News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

An international team of researchers has developed a new way to produce oxygen on the Red Planet using gases from the local atmosphere and cold plasma. The technology can play a crucial role in the development of human life support systems, since it allows you to get a lot of oxygen for breathing, the production of rocket fuel, fertilizers and building materials with minimal equipment weight.

At the Army – 2022 exhibition, Russia will present a new MiG capable of launching spacecraft

The new version of the MiG-31I is designed to launch small spacecraft into orbit, thanks to which the Russian Air Force will receive unique capabilities, writes MWM. The MiG-31 glider has no equal abroad in carrying capacity, size, speed and altitude.

The high demand on the world market for Turkish attack drones, observed after the Karabakh war in 2020, has fully loaded the production capacity of UAVs.

The agreement on interaction and cooperation was signed by the Deputy director of TASS Andrey Sokolov and the head of the Voenkino Foundation Maxim Ksenzov

The TASS news agency will promote the dissemination of information about the work of the Military Patriotic Cinema Support Fund (Voenkino), which promotes the history and traditions of the Russian army. The corresponding agreement was signed on Wednesday at the Army-2022 forum, a TASS correspondent reports.

The first mainline narrow-body Tu-214 aircraft for Russian airlines will appear in 2023. This was announced by the General Director of the UAC Yuri Slyusar within the framework of the international military-technical forum "Army-2022".

This year, a robotic version of the BMP-3 was presented at the Army International Military-Technical Forum. According to the Rostec State Corporation, the modernization of the machine is being carried out at the Kurganmashzavod with the participation of the Signal Research Institute − both enterprises are part of the High-Precision Complexes holding.

The commander-in-chief of the Iranian naval forces, Vice Admiral Shahram Irani, said that the Iranian navy should be present in all the oceans of the planet. To do this, according to Irani, new ships of various classes are being built in the Navy.

Why doesn't Russia use its drones in Ukraine?

Despite all the advantages of UAVs in modern warfare, Russia does not disclose information about their use in Ukraine, writes Al Jazeera. The opinions of the publication's experts were divided. Some believe that Russia really rarely uses UAVs, others — that Moscow simply does not want to give out strategic secrets.

The newest 120-mm self-propelled artillery gun 2S42 "Lotus", being developed for airborne units, has completed the preliminary testing stage. Currently, the developers are eliminating the shortcomings identified during the testing of the gun.

The shipbuilding company Austal Limited (Austal) announced the delivery by its Austal Australia division of the Australian Ministry of Defense of the second of eight patrol boats of the "Improved Cape" class ordered for the country's Navy.

This reform in the domestic Air Force has been expected for decades. And now Russia is working on the mass construction of special covers for military aircraft.

The Plastics Plant is one of the country's leading manufacturers of modern industrial explosives. In particular, the company extracts explosives from decommissioned ammunition, and as a result of such disposal, they have learned to obtain a unique product – nanodiamond charge. Demand for it is growing all over the world, because nanodiamonds are widely used in various fields: from quantum electronics to medicine.

A new report on the war in Ukraine by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI[/i]), prepared by Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds, states that Russia's ground-based electronic warfare (EW) systems are capable of blocking control frequencies, forcing Ukrainian UAVs land or help to conduct artillery and rocket fire at ground control stations. As a result, the service life of Ukrainian drones is "about seven days", although it depends on the system.

On the eve of the Army-2022 forum, Signal CEO Vladimir Pimenov told RIA Novosti correspondent Ivan Suraev in an interview about the company's novelties at the exhibition, promising projects and what robots are participating in a special military operation in Ukraine today.

The shipbuilding enterprise "Severnaya Verf" is currently building 24 ships, including six frigates of project 22350, including a modernized project. This was told by the general director of the Northern Shipyard Igor Orlov.

Since June of this year, Denis Manturov has been combining the positions of head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and Deputy Prime Minister - curator of the civil and defense industries. In his first interview in the new status, he told Interfax in which directions Russia will develop technological sovereignty, whether there is a threat of dependence on China, what is happening with investment activity in industries, as well as the prospects for arms exports to Turkey and Iran, the timing of the development of Checkmate, PAK DA and new attack drones.

With the planning of long-term missions to the Moon and Mars, humanity is increasingly faced with the question of providing astronauts with oxygen for breathing. Currently, keeping people breathing on board space stations is a complex and expensive process, so more advanced technologies will be required for future travel in the cosmic abyss.

Rostec State Corporation presents a new generation of ammunition at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022". One of the key novelties is a shot for a small–sized jet flamethrower in thermobaric equipment.

Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), in an interview with Interfax columnist Pavel Koryashkin, told about the corporation's plans at the Army military technical forum, the repair of the only Russian aircraft carrier, fifth-generation submarines and the decision of the Ministry of Defense to stop at one frigate project.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the opening ceremony of the Army-2022 forum

At the opening ceremony of the Army-2022 forum in the Patriot Park near Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the importance of the event for the development of international cooperation in the military sphere and the prospects for Russian weapons.