The Indian Navy's Vikrant aircraft carrier has passed mooring tests
The first aircraft carrier developed and built by the Indian defense industry, the Vikrant (IAC-1-Indigenous Aircraft Carrier), successfully completed mooring tests on November 30, 2020, which included checking the systems and equipment installed on Board.
The black sea fleet named the number of Russian squadrons in the Mediterranean sea
The Russian squadron in the Mediterranean sea has more than 10 ships, including the Admiral Essen frigate equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles and the Vyshny Volochyok small missile ship, the Russian black sea fleet said on Tuesday.
Progress in the production of marine gas turbine engines in Russia
As reported by the airport web resource.EN in the article by Oleg Panteleev, "Admirals waited for aggregates", the United engine Corporation of rostec state Corporation in November 2020 shipped the first serial diesel-gas turbine unit M55R with M90FR engines to PJSC Severnaya Verf Shipbuilding plant for the project 22350 Admiral Golovko frigate under construction.
Chubais: hydrogen export can become a global Russian-European project
The export of hydrogen, 5-7% of which can be added to natural gas transported through pipelines without negative technological effects, can become a global Russian-European project. This was announced on Tuesday by Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the management Board of RUSNANO management company, at the plenary session of the Russian-European climate conference.
US to add China's main SMIC chip foundry to blacklist
In an exclusive publication, Reuters claims that the trump administration is ready to add the leading Chinese chip manufacturer Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and the third-largest Chinese oil and gas company China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to the blacklist of companies associated with the Chinese military, according to US data. Inclusion in the list will restrict these companies ' access to American investments.
Development of army self-loading rifles is nearing completion
It became known that several sniper rifles are being developed as part of the actively ongoing development work "Ugolek".
One of the most famous is our SVD-self-loading Dragunov rifle. It became the most popular sniper rifle in the world, demonstrating its reliability and accuracy of combat at a distance of up to 500 meters. Although, as they say, its Creator did not consider the SVD a sniper weapon, but only a rapid-fire rifle with increased combat accuracy. But it is worth repeating, in all the armies of the world it has taken root as a sniper.
German special forces will switch to buggy SUVs
Ultralight tactical vehicles are finding more and more buyers in the world. Yesterday, November 30, portal armyrecognition.com reported that the German defense Ministry announced the signing of a contract for the supply of vehicles based on Polaris MRZR for special operations forces.
UN peacekeepers criticized Chinese VN-1 armored personnel carriers
The VN-1 armoured personnel carriers purchased by Gabon last year in China have demonstrated low technical reliability during operation.
It became known that these samples of equipment serving in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, constantly experience problems with the engines.
The first BMPT "Terminator" entered testing in the tank division in the Urals
the Personnel of the re-equipped motorized rifle divisions of the division are being retrained to work on new equipment, said Colonel-General Alexander Lapin
The first batch of eight tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator" entered the tests in the tank division of the Central military district (CVO), stationed in the Chelyabinsk region. This was reported to journalists by the commander of the district's troops, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.
Violation of the NPT: Russia urged the US not to place nuclear weapons in the allies
the Russian foreign Ministry demanded that NATO stop the practice of nuclear exchanges
Moscow reminded Washington of the provisions of the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, which, according to Russia, are violated by the American side by placing its nuclear weapons on the territories of US allies. Today, the issue of control over nuclear weapons is acute, given that the future of the start-3 Treaty is still unknown.
The group in the Kuril Islands is reinforced by a long-range air defense system
The Russian military has deployed the S-300V4 air defense system on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern military district (VVO) said on Tuesday.
Why "Voronezh" in the Arctic
The President of Russia highly appreciated the increased noise immunity of the SNF control points
Contradictions among a number of countries related to the development of the Arctic region and the limited reserves of hydrocarbons on the planet encourage us to consider the Arctic direction as a potential theater of military operations (theater of operations).
F-35 found in Russia
Over the past 12 months, means of the over-the-horizon detection radar (zgo) "Container", located in Mordovia, were detected" flights of inconspicuous fighters of NATO countries", reports"RTI". The latter include the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.
The developer spoke about the ability of the Container radar to detect " stealth"
The first over-the-horizon radar station "container", which took up combat duty in Mordovia a year ago, confirmed its ability to detect thousands of kilometers from the border of the Russian Federation NATO fighters created using technologies for reducing radar visibility ("stealth"), the press service of RTI JSC told RIA Novosti.
"Softly sat down": the Chinese have landed and are ready to drill
The Chinese Chang'e-5 probe landed gently on the surface of the moon
The Chinese Chang'e-5 spacecraft made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. In the near future, it will start drilling the ground to deliver samples to Earth. If everything goes smoothly, China will become the third country to deliver a piece of the moon to Earth.
The US is blocking Russia's road to deep space
The revolutionary project that is currently being developed in Russia has clearly got in the way of US space ambitions. At the very least, it is difficult to interpret the new anti-Russian sanctions that are being planned by the trump administration today in any other way. Why is the Russian "nuclear tug" so bothering America – and what antidote could be devised in response?
The Russian space Agency has created an audit team to monitor the construction at the Vostochny space centre
the group's Activities will exclude misuse of funds and acceptance of low-quality construction works
Roscosmos created a control and audit group to exclude misuse of funds and acceptance of low-quality work during the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS in the state Corporation.
French armed forces received the first a-330 MRTT "Phoenix"
The French air and space command announced the arrival on November 26 at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport of the first of three ordered a-330-200 Phoenix aircraft, painted in the colors of the French air force.
Rostec has increased the engine life for the Yak-130 four times
United engine Corporation Rostec has applied new materials and modern technologies to increase the engine life of the Yak-130 combat training aircraft.
Helicopters or "cornhusker": the US wanted to buy equipment from the Russian Federation
The Pentagon wants to buy A mi-24 helicopter and an-2 aircraft for training US instructors
The United States may purchase Russian helicopters or "cornhuskers" for familiarization in the flight stage of courses on tactics and weapons, according to media reports, citing the Pentagon. We are talking about the Mi-24 or Mi-17, as well as the An-2. In October, the US military also expressed interest in buying Russian weapons.