State regulation and financing news

[b]An innovative scheme for providing troops during the transition from peacetime to wartime has been developed, said Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova.]

The new system of financing the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in wartime will be developed for the first time during the joint Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021", which will be held on the territory of the two countries in September. This was reported to journalists by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Tatyana Shevtsova during a working trip to Belarus.

Enterprises of the military-industrial complex can use a tool that is gaining popularity among state - owned companies to attract financing in the market-perpetual bonds, joining borrowers such as Gazprom and Russian Railways.

The Japanese government has considered abandoning the missiles of the American company Lockheed Martin, according to the local newspaper Mainichi. The new shells require the modernization of the F-15 fighters. However, the cost of updating is not included in the budget for 2021. The Japanese are in no hurry to allocate an extra $2.2 billion for aircraft. The rise in price is caused by a shortage of necessary components, the Izvestia TV channel reports. If you can't agree on a discount, the missiles can be abandoned.

Soviet military aircraft are living out their last years in Ukraine. Another confirmation of this was the proposal to equip the Air Force of this country with F-16 fighters. What are the chances that Ukrainian pilots will fly in American cars, what price will Ukraine have to pay for this decision – and what threat will these cars pose to Russia?

The concept of "official secret" in the field of defense is now fixed at the legislative level - in the Law "On Defense". Official secrets will include information about any activity in the defense sector that is not classified as a state secret, but is not publicly available.

In particular, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation inspected the final assembly shops of the NK-32 engines of the second series for the Tu-160 "White Swan" bombers and the deeply modernized Tu-160M

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev visited the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) and the UEC-Kuznetsov in Samara.

The cost of ship production increased by 25% against the background of rising metal prices, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said during a working trip to the Primorsky Territory, where he visited ship and aircraft factories.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the second document that will be sent to the government will be a version of the lunar program using a four-launch flight scheme on the Angara launch vehicle.

The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) will receive four Su-57 fighter jets this year. This was reported to journalists by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who oversees the military-industrial complex in the government of the Russian Federation.

In order to ensure advanced training of specialists, modern models of weapons and military equipment are delivered to the universities of the Land Forces as a matter of priority.

Intensive flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces and naval aviation near Alaska are ruining American combat aviation. To counter it, it is necessary to constantly maintain F-22 Raptor fighters in combat readiness and send them into the sky for a long time, which costs the US Air Force very expensive, the US military complained.

The Indian Navy is changing its plans because of Chinese naval ambitions.

The Cabinet of Ministers of India is considering changes to the thirty-year plan (until 2030) of the Indian Navy on the number and composition of the submarine fleet, Warspot reports with reference to the portal indiatimes.com.

The program of the global satellite constellation "Sphere "will be submitted to the government for consideration in June, said Yuri Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill that introduces additional grounds for refusing to issue licenses for the purchase of weapons. In particular, one of the amendments increases the age of purchase of hunting weapons from 18 to 21 years.

The Italian Defense Ministry's Office of Naval Weapons (NAVARM) has signed a contract with the Genoa – based T. Mariotti shipyard for the supply of a new multi-purpose submarine rescue vessel (type SDO-SuRS).

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has issued an internal directive regarding the strategy and tasks in the field of countering China, which the United States considers its main strategic rival, according to Western media.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited the Smolino test site in the Nizhny Novgorod Region during a working trip, where he checked the progress of the state defense order.

The experimental and industrial batch of armored vehicles on the Armata platform, which Uralvagonzavod (UVZ, Rostec) is preparing to transfer to the military, will be significant, the head of the concern, Alexander Potapov, told Interfax on Thursday.

As the Vedomosti newspaper reported in the article by Alexey Nikolsky, "Former top managers of the Zvezda defense enterprise were detained in St. Petersburg. The criminal case against them may be related to disruptions of import substitution."

Irkut Corporation plans to deliver 1099 domestic MC-21, Superjet and IL-114-300 aircraft by 2035. To do this, the aircraft manufacturer will need funding in the amount of 4.15 trillion rubles. This was announced on June 10 by Kirill Budaev, Vice President, Head of Marketing and Sales of Civil Aircraft of the corporation, at the international conference "Aviation Finance and Leasing in Russia and the CIS".