The rearmament of the fleet and army is not only in 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. Let us further consider the latest military developments in Russia in some areas.
Strategic intercontinental missile
This type is an important weapon. The missile troops of the Russian Federation are based on the Sotka and Voevoda liquid heavy ICBMs. The operational period is extended three times. At present, the Sarmat heavy complex has been developed to replace them. It is a hundred-ton class missile that carries at least ten separated warheads in the head element. The main characteristics of Sarmat have already been assigned. It is planned to begin serial production at the legendary Krasmash, for the reconstruction of which 7.5 billion rubles have been allocated from the budget of the Federation. Promising combat equipment is already being created, including individual breeding units with promising means of overcoming missile defense (ROC "Inevitability" - "Breakthrough").
Installation "Vanguard"
In 2013, the Strategic Missile Forces commanders conducted an experimental launch of this middle-class ballistic intercontinental missile. This was the fourth launch since 2011. Three previous launches have also been successful. In this test, the rocket flew with a mock combat unit. He replaced the previously used ballast. "Vanguard" is a fundamentally newest missile, which is not considered a continuation of the Topol family. The Strategic Missile Forces command calculated an important fact. It consists in the fact that Topol-M can be hit by 1 or 2 missiles (for example, the American type SM-3), and one Avangard will require a minimum of 50. That is, the effectiveness of a missile defense breakthrough has increased significantly.
In a Vanguard-type installation, the already familiar missile with a divided head element for personal guidance was replaced by the latest system, which has a guided combat unit (UBB). This is an important innovation. The blocks in the RGCH IN are located in 1 or 2 tiers (exactly the same as for the Voevoda installation) around the engine of the breeding stages. With a computer command, the step begins to unfold towards one of the targets. Then, with a small pulse of the engine, the combat unit released from the mounts is sent to the target. Its flight is carried out along a ballistic curve (like a thrown stone), without maneuvering at the same time in height and heading. In turn, the controlled unit, unlike the indicated 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 - “skirt”. Through this control, a warhead flies 16,000 km from a 250-km altitude. In general, the range of "Vanguard" may be more than 25,000 km.
Bottom missile systems
The latest military developments in Russia 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 a ground and sea object at the right moment in the standby mode on the ocean or sea bottom. It applies the thickness of 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 the weapons of retaliation.
The latest military developments in Russia - mobile missile systems
A lot of work has been invested in this direction. The Russian Ministry of Defense in 2013 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 investigated in several developing areas. Along with this, the Russian Federation also produces military railway and naval missile systems. This significantly modernizes the weapons. In this direction, the experimental design latest military developments of Russia are actively carried out.
The so-called throw test launches of the X-35UE missiles were also successfully completed. They were released from facilities housed in a Club-K complex-type cargo container. The anti-ship missile “X-35” differs in flight to the target and stealth at an altitude not exceeding 15 meters, and at the end of its path - 4 meters. The presence of a powerful warhead and 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, in the military-technical salon.
He immediately made a splash, as Club-K is a typical twenty cargo containers and forty-foot containers. This military equipment of Russia is transported by rail, on sea vessels or trailers. In the specified container, command posts and launchers are deployed with multipurpose missiles of the X-35UE 3M-54E and 3M-14E type. They can hit both land and surface targets. Each container ship that Club-K transports is, in principle, a missile carrier with a crushing salvo.
This is an important weapon. Absolutely any echelon with these facilities or convoy, which includes heavy-duty automobile container ships, is a powerful missile unit that can appear in any unexpected place. Successful tests have proved that Club-K is not a fiction, it is really a combat system. These new developments of military equipment are a confirmed fact. Similar tests with 3M-14E and 3M-54E missiles are also being prepared. Incidentally, the 3M-54E missile can completely destroy an aircraft carrier.
The latest generation strategic bomber
At present, the Tupolev company is developing and improving a promising long-range aviation complex (PAK DA). He is the newest generation of Russian strategic bomber bomber. This aircraft is not an improvement of the TU-160, but will be an innovative device, which is based on the latest solutions. In 2009, a contract was signed between the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Tupolev company for 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 avant-project had already been completed and signed, and then the latest experimental military developments began.
In 2013, this was approved by the command of the Russian Air Force. PAK YES is famous as the modern nuclear missile carriers TU-160 and TU-95MS.
Of the several options, we settled on a subsonic invisible 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 the huge wingspan, but can be invisible to radars.
Future missile defense
Work continues on the creation of the S-500 missile defense system. In this latest generation of weapons, the Russian Army is supposed to use separate missions for the disposal of aerodynamic and ballistic missiles. The S-500 differs from the S-400, designed for air defense, in that it is created as a missile defense system.
She will also be able to combat hypersonic agents actively developing in the United States. These new Russian military developments are important. The S-500 is the aerospace defense system that they want to build in 2015. It will have to neutralize objects that fly above 185 km and at a distance of more than 3,500 km from the launch installation. At the moment, the draft sketch has already been completed and promising military developments of Russia are being conducted in this direction. The main purpose of this complex will be the defeat of the latest models of air-attack weapons, which are released today in the world. It is assumed that this system will be able to perform tasks both in the stationary version and when advancing to the combat zone. The destroyers (destroyers), which Russia should start producing in 2016, will be equipped with the ship’s version of the S-500 anti-ballistic missile system.
Combat lasers
There is a lot of interesting things in this direction. Russia, before the United States of America, began military development in this area and has in its arsenal the most experienced samples of high-precision chemical combat lasers. Russian developers tested the first such setup back in 1972. Then, using a domestic mobile “laser gun”, it was possible to hit a target in the air with success. So in 2013, the Russian Ministry of Defense requested to continue work on the creation of combat lasers that can hit satellites, planes and ballistic missiles.
This is important in modern weapons. New military developments in Russia in the field of lasers are conducted by the Almaz-Antey air defense organization, Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Concern named after Berieva and the Khimpromavtomatika company. All this is controlled by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. TANTK them. Berieva 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 the successful development in this field, 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 facility will be equipped with 192 laser channels and a huge laser pulse energy. In the French and American counterparts, it is equal to 2 megajoules, and in 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 in the conditions of laboratories simulate 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 are also not long in coming. In 2014, the Russian Ministry of Defense will begin the purchase of the main effective battle tanks based on a single Armata heavy armored vehicle platform. Based on a successful batch of these vehicles, they will conduct controlled military operation. The first prototype of the tank based on the Armata platform was released in accordance with the current schedule in 2013. The indicated 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 prospectus 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 a variety of shelters and fortifications.
"Terminator" is able to be created on the basis of the T-90 and T-72. Its standard equipment will consist of 2 30-mm guns, ATRA 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 BMPT allow the implementation of fire of significant density on 4 targets at once.
Precision weapon
The Air Force of the Russian Federation will adopt missiles for carrying out attacks on surface and ground targets with GLONASS guidance. At the test site in Akhtubinsk GLITs named after Chkalov, tests of S-25 and S-24 missiles were carried out, which are equipped with special kits with GOS and overlays on the steering wheels. This is an important improvement. GLONASS guidance kits began to arrive en masse at airbases 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 Russian bomber and attack aircraft. However, they hit the square, and this is an expensive and inefficient pleasure. Glonass homing heads will translate the S-25 and S-24 into high-precision weapons that can hit small targets with an accuracy of 1 meter.
Robotics
The main priorities in organizing promising varieties of military equipment and weapons are almost identified. Emphasis is placed on the product of the most robotic combat systems, where a safe operator function will be assigned to a person.
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 the transfer of wireless electricity. They will allow to implement the ideas of Nikolai Tesla on an industrial scale.
Russian experts relatively recently (2011-2012) have created the SAR-400 robot. It is 163 cm high and looks like a torso with two “manipulator arms” equipped with special sensors. They allow the operator to feel the subject they are touching.
SAR-400 is capable of performing several functions. For example, fly into space or conduct a remote surgical operation. And in military conditions, it is generally indispensable. He can be a scout, and a sapper, and a repairman. In terms of its working capabilities and TTX, the Android SAR-400 surpasses (for example, in squeezing the brush) foreign analogues, as well as American ones.
Weapon
The latest military developments in Russia are also currently being actively pursued in this direction. This is a proven fact. The gunsmiths of Izhevsk began the development of small arms automatic weapons of the latest generation. It differs from the worldwide popular Kalashnikov system. 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, power departments 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 underway in this regard. Future small arms will be of a modular type. This will simplify the subsequent modernization and production. In this case, a scheme will be more often used in which the weapon magazine and the percussion 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 technology is involved. At the same time, Izhmash will not deny work on modernization of the AK 200th series of Izhmash, since the Russian special services are already interested in delivering this type of weapon. Currently, further military developments are being carried out in this direction.
Total
All of the above emphasizes the successful modernization of the weapons of the Russian Federation. The main thing is to keep up to date and not stop there, implementing the latest improvements in this area. Along with the foregoing, there are also secret military developments of Russia, but their publication is limited.