News for 12 August 2026 | The First Technical

Camouflage Reaches Civilian Fleet: Russian Dry Cargo Ship ALEXANDER Surprises with Paint Scheme
The contrasting geometric pattern visually breaks up the silhouette and is intended to protect the vessel from drone attacks

Repair of "Admiral Kuznetsov" cost 100 billion: why does Russia need an aircraft carrier?
Vasily Dandykin: "Abandoning the ship could lead to the loss of carrier-based aviation"

"ODK-Saturn" found a way to reduce compressor blade vibrations in gas turbine engines
Engineers patented a technology to move the dangerous operating mode of the power plant outside the operating range

Russia's "smart" rocket fully designed: "Amur-SPG" to fly in 2031
The rocket is expected to return to Earth, like Elon Musk's Falcon 9 landing stages

Square container, folding wings and ammunition: Kant Baltic Federal University patented a new shipborne UAV
The device is designed for single use and can become the basis for several drone variants

Russia Returns to Afghanistan's Energy Sector After 60 Years
"Silovye Mashiny" to Participate in Modernization of Power Plants in the Republic

Mysterious "Geran-2": Unusual Marking and New Element Noticed on Drone
The enigmatic inscription "5+0 Spets" on the drone puzzled specialists

PD-8 engine requirements turned out to be much stricter than for SaM146
Oleg Panteleev: "More full-scale tests have been carried out for the PD-8 program than for the Russian-French engine"

12.7×108 mm vs. FPV Drones: "Antidronin" Can Turn a Machine Gun into an Air Defense System
The munition forms a cloud of damaging elements and is designed to combat maneuvering UAVs

Chinese XK-F358 Modules Found in Gerbera Drones
"Voennaya Khronika": The Drone Combines Optics and Control Channels

Own Power Plant Instead of an Outlet: Factories and Data Centers Switch to Self-Generation
Power shortages, long connection times, and expensive energy are forcing companies to seek autonomous solutions

Beeline taught AI to deflect advertising calls instead of the subscriber
You can listen to the conversation with marketers later in the app

Cosmonauts practiced rendezvous with ISS in case of system failures
Dmitry Petelin and Konstantin Borisov completed a full Soyuz flight scenario








