News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

And how the latest weapons system can protect Russia's western borders

This week, the calculations of the Iskander-M tactical missile systems (OTRK) from Belarus went to Russia for training.

The lead attack submarine in the series, USS Virginia (SSN 774) of the Virginia Block 1 class, leaves the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Portsmouth in New Hampshire, not to be confused with the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Virginia) for sea trials after maintenance and dry dock work, which began on November 18, 2018.

BAE Systems has announced an official ceremony held on April 4 at BAE Systems Govan in Glasgow to mark the start of construction of the Birmingham Type-26 (City) class frigate.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu got acquainted with new developments in the field of armored vehicles at the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the military department reported on Thursday.

Two senior U.S. Navy officials have announced that they will expand the Marine Service's experiments with drones and unmanned ships in South America in the coming months. It is claimed that the primary goal is to help sailors in the fight against drug trafficking

Western observers believe that Russia is facing an increasing shortage of ammunition and wonder when this shortage will lead to a sharp reduction in artillery activity.

Americans avoid contact combat

The US missile program began to develop very rapidly after World War II as a result of the seizure by the Americans of a group of German designers led by Werner von Braun and samples of the V-1 and V-2 missiles they created.

The businessman prefers to deal with the United States Department of Defense

On the morning of April 2, the Falcon-9 launch vehicle (PH) put ten spacecraft (spacecraft) assembled by order of the US Space Forces into a near-Earth orbit with a height of 1 thousand km at once.

The topic of providing the active army was discussed at the level of the head of the Government of the Russian Federation

The last week of the first month of spring was remembered for a number of events with the participation of high-ranking officials of the rank of Prime Minister and heads of ministries, where they discussed comprehensive provision of the needs of the current Russian army and related topics in the context of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine.

The Turkish authorities, while continuing to rely on the technological assistance of the United States in the modernization of the fighter fleet, did not sit idly by, developing their own industrial competencies.

The Vietnamese leadership is gradually modernizing the country's armed forces, which continue to mainly use Soviet heritage and American trophies.

Russia has started mass–producing the only fully domestic mainline aircraft for today - the Tu-214. This is a much more morally and technically outdated aircraft model than its direct competitor, the MS-21. However, in the next ten years, this liner will be very relevant. Why does Russia need the Tu-214?

As reported by the Center. Khrunicheva, the introduction of the Logos system will also reduce the number of improvements at the early stages of design

The production of Russian rockets may become cheaper in the case of a comprehensive transition of the Khrunichev Center (Roscosmos enterprise), the manufacturer of Proton and Angara launch vehicles, to the domestic Logos virtual modeling system. Vladimir Afanasyev, Deputy General Director of the company for Digital Transformation, told reporters about this on Tuesday.

Welt: the Englishman named the reasons for the inevitable defeat of the Ukrainian army

The former colonel of the British army worried the German edition of Welt. He has been working with the APU as an adviser for many years and found there all those shortcomings that the Soviet army was often accused of and that are allegedly absent in the West. The formula "I am the boss, and you are a fool" has survived all the perestroika and Maidan.

The Ministry of Defense showed the training of drone operators before participating in a special operation

The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of training sessions for operators of multifunctional drones-quadrocopters of the Western Military District before performing combat missions in the zone of a special military operation.

Russian military equipment used during a special military operation receives additional protection. This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".

Rostec: the Arena-M tank active protection complex was tested with captured ATGMs

The modernized Russian active protection complex (KAZ) "Arena-M" was tested as part of the T-72 tank with foreign anti-tank missile systems (ATGMs), RIA Novosti was informed in the holding "High-Precision Complexes" (part of Rostec).

Spain's NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) will arrive in Estonia on Wednesday, which will go on combat duty this week.

India will soon test the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system purchased in Russia. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported by the Ani agency, citing a high-ranking source in the country's Defense Ministry.

The Budget Committee of the German Parliament approved the purchase of 227 articulated armored tracked all-terrain vehicles BvS10 Mk.2B for the Bundeswehr.