News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

France has announced the start of work on a promising strategic nuclear submarine. It is assumed that each such ship will be able to carry 16 ballistic missiles.

Firefly Aerospace, owned by Ukrainian entrepreneur Maxim Polyakov, is to launch the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) 2 research spacecraft from General Atomics in 2022.

Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them

The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).

According to Chinese military blogs on the social network Weibo, the Saudi King Abdulaziz Center for Science and Technology (KACST) presented at the IDEX-2021 defense exhibition in the UAE a large three-engine reconnaissance and strike UAV Al EQAB-1, which was developed jointly with the Chinese company Tengoen Technology.

State tests of 30-millimeter ammunition with remote detonation for combat vehicles supporting Terminator tanks will start in April 2021, the general director of the company developing these shells, NPO Pribor (part of the Techmash concern), told RIA Novosti.") Yuri Nabokov.

The Czechoslovak development of the ShKh vz. 77 Dana continues to transform into new versions of the ACS. On February 22, the Excalibur Army company introduced a new modification of the self-propelled artillery system called Dita.

According to the publication Aviation Week, the division of Lockheed Martin, responsible for secret development-Skunk Works, will soon begin testing a new classified aircraft called Speed Racer, the very existence of which is shrouded in a dense veil of secrecy.

The French company Conseil & Technique has presented a project to convert an Airbus A319 or A320 turbofan passenger aircraft into an electric airliner. According to Aviation Week, the project provides for the replacement of two aircraft engines located under the wing, one ring electric fan in the tail section.

Chief designer of the company Igor Zarakhovich said that Remdiesel is testing more than 10 modifications of the Typhoon-K armored car.]

JSC "Remdiesel" is testing more than 10 modifications of the armored car "Typhoon-K". This was stated in an interview with TASS on the eve of the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021, which will be held from February 21 to 25 in Abu Dhabi, said the chief designer of the enterprise Igor Zarakhovich.

Russia is ready to sell the latest Su-57E fighter to strategic partners, and consultations are already underway with individual countries, Rosoboronexport reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political analyst Andrey Koshkin expressed confidence that the car has a great export potential.

Russia is developing a hypersonic guided missile codenamed "Gremlin", Izvestia reported. According to the publication, development work started in November 2018. Tests of the rocket are scheduled for 2023, soon the creators will start testing the engine of the complex.

The machine gun, in particular, received a more ergonomic butt, a new fire control handle with a trigger guard, and changed sighting devices

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has carried out a deep modernization of the 5.45-mm AK-12 assault rifle. This was reported to TASS during the international arms exhibition IDEX-2021 in the press service of Kalashnikov.

Russia debuted in the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021 anti-aircraft missile and gun system (zrpk) "Pantsir-С1М", modified by the enterprises of the holding "Precision complexes" (included in "rostec") at the end of the combat use of the complex against terrorists in Syria, reported the press service of the Corporation. A number of countries are already interested in the new ZRPC.

Test active protection system (KAZ) tanks "arena-e", is able to reflect all the tank hazardous munitions, including the U.S. Javelin anti-tank missiles will be completed soon, said on Sunday, RIA Novosti General Director - chief designer of the Ural design Bureau of transport machine-building (UKBTM, part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod") Andrey Terlikov.

Tests of the latest T-14 Armata tank with ammunition from Rosatom specialists began in Kubinka. And that's a good sign.

At the IDEX-2021 exhibition, the T-14 Armata tank is being presented for the first time outside of Russia. Attention to this presentation is hyped.

Rosatom State Corporation is working on a standard ammunition for the T-14 Armata tank. - The projectile will be ready by the time the installation batch of tanks is delivered to the Russian Armed Forces at the end of 2021,-said Andrey Terlikov, general designer of the vehicle developer, the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering, at the IDEX 2021 exhibition in Abu Dhabi. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

As reported by the Tatar-Inform news agency on February 20, 2021, the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, which has production in Kazan, signed a State Contract for the supply to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of an installation batch of heavy unmanned aerial vehicles of long flight duration "Altius-RU". This is reported in the materials of the meeting of the board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan.

One of the Russian medium-altitude strike drones of long flight duration "Orion" made 38 sorties in Syria, including 17 with strikes on terrorist targets, according to the story of the program "Vesti Nedeli" of the TV channel "Russia 1", dedicated to unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Federation.

The Russian heavy attack drone S-70 "Hunter" is capable of hitting targets on command from the Su-57 fighter, said test pilot Yevgeny Frolov, who controls the "Hunter"from the ground.

Industrial Director of the Rostec weapons complex Bekhan Ozdoev-about the future of combat drones, the prospects of Armata and the latest Kalashnikov assault rifles

The past year 2020 has also been a difficult one for the Russian military-industrial complex. Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the armament complex of the Rostec State Corporation, told Izvestia about how the coronavirus epidemic affected the implementation of international contracts and state defense orders, whether Armata will become unmanned and when domestic kamikaze attack drones will appear.