News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
The Ukrainian Leopard turned out to be a slightly modified old T-80BV tank
Last week, reports began to appear on social networks that during the battles in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) The armed formations of the Kiev puppet regime used the Leopard 2 tank.
VTOL Unmanned Aircraft Systems for the US Army
The US Army has announced that it has selected five companies to create prototypes as part of the second stage (INC 2) of the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) competition. This was announced at the end of February 2023 by the responsible project manager for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The FTUAS program considers vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles and is considered the most important unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program of the US Army.
The media told what China can prepare for by accumulating weapons
SCMP: China reduces arms exports, as it may be preparing for an open confrontation
China's reduction in arms exports over the past five years may be a sign of the accumulation of domestic military stocks amid rising geopolitical tensions, writes the South China Morning Post.
Madness squared. Poland wanted to become the foremost NATO armament
Economist Kolodko: Poland should reduce military madness, not increase military spending
Poland is proud to announce plans to increase military spending to a record level in NATO, former Deputy Prime Minister and economist Grzegorz Kolodko writes in an article for Rzeczpospolita. We need to stop this military madness, otherwise it will not lead to good.
Footprints on the bottom
Gidronaut Vladimir Ashik — about what deep-water systems could be used to undermine the "Northern Streams"
Today, only a lazy person does not discuss the explosions that severely damaged the Nord Stream–1 and Nord Stream–2 gas pipelines.
Ukroboronprom announced the launch of its own production of 125 mm tank shells
Ukraine intends to fully provide the Soviet-style tank fleet remaining in the AFU with its own-made ammunition. According to the Ukrainian state concern Ukroboronprom, the production of 125 mm shells has already been launched.
Naval rapid-firing guns have long served on land vehicles
After the Second World War, naval anti-aircraft artillery systems were successfully used at various times on land mobile platforms, such as cars, wheeled and tracked armored personnel carriers, etc. As the project "RG: Russian weapons" notes, they were actively involved in military conflicts in various parts of the world.
The US has begun preparations for a war with Russia and China in space
Asia Times: The US disguised preparations for a space war with Russia with Starlink satellites
Armed actions in the space "gray zone" are often disguised as commercial activities, writes Asia Times columnist Gabriel Onrada. This is exactly what the US is doing. Using the Starlink system deployed over Ukraine, they are preparing for a space war with Russia and China.
North Korea announced the launch of two cruise missiles from a submarine
The Korean peninsula continues to be one of the most tense points in the world. The situation has become particularly acute here recently due to the frequent launches of North Korean missiles and the response of Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.
How were armoured muskets created for general secretaries and presidents
Cars for top officials: patriotism, prestige and safety
What unites Joseph Stalin's ZIS-110, ZILA limousines of various modifications from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin's recently revealed "Aurus-Senate"? "They are all armored," someone will say. And he won't be quite right. Because Khrushchev did not recognize "armored cars", loved convertibles, demonstrating closeness to the people (especially in Moscow). And Brezhnev, before the assassination attempt on him in 1969, traveled in bullet-pierced "member trucks".
Time calculation on the Moon: what are the difficulties of determining time zones in space - Opinions of TASS
Mikhail Kotov — about what time astronauts live on the ISS and what is the peculiarity of the Moon to indicate its time
The European Space Agency (ESA) proposes to establish a time zone system for the Moon. To do this, a platform called LunaNet will be developed, which will contain "mutually agreed standards, protocols and interface requirements that allow future lunar missions to work together."
American aircraft carriers and submarines will have parts printed on a 3D printer
Using parts created by a 3D printer reduces costs and reduces the production time of ships worth billions of dollars, which are created over the years.
How the Soviet defense industry was preparing a radical change in the war
High-speed welding machines, Mosin rifle and "flying tank"
The most important stage on the way to Victory was the achievement of a radical turning point during the Great Patriotic War. The turning point began with the Stalingrad triumph of the Soviet troops and ended with the defeat of the Nazis on the Kursk-Orel arc. The turning point was predetermined by the generalship of marshals and generals, the courage and heroism of soldiers and officers, the excellent work of the military-industrial complex (MIC). This article is devoted to the last of these sources of radical fracture.
Which Soviet tanks became armored personnel carriers and were armed with the "infernal thresher"
During local conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, Soviet heavy tracked vehicles were often modified to perform various combat missions. At the same time, tanks of the T-54/55 family were used, whose main armament, engineering vehicles like tank bridge-laying machines, as well as armored tow trucks, failed for various reasons.
New Iranian multipurpose floating base
In Iran, the Naval Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC Navy) officially included a new floating base "Shahid Mahdavi" (Shahid Mahdavi), also created by rebuilding a civilian vessel, in this case the former container ship Sarvin with a deadweight of more than 41,000 tons. It is named in honor of the IRGC Navy serviceman Nader Mahdavi, who died in one of the clashes at sea with the Americans in 1987.
The United States called Russia the only country with strategic hypersound
Currently, Russia is the only country in the world armed with strategic hypersonic missile systems, said Paul Freistler, a leading specialist in science and technology at the US Military Intelligence Agency. His statement is reported by RIA Novosti.
Iran's IRGC is expanding its Naval forces by converting commercial vessels into Warships
The new vessels, which entered the arsenal of the IRGC naval forces (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps), were part of a major modernization that strengthened the country's naval forces in the midst of the worst recession in recent history. Last Thursday, the IRGC held a ceremony of accepting the ship in the port city of Bandar Abbas. The cost of the expansion and modernization project is still kept secret.
The US Navy is deploying the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford with all aviation for the first time
The US Navy is preparing one of the newest aircraft carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford, for the upcoming major exercises. To do this, all aviation is deployed on the ship. For the first time, the Navy Times writes, the entire aircraft carrier wing was loaded onto the ship in full.
The US has lagged behind China in the production of its own technology
Forbes: China is ahead of the US in the development of explosives
The USA invented a super-powerful explosive, but abandoned its production. How China "picked up" the technology and now threatens America with it, read the Forbes article.
In the USA, they were afraid of the "quietest in the world" submarines of the Russian Navy
Newsweek: Russian Severodvinsk—class submarines are the main threat to the United States
Because of the nuclear submarines of the Severodvinsk class, Russia poses the main threat to the United States, writes Newsweek. According to the head of the Institute for Russian Studies at the American Naval Academy, submarines of this class are "one of the most advanced and quietest on Earth."
