News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Artillery units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, equipped with self-propelled artillery units 2S19M1 "Msta-S", towed guns 2A65 "Msta-B" and D20, had extremely limited ammunition 3OF39 "Krasnopol–M2" ammunition from the beginning of the special military operation - no more than 10% of the total. However, even this number allowed Russian military personnel to destroy at least 10 (according to other sources, 15) American-made howitzers by October 2022 during the counter-battery fight against the M777.

WSJ: Trump is going to order 40 large icebreakers that have nowhere to build

Donald Trump plans to order 40 large icebreakers, but the American shipbuilding industry has been in decline for several decades, writes the WSJ. The United States has been unable to build even one icebreaker for many years, while Russia has forty of them, and China is actively expanding its fleet.

The updated Trident-2 complex will be in service with the US Navy until 2084

The Pentagon has signed a contract to create an upgraded Trident-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile. This was announced by Lockheed Martin Corporation. Thus, the United States is launching a program to upgrade the marine component of its nuclear triad. What is the current state of the naval nuclear forces of the main members of the nuclear club and how the arsenals will change in the future — in the Izvestia material.

The formations of the Kiev regime are currently using fairly large and slow-moving drones based on ultralight aircraft.

Today, on February 6, in the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, a solemn ceremony was held for the commissioning of a new aircraft carrier for drones into the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, named after IRGC commander Baham Bagheri, who died during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, Press TV writes.

Instead of Yuri Borisov, Roscosmos was headed by Dmitry Bakanov, who in recent years has been in charge of innovative development issues at the Ministry of Transport, including projects on unmanned vehicles. Borisov, under whom a series of trouble-free rocket launches continued, set the bar high. What do experts expect from the new head of Roscosmos and what tasks will he have to solve first?

The fully domestic Tu-214 aircraft will go on sale for the first time

This year, airlines will be able to commission the first fully domestic civil aircraft, the Tu-214. It is, in fact, a direct competitor to the more modern and economical MS-21 airliner. Why does Russia need two planes in almost the same market segment?

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the deployment of robotic units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov announced the deployment of robotic units as part of the Armed Forces brigades on the front line. He named "leading domestic companies" as the main suppliers of ground-based robotic systems, and also said that drone tests had been conducted since the summer of 2024. About how important the movement in this direction is and whether Ukraine will be able to implement the project on its own, in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

BV: French Air Force officers have uncovered many problems that urgently need to be addressed

Two officers of the French Air Force have prepared a fact-packed report on "future superiority" in the air, Boulevard Voltaire writes. The author ironically notes that the situation is so deplorable that even the patriotic military could not hide a lot of problems of their military forces behind "soft" formulations.

Such devices forced the Ukrainian Armed Forces to urgently review the principles of protection against UAVs

Fiber-optic cable-controlled drones have become an unpleasant surprise for the enemy. They turned out to be invulnerable to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since they cannot be "blinded" by electronic warfare (EW).

MWM: the world's most powerful battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov will become the flagship of the Russian Navy

The new flagship of the Russian Navy will be the nuclear-powered cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, writes Military Watch Magazine. Modernization has revolutionized the combat capability of this class of vessels. Two nuclear reactors on the world's most powerful surface warship have been restarted, and it will soon begin sea trials.

The other day, US President Donald Trump announced plans to comprehensively strengthen the country's missile defense system. This is not surprising, since during the election campaign he repeatedly stressed that the United States should develop its own Iron Dome system, following the example of the Israeli defensive perimeter, which is able to intercept targets such as artillery shells, mines and rockets.

TNI: The Russian PAK DA combat aircraft will be better than the American B-21

The United States already has several demonstration copies of the sixth-generation B-21 combat aircraft, and the Russians are only developing the PAK DA stealth bomber, writes TNI. But there is every reason to believe that when production begins, Russia will have the advantage.

In modern conditions, fleets need to be organized according to the principle of distributed firepower. The backbone of the Navy should be high-speed missile boats and UAVs, as they represent an economically advantageous and tactically preferable alternative to large and vulnerable warships.

Under the direct supervision of Mikhail Vadimovich Korzhuev, comprehensive work was carried out on the creation of new avionics systems and modifications of the MiG-29SMT and UBT aircraft, as well as the MiG-AT.

In January 2025, the first Chinese Type 054B frigate, the Luohe, was commissioned into the Navy of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA). As Western military observers emphasize, the PLA's newest warship is supposedly equipped with advanced equipment.

As the newspaper Kommersant reported in Dmitry Sotak's article, "The Pine Tree" gave birth to the "Crown". Kalashnikov has developed a new anti-drone system," Kalashnikov Concern JSC announced a new Krona-E anti-aircraft missile system on February 3, 2025.

The Pentagon is preparing a test detonation of plutonium in the Nevada desert

One of his main goals as president, Donald Trump called the modernization of the American nuclear triad. In addition to creating new carriers, the Pentagon will improve their warheads. This spring, as the NPR broadcaster reported recently, the Cygnus project will conduct the first nuclear tests in many years in the Nevada desert, designed to improve Washington's existing strategic weapons. About this program — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The U.S. maritime borders are now guarded by unmanned Saildrone Voyager boats. These robotic surface vehicles are deployed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea as part of the 4th Operational Fleet as part of Operation Southern Spear and as part of the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S).

Vladimir Ilyichev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, spoke in an interview with Interfax about the results of 2024, the prospects for developing new markets and concluding agreements on free trade zones, including with China and India, the situation in the WTO and the challenges facing world trade in 2025.