Technologies
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The Russian army sums up the results of combat training for 2010. As in previous years, the President of the Russian Federation and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Dmitry Medvedev are expected to attend the traditional November training camp for the leadership of the Armed Forces. Unlike in previous years, this should not happen in a building
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As it turned out, the country, which has accumulated mountains of nuclear and conventional weapons, is absolutely not ready for cyber war. The American non-profit organization Bipartisan Policy Center conducted an experiment and tried to find out: what would happen if hackers around the world unleashed a large-scale cyber war against the United States? Were
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Instead of launching satellites with rockets, isn't it easier to fire them with a super-powerful cannon? This approach was nearly implemented in practice by the developers of the HARP project, followed by Saddam Hussein himself
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Human brain stimulation has recently been the subject of research by the defense agency DARPA. In the future, on the basis of these studies, it is planned to create a device, the use of which will ensure the minimization of the fear and fatigue of soldiers. This device, as scientists believe, can be installed in a helmet
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The new company TorTech Nano Fibers will begin producing fibers based on carbon nanotubes in Israel, which will be used to improve the protective properties of body armor and make armor for military vehicles. This is actually one of the first examples of large-scale implementation of the latest promising
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The designers of the US Department of Defense are preparing for testing a secret aircraft capable of 20 times the speed of sound. As it became known, in the near future, the second flight of the stratospheric bomber Falcon HTV-2 should take place
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Declaration of war or peace - they are going to entrust the solution of such important issues to machines. In the UK, a computer system is being developed that is essentially similar to that known to all fans of science fiction based on the blockbuster "The Terminator". As you know, in the film, humanity has projected
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The Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) on Tuesday announced that it plans to begin work on the creation of standardized modules for nuclear power plants for spacecraft next year. Director of RSC Energia Vitaly Lopota said that the first
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A test flight of the secret U.S. Air Force unmanned military spacecraft, the X-37B, has ended well. The reusable Orbiter Test Orbital Test Vehicle (TFA), which resembles a reduced orbital stage of the shuttle, landed on Friday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
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The final launch of the satellites of the Russian navigation system ended in failure The three Glonass-M satellites launched on Sunday did not last even a few hours. According to preliminary data, an error occurred during the launch of the vehicles into orbit. As a result, all satellites, with the launch of which
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The end of the Cold War, instead of simplification, made the development of BMPs even more difficult, with more conflicting requirements than ever before. Translating new requirements into design led to a series of design errors dating back to the early stages of the Cold War. The cumulative
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Amazon multibillionaire founder Jeff Bezos has invested in a secret rocket project known as Blue Origin. Recently, some details have been revealed about the New Shepard, the first life-size spacecraft of the Blue Origin project, which is designed to
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The US Navy conducted a test of a railgun - a cannon, the acceleration of the projectile in which is given by electrical impulses, reports Lenta.ru with reference to Defense News. The tests, which took place on December 10, 2010, were found to be successful. New weapons are planned to be installed on promising warships
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In the early 90s, almost all countries of the world began to introduce new computer technologies in the management of armies. The main purpose of such implementations was to increase the combat effectiveness of the armed forces, not only in terms of technology, but also to enhance the role of the infantryman on the battlefield. Using computer
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The US Army has officially announced that the recently launched Falcon 9 rocket, in addition to the test of the first private spacecraft Dragon, was also carrying its secret cargo - the first military nanosatellite. About 10 days ago, a two-stage was launched from Cape Canaveral
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It looks like paratroopers will start jumping without a parachute in the near future. Employees of the Faculty of Aeromechanics and Flying Engineering of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have begun to create an individual flying machine that will allow the paratroopers to descend to the ground faster and more invisibly
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Engineers at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have developed a launch mechanism that includes acceleration with a "rail gun" and climb with a hypersonic engine. The proposed launch complex is based on the old
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In Russia, a new heavy liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile is being created, which will be capable of breaking through any existing and future missile defense systems that were put into service until the 2050s. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced by the General Director
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Having curtailed its lunar program, the United States announced to the world: it is too early for man to strive for other planets. The creator of the first spacecraft Vostok, Konstantin Feoktistov, has come a long way from an ardent enthusiast of manned flights to their implacable adversary. His final thoughts to proponents of progress
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Special equipment in the service of the military Modern warfare is characterized by high dynamics of action and an extremely widespread use of special operations forces. The task of timely detection and accurate classification of moving ground (underground) objects of the enemy is among the priorities for the forces of combat
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Attached to a protective helmet, a device created by the military department allows you to see a three-dimensional image, which is transmitted from digital cameras, as well as designate objects. So far, this person does not look very much like a "killer robot". (Photo by Noah Shachtman / Wired.) Soldier Centric Imaging via
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Defense technology has always propelled mainstream science forward. The most original and incredible military innovations of the outgoing year make up the final rating. Flying Bulava The long-awaited breakthrough of Russian military technologies - the strategic missile Bulava - was successful in 2010
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The latest news about aerospace developments in the United States may indicate the emergence of an integrated aerospace-based precision weapon system there. The recent test of the unmanned orbiter X-37B fits into this concept
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The U.S. Army has tested technology that converts garbage into energy in the field, and it is extremely costly and dangerous to transport fuel and remove waste from the battlefield. To complete it requires soldiers and vehicles that are in danger of attack and distracted from
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Article: May 2006, Popular Mechanics. In the near future, the Pentagon plans to deploy a whole family of the latest exotic weapons systems. Skeptics argue that the lion's share of these expensive toys is not focused on waging the war that might actually be
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British defense company BAE Systems promises that in five years it will change the face of ground military equipment. Mostly we are talking about tanks. The armored vehicle will be dressed in a new camouflage that can change its appearance depending on the environment. An ambitious project wears
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On October 15, the US Army will send a supercomputer to Afghanistan, but it will not be installed in a well-guarded base or in an underground bunker, but in a huge airship that can fly at high altitude and observe a huge territory for a week - the result of an ambitious $ 211 million
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The development of the endless expanses of the Universe has always been considered prestigious for the leading countries of the world. The United States, the European Union, China and Russia are competing for the laurels in space exploration. Russia plans to carry out about ten space rocket launches in the first quarter of 2011
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The sniper is by far the most fearsome of enemies, as he can kill from a great distance. The existing methods of protection against snipers depend on the type or sound of the first shot, that is, they are triggered at a time when it may be too late. But now a new device has appeared that
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The first attempts to protect personnel from bullets and shrapnel were made during the First World War and continued during the Second. So during the Second World War, many fighters of the elite units of the Red Army were dressed in armored cuirass, which, by the way, had rather weak protective properties, but with
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As you know, breaking is not building. However, this piece of folk wisdom is not a universal truth. In any case, it is no easier to disable a spacecraft than to build it and launch it into orbit. It was supposed to break, of course, enemy military satellites, but it happens
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This fall, the American army in Afghanistan will be replenished with another supercomputer. But it will not be installed in the central headquarters and not in command centers. It will hover 6 km above the theater of operations, aboard a huge airship, hearing and seeing everything that happens
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“But we cannot tell you about the second car that you indicated in your fax. The secrecy label has not yet been removed from it, "- the person at the other end of the wire was not at ease even to pronounce the name of the self-propelled laser complex 1K17" Compression "of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Astrophysics, within the walls of which it was developed
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Attempts to create an army of fighters who did not feel fear, fatigue, cold and other feelings were conducted back in the middle of the 20th century. So, during the Second World War, American soldiers were given amphetamine pills for this purpose, now officially considered a dangerous drug. It is also known that
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The successful combat work of unmanned aircraft became a prologue to further robotization of military equipment. Now is the time to descend from heaven to sinful earth.In early September 2010, the special research unit of the Pentagon RDECOM announced an open tender for the development and subsequent
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A professor at the China National Defense University on the forum site www.chnqiang.com listed six advantages and four areas of application of the electromagnetic rail gun. First, the tremendous speed, high accuracy, long range and very powerful kinetic energy of the ammunition. Application
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Oleg Ostapenko, the commander of the Russian space forces, hinted last week that Russia could begin work on a spacecraft similar in performance to the American X-37B reusable unmanned aerial vehicle. This spacecraft was successfully
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Following the recent maiden flight of a 5th-generation Chinese prototype aircraft, the US military is actively discussing options for a response to the event. How to deal with an adversary with aircraft of at least equal capabilities? One of the answers is to hit the weak point of the aircraft of the latest
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The Russian Federation is getting closer to the moment when its space capabilities will be equal to a second-tier country. For the past two decades, it has been saved by the Soviet backlog - technology, technology, personnel trained, all the legacy of the fallen Red Empire
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Not so long ago, anti-ufologists P. Poluyan (a physicist from Krasnoyarsk) and A. Anfalov (coordinator of the society of observers of anomalous manifestations of the environment) conducted their own investigation. With this investigation, scientists tried to answer the question of where in the USSR and the CIS man-made UFOs were created, “flying