News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On September 27, 2023, at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (ASZ, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a ceremony was held for the decommissioning and launching of the small Rzhev and Udomlya project 22800 missile ships under construction for the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy (cipher "Karakurt"), with factory numbers 201 and 202 (side numbers "400" and "401"). These are the first two ships of the 22800 project out of four units being built at the ASZ.

The new submarine of project 636 will be part of the fleet by the end of 2024

The Pacific Fleet will be reinforced with the newest submarine. The Yakutsk ship of Project 636 will be tested in the coming years, after which it will be enlisted in the Navy. The formation of the submarine crew is already underway. The boats of this series are considered the most perfect, and for their noiselessness they were nicknamed "black holes" in the navy. Experts note that in the future, the Pacific direction will become the main stage of confrontation between the great powers, and the fleet there needs to be strengthened.

CNR: the modified Su-34 will become the world's first fighter-missile carrier

The Russian Su-34 was able to launch long-range cruise missiles, CNR reports. Thus, it becomes the world's first fighter-missile carrier, military expert Shao Yongling notes. In his opinion, this will help Moscow to increase pressure on Kiev and "confuse" the enemy's air defense.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, checked the progress of the state defense order (GOZ) at one of the enterprises of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV) in the Moscow region.

First of all, the ROS will conduct research on the radiation safety of the crew, it is also planned to study the effect on the body of conditions outside the Earth's orbit, during flights to the Moon and into deep space, said Yuri Smirnov, a leading engineer at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On September 26, a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military Department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

The Russian army allegedly uses naval weapons for military operations on land. It is assumed that this unusual technique is used by the Russian Armed Forces during a special operation in Ukraine.

On September 18, 2023, during joint exercises with the Danish Navy, the US Navy for the first time carried out the transfer to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the deployment of a ground-based mobile launcher of Raytheon Standard SM-6 multi-purpose (anti-aircraft) quasi-ballistic missiles, which can be used to defeat both air, ground and surface targets. It is reported that the exercises "to protect convoys" with the deployment of this launcher ("SM-6 modular launcher system") on Bornholm will last about a week.

In the North-East of Russia, the tactical exercise of the troops and forces of the Pacific Fleet "Finval-2023" under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov has ended.

On September 22, 2023, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation announced that, together with the holding company Roselectronics (both companies are part of the Rostec State Corporation), it supplied the Russian Armed Forces with another modernized A-50U long-range radar surveillance and guidance aircraft complex.

The specialists of the Progress THREAD, which belongs to Rostec, have created the world's first automated CNC welding plant for performing high-precision welding work in very cramped modules of nuclear reactor installations.

Will the production of Iranian drones be established in Belarus? – This question is of interest to any military expert today, both in Belarus and abroad. Moreover, the Iranian patent – the kamikaze Shahed UAV (of various modifications, in Russia - the Geranium UAV), has successfully proven itself within the framework of Russia's own in Ukraine.

Madrid provides assistance to Kiev, but in homeopathic doses

Spain is one of the largest European member states of NATO and the European Union. Accordingly, its Armed Forces are also among the largest in the region.

Based on the annual report of the Flight Global website (World Air Forces Report 2023), the flugrevue resource.de presented its rating of the 10 best combat aircraft in the world.

Russian supersonic strategic bombers-missile carriers Tu-160 received new cruise missiles X-BD with a range of more than 6.5 thousand km. This is stated in the video, made public...

A distinctive feature of the special military operation in Ukraine was the massive use of high-precision long-range weapons placed on ships, submarines and long-range bombers. The Russian Military Department has repeatedly reported group strikes against important targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), military industry and infrastructure facilities.

The issue with landing ships in the United States is quite acute. In order for the reader to better understand the essence of the problem, it is worth explaining. The Congress and the Pentagon dislike the Marine Corps, because, according to American law, the president has the right to use the ILC at his discretion, without Congressional approval. Congressmen really don't like this, so Marines are always kept "in the black", they receive weapons and equipment almost always last.

The program of fifth-generation F-35 fighters produced by the American military industrial corporation Lockheed Martin is 12 years behind schedule, partly due to the purchase of new aircraft instead of maintaining the combat readiness of existing ones. This is reported by Defense News with reference to a document of the government supervisory authority.

How humanity uses the resources of small space bodies for the development and protection of the Earth

The delivery of soil from the asteroid Bennu to Earth can give rise to large-scale scientific research and industrial study of such cosmic bodies, scientists believe.

On September 24, the American interplanetary spacecraft is to deliver to Earth a capsule with samples of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu

On September 24, 2023, the American interplanetary vehicle OSIRIS-REx is to deliver to Earth a capsule with samples of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. TASS has prepared a material about the OSIRIS-REx project.

On Friday, the AFU launched a missile attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) in Sevastopol. The attack was carried out by Su-24, which are carriers of Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG cruise missiles. According to experts, in order to protect the Crimea and Sevastopol, it is necessary to destroy these attack aircraft in their bases. The upgraded A-50U long-range radar detection aircraft, which has just been placed at the disposal of the VKS, will help solve this problem.