The latest military developments in Russia. Promising military developments in Russia

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The rearmament of the fleet and the army is not only about the supply of modern equipment to the troops. New types of weapons are constantly being created in the Russian Federation. Their future development is also being decided. Consider further the latest Russian military developments in some areas.

Strategic ICBM

This type is an important weapon. The basis of the missile forces of the Russian Federation are liquid heavy ICBMs "Sotka" and "Voevoda". Their service life has been extended three times. At present, 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 the head element. The main characteristics of "Sarmat" have already been assigned. Serial production is scheduled 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 (ROC "Inevitability" -"Breakthrough".

Installation "Vanguard"

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

In the installation of the "Avangard" type, the already familiar missile with a multiple head element of personal guidance has been replaced by the latest system, which has a guided warhead (UBB). This is an important innovation. The blocks in the MIRV are located in 1 or 2 tiers (exactly the same as in the Voevoda installation) around the breeding stage engine. By a computer command, the stage begins to turn towards one of the targets. Then, with a small impulse of the engine, the warhead released from the mounts is sent to the target. Its flight is carried out along a ballistic curve (like a thrown stone), without maneuvering in height and course. In turn, the managed block, unlike the specified element, looks like an independentrockets with a personal guidance and control system, an engine and rudders resembling conical "skirts" at the bottom. This is an efficient device. The engine can allow him to maneuver in space, and in the atmosphere - "skirt". Due to this control, the warhead flies 16,000 km from a 250-kilometer altitude. In general, the range of the Avangard may be more than 25,000 km.

Bottom missile systems

The latest Russian military developments are also present in this area. Here, too, there are innovations. 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 on the ocean or seabed at the right time and hitting a ground and sea object. It uses the thickness of the ocean as the original mine installation. The location of these systems at the bottom of the water element will provide the necessary invulnerability to the weapons of retaliation.

The latest Russian military developments are mobile missile systems

A lot of work has been invested in this direction. The Russian Defense Ministry in 2013 began testing a new hypersonic missile. Its flight speed is approximately 6 thousand km / h. It is known that today hypersonic technology is being researched in Russia in several developing areas. Along with this, the Russian Federation also produces combat railroad and naval missile systems. This significantly upgrades weapons. Active in this areaexperimental design of the latest military developments of Russia.

Also, the so-called throw test launches of Kh-35UE missiles were successfully completed. They were fired from installations placed 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 ste alth at a height not exceeding 15 meters, and at the final section of its trajectory - 4 meters. The presence of a powerful warhead and a combined homing system allows one unit of this weaponry 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, in a military technical salon.

He immediately made a splash, as the Club-K is a typical twenty and forty-foot cargo containers. This military equipment of Russia is transported by rail, on ships or trailers. Command posts and launchers with Kh-35UE 3M-54E and 3M-14E multi-purpose missiles are placed in said container. They can hit both land 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 echelon with these installations or a convoy, which includes heavy-duty container carriers, ispowerful missile unit that can appear in any unexpected place. Successfully conducted tests proved that Club-K is not a fiction, it is a 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.

Latest generation strategic bomber

Currently, the Tupolev company is developing and improving a promising long-range aviation complex (PAK DA). It is the latest generation Russian strategic bomber-carrier. 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 signed 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 PAK DA preliminary project had already been completed and signed, and then the latest military developments would begin.

In 2013, this was approved by the command of the Russian Air Force. PAK DA is famous for itself as modern nuclear missile carriers TU-160 and TU-95MS. Of several options, we settled on a subsonic ste alth aircraft with a “flying wing” scheme. This military equipment of Russia is not able to overcome the speed of sound due to the design features and huge wingspan, but may be invisible toradar.

Future Missile Defense

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

Also, she will be able to fight against hypersonic weapons, actively developing in the United States. These new military Russian developments are important. The S-500 is an aerospace defense system that they want to build in 2015. It will have to neutralize objects that fly at an altitude above 185 km and at a distance of more than 3,500 km from the launch facility. At the moment, the draft sketch has already been completed, and promising military developments in Russia are underway in this direction. The main purpose of this complex will be to defeat the latest types of air-type attack weapons, which are produced today in the world. It is assumed that this system will be able to perform tasks both in the stationary version and when advanced to the combat zone. Destroyers (destroyers), which Russia should start producing in 2016, will be equipped with a ship-based version of the S-500 anti-missile system.

Combat lasers

There are many interesting things in this direction. Russiabefore the United States of America began military developments in this area and has in its arsenal the most experienced samples 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 military developments in Russia in the field of lasers are being carried out by the Almaz-Antey air defense organization, the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Concern. Beriev and the company "Khimpromavtomatika". All this is controlled by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. TANTK them. Beriev began to modernize again 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-storey building. The facility 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 - approximately1.5-2 times higher. The superlaser will be able to create colossal temperatures and densities in matter, which are the same as in the Sun. This device will also simulate in laboratory conditions the processes observed during the testing of thermonuclear weapons. The creation of this project will be estimated at about 1.16 billion euros.

Armored vehicles

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

Another avenue 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.

"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 of Russian military equipment are significant. BMPT capabilities allowfiring of significant density on 4 targets at once.

High precision weapons

The Air Force of the Russian Federation will adopt missiles for strikes against surface and ground targets guided by GLONASS. At the test site in Akhtubinsk, the Chkalov GLITs passed tests of S-25 and S-24 missiles, which are equipped with special sets with seeker and overlays on control rudders. This is an important improvement. GLONASS guidance kits began to arrive at air bases en masse in 2014, that is, Russian helicopter and front-line aviation completely switched to high-precision weapons.

Unguided missiles (NUR) S-25 and S-24 will remain the main weapon of the bomber and attack aircraft of the Russian Federation. However, they hit the squares, and this is an expensive and inefficient pleasure. GLONASS homing heads will convert 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 the organization of promising varieties of military equipment and weapons are almost defined. Emphasis has been placed on the creation of the most robotic combat systems, where a person will be assigned a safe operator function.

A complex of programs is planned in this direction:

• Organization of power armor known as exoskeletons.
• Work on the development of underwater robots for various purposes.
• Designing a series of unmanned aerial vehicles.
• It is planned to establish technologies for the transmission of wireless electricity. They areallowed to realize the ideas of Nikola Tesla on an industrial scale.

Russian experts relatively recently (2011-2012) created the SAR-400 robot. He 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 being touched.

SAR-400 is able to perform several functions. For example, to fly into space or perform a remote surgical operation. And in military conditions, it is generally irreplaceable. He can be a scout, and a sapper, and a repairman. In terms of its working capabilities and performance characteristics, the SAR-400 android surpasses (for example, in squeezing the hand) foreign analogues, and American ones too.

Small arms

The latest military developments in Russia are currently also being actively pursued in this direction. This is a confirmed fact. The gunsmiths of Izhevsk began the development of the newest generation of small arms automatic weapons. It differs from the world-famous Kalashnikov system. A new platform is implied, allowing it 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 the latest combat systems that correspond to the rearmament program of the Russian army until 2020. Therefore, significant developments are currently underway in this regard. Future small arms will be modular. This will simplify subsequent modernization and production. In this case, a scheme will be used more often in which the storeweapons and impact 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. The gunsmiths were tasked with creating a new system from scratch, not based on obsolete principles. To achieve this goal, the latest technologies are involved. At the same time, Izhmash will not renounce work on the modernization of the AK 200 series, since the Russian special services are already interested in the supply of this type of weapon. Further military developments in this direction are currently underway.

Result

All of the above highlights the successful modernization of the weapons of the Russian Federation. 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.