Pilot Walker "Ortonog"
Self-propelled vehicles with walking propulsion have long attracted scientists, engineers and potential users. Available studies clearly show the advantages of walkers over the wheel or ...
GPS satellite navigation history
For a long time, still leading a nomadic way of life, a person was interested in proper navigation to accurately determine the direction in the direction of pastures, rivers and forests noted earlier. With ...
The concept of an automated battle management system
During the last 30 years in the USSR, the USA and Russia several automated systems for controlling the combat operations of the Ground Forces (ACCS) were created - Maneuver, GCCS-A, ATCCS, FBCB2, ESU TZ and ...
In Russia, the development of passenger ekranoplanov
Central Design Bureau (CDB) for hydrofoils (SPK) named after R.E. Alekseeva, located in Nizhny Novgorod, is developing two projects of modern large ...
Navigation brick
The first arrests in the case of embezzling billions of GLONASS took place immediately after the holidays, in mid-May, 2013. The State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow stated that the managers of a certain LLC are being accused of theft ...
DARPA will create a multi-headed "Hydra" for the US Navy
The US Congress demands that the Pentagon drastically reduce costs. The military budget for the next ten years should be reduced by 500 billion dollars. This means that a number of important programs ...
Digital battlefield
The main direction of development of military equipment in the twenty-first century was the transition to the massive use of electronic devices and information technology. Such solutions are being implemented in the entire line ...
The Internet will become a theater of war
The great indignation of the world community over the uncontrolled activities of the US special services overshadowed a much more important discussion — about the security of countries in cyberspace, and ...
Noise-resistant American GPS will not be a problem for Russian “jammers”
The US military said that they had successfully tested a new noise-resistant satellite navigation system. Due to the use of new antennas, designers managed to achieve reception ...
ACCS: Unanswered Questions (last part of 3)
At the appointed hour, the UAV will nevertheless take off and begin to "download" information of interest to the intelligence chief. Naturally, this information will go to the Panasonic computer! That is, in order to ...
Mobile devices in the service of the fatherland
Employees of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are gradually being provided with modern mobile devices. Today, the production of domestic tablet computers is being set up. This device was planned to release ...
ACCS: Unanswered Questions (part of 2)
In short, the decision of the brigade commander on any kind of tactical actions is a combination of the plan, specific tasks to subordinate units, the main issues of interaction, ...
ACCS: Unanswered Questions (part of 1)
When reading triumphant reports about our achievements in the field of automation of command and control (especially land forces, especially at the tactical level), which recently appeared en masse in ...
Russian security agencies will hide their secrets in a single network
The image of the modern world to a large extent was formed by science fiction. Not so long ago, well-known Russian writers (Ivan Efremov "The Hour of the Bull") and foreign (Stanislav Lem, "Peace be ...
Automated control system of troops "Andromeda-D"
In 2003, the Russian Airborne Forces division received an automated command and control system called “Flight-K”. However, automation of management processes in this complex covered only the battalion and partially ...
The Pentagon became interested in a furnace that converts waste into fuel
Today, the problem of utilization or neutralization of household garbage or the so-called MSW - municipal solid waste is quite acute all over the world. Various options are being developed for their useful ...
All-knowing aircraft
The English word smart, which is usually translated into Russian as “smart”, was so much liked by advertisers and marketers that everything around was “smart”, including wall paneling and siding. However, if ...
Railgun predecessors
In the age of high technologies, which are most actively implemented in the field of means and methods of warfare, we are no longer surprised by the periodically emerging news about the next successful ...
Weapons against the crowd - electricity!
What is the worst weapon in the hands of the crowd? Of course, the usual cobblestone, known for a long time as a "weapon of the proletariat", and, by the way, why? Yes, because the police apply against ...
Pareto's Law and War
There is no need to think too much to come to the idea that it is injustice that rules our world. And this sad truth almost everyone knows almost from the cradle! ...
Advanced warning systems
The North Warning System is an advanced series of radars used to warn the United States and Canada of potential threats in the Arctic region ...
Active Denial System - the weapon of the future
The Active Denial System is one of the most interesting non-lethal weapons developed for the US military. Active Denial System is designed to help cope with unrest. It...
The US military wants to control the climate
US intelligence agencies are interested in the ability to control the Earth's climate. The corresponding CIA study ordered from the National Academy of Sciences. On the issues of studying the possibilities of geo-engineering CIA ...
Ambiguous future of European nuclear power
Recent events directly indicate that a new trend is beginning to form in Europe. After numerous discussions and a wave of criticism of the state's nuclear power plants, ...