News of new developments in the military-industrial complex

Adopted 40 years ago, the 120-mm mortar "Sani"is still too early to retire: after modernization, increased mobility and accuracy of fire. The mortar with a rate of fire of up to 15 rounds per minute proved to be indispensable in the mountains and passed combat testing in Syria.

The start of testing of the prototype of the domestic light aircraft "Baikal" is scheduled for the end of 2021. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

At the request of the French Navy, the companies Naval Group and Airbus Helicopters have expanded the range of flight modes of the VSR700 helicopter-type unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrator during recent tests.

Europeans and Americans have announced plans to create an Interstellar probe that should reach interstellar space, 149 billion kilometers away from Earth. To begin with, the project will need to get NASA approval.

As the practice of many modern local conflicts has shown, even the simplest civilian drones equipped with improvised explosive devices can become an effective weapon in the right hands – which, by the way, is not so easy to resist.

Combat crews of the air and missile defense forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces have successfully launched a new missile of the Russian missile defense system (ABM). This happened at the Sary-Shagan test site in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Zvezda TV channel showed footage of the test launch of a new missile of the Russian missile defense system.

China has decided to conduct a lunar mission "Chang'e-6" in 2024. This will be the second Chinese return mission to a satellite of our planet.

In Russia, the combat robot "Udar", created on the basis of the BMP-3, is being tested.

During the tests, the issues of its interaction with other promising unmanned ground complexes "Uranus", "Nerekhta" and "Soratnik", as well as aerial drones, are being worked out.

In Serbia, they worked on their own new-generation tank, which received the preliminary designation M-20UP1. Information about this was announced in the summer of 2015.

At the same time, several images of a promising machine were made public, which outwardly very much resembled the T-14 on the heavy unified Armata platform.

The program for creating a Russian-Chinese station on an Earth satellite involves three main stages. The implementation of the first of them should begin this year.

Specialists of the Research Center at the state aerospace company China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) have developed an exoskeleton for firefighters involved in extinguishing forest fires.

The first navigation spacecraft of the new generation, Glonass-K2, will be launched into orbit at the end of 2021. This is reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the company "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolai Testoedov.

Recently, it has become fashionable for many weapons manufacturers to show footage of the destruction of Soviet or Russian-made weapons.

The exhibition of radar weapons systems, organized by the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA), China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) and China Electronics Corporation (CEC), opened in Nanjing.

To create the station, China plans to carry out 11 launches in the next two years

The heavy launch vehicle "Changzheng 5B" (CZ-5B) for the launch of the main module of the Chinese space station on Friday was sent to the launch pad of the Wenchang cosmodrome, located on the northeast coast of Hainan Island. This was reported by the newspaper "Chinese Cosmonautics".

The aircraft missile "Armored truck" will be delivered to the troops after 2023. This is due to the time of formation of the plans of the Russian Ministry of Defense for procurement and the technological cycle of missile production.

The head of Roscosmos previously reported that RSC Energia set the task of ensuring the readiness of the first base module for the new Russian space station in 2025

The new manned spacecraft with the crew "Eagle" can fly in 2025 not to the International Space Station (ISS), but to the Russian station, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Friday.

[b]Russia will use it simultaneously with the ISS, Roscosmos Executive Director for Advanced Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko said.]

Russia will simultaneously use the International Space Station (ISS) and the new space station for several years. This was reported to journalists on Friday by the executive director of Roscosmos for advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

Frigates of the project 22350 will become the first full-time carriers of hypersonic weapons, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Friday, April 23.