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The unmanned Kalashnikov tank. Heavy class combat robot: reflections on the topic

The unmanned Kalashnikov tank. Heavy class combat robot: reflections on the topic

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The Russian military department has already managed to evaluate all the advantages of unmanned vehicles of various classes and order the development of various types of equipment. Among other unmanned systems, land-based multipurpose platforms suitable for various purposes are of great interest

Laser Infantry

Laser Infantry

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Biotechnology, genetic engineering, the creation of artificial organs have not made a person more protected. We have entered the age of weapons based on new physical principles. Do we have our own developments and scientific discoveries in this area? Is Russia Ready to Take on the Challenge? Last Decades

Pentagon railguns

Pentagon railguns

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Success in the global military-technical confrontation is ensured only for those countries that adhere to a strategy of technological advancement of competitors. An indispensable condition for an effective response to challenges from potential adversaries is the prompt implementation of breakthrough ideas as a key element

Frankie Whittle Whistle

Frankie Whittle Whistle

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

History is known to be full of interesting coincidences. For example, today's date is not only the day of the first manned flight into space. It can also be called the birthday of jet aviation, since the first test launch took place on April 12, 1937, that is, exactly 80 years ago

More energy in every car

More energy in every car

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Qinetiq Wheel Motor Technology for Ground X-Vehicle Techonology based on the DARPA Control Concept The growing energy consumption of on-board vehicle systems gives new technologies a chance to seize the opportunity to radically change power and

Railgun charger

Railgun charger

Last modified: 2025-06-01 06:06

The military equipment created on the basis of the concepts of the last century has approached the threshold, beyond which gigantic efforts and costs give an inadequately low result. One of the reasons is a significant increase in the energy consumption of new AME facilities. Is there a way out of the impasse? Various types of energy (mechanical

Soviet night vision devices during the Great Patriotic War

Soviet night vision devices during the Great Patriotic War

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Night vision devices (NVDs) have occupied a very important place in the modern world for several decades. These optoelectronic devices, providing the operator with an image of the terrain (target, object) in low light conditions, are widely used today in various

The Americans have created an airship drone Argus One - a snake

The Americans have created an airship drone Argus One - a snake

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

As the Internet resource CNews.ru informs, the World Surveillance Group company has successfully completed tests of the airship of the Argus One drone, the tests were carried out in the position of payloads and an integrated propulsion system. The new payload is the electro-optical

China is developing a combat walker

China is developing a combat walker

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Walking propeller machines have long attracted the attention of scientists and designers around the world. Such a technique, in theory, has a greater cross-country ability in comparison with machines equipped with wheels or tracks. Nevertheless, despite the expected high performance, walkers in every sense of the word so far

Ground robots. From drop systems to unmanned transport convoys (Part 2)

Ground robots. From drop systems to unmanned transport convoys (Part 2)

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The German company Optimess developed the two-wheeled iSnoop, which was equipped with two types of wheels, one of which was designed to move up stairs. Optimess: The German company Optimess developed a new product iSnoop in the field of throwing robots. It is available with different sets of wheels with

Jamming war. Part 3

Jamming war. Part 3

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EC-1 is an electronic reconnaissance aircraft developed by the Japanese company Kawasaki on the basis of the C-1 multipurpose transport aircraft

Research and development in the field of ceramic materials

Research and development in the field of ceramic materials

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Military vehicles have traditionally been made of heavy, expensive, but high-strength armor steel. Modern ceramic composite materials are increasingly used as non-bearing protection for combat vehicles. The main advantages of such materials are significantly lower cost

Lockheed Martin completes development of 60 kW tactical laser

Lockheed Martin completes development of 60 kW tactical laser

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Lockheed Martin's 60 kW laser system can be installed on a variety of relatively mobile platforms and will provide significant advantages in protecting its forces in the future battlefield

Killer robots stunned Elon Musk and more than a hundred specialists

Killer robots stunned Elon Musk and more than a hundred specialists

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Military experts call autonomous weapons or autonomous weapons systems (AWS) types of weapons that do everything themselves: they find a target and complete a task without human intervention. One of the most famous, so far only for science fiction films and books, AWS is considered

Are laser cannons becoming a reality?

Are laser cannons becoming a reality?

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

This 30-kilowatt laser, mounted on a Skyshield tower, is part of Rheinmetall's proposal for the so-called Below Patriot concept. The most common way to neutralize or destroy any system is to concentrate enough energy on it … And it can

Robots in test

Robots in test

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The technical innovations and well-known systems shown at the Army-2017 forum give a fairly holistic view of the state of work regarding military robotic systems in Russia and equipping the Armed Forces of the country with them. Despite the fact that the Orion-E UAV was first shown

We have robots. To the half-century anniversary of the enterprise of domestic robotics

We have robots. To the half-century anniversary of the enterprise of domestic robotics

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The anniversary (which is exactly how the 50th anniversary is translated from Latin) will be next year. But almost in hot pursuit, there is an equally ardent desire to say a few words about the oldest research institute in the country, which deals specifically with robotics. And about the coming jubilee. The most boring of the readers will immediately ask the question:

Let there be light lidar

Let there be light lidar

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

As a concept, lidar has been around for decades. However, interest in this technology has skyrocketed in recent years as sensors become smaller, more complex, and the scope of lidar products expanding more and more

Microwave cannons: weapons for aviation and ground forces

Microwave cannons: weapons for aviation and ground forces

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In recent years, electronic warfare systems have become a priority. The widespread distribution and importance of radio communications, radar and other technologies have made suppression systems one of the most important tools of the army. As a result, a significant number of new projects were developed, and

Fighting robot "Nerekhta" will be adopted

Fighting robot "Nerekhta" will be adopted

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The Russian defense industry develops and tests new robotic systems of various types and for various purposes. Based on the test results, the new equipment is sent for revision or receives a recommendation for adoption. With positive results this year

Antitank hummingbirds

Antitank hummingbirds

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Modern armies are donning more and more reliable armor. Infantrymen - in body armor, mine fighting vehicles. Tanks bristle with active and passive defenses. Army anti-aircraft missile systems and artillery become self-propelled and armored

Plague in the Gulf of Mexico

Plague in the Gulf of Mexico

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In November 2017, the British Internet publication The Independent published an article on the new synthetic biology program of the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Plant Technologies (APT)

Stuffing soldiers with electronic chips: a DARPA idea

Stuffing soldiers with electronic chips: a DARPA idea

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is known for conducting high-level scientific research in the field of advanced military technologies. However, the Office is increasingly focusing its attention on the most important, but sometimes

Deserted convoys: a matter of the near future

Deserted convoys: a matter of the near future

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The autonomous convoy is led by an NH-60 truck, followed by two LMTV trucks A US-British team has tested technologies and autonomous supply concepts

Combat laser complex Stryker MEHEL (USA)

Combat laser complex Stryker MEHEL (USA)

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For many years, the US defense industry has been developing and improving promising combat lasers suitable for use in various fields. Some samples of this kind have already been able to reach the stage of testing and refinement, and are now showing their potential for

Concern "Techmash": a weapon that has not yet been

Concern "Techmash": a weapon that has not yet been

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Research and Production Concern "Technologies of Mechanical Engineering" (NPK "Techmash") produces various military products, including a variety of weapons and ammunition. Serial products of this kind are supplied to the ground forces, aerospace forces and the navy. In foreseeable future

Cover Moscow from a nuclear strike! Interceptor missile PRS-1M / 53T6M hit another target

Cover Moscow from a nuclear strike! Interceptor missile PRS-1M / 53T6M hit another target

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The process of updating the strategic missile defense, covering Moscow and the central industrial region from a nuclear missile strike, continues. As part of an extensive and complex program, various works are carried out to build and test modernized or new defense components

Mobility at stake: the victory of "hybrids" is still in doubt

Mobility at stake: the victory of "hybrids" is still in doubt

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BMP "Puma" of the German army needs a power unit that could offer more power, fit in a limited amount. The MTU 10V 890 meets this requirement by delivering exceptional power density Superior mobility in the most challenging conditions is paramount

China's new threat: CH-AS-X-13 aeroballistic missile project

China's new threat: CH-AS-X-13 aeroballistic missile project

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Striving to become the world leader, China is making attempts to create world-class weapons. According to the latest reports from the foreign press, the Chinese specialists managed to get new successes within the framework of one of the most daring projects. Upon successful completion of ongoing work, the Air Force

"Sapsan", "Battering ram" and "Pishchal" against drones

"Sapsan", "Battering ram" and "Pishchal" against drones

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Unmanned aerial vehicles of different classes and types have long been used in the military sphere, and for some time now they have been mastering civilian "specialties". The widespread use of such technology, which can pose a threat in certain situations, leads to the need to create

News of the "Peresvet" project

News of the "Peresvet" project

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

In early March, Russian President Vladimir Putin, as part of his annual message to the Federal Assembly, first spoke about several promising weapons and military equipment, including the latest laser complex. Initially, this system, which later received the name "Peresvet", was known

Fighting Robot for War: Draft Sketches

Fighting Robot for War: Draft Sketches

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Modern developments of combat robots, both domestic and foreign, can be criticized for a long time, they have enough shortcomings. The main thing, in my opinion, is that now these developments are being done to a greater extent for demonstration purposes, in order to demonstrate the very possibility of creating

Panoramic night vision goggles GPNVG-18 from the L-3 company

Panoramic night vision goggles GPNVG-18 from the L-3 company

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L-3 Warrior Systems, the night vision division of L-3, has developed and deployed one of the most significant innovations in night vision technology - the ground panoramic night vision goggles GPNVG-18 (Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggle). The purpose of the GPNVG-18 is

US Navy to test railgun aboard ship

US Navy to test railgun aboard ship

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Tests of the US Navy's railgun (railgun) on board the ship may begin as early as 2016. It is reported that a fundamentally new type of weapon has come close to being adopted, which can radically change the appearance of the modern navy. US Navy in

Fighting small drones. Part 1

Fighting small drones. Part 1

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The AUDS system was developed by three British companies, Blighter, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems, which provided, respectively, a radar, an optoelectronic station and a REU set for an integrated anti-drone system

Fighting small drones. Part 2

Fighting small drones. Part 2

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

Eibst Systems' ReDrone system, depending on the customer's wishes, comes in two configurations - sensor only or sensor plus an executive component. Last year, Rafael announced the addition of a direct damage component in the form of a laser capable of neutralizing

Houston Mechatronics develops an underwater robot for extreme depths without a tether

Houston Mechatronics develops an underwater robot for extreme depths without a tether

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The Houston Mechatronics Aquanaut autonomous submersible is up to the task with minimal human intervention The Houston-based company is working with the US Navy on an autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (AUV) with a minimum level of control

A simple whistle, but how much use

A simple whistle, but how much use

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

From submarine incursions to increasingly sophisticated drug smuggling, sonar's missions are many and varied. To solve these problems, fleets need patrol ship systems

Eurosatory 2018: new electromagnetic warhead designed to neutralize active defense systems

Eurosatory 2018: new electromagnetic warhead designed to neutralize active defense systems

Last modified: 2025-01-24 09:01

The proliferation of Active Protection Systems (APS) on armored vehicles is one of the main challenges facing armies on the battlefield today, with the technology effectively neutralizing the threat of many older anti-tank missiles

The development of the loitering munition Nego-400ES will be completed in 2018

The development of the loitering munition Nego-400ES will be completed in 2018

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The Neo-400ES extended-range loitering combat system strikes a stationary object during demonstration tests in December 2017 UVision Air has modified the Neo-400ES (Electric, Cruciform - electric cruciform) loitering munition to technological