The 14th international air-space defense exhibition ADEX-2023 opened on Tuesday, October 17, in Seoul, where various defense equipment produced by the South Korean military industry were revealed.
The exhibition paid great attention to armored vehicles. The engineers presented a model of the future basic battle tank, which was called “K3”.
It is noteworthy that the K3 is an armored combat vehicle with a weight of 55 tons and a crew of two or three individuals distributed in a protected capsule. The tank's suspension devices will be active and the tracks will be rubber.
The K3 can be transformed into an unmanned tank if necessary. Its electric motor will run on hydrogen. To ensure that the tank is protected from targeting, it will be equipped with ceramic armor and dynamic protection devices that hit bombs, missiles and missiles that try to approach it. Measures will be taken aimed at increasing the tank's radar and thermal stealth capabilities.
The tank's firepower is ensured by the presence of a 130 mm cannon, remote-controlled weapons, intelligent driving and information systems, as well as the use of drones.
The length of the tank is 10.8 meters, its width is 3.6 meters, and its height is 2.4 meters.
It is noteworthy that the K3 tank model is very expensive, and experts doubt that the K3 will one day become a real tank.
Russia is developing new ground stations to control its promising satellites
The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that it will operate new ground stations to control the promising satellites that it will launch within the framework of the Sphere project.
A statement issued by the agency’s press service said: “Specialists from the Reshetnyov company, affiliated with Roscosmos, have developed ground stations that will be used to communicate with the Skif satellites that we will launch within the framework of the Sphere project.”
The statement indicated that the new ground stations will be deployed in Murmansk, Norilsk, and Anadyr, and each station will be equipped with 4 antennas to receive and transmit data.
Russia had previously announced that the Sphere satellite system will include 7 Express satellites, 4 new Express-RV satellites, 12 Skif satellites dedicated to securing wide-area Internet networks, 264 Marathon satellites dedicated to the Internet of Things, in addition to two Yamal communications satellites. , 3 Smotr Earth remote sensing satellites, 84 Berkut-O and Berkut-VD satellites, and 12 Berkut-X and Berkut-XLP satellites.
As for the Skif satellites, several models of which Russia is developing, they will be used to provide communications and Internet services to Earth. The first Skif satellite was launched with 3 other Gonets-M satellites last October aboard a Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome.