The equipment of the Russian armed forces is very diverse. New samples are accepted and entered into the army and navy constantly. Financing is provided from funds that come from the budget and from the sale of military equipment. The following describes in detail Russia's armament plans in 2018 and best examples equipping domestic aircraft.

In the fall of 2017, the Russian state armament program for 2018-2025 will be adopted. It will cover all samples of military equipment and property that will enter the troops. According to some reports, the program will even include the construction of aircraft carriers. The volume of supplies to the Ministry of Defense will depend only on the funds allocated by the government and the president for military expenses.

Samples of military equipment that will be developed, modernized or entered into service with the Russian Armed Forces

Automated control systems for electronic warfare teams

The list of Russian weapons in 2018 will be supplemented by the first samples of automated control systems for electronic warfare brigades RB-109A “Bylina”. The troops will switch completely to these systems only by 2025.

RB-109A "Bylina" are complexes that automatic mode capable of detecting radars, aircraft, satellites, and enemy radio stations and interfering with their operating frequencies. Each of the systems is installed on 5 off-road mobile chassis (KAMAZ trucks) and can operate completely autonomously.

"Admiral Kuznetsov"

In 2018, modernization of the aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov will begin. The enterprise where the repair and improvement of the ship will be carried out has not yet been determined. However, according to Viktor Bursuk (Deputy Commander of the Russian Navy), the order will be transferred to one of the USC factories. It is expected that after modernization, Admiral Kuznetsov will be in the fleet for at least 20 years. The heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser has been in service since 1990. During his service, he sailed tens of thousands of nautical miles and conducted hundreds of exercises. The last time the ship went to sea was its participation in the armed conflict in Syria in November-December 2016.

"Admiral Nakhimov"

In 2018, the modernization of the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov will continue. According to the plan, 80 will be installed on it by 2020. launchers, which allow you to launch Onyx and Caliber-NK missiles. The ship will also have its air defense system replaced. The S300F “Fort” will give way to the “Redut-Poliment” system (a ship-based copy of the S400 “Triumph”).

Admiral Nakhimov is a heavy cruiser of the Orlan class. Since 1999 it has been undergoing modernization. In fact, active work on the ship has been going on since 2013. After all work is completed, Nakhimov will become a large “missile battleship” of the Russian Navy.

Sarmat missiles

In 2018, throw and flight tests of the Sarmat missile will take place. After their completion, it is planned to put them into service and supply them to the troops. However, this will not happen until 2019.

The Sarmat missile is an intercontinental missile that flies on liquid fuel. It should replace the Voevoda complex. The maximum missile range is 16,000 km. To protect the Sarmat's base silos, the Mozyr complex is being developed, which will create a cloud of balls above the rocket.

In 2018, production of the Zircon anti-ship missile will begin, which moves at supersonic speed and maneuvers during the flight to the target. At the same time, the model will be adopted by the Russian fleet. It is planned that it will be located on:

• Heavy nuclear missile cruisers;
• Nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M and Antey types;
• Promising nuclear destroyers.

The tactical and technical characteristics of the Zircon are classified. According to rough estimates, the missile's range could be 320-480 km, speed - about Mach 8, length - 8.5-10 meters. "Zircon" is a replacement for the P 700 "Granit" anti-ship missile.

Submarines of Project 955A "Borey"

In 2018, the fleet will be replenished with two new Project 955A nuclear submarines – “Prince Oleg” and “Prince Vladimir”. The first was laid down in 2014, the second in 2012. Both submarines have already been launched. As of the end of August 2017, “Prince Oleg” is undergoing testing, and “Prince Vladimir” is undergoing completion on the water. In 2018, after completing a full cycle of tests and signing an acceptance certificate, the ships will become part of the Russian Navy (most likely the Northern or Pacific fleets).

The armament of each submarine will consist of 16 R-30 Bulava missiles with a range of up to 9,300 km, as well as 6 torpedo tubes of 533 mm caliber. The speed of strategic missile cruisers under water will exceed 29 knots. "Prince Oleg" and "Prince Vladimir" will become the fourth and fifth operational ships of Project 955A.

Submarine K328 "Leopard"

In 2018, specialists from the Zvezdochka Design Center plan to complete the modernization of the K328 Leopard submarine. During repairs, shipbuilders want to replace:

• Hydroacoustic and navigation systems;
• Turbines;
• Main power plant;
• Armament.

The boat will be equipped with launchers for the new Kalibr anti-ship missiles. In terms of characteristics, the Leopard will be close to the Yasen-class submarines. The maximum speed of the submarine will be 33 knots, diving depth will be 600 meters, displacement under water will be almost 13,000 tons, and the navigation autonomy will exceed 100 days. The submarine will be serviced by a crew of 73 people.

T50 (PAK FA, Su-57)

In 2018, it is planned to begin production of the T50 aircraft (PAK FA), which was put into service under the designation Su-57. The first delivery batch will include 12 vehicles. Pilots and technicians will begin to retrain on them.

PAK FA is the first Russian 5th generation fighter. His first model took off in 2010. The maximum speed of the aircraft is 2600 km/h, range is 4300 km. In addition to the Russian Air Force, the Indian Air Force (about 100 units) and Peru (3-5 units) are planning to purchase Su-57s.

Conclusions

The Russian army and navy will strengthen significantly in 2018. They will receive the latest designs weapons that are not inferior, and in many ways superior to their foreign counterparts.

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Russian military industry has always been at the forefront in the world. Development of the latest military weapons– a guarantee of the country’s sovereignty, border security, and combat-ready army. Despite the active conversion of production, the power of Russian military production does not decrease. The reason for this is the active confrontation in the world community, in which the loss of basic combat technologies will lead to Russia being wiped off the face of the earth.

This self-propelled howitzer is designed to destroy armored vehicles, tank batteries, destroy training grounds, counteract tactical nuclear weapons. Began operation in 2015. Weight 48 tons. The design is similar to the T-90 combat vehicle - the howitzer is divided into 3 compartments, the charge and shot are automatic, and there are grenade launchers on board.

A rifled howitzer-type gun of 152 mm caliber 2A88. Compared to other modifications, the firing range has increased to 70 km, and the ammunition capacity has increased by 20 rounds.

An air defense system that can repel ballistic missiles with a range of 2,500 kilometers, prevent threats from aircraft, reconnaissance and strike complexes and cruise missiles.

The system simultaneously tracks 24 aerodynamic targets and 16 ballistic ones. It includes a command post, observation installations " Review-3" And " Ginger", launchers and loading installations. Expand « Antey» can be done in 5 minutes, which means high mobility and speed of response.

Ballistic three-stage missile, 12 meters long, 2 meters in diameter. These missiles are installed on submarines in the system missile defense. Weapons are currently being tested. The range reaches 9000 kilometers. Can carry up to 10 nuclear units. There have already been 26 rocket launches, 18 of which were successful.

A highly maneuverable fighter designed for one crew. Put into operation in 2014, the cost of one Su-35 unit is more than 2 billion rubles. At altitude it can reach a speed of 2500 km/h.

On board are air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles, as well as 150-round cannon equipment. These fighters participated in Syria as cover aircraft. The length of the fighter is about 22 meters, and the wingspan is around 15 meters.

The platform is presented by " Uralvagonzavod", is in the testing phase. The base has a 125-mm smoothbore cannon; the speed that the platform can reach on a highway is more than 75 kilometers. The platform is universal car, which, as the problem is formulated, can be transformed into various weapons from combat vehicles to artillery installations.

The number of options reaches 30! The Armata is equipped with an information system that monitors all processes in the vehicle, and when a breakdown occurs, the crew does nothing - the system analyzes and repairs it independently. The crew is in an armored capsule. Complex " Afghanit» carries out gun protection and reconnaissance.

The ship station performs a protective function at night and twilight. Thanks to light radiation, the enemy is unaware of the location of the ship, and the crew can carry out combat operations, landings on the shore, and reconnaissance forays. Thanks to its device, " Rook"can save the crew from targeted fire. The installation has no analogues in the entire military community.

4th place - Advanced Aviation Complex of Frontline Aviation (PAK FA)

Multi-role fighter, with a planned operational date of 2018. Most design details are classified. It is known that the PAK FA was created to replace the Su-27 currently in service.

The fighter is equipped with a 30-mm 9-A1-4071K air cannon and the latest N036 radar radio equipment. Squirrel" With a crew of 1 person, the fighter has a wingspan of 14 meters and a length of about 20 meters. The speed reached in the air is 2600 kilometers per hour.

3. T-14

A tank that is based on the platform " Armata" The vehicle simultaneously acts as fire correction, reconnaissance, and target targeting. This tank can distort its shape in enemy surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Equipped with " Afghanite» with super protection against anti-tank guns.

The tank's armor cannot be penetrated by modern missiles. Works at the tactical level, the information of which comes through a single information support. At its base it has a smoothbore cannon and machine guns. It reaches a speed of 60 kilometers per hour on rough terrain, and the vehicle weighs about 48 tons.

The latest fifth-generation missile system is based on a heavy multi-stage intercontinental ballistic missile. The force of this missile's impact can wipe out a huge area, equal to the area State of Texas. One missile can carry 10-15 nuclear warheads. The warhead is so powerful that it is almost capable of entering a planetary circular orbit.

This aircraft is capable of reaching speeds of about 11,000 kilometers per hour. It is invulnerable to missile defense systems. They plan to use ICBMs on the Yu-71 base " Sarmat”, collectively this represents over the fifth generation. The device uses a gliding type of flight and is very maneuverable.

At the Yu-71 base, electronic warfare systems can be installed, which in a few minutes of flight of the device can disable all detection stations in the entire enemy state. Too few details about the device are still known, but it is already clear that this is a huge step in Russia’s armament.

Newest Russian military, developed using the latest advances in science. Technical characteristics, cost, comparison with foreign analogues and previous models.

Weapons of the future of Russia 2020

Promising developments in Russia

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Rearmament of the army and navy— this is not only the supply of existing modern equipment to the troops. In Russia, work is constantly underway to create fundamentally new types of weapons and appropriate decisions are made on their future development. Below is a short overview of the most modern weapons that are created in Russia. To view a sample, click on any blue panel.

New intercontinental strategic missiles

New Russian strategic missiles

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The basis of Russia's missile shield The Voyevoda and Sotka heavy liquid-fuelled ICBMs make up the missiles. The service life of these ICBMs was tripled. Now they are being replaced by the promising heavy complex "Sarmat". is a 100-ton class missile carrying at least 10 multiple warheads in its warhead. The degree of its progress can be judged at least from the annual report of Safonovsky JSC Avangard, which began developing a transport and launch container for the rocket.

That is the main weight and dimensional characteristics of the Sarmat have already been determined. Serial production is planned at the famous Krasmash, for the reconstruction of which 7.5 billion rubles have been allocated from the federal budget. Work is also underway to create promising combat equipment, including individual breeding units with promising means of overcoming missile defense (R&D “Breakthrough” - “Inevitability”).

The Strategic Missile Forces command plans in 2013, conduct an experimental launch of the Avangard medium-class intercontinental ballistic missile. This is the fourth launch since 2011. The previous three were successful. In the upcoming test, the rocket will fly with a mock-up of a standard warhead, and not with ballast, as before.” Avangard is a fundamentally new missile and is not a continuation of the Topol family. According to the calculations of the Strategic Missile Forces command, the Topol-M can be hit by 1-2 anti-missiles of the type of the promising American SM-3, and each Avangard requires at least fifty anti-missiles. That is, the effectiveness of a missile defense breakthrough increases by an order of magnitude.

In "Vanguard" The conventional missile with a multiple independently targetable warhead (MIRV) is being replaced by a new system with a guided warhead (UBU). The warheads in the MIRV IN sit in one or two tiers (like those of the Voevoda) around the propulsion stage engine. At the command of its computer, the stage turns towards a particular target and with a short impulse of the engine sends the warhead, already freed from its fastenings, to the address. In this last flight, he flies along a ballistic curve, like a thrown stone: he cannot maneuver in course and altitude.

Unlike him the controlled unit is a completely independent rocket with its own control and guidance system, engine and rudders in the form of a conical “skirt” along the lower edge of the cone. The engine allows it to maneuver in space, and the “skirt” allows it to maneuver in the atmosphere. Thanks to such control, the warhead can fly 16 thousand km from an altitude of 250 km. That is, the range of the Avangard as a whole can exceed 25 thousand km!

Bottom missile systems

Bottom missile systems of Russia

Summer 2013 In the White Sea, it is planned to begin testing the new Skif ballistic missile, capable of being in standby mode on the sea and ocean floor and at the right time firing and hitting ground and sea targets. "Skif" uses the ocean as a kind of mining installation. And the deployment of such systems on the seabed will provide the necessary invulnerability of retaliatory weapons.

New mobile container missile systems

Club-K - New mobile container missile systems of Russia

Russia creates and produces combat (sea and rail) container missile systems. Various works are currently being actively carried out in this direction.

Successfully passed testing a missile fired from launchers located in a standard cargo container of the Club-K complex. One of the first launches was carried out on August 22, 2012 at a specialized test site.

Kh-35 anti-ship missile It is distinguished by its stealth and flight to the target at an altitude of no more than 15 meters, and at the final part of the trajectory - 4 meters. The combined homing system and powerful warhead allow one missile to destroy a warship with a displacement of 5,000 tons. Now this RCC has become part of the Russian container complex - Club-K.

Russian container complex Club-K- designed to destroy surface and ground targets. The complex can be equipped coastlines, vessels of various classes, railway and automobile platforms. The complex is a modification of the well-known Caliber missile system.

For the first time a prototype of a containerized missile system was shown at the military-technical salon in Malaysia in 2009. He immediately created a sensation. The fact is that Club-K is a standard 20- and 40-foot cargo containers that can be transported on ships, by rail or by trailers.

Shaitan container

The idea of ​​placing various combat systems in special mobile modules is not new. However, only we guessed to use standard 20/40-foot cargo containers as such modules.

Hidden inside the containers are command posts (reconnaissance and combat control systems) and launchers of 3M-14 missiles (for hitting ground targets) or launchers of multi-purpose anti-ship missiles such as X-35, 3M-54, capable of hitting both land and large surface targets . For example, the 3M-54 missile is capable of destroying even an aircraft carrier.

For reference— the flight range of the 3M14 cruise missile of the Caliber complex with nuclear warheads/fuel warheads is 2650 and 1600 km, respectively.

The Club-K complex can be used, both from ground launch positions and from railway, sea or automobile platforms. And it turns out that any container ship carrying Club-K essentially becomes a missile carrier with a crushing salvo. And any train with such containers or a convoy of heavy container vehicles is a powerful missile unit capable of appearing where the enemy is not waiting. Nothing like this has been developed either in the USA or in Western Europe.

The main element of the complex is the universal launch module (USM), designed in the form of a container. The basic composition of the Club-K complex includes up to four USMs, the ammunition load of one USM is 4 missiles, each USM is completely autonomous. Thus, placing only 4-8 Club-K complexes, for example, on board the landing ship Ivan Gren, will turn this large landing craft into a cruise missile arsenal ship that will be capable of delivering a crushing strategic long-range strike on any targets 16-32 CRBDs at once.

Launches of Caliber from the Caspian Sea and successfully carried out throw and military tests of Club-K showed the whole world the real capabilities of this Russian mobile missile system. The complex has already begun to be exported. India became its first buyer.

5th generation strategic bomber

Russian new generation strategic bomber - PAK DA

The Tupolev company a promising one is being developed aviation complex long-range aviation(PAK DA) - Russian strategic bomber-missile carrier of a new generation. The aircraft will not be a deep modernization of the Tu-160, but will be a fundamentally new aircraft based on fundamentally new solutions.

In August 2009, a contract was signed between the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Tupolev company to conduct R&D to create the PAK DA for a period of 3 years. In August 2012, it was announced that the preliminary design of the PAK DA had already been completed and signed, and development work on it was beginning.

In March 2013, the aircraft project was approved by the command of the Russian Air Force. PAK DA will replace modern nuclear missile carriers Tu-95MS and Tu-160. From several options, the military chose a subsonic stealth aircraft - with a “flying wing” design, which, due to the huge wingspan and design features, will not be able to overcome the speed of sound, but will be invisible to radars.

In the future, the PAK DA should replace the Tu-95 and Tu-160 long-range (strategic) aircraft currently in service with the Russian Air Force.

Russian 5th generation fighter

PAK FA T-50 vs F-22 and J-20

Ever since the Russian PAK FA (T-50) and the Chinese fifth-generation fighter Chengdu J-20 took wing, debate about their merits and demerits has not subsided.

However, the debriefing has already moved to a completely different qualitative level, since from that moment on there was a real opportunity to directly compare these fighters with their American serial counterpart, the most expensive US Air Force fighter F-22 Raptor.

But in order to compare something with something, you must first provide comparison criteria, and in our case, answer the question:

What is a 5th generation fighter?

Characteristic features of the 5th generation:
- stealth - by using measures to reduce the ESR (effective scattering surface);
— use of powerful 5th generation engines;
— supersonic cruising flight in non-afterburning mode;
- super maneuverability;
— radar with AFAR;
— modern complex weapons.

Plus the integration of on-board systems of individual aircraft into a common network of computer command and control (ACS).

The comparison criteria are clear. Now let's use them and (for those who value their time) make a simple comparison table of Russian, American and Chinese fifth-generation fighters according to all the above criteria. Click on the blue panel to view the table.

Comparison table

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And instead of a conclusion

The F-22 has already been discontinued, and the J-20 and F-35 have not been completed and are still far from perfect. Just like the Russian PAK FA.

Currently, the first stage of testing the T50 has been completed and this spring, with 100% loading of fuel and weight-dimensional weapon mock-ups, the 4th aircraft took off from the 310-meter runway and reached maximum speed 2610 km/h and a cruising speed of 2135 km/h, while there was still potential for acceleration, and also climbed to 24,300 meters (higher was not allowed).

The T-50 is currently undergoing State tests. And in Bashkiria the production of new generation aircraft engines begins ( Ed.-129), which will be equipped with the T-50 multirole fighter at the second stage. Product-129 is an engine with increased power and rotary control of the jet nozzle. So the fight for the market and the sky v5.0 is just beginning...

Russian 6th generation fighter

What will the 6th generation fighter of the Russian Federation be like?

Russia is designing a 6th generation fighter. Deputy General Director of the KRET concern Vladimir Mikheev said this in an interview with TASS.

According to Mikheev, we are talking about 2 versions of the machine: manned and unmanned. Who exactly is creating the new fighter is not reported. Most likely - Sukhoi Design Bureau and/or MiG company.

Performance characteristics of the Russian 6th generation fighter

Armament of the Russian 6th generation fighter

The time of the sixth generation fighter has already come

The appearance of the Russian 6th generation fighter is just around the corner. UAC claims that the prototype aircraft will make its first flight in 2023-2025. And its full readiness can be achieved in 2030.

Missile defense of the future

Russian missile defense of the future

Work continues to create the S-500 missile defense system. In this new generation of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems It is planned to apply separate execution of tasks for the destruction of ballistic and aerodynamic missiles. S-500, unlike the S-400, which is designed for air defense, is being created as a missile defense system, including it will be able to combat hypersonic weapons that the United States is actively developing. The S-500 aerospace defense system, which is promised to be constructed in 2015, will have to shoot down objects flying at an altitude of over 185 km and at a distance of more than 3.5 thousand km from the launcher.

Currently The preliminary design has already been completed and technical design is underway. The main purpose of this complex is to defeat the latest types of air attack weapons being developed in the world today. It is assumed that the system will be capable of solving problems not only in a stationary version: it will be deployed to the combat zone that is most relevant at a particular time. The destroyers that Russia is due to begin producing in 2016 will also be equipped with a ship-based version of the S-500 anti-missile system.

Combat lasers

Russian combat lasers

Russia began to engage developments in the field of tactical laser weapons before the United States and has in its arsenal prototypes of high-precision combat chemical lasers. We tested the first such installation back in 1972. Even then, the domestic mobile “laser gun” was capable of successfully hitting air targets. According to some experts: “Since then, Russia’s capabilities in this area have increased significantly, and the United States has to catch up with us.” Now significantly more funds are being allocated for this work, which will undoubtedly lead to further success.

So 2013 By order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, work continued on the creation of combat lasers capable of hitting aircraft, satellites and ballistic missiles. The development of lasers is carried out by the Almaz-Antey air defense concern, the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Concern named after Beriev and the Khimpromavtomatika company.

TANTK named after Beriev resumed work on modernizing the A-60 flying laboratory (based on the Il-76 transport aircraft), which was used to test new laser technologies. The flying laboratory is based at an airfield near Taganrog.

For promotion and development laser technologies Russia will build the world's most powerful laser. The superlaser in Sarov will occupy an area of ​​approximately two football fields, and at its highest point will reach the size of a 10-story building. The installation will have 192 laser channels and a huge laser pulse energy, for the American and French it is about two megajoules, for the Russian it is about 1.5-2 times more.

The superlaser will allow create enormous densities and temperatures in matter, close to those that occur on stars, for example, on the Sun. In the future, we may talk about obtaining thermonuclear fusion energy using a new principle - laser thermonuclear fusion. This will be a competitor to the ITER installation currently under construction in France, which is based on the tokamak system. In addition, the superlaser will simulate in laboratory conditions the processes that were observed during testing thermonuclear weapons. The construction cost is estimated at approximately 1.16 billion euros.

Promising armored vehicles

Promising armored vehicles of Russia

In 2014 The Russian Ministry of Defense intends to begin purchasing promising main battle tanks based on the Armata single heavy armored vehicle platform. According to Interfax, this was stated by Yuri Borisov, Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia. According to the deputy minister, an order will first be placed for the supply of a pilot batch of 16 new tanks.

Based on an experimental batch combat vehicles are planned to be carried out under controlled military operation. The deputy minister did not specify other details regarding the purchase of promising combat vehicles. The creation of the first prototype of a tank based on the Armata platform, according to the current schedule, should take place already in 2013, and the delivery of new combat vehicles to the troops is planned to begin in 2015.

Statement technical project “Armata” by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation took place on March 23, 2012. As stated by the head of the Main Armored Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Alexander Shevchenko, the project fully complies with all existing requirements of the military department. The development of a promising tank has been entrusted to Uralvagonzavod.

Another avenue Russian defense industry - “Terminator” (“Object 199″). This is a tank support combat vehicle designed to destroy manpower, armored vehicles, air targets, as well as various fortifications and shelters.

"Terminator" can be created both on the basis of the T-72 tank and on the T-90. The standard armament consists of two 30-mm cannons, a Kalashnikov machine gun, an Ataka laser-guided ATGM and two AGS-17 grenade launchers. The capabilities of the BMPT allow high-density fire to be fired at four targets simultaneously. On the very first day of the IDEX-2013 salon in Abu Dhabi, the modernized T-90S tank and the Terminator made it into the top ten.

Precision weapons

Russian precision weapons

The Russian Air Force will receive missiles for striking ground and surface targets with GLONASS guidance.

In July at the GLITs training ground. V.P. Chkalov in Akhtubinsk will test the S-24 and S-25 missiles, equipped with special kits with seekers and linings on the control surfaces. GLONASS guidance kits will begin to arrive en masse at air bases already in 2014, that is, Russian front-line and helicopter aviation will completely switch to high-precision weapons.”

S-24 and S-25 - became highly accurate

Unguided rockets(NUR) S-24 and S-25 remain the main weapons of Russian attack and bomber aircraft, but NURs hit areas, and in modern conditions This is an expensive and ineffective pleasure. GLONASS homing heads will transfer S-24 and S-25 to class precision weapons, capable of hitting small targets with an accuracy of up to 1 m.

Robotics

Combat Robotics of Russia

Priorities in the creation of promising types of weapons and military equipment have actually been determined. The emphasis is on creating the most robotic combat systems in which a person is assigned the safe function of an operator.

In robotics A number of programs are planned: the creation of power armor, known as exoskeletons, the development of underwater robots for a wide variety of purposes, the design of a series of unmanned aerial vehicles. Intensified work on network technologies for military purposes fits into robotic innovations. It is planned to create technologies for wireless power transmission. Nikola Tesla carried out experiments in this direction a hundred years ago. New technologies will make it possible to implement his ideas on an industrial scale.

Russian specialists relatively recently (2011-2012) the SAR-400 robot was created. He is 163 cm tall and consists of a torso with two “arms”-manipulators, which are equipped with special sensors that allow the operator to feel the object touched by the iron hand.

SAR-400 can perform many functions - from space flights to remote surgical operations. But in military affairs he has no value at all. He can be a sapper, a scout, and a repairman. In terms of its tactical and technical characteristics and operational capabilities, the SAR-400 android is either superior (for example, in hand compression) or not inferior to all foreign analogues, including American ones. It is planned that within the next two years the SAR-400 robot will go on board the International space station(ISS), and will later be used in future missions to the Moon and Mars.

Fundamentally new small arms

New Russian small arms

Izhevsk gunsmiths began developing a new generation of automatic small arms weapons, fundamentally different from the most popular Kalashnikov system in the world. We are talking about a new platform that will allow us to compete with the most modern analogues of small arms in the world and will provide law enforcement agencies with fundamentally new weapons systems that are fully consistent with the rearmament program of the Russian army until 2020.

Small arms of the future will be of a modular type, which will simplify production and subsequent modernization. In this case, a scheme in which the firing mechanism and the weapon magazine are located in the butt behind the trigger will be used more often. To develop fundamentally new small arms systems, ammunition with a new ballistic solution will also be used - they will have increased accuracy, greater effective range, and higher penetration power.

Before the gunsmiths The task is to create a new system “from scratch”, without relying on outdated principles. To achieve this goal, Izhmash will use new technologies. Nevertheless, Izhmash will not refuse work on modernizing Kalashnikov assault rifles of the 200 series, since the Russian special services have already become interested in the supply of AK-200.

Russian hypersonic weapons

Zircon - the hypersonic era is coming

Panic in Great Britain - the Russians have created a hypersonic Zircon missile.

“This missile threatens the entire Western world, it will change the balance of power. This missile can sink two of Britain's largest aircraft carriers, costing £600,000,000, in one hit. Its radius is 1000 km and its speed is Mach 8. No missile defense system is capable of shooting down a missile at such speed.”

Plus, Zircon is unique in that it can be launched both from land and from the sea or from under water. Zircon's speed is simply amazing. The unsuccessful American analogue has a speed almost 40% lower.

When the Zircon flies at maximum speed, its head part heats up, forming a cloud of plasma. This makes it difficult for radars to operate and makes the missile invisible. Hence Zircon received the name in the West - Horror in Plasma.

The adversaries also note that the Russians always underestimate the performance characteristics of their products. So after Zircon enters service, NATO will be in for an unpleasant surprise.

Speed ​​8 Mach and radius 1000 km is not the limit

For the flight of Zircons at hypersonic speeds, a special fuel was created - Decilin-M using aluminum nanoparticles. This increases the energy intensity and density of the fuel by almost 20%.

According to experts, the speed of Zircons using the new fuel will reach Mach 12, and the flight range will exceed 1,500 kilometers. According to Deputy Minister of Defense General Dmitry Bulgakov, the same fuel will be used to create engines for new strategic hypersonic cruise missiles, which will allow them to exceed speeds of Mach 5.

That is, Mach 8 is not the limit. Back in August 2011, the general director of the Tactical Missiles Corporation, Boris Obnosov, stated that the corporation was starting to develop hypersonic missiles capable of reaching speeds of Mach 12-13! So, as in the case of underestimating the performance characteristics of Calibers, the matter will definitely not be limited to a speed of Mach 8.

On April 15, 2017, the new Russian hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile Zircon accelerated to a speed of Mach 8 (8500 km/h), TASS reports, citing a source in the Russian defense industry.

“During the tests of the rocket, it was confirmed that its speed on the march reaches eight Machs (a number that takes into account the dependence of the speed of sound on the flight altitude),” the agency’s interlocutor said.

According to him, 3S14 universal launchers can be used to launch these missiles. Now the ship complex launches Caliber and Onyx missiles.

Why is Zircon dangerous for the states?

The range of Russian Zircon anti-ship cruise missiles will force US Navy carrier strike groups to stay thousands of kilometers from our coast. Which will make attacks by their carrier-based aircraft on our ground targets either ineffective or completely impossible.

The logic here is simple. The main striking force of any modern US aircraft carrier is the F/A-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighter-bombers. Their combat radius is 400 nautical miles. In order for the F/A-18 to be able to at least threaten missile and bomb attacks on targets on our shores, they must take off from the deck 740 kilometers from the targets of the future strike. At the same time, the declared range of the Zircon is 1000 km and they have no protection against it.

The Zircon should be put into service in 2018, replacing the Granit anti-ship missile in combat duty. Thus, not a single ship of the adversaries will henceforth feel safe, because the anti-missiles currently available in the West are physically unable to withstand the Russian Zircon missile.

Aircraft carrier Storm, BDK Priboy and destroyer Leader

Promising Russian aircraft carrier Storm, BDK Priboy and destroyer Leader

The defense industry announced the construction of 8 new universal landing ships project Priboy, developed by Nevsky Design Bureau.

Prospective BDKs will have a displacement of about 14 thousand tons and an aviation group of eight Ka-27 and . Their construction is planned to begin in 2016.

The newest landing craft will be armed with Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery systems. Surf will be able to transport up to 500 paratroopers and up to 40-60 units of equipment. The length of the ship will be 165 meters, width - 25 meters.

5th generation nuclear submarines

What will the 5th generation nuclear submarines be like?

The concept of creating 5th generation nuclear-powered ships involves the introduction of robotic systems, composite technologies and new types of cruise missiles.

About the expected performance characteristics nuclear submarines Very little is known about the 5th generation. According to data that is sometimes fragmentarily thrown into the media, the following image of future nuclear submarines is drawn:

Cipher:	Husky
Developer:	St. Petersburg mechanical engineering design bureau Malachite
Type:	multi-purpose
Platform:	single, basic
Version 1:	hunter boat (anti-submarine submarine)
Version 2:	carrier of cruise missiles (killer of aircraft carriers, destruction of coastal and surface targets)
Frame:	high strength steel
Use of rubber coatings:	No
Use of composite materials:	Yes
Using unified modular platforms:	Yes
Use of robotic systems:	Yes
Depth rudders:	composite material
Rudders:	composite material
Propellers and shaft lines:	composite material
Low noise:	Yes
Stealth:	Yes
Downsizing:	Yes
Sonar camouflage:	Yes
Communications power:	increased
Weapons Integration:	Yes
Automated reconnaissance and warning means:	Yes
Network-centricity:	Yes
Weapons:	hypersonic missile cruise missile Zircon (Mach 5-13) and/or CRBD Caliber
Crew:	30 people

Design Bureau Malachite is a recognized brand of the Soviet and Russian nuclear submarine fleet. The Bureau developed such nuclear submarines as Anchar (Project 661, the fastest nuclear submarine), Lira (Project 705), Shchuka-B (Project 971) and Yasen (Project 885).

Hypersonic missile launchers Zircon (3M22) are being developed by the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation as a replacement for heavy Granit anti-ship systems. In February 2016, they entered flight tests. Should be part of the armament of the updated Project 1144 Orlan nuclear cruisers and the newest Leader destroyers.

Construction of the first 5th generation nuclear submarine is planned to begin in 2017-2018. The 5th generation should replace the Project 949AM Antey submarines and multi-purpose submarines of Projects 971, 945 and 671RTM.

Megaton underwater drones

Russia's asymmetric response. We create megaton underwater drones

Russia is twice the size of the USA. Today, a third of the entire US population lives in three giant metropolitan areas. More than half of all American GDP is produced there. The areas of these megacities are relatively small (about 400 thousand sq. km) and are located mainly on the coast. From here, for the most part, all the asymmetrical retaliatory measures dance.

Russia is creating an unmanned submarine with a powerful nuclear warhead to destroy American submarine bases and other important facilities on the US coast, the Washington Times writes, citing sources in the Pentagon. In the US military department, the development was codenamed Kanyon.

According to the US military, this will be a strike submarine without a crew, armed with a thermonuclear warhead with a power of “tens of megatons”, capable of quickly and secretly moving over long distances.

Press Secretary Russian President Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russian television accidentally showed data about the classified Status-6 system, Interfax reports. On November 9, Channel One and NTV aired stories about a meeting with the participation of President Putin on defense issues.

Status-6 is the same underwater drone that the Washington Times wrote about.

On March 18, 2016, representatives of the United Shipbuilding Company, commenting on reports about Status-6, confirmed the development of an “unmanned underwater robot”.

From the wiki: Status-6 - Russian oceanic multi-purpose system weapons designed to destroy US Navy bases and important enemy economic facilities in the coastal area and cause guaranteed unacceptable damage to the country's territory. The same asymmetrical answer.

Modeling in Alex Veresteyn's NukeMap program shows that the size of the affected area from a 100 megaton explosion of a Status-6 nuclear warhead will be approximately 1,700 km by 300 km.

Second in strength damaging factor is the creation of an artificial megatsunami with a wave height of 300-500 meters with the wave entering the mainland under the condition of flat terrain up to 500 km

In total, the forum included 78 foreign defense enterprises from 14 countries. National expositions were organized by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Pakistan, Slovakia and South Africa.
The demonstration program, which unfolded on the territory of three clusters, involved more than 190 weapons, military and special equipment. Aviation is presented at the airfield in Kubinka, ground equipment - at the Alabino training ground. Here, on Lake Komsomolskoye, there is a water cluster, where one of the main new products is underwater robots. Small arms are presented in the Multifunctional Fire Center area.

Microwave sniper rifle

© Press service of the Kalashnikov concern

The latest development for high-precision shooting. Semi-automatic sniper rifle Chukavina (microwave) is available in two calibers - 7.62 x 54 mm and 7.62 x 51 mm (the latter is also known as .308 Win, very popular in the world market). At the same time, in caliber 7.62 × 54 mm, it is compatible with SVD magazines. In the basic configuration, the microwave is equipped with a telescopic butt with an adjustable cheekpiece.
According to the general director of the Kalashnikov concern (part of Rostec) Alexey Krivoruchko, this development has a very bright future, the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Guard, as well as export partners, are interested. There are great prospects in the civilian market. “We are already conducting some of the civilian tests this year and hope to begin testing these rifles for law enforcement agencies in the near future,” he said in an interview with TASS.
The microwave differs from conventional small arms primarily in its layout. The designers decided to move away from the traditional design with a receiver closed with a lid. The new layout simplifies the mounting of optics, collimator sights, night and thermal imaging attachments and other sighting systems.

BMD-4M with the Sinitsa combat module

The Sinitsa combat module is an improved combat compartment of the infantry fighting vehicle - BMP-3, which retains a powerful set of weapons consisting of a 100-mm cannon - the 2A70 launcher, a 30-mm 2A72 automatic cannon and a 7.62 mm PKTM machine gun.

BMD-4M airborne combat vehicle with the Sinitsa combat module © Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS

The BMD-4M with Sinitsa is designed for transporting units of the Airborne Forces, conducting combat from a vehicle and providing fire support. Its total combat weight does not exceed 14.3 tons. The crew consists of three people; transportation of four paratroopers is allowed. The BMD-4M can be parachuted with the combat crew inside. The previously developed version of the BMD-4M was equipped with the Bakhcha-U fighting compartment.

Medical armored vehicle "Tiger"

The medical version of the BMA Tiger-Aibolit armored car was created by the Military Industrial Company (MIC). This machine was made on an initiative basis.

Armored medical vehicle (AMV) "Tiger" © Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS

Tank support combat vehicle "Terminator"

The vehicle was involved in demonstrations at the Alabino training ground. It became known at the forum that for the first time the Russian Ministry of Defense bought a tank support combat vehicle in the interests of the Ground Forces.

Tank support combat vehicle "Terminator-3" in Syria. @WaelAlHussaini

Created taking into account the military operations that took place in Afghanistan. The BMPT based on the T-90 tank is capable of identifying a hidden threat and destroying it before the main tank is hit. Crew - five people. Firepower is provided by two 30-mm automatic cannons, one machine gun, two AGS-30 grenade launchers and four Ataka-T anti-tank guided missiles.

Armored personnel carrier BTR-87

Presented at the exhibition for the first time. The new armored personnel carrier, designated BTR-87, was developed by the Military Industrial Company. It received a front-engine layout, in which landing and disembarking of troops is carried out through the rear doors. Somewhat similar to the BTR-4 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Armored personnel carrier BTR-87 © Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS
BTR-4 Ladya (Ukraine)

“The BTR-87 is an initiative development work. There may be a stern exit for paratroopers with a hinged door, as shown in the example at the exhibition, or we can make a very convenient folding ramp, again in the stern. This is the main difference between the BTR-87 and the BTR-82A, where troops land through hatches located on the sides of the hull,” Alexander Krasovitsky, general director of the military-industrial complex, told TASS.
The new vehicle is equipped with the chassis of the BTR-82A armored personnel carrier. The BTR-87 is a four-axle all-wheel drive amphibious vehicle with an 8 x 8 wheel arrangement. The BTR-87 received a combat module, the armament of which includes a 30-mm automatic cannon, a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, and four anti-tank guided missiles.
According to the developers, the BTR-87 has already passed a number of tests and is now being presented to the Ministry of Defense in order to open development work in the interests of the military department.

Motorcycle for special forces

The presentation of a silent motorcycle developed for was held as part of the forum.

Motorcycle IZH for special forces © Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS

According to the head of the company, the line of motorcycles produced by the concern will be very wide. “We will make different models, of different classes, but the emphasis will be on electric motorcycles,” he explained. The plans include the production of other electric vehicles.
As previously reported, the concern has developed an electric motorcycle for the traffic police and police departments. The charging range of such a car is 150 km. Maximum power - 15 kW. The first samples will be handed over to the Metropolitan Police at the end of August.

Armored communications vehicle "Tiger-US"

Presented at the exhibition for the first time. This machine will be able to transform into a control and reconnaissance center, a secure communications center or a mobile data processing center.

Armored vehicle "Tiger-US" © Alexey Panshin/TASS

According to Voentelecom CEO Alexander Davydov, the system has unprecedented characteristics and is capable of replacing up to 70% of bulky and different types of command and staff vehicles and complex communications hardware, while providing much richer functionality and significantly improved performance characteristics with a multiple reduction in the cost of purchase and service.
It also became known that at the concept level, Voentelecom considers this communication and control machine to be unmanned, controlled by artificial intelligence, which independently determines the route based on the situation in the theater of military operations.

Buggy "Chaborz" M-6

Airmobile multi-purpose all-terrain vehicle (buggy) “Chaborz” M-6 © Marina Lystseva/TASS

New six-seater buggy "Chaborz" M-6 presented training center strength special purpose Chechnya.

It is primarily intended for military needs and has extensive cargo transportation and installation capabilities. additional equipment. Serial production of all-terrain vehicles at the Chechenavto plant will begin after the presentation at the Army-2017 forum.
Today the volume of serial production is 30 cars per month. The vehicle is universal and adapts to various military and civilian needs.

Combat module using neural network technologies

For the first time, a new combat module using neural network technologies was presented at the Kalashnikov Concern pavilion, allowing it to recognize targets and make decisions.

TASS/Ruptly
A neural network is a quickly learning system that is capable of acting not only in accordance with a given algorithm, but also based on previously used experience. It also became known that this combat module could go into production in 2018 and can be installed on any vehicle.

"Gun" to combat drones

The electromagnetic “gun” “Stupor” was created by the Main Research and Testing Center for Robotics of the Russian Ministry of Defense to suppress unmanned aerial vehicles.

Electromagnetic “gun” “Stupor” © Dmitry Reshetnikov/TASS

The complex is designed to suppress drones, including copter-type ones, used on land and water surfaces, at a line-of-sight range. In addition, it can suppress the navigation and transmission channels of drones, as well as their photo and video cameras in the optical-electronic range.
"Gun" emits electromagnetic pulses and is primarily intended to suppress the control channel of a drone, which, under the influence of radiation, loses contact with the operator, which leads to uncontrolled flight and fall.
“Stupor” operates at a range of 2 km in a 20-degree sector. It can be charged either from the network or from a car battery.

The rearmament of the navy and army is not only about supplying the troops with modern equipment. IN Russian Federation New types of weapons are constantly being created. Their future development is also being decided. Let us next consider the latest military developments in Russia in some areas.

Strategic intercontinental missile

This type is an important weapon. basis missile force The Russian Federation is the liquid-propelled heavy ICBMs Sotka and Voevoda. Their service life has been extended three times. Currently, a heavy Sarmat complex has been developed to replace them. It is a hundred-ton class missile that carries at least ten multiple warheads in its warhead. The main characteristics of "Sarmat" have already been assigned. Serial production is planned to begin at the legendary Krasmash, for the reconstruction of which 7.5 billion rubles have been allocated from the Federation budget. Promising combat equipment is already being created, including individual breeding units with promising means of overcoming missile defense (R&D “Inevitability” - “Breakthrough”).

Installation "Avangard"

In 2013, the commanders of the Strategic Missile Forces conducted an experimental launch of this ballistic missile. intercontinental missile middle class. This was the fourth launch since 2011. Three previous launches were also successful. In this test, the rocket flew with a mock-up of a standard combat unit. It replaced the previously used ballast. The Avangard is a fundamentally new missile, which is not considered a continuation of the Topol family. The Strategic Missile Forces command calculated an important fact. It lies in the fact that Topol-M can hit 1 or 2 anti-missile defenses (for example, the American type SM-3), and one Avangard will require at least 50. That is, the effectiveness of missile defense breakthrough has increased significantly.

In the Avangard-type installation, the already familiar missile with a multiple warhead for personal guidance has been replaced by the latest system, which has a guided warhead (UBU). This is an important innovation. The blocks in the MIRV IN are located in 1 or 2 tiers (exactly the same as in the Voevoda installation) around the engine of the propagation stages. With a computer command, the stage begins to rotate towards one of the targets. Then, with a small impulse from the engine, the warhead released from its fastenings is sent to the target. Its flight is carried out along a ballistic curve (like a thrown stone), without maneuvering in altitude and heading. In turn, the controlled unit, in contrast to the specified element, looks like an independent rocket with a personal guidance and control system, an engine and rudders resembling conical “skirts” in the lower part. This is an effective device. The engine can allow it to maneuver in space, and in the atmosphere - a "skirt". Due to this control, the warhead flies 16,000 km from a 250-kilometer altitude. In general, the Avangard’s range can be more than 25,000 km.

Bottom missile systems

The latest Russian military developments are also present in this area. There are also innovative implementations here. Back in the summer of 2013, tests were carried out in the White Sea of ​​such weapons as the new Skif ballistic missile, which is capable of firing and hitting ground and sea targets while waiting on the ocean or seabed at the right time. It uses the ocean as an original mine installation. The location of these systems at the bottom of the water element will provide the necessary invulnerability to retaliatory weapons.

The latest military developments of Russia - mobile missile systems

A lot of work has been invested in this direction. In 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense began testing a new hypersonic missile. Its flight speed is approximately 6 thousand km/h. It is known that today in Russia hypersonic technology is being studied in several developing areas. Along with this, the Russian Federation also produces combat railway and naval missile systems. This will significantly modernize the weapons. Experimental design of Russia's latest military developments is being actively carried out in this direction.

The so-called test launches of the Kh-35UE missiles were also successful. They were released from installations located in a cargo-type container of the Club-K complex. The X-35 anti-ship missile is distinguished by its flight to the target and its stealth at an altitude not exceeding 15 meters, and at the final part of its trajectory - 4 meters. The presence of a powerful warhead and a combined homing system allows one unit of this weapon to completely destroy a militarized ship with a displacement of 5 thousand tons. For the first time, a model of this missile system was shown in Malaysia in 2009, at a military-technical salon.

It immediately created a sensation, since Club-K is a typical twenty- and forty-foot cargo container. This Russian military equipment is transported by rail, on sea vessels or by trailers. In the specified container, command posts and launchers with multi-purpose missiles of the X-35UE 3M-54E and 3M-14E type are located. They can hit both ground and surface targets. Every container ship that carries the Club-K is, in principle, a missile carrier with a devastating salvo.

This is an important weapon. Absolutely any train with these installations or convoy, which includes heavy-duty automobile container ships, is a powerful missile unit that can appear in any unexpected place. Successfully conducted tests have proven that Club-K is not a fiction, it is real combat system. These new developments of military equipment are a confirmed fact. Similar tests are also being prepared with 3M-14E and 3M-54E missiles. By the way, the 3M-54E missile can completely destroy an aircraft carrier.

The latest generation strategic bomber

Currently, the Tupolev company is developing and improving a promising aircraft complex (PAK DA). It is a Russian strategic missile-carrying bomber newest generation. This aircraft is not an improvement of the TU-160, but will be an innovative aircraft based on the latest solutions. In 2009, a contract was concluded between the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Tupolev company to conduct R&D on the basis of the PAK DA for a period of three years. In 2012, an announcement was made that the preliminary design of the PAK DA had already been completed and signed, and then development of the latest military developments began.

In 2013, this was approved by the command of the Russian Air Force. PAK DA is famous for itself, like the modern nuclear missile carriers TU-160 and TU-95MS.
Of several options, we settled on a subsonic stealth aircraft with a “flying wing” design. This Russian military equipment is not capable of breaking the speed of sound due to its design and huge wingspan, but can be invisible to radar.

Future missile defense

Work continues on the creation of the S-500 missile defense system. In this newest generation, it is planned to use separate tasks to neutralize aerodynamic and ballistic missiles. The S-500 differs from the S-400, which is designed for air defense, in that it is being created as an anti-missile defense system.

It will also be able to combat hypersonic weapons that are actively being developed in the United States. Data new military Russian developments are important. The S-500 is an aerospace defense system that they want to construct in 2015. It will have to neutralize objects that fly at an altitude of above 185 km and at a distance of more than 3,500 km from the launch site. On at the moment The draft design has already been completed and promising Russian military developments are underway in this direction. The main purpose of this complex will be to defeat the latest types of offensive weapons air type, which is being released today in the world. It is assumed that this system will be able to perform tasks both in a stationary version and when deployed to a combat zone. which Russia is due to begin producing in 2016, will be equipped with a shipborne version of the S-500 anti-missile system.

Combat lasers

There is a lot of interesting things in this direction. Russia began military developments in this area before the United States of America and has in its arsenal the most experienced examples of high-precision chemical combat lasers. Russian developers tested the first such installation back in 1972. Then, with the help of a domestic mobile “laser gun,” it was possible to successfully hit a target in the air. So in 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense requested to continue work on the creation of combat lasers that are capable of hitting satellites, aircraft and ballistic missiles.
This is important in modern weapons. New Russian military developments in the field of lasers are being carried out by the Almaz-Antey air defense organization, the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Concern named after. Beriev and the Khimpromavtomatika company. All this is controlled by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. began again to modernize the A-60 flying laboratories (based on the Il-76), which are used to test the latest laser technologies. They will be based at an airfield near Taganrog.

Prospects

In the future, with successful development in this area, the Russian Federation will build one of the most powerful lasers in the world. This device in Sarov will occupy an area equal to two football fields, and at its highest point it will reach the size of a 10-story building. The installation will be equipped with 192 laser channels and enormous laser pulse energy. For the French and American counterparts it is equal to 2 megajoules, and for Russia it is approximately 1.5-2 times higher. The superlaser will be able to create colossal temperatures and densities in matter, which are the same as on the Sun. This device will also simulate in laboratory conditions the processes observed during the testing of thermonuclear weapons. Creation of this project will be valued at around 1.16 billion euros.

Armored vehicles

In this regard, the latest military developments were also not long in coming. In 2014, the Russian Ministry of Defense will begin purchasing main effective battle tanks based on single platform heavy armored vehicles "Armata". Based on a successful batch of these vehicles, controlled military operation will be carried out. The release of the first prototype of a tank based on the Armata platform, in accordance with the current schedule, took place in 2013. The specified Russian military equipment is planned to be supplied to military units from 2015. The development of the tank will be carried out by Uralvagonzavod.

Another prospect of the Russian defense industry is “Terminator” (“Object - 199″”). This combat vehicle will be designed to neutralize air targets, manpower, armored vehicles, as well as various shelters and fortifications.

The Terminator can be created on the basis of the T-90 and T-72 tanks. Its standard equipment will consist of 2 30-mm cannons, an Ataka ATGM with laser guidance, a Kalashnikov machine gun and 2 AGS-17 grenade launchers. These new developments in Russian military equipment are significant. The capabilities of the BMPT allow the execution of fire at a significant density on 4 targets at once.

Precision weapons

The Russian Air Force will adopt missiles to carry out attacks on surface and ground targets with GLONASS guidance. At the test site in Akhtubinsk, the Chkalov State Medical Center named after Chkalov, the S-25 and S-24 missiles, which are equipped with special kits with seekers and control surfaces, were tested. This is an important improvement. GLONASS guidance kits began to arrive en masse at air bases in 2014, that is, Russian helicopter and front-line aviation has completely switched to high-precision weapons.

Unguided missiles (NUR) S-25 and S-24 will remain the main weapon of bomber and attack aircraft of the Russian Federation. However, they hit areas, which is expensive and ineffective. GLONASS homing heads will transform the S-25 and S-24 into high-precision weapons capable of hitting small targets with an accuracy of up to 1 meter.

Robotics

The main priorities in organizing promising types of military equipment and weapons have almost been determined. Emphasis is placed on creating the most robotic combat systems, where a person will be assigned a safe operator function.

A set of programs is planned in this direction:

• Organization of power armor, known as exoskeletons.
• Work on the development of underwater robots for a wide variety of purposes.
• Designing a series of unmanned aerial vehicles.
• It is planned to establish technologies for wireless electricity transmission. They will allow Nikolai Tesla's ideas to be implemented on an industrial scale.

Russian experts relatively recently (2011-2012) created the SAR-400 robot. It is 163 cm tall and looks like a torso with two “manipulator arms” equipped with special sensors. They allow the operator to feel the object they are touching.

The SAR-400 is capable of performing several functions. For example, flying into space or performing remote surgery. And in military conditions it is generally irreplaceable. He can be a scout, a sapper, and a repairman. In terms of its operating capabilities and performance characteristics, the Android SAR-400 is superior (for example, in hand grip) foreign analogues, and American too.

Small arms

The latest military developments in Russia are currently also actively being carried out in this direction. This is a confirmed fact. Izhevsk gunsmiths began developing the latest generation of automatic small arms weapons. It differs from the Kalashnikov system, popular throughout the world. This implies a new platform that allows you to compete with analogues of the latest models of small arms in the world. This is important in this area. As a result, law enforcement agencies can be provided with fundamentally new combat systems that correspond to the rearmament program of the Russian army until 2020. Therefore, significant developments are currently underway in this regard. Future rifle systems will be of a modular type. This will simplify subsequent modernization and production. In this case, a scheme will be used more often in which the weapon’s magazine and the striking mechanism will be located in the butt behind the trigger. Ammunition with innovative ballistic solutions will also be used to develop the latest small arms systems. For example, increased accuracy, significant effective range, more powerful penetration ability. Gunsmiths are faced with the task of creating a new system “from scratch”, not based on outdated principles. To achieve this goal, the latest technologies are used. At the same time, Izhmash will not renounce work on modernizing the AK 200 series, since the Russian special services are already interested in the supply of this type of weapon. Currently, further military developments are being carried out in this direction.

Bottom line

All of the above emphasizes the successful modernization of the Russian Federation’s weapons. The main thing is to keep up with the times and not stop there, implementing the latest improvements in this area. Along with the above, there are also secret military developments of Russia, but their publication is limited.