News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

New horizons of X-35U anti-ship missiles

The range of these products is about 180-250 km when launched from medium and high altitudes and a high-altitude flight profile in the rarefied layers of the stratosphere in the altitude range of 15-17 km.

The Russian armored car AMN -590911 "Spartak", having received a 57-mm automatic cannon, can now destroy an enemy located at a distance of 7000 meters.

On August 29, the Polish company PZL Mielec demonstrated the first part of the fuselage of the F-16 fighter released by it – one of the elements of the rear part of the aircraft body.

Despite the debate in parliament, the British command defended the need for further reduction in the size of the army.

Ukraine is working on modifications of subsonic cruise missiles "Neptune", which can be used to strike Moscow and other targets in Russia. This was reported to the American edition of The Drive on condition of anonymity by a Ukrainian official.

Western resources monitoring the state of the Chinese fleet report on the launching of the new Type 052DL destroyer, which is being built at the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry shipyard, on August 30, 2023.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the military-technical forum "Army-2023" signed a state contract for the supply of the latest self-propelled artillery units (ACS) 2C43 "Malva" on a wheeled chassis to the Russian armed forces. In the same place, in Kubinka near Moscow, the novelty itself was presented at the exposition of promising weapons samples. About the ACS, unique for the Russian army, in the material of TASS.

The oceanographic research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", built in the interests of the Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research (GUGI) of the Ministry of Defense, became part of the Russian Navy. The ceremony was held at the Baltic Shipbuilding plant "Yantar". This was reported by the USC press service.

On the eve of the HeliRussia-2023 exhibition, UEC-Klimov JSC held a regular conference of the General Designer of the enterprise Vsevolod Eliseev. The purpose of the annual event is to communicate with the operators of aircraft on which Klimov engines are installed.

The ongoing war in Ukraine has led to some technological innovations in the field of combat control systems (SBU) on the part of the country's defense industry. In particular, the competence of Ukrainian programmers allowed us to create a technological product for tablets and smartphones called "Nettle".

In the future, the Navy will become an integral part of the country's nuclear forces

The leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, said that currently the policy of the United States and its allies, which are building up military forces and means in the area of the Korean peninsula, has turned the region into the most unstable in the world and put it on the brink of nuclear war.

The other day there was another crash of a V-22 Osprey tiltrotor during a training mission in northern Australia. Three Marines were killed, five were seriously injured. A year ago there was a similar incident.

The Malachite Design Bureau, which is developing the new P-750B Serval submarine, modified it to accommodate minisubmarines inside the hull, and also proposed a number of other solutions related to equipping a submarine with a VNEU.

The prototype of the Russian short-haul aircraft SJ-100, manufactured by the Production Center of PJSC Yakovlev of the United Aircraft Corporation in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, made its first flight. During the tests, the stable operation of all domestic systems, controllability and stability of the aircraft in the air were confirmed.

The Western press drew attention to the tests of the active protection complex "Afganit" installed on the T-14 tank, concluding that the ongoing improvement of the latest Russian OBT.

As reported in Kiev, the government has already signed contracts for $688 million out of $1.09 billion allocated for the purchase of drones

The Ukrainian authorities plan to organize the production or purchase up to 200 thousand unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of different models this year. This was stated by the head of the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine Yuriy Shchigol.

An anthropologist specialist told when people will become half computers and will be able to give birth to "designer" children

Over the next 200 years, the development of technology may lead to the emergence of organisms whose sensory organs will be replaced by technical devices.

The PLA conducted naval strike and air combat exercises in the Southern Theater with the participation of recently improved fighters operating from an unnamed island airfield.

The Vikram lander measured the temperature in the circumpolar region of Selenium and found out that the soil at the surface there is significantly hotter than scientists previously thought.

Engineering troops use a wide range of heavy equipment. Some of the engineering machines are similar to their civilian counterparts, while others are unique developments created specifically for engineering tasks. One of such special means is engineering barrier vehicles (IMR), which are among the first to go forward in combat conditions, paving the way for the rest of the equipment.