four-core high-performance processor "Elbrus-4C" was created in Russia

A new domestic development from CJSC MCST - a four-core microprocessor "Elbrus-4S" - is ready for the start of serial production. At the same time, this processor is able to provide a level of performance that is comparable to modern microprocessors produced by leading foreign

Humanoid war robots

Humanoid war robots

Since the emergence of natural sciences, scientists have dreamed of creating a mechanical man capable of replacing him in a number of areas of human activity: in hard and unattractive jobs, in war and in high-risk areas. These dreams were often ahead of reality, and then before our eyes