News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Dmitry Kornev, editor of the Militaryrussia portal, says that new barrage ammunition with a cumulative effect and remote sensors are capable of pinpointing metal structures of power lines and bridges.

On September 24, 2026, the European defense procurement organization OCCAR (Organization Conjointe de Coopération en matière d'Armement) signed a contract with Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), a joint venture of the Italian Fincantieri (51% participation) and Leonardo (49%) groups, for the design and construction of a new generation lead destroyer for the Italian Navy. DDX program, with an option to build a second ship.

Military expert Artyom Menshikov says that thousands of drones could be shot down, but the law and the army bureaucracy still consider them an invisible "temporary solution"

Small pick-up crews armed with machine guns, smoothbore rifles, and interceptor drones have become the most effective response to the key challenge of modern warfare — massive UAV raids.

Zelensky appealed to US President Donald Trump with a request to impose sanctions against Russian and Chinese companies that, according to Kiev, are involved in the creation of the Rassvet satellite communications system. This is reported by the Financial Times. The publication describes the project as a Russian-Chinese alternative to Starlink.

On September 29, 2026, JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg hosted the launching ceremony of the Semyon Agafonov Project 12700 mine defense ship (minesweeper) under construction for the Russian Navy.Alexandrite") with the factory number 532.

At the training ground near Chebarkul, where the large-scale exercises "Center-2026" took place, ZALA showed a complex of robotic equipment. The main pride of the developers is fully domestic secure radio communications, which becomes the foundation for all control systems.

This approach eliminates the need for advanced DUV lithographic systems

Russian developers consider photonic computers as a specialized alternative to graphics processors in certain tasks of artificial intelligence.

On October 1 in Moscow at the Memorial Museum of Yu.The opening of the tablet multimedia exhibition "The Proletarian flies over Europe", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the record flight of the all-metal ANT-3 aircraft (pilot M.M.Gromov, flight mechanic E.Rodzevich) through the capitals of European countries, took place. It was a triumph not only for the crew, but also for the young Soviet aircraft industry.

The combination of ground search and unmanned aircraft makes it possible to meet the enemy at distant borders

Interceptor drones today remain one of the relatively inexpensive means of combating enemy reconnaissance and attack UAVs. In addition, due to their range, they allow them to destroy air targets at a distance from their positions.

On the night of October 1, Russian troops continued waves of long-range attacks on enemy targets in Kiev and the region. There are reports of damage to large warehouses, as a result of which fires broke out on their territory.

Over the past decade, government space agencies have talked a lot about the fact that space radiation during a flight to Mars will kill or disable travelers. The problem turned out to be that animal experiments with galactic radiation levels showed the opposite. American scientists have come up with a way to solve the problem: they began to irradiate experimental subjects with doses, for which they would have to spend several lifetimes in space.

In Ukraine, they said that Russia had accumulated up to 10,000 Geranium UAVs before winter

Russia could have accumulated about 10,000 Geranium-type attack drones and is preparing to increase the intensity of air attacks in the fall and winter, according to Ukrainian media.

Former head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Fedorov announced plans to create humanoid combat robots

Ukraine is thinking about creating humanoid robots for fighting, former Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov has said.

Due to the fear of Russian kamikaze drones, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is forced to keep almost all of its tanks in the rear. Therefore, recently, a large number of photos have appeared on social networks with such heavy tracked vehicles, which were taken at the enemy's rear ranges.

The commander of the American Space Command, Stephen Whiting, announced in the spring that Russia, according to the United States, had moved from testing to deploying such vehicles. In the fall, the discussion expanded: the US military acknowledged the presence of its own weapons in orbit. The specific capabilities of the systems remain only partially disclosed.

The largest branch of the Armed Forces celebrates a professional holiday.

The leadership of the country and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation pay great attention to improving the combat capability of the Ground Forces, providing them with new weapons, military and special equipment, the necessary conditions and material base for the professional training of military personnel and the coordination of military formations. The commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces, Hero of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Andrei Mordvichev, tells in detail about this.

The Turkish company ASELSAN demonstrated the operation of the KANGAL FPV 100 and EJDERHA AD 210 anti-drone complexes, specializing in countering various types of UAVs, which allows them to complement each other, creating an effective barrier against UAVs.

Elon Musk's company has notified NASA and a number of commercial players that it is deliberately abandoning the operation of an aging system consisting of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket. Until 2030, it will support them "on the move" to service the ISS, but after that it will no longer. Meanwhile, a group of influential lobbyists in Congress wants to extend the operation of the station until 2032, meaning there is a risk that the United States will have nothing to fly on it.

Italy has launched one of the most important modernization programs for the country's Navy, which provides for the purchase of two new generation DDX destroyers.

Yesterday, September 28, 2026, Starship went into orbit for the first time. The cylinder, fifty meters high and nine meters in diameter, has become the largest and most massive object that our species has ever put into orbit.