Technologies
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The US Navy plans to upgrade the gas turbine power plants currently installed on its aircraft and ships in the future, replacing conventional Brighton cycle engines with detonation rotary engines. Due to this, it is assumed that fuel is saved by
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The last two months of last 2011 were marked by unpleasant events around the Phobos-Grunt automatic interplanetary station (AMS). The up-and-coming spacecraft fell victim to a booster malfunction, leaving it in and out of low Earth orbit
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BAE Systems has developed the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III and the Family of Weapon Sights-Individual (ENVG III / FWS-I), which combine two night vision technologies, allowing the soldier to quickly locate targets unnecessarily
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On October 17, a project of a thermonuclear reactor will be presented in St. Petersburg, which will be cheaper than modern coal-fired power plants. This project was developed by scientists from the University of Washington (UW). American specialists will present in Russia a project of a new type of reactor. Perhaps given
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Less than two months have passed since American scientists demonstrated the first practically usable example of a "microwave gun" for non-lethal destruction of the enemy, as it became known about the Russian analogue of this system. Development of a domestic analogue of the American ADS (Active
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The American Skunk Works laboratory in 2024 is preparing to present a serial version of a thermonuclear reactor, which theoretically could change the face of all modern energy in the world. It is reported that the new fusion reactor, the size of a truck and with a capacity of 100 MW, will come in handy for
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The number of research carried out in the world today, which can turn the events of the acclaimed film "Avatar" by James Cameron, is growing every day and is bearing tangible results. Such studies are accompanied by a concrete result, they are spoken about not only by dreamers and science fiction writers, but also by prominent
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For a long time, you will not surprise anyone with industrial robots. This type of technology has become firmly established in industrial practice several decades ago. However, there are still a number of industries and areas of production, economics, etc., where highly specialized robots simply cannot cope with
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The main means of protecting personnel from bullets and shrapnel is currently body armor. Over the past decades, it has gone a long way of evolution, but in the end, only three versions of its design, to some extent interconnected with each other, were most widespread. So
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The second international military-technical forum "Army-2016" will be held only at the beginning of September, but already now the participants of this event are announcing new developments, which are to become elements of the exposition. It is noteworthy that in addition to the enterprises of the defense industry, in the future forum
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In the age of high technologies, which are most actively introduced in the field of means and methods of armed struggle, we are no longer surprised by the periodically appearing news about the next successful test - usually in the USA - of electromagnetic guns, or, as they are often called today
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The Bell Rocket Belt jetpack project turned out to be generally successful. Despite the short flight duration associated with the insufficient volume of fuel tanks, this device confidently lifted off the ground and could fly freely, maneuvering with the help of a movable engine. Refusal of the military department from
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The US Navy's LaWS program explored the possibility of using cheap fiber laser technology as the basis for a laser weapon that could be integrated into existing Phalanx installations
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The slogan "Velocitas Eradico", taken by the American Navy for its research on electromagnetic rail guns, is quite consistent with the ultimate goal. Loosely translated from Latin, this expression means "Speed kills." Electromagnetic technologies are successfully developing in the maritime industry, opening
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I do not know what kind of weapon the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth one is definitely with sticks and stones. Einstein The famous phrase of the great scientist came at a time when progress in the field of weapons became a cause of concern for the fate of the entire planet. Means of destruction as well as human zeal
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Representatives of the Cyclone Research Institute informed the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu about the creation of prototypes of uncooled microbolometric receivers. These receivers are the basic part of any thermal imager. In simple terms, Russian enterprises
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At the end of autumn last year, information appeared in the press about the upcoming start of full-scale work on a new promising project. It was reported that in the coming years, the domestic armed forces will receive a new electronic intelligence system with a wide range of capabilities. Besides
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Handheld radios provide the foundation on which tactical interconnected Internet networks are based
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"Until the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will once again explore the surface of the moon," - so said in an official statement from the US space agency. This time they are going there to stay for a long time. It is planned to build a lunar base, develop a satellite and
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In the early fifties, a team of engineers led by Thomas Moore designed and built their own version of the jetpack called Jetvest. This system has passed preliminary tests and became the first representative of the technique of its class, which managed to take off. However
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The six years spent on the Commercial Orbital Transportation Service (COST) program have finally yielded their first results. On May 22, a Falcon-9 launch vehicle with a cargo spacecraft was launched at the Kennedy Space Center
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A unique project was announced by the American company SpaceX. It intends to present the world's only absolutely reusable spacecraft and the same launch vehicle. A distinctive feature of the project is that all parts of the unique complex will have to return to
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has disseminated information that one of the most pressing problems of our time is the resistance of many viruses and pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics. No matter how prosaic it may sound, but soon people may begin to die from
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In modern armed forces, various electronic equipment plays an important role. Such equipment is used as communication systems, detection, control and in many other areas. For this reason, electronic warfare (EW), as well as other electronic technologies
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A few years ago, the domestic media reported on the development of promising types of weapons designed to destroy the enemy's electronic systems with a powerful electromagnetic pulse. For obvious reasons, full official information about such projects was not then available
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The mass protests, which turned into full-fledged riots in the American town of Ferguson, became a testing ground for testing the latest special means to disperse the protests, including long-range acoustic cannons (LRAD). Riots in this American city broke out after
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Some of the combat missions can be effectively solved using remotely controlled equipment and robotic systems. Currently, a large number of various robots designed for the armed forces are being developed in our country and abroad. One of the last domestic
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Jet propulsion has long attracted the attention of scientists and designers around the world. However, the first production vehicles with jet engines of various types appeared only in the forties of the last century. Until that time, all equipment with rocket or air-jet
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Scout from Datron / Aeryon Labs gained notoriety for being used by Libyan rebels for round-the-clock surveillance Napoleon said each soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack. In the near future, at least one soldier in each platoon may well be carried in
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The problem of quickly obtaining truthful information from captured enemies appeared at the dawn of military history and remains relevant to this day. For many millennia, the art of war developed and improved, and the means for pulling information remained the same: rack, tongs
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Not so long ago, this was considered a fantasy, but the development of the latest technologies has already made it possible to create combat robots in various branches of the military industry. Behavioral algorithms are being improved, new materials and manufacturing methods are being introduced. Already, some units and components
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The fact that Russia is developing hypersonic weapons, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Yuri Borisov announced at the end of November last year. The results of these efforts may become available to the military over the next 10 years, but already today experts say: two heavy nuclear missile
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The production and use of domestic composite materials has recently been growing at an average annual rate of three to five percent. These are foreign assessments. Very complex technological processes for the manufacture of raw materials, semi-finished products and the actual composites cannot be replaced overnight
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Until the second decade of this century, three directions of development passed and are now being pursued in the industry of the planet - steam, electron, atom. “Currently, the world is moving to the fourth level, based on photon technologies,” noted the well-known head of the Russian defense
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Keep in mind that only five percent of intelligence reports are true. A good leader should be able to distinguish these percentages. / Douglas MacArthur / One of the conditions that ensured the successful offensive of the German army in the summer of 1941 was the fact that the Wehrmacht was superior to
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Any new knowledge usually goes through three stages: 1. "Nonsense!" 2. “And if really …” 3. “Who doesn't know that!” Reliable and high-quality radio communication plays an important role in ensuring the safety of navigation and for the successful conduct of hostilities. A group of specialists from the scientific
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The new planet was discovered on January 4, 2010. Its size was determined to be 3,878 Earth radii; orbital elements: semi-major axis - 0.0455 AU. That is, the inclination is 89.76 °, the orbital period is 3.2 Earth days. The temperature on the planet's surface is 1800 ° C. The paradox of the situation is that
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Venus: Welcome to Hell! "The planet Venus is surrounded by a noble air atmosphere, such (if only not more), which is poured around our globe" … in 1761 M.V. Lomonosov discovered a halo around the disk of the planet and, unlike the enlightened European scientists, made absolutely
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The ring in the mountains It lies in the spurs of the Greater Caucasian ridge, in the two rivers of Bol'shoi Zelenchuk and Khusa. Huge, white. From a bird's eye view, it looks like a fragment of the mysterious "Nazca drawings" on the coast of Peru. And like those drawings left by an ancient civilization, it seems that this
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Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were deprived of their quiet rest for a long time. Excited by the discoveries, they slept in fits and starts, and when they woke up, they hurried back to the Mission Control Center of the automatic interplanetary station Voyager. Here, digital