News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Recently, reports of various unpleasant incidents occurring with American military equipment, ships and aircraft have been appearing very regularly.

Izvestia visited the repair base of heavy armored vehicles of the 1st Army Corps

Active battles in the zone of a special military operation place special requirements on the restoration of combat vehicles — it must be done quickly, efficiently, focusing on a variety of tank models — both their own and captured. Correspondents of Izvestia visited the repair base of heavy armored vehicles organized in the 1st Slavic Brigade of the 1st Army Corps. Which tanks showed themselves best during their own, how damaged equipment is repaired and why captured combat vehicles are tuned — in our report.

Haqqin: Russia has decided to increase the volume and improve the quality of weapons

The West has assembled an anti-Russian coalition and is churning out weapons and military equipment for Ukraine at a pace unprecedented even for the Cold War period, writes Haqqin. However, Moscow has found an effective solution.

On November 30, a meeting of the Board of the Russian Defense Ministry 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 Royal Canadian Navy will soon acquire the fourth patrol ship of the Arctic zone, at the Irving Shipbuilding shipyard in Halifax, a solemn ceremony was held for the launching of the Harry DeWolf-class icebreaker HMCS William Hall (433), built in the interests of the country's Navy.

According to the information distributed by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA), the first two ships of the project "075", named Hainan ("Hainan") and Guangxi ("Guangxi"), have passed a full course of tests close to combat.

According to military expert David Okmanek, the decision to replace outdated American-made F-15 fighters with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly obvious, especially against the background of the Ukrainian conflict. The Rand Corporation's military analyst also added that all this is happening against the backdrop of the Pentagon rethinking its military strategy in the western Pacific, where drones will take the place of fighters.

The international mechanisms for curbing the proliferation of nuclear weapons during the Cold War have long been outdated, and it is time for the American authorities to reconsider their attitude towards the new members of the nuclear club, writes the American publication 19FortyFive.

Mikhail Kotov — how the ESA decision reflected the trend of the times and the modern approach in the space sphere

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the names of 17 new astronauts. This time, the Europeans provided gender diversity almost on an equal footing: a little more than half were men, a little less were women. At the same time, for the first time in history, a person with disabilities, Paralympian John McFall, is included in the list of potential professional visitors to space from Earth.

Missiles of air defense systems (air defense) are ending in Ukraine, according to Western experts. NATO officially declares that it is considering the possibility of new supplies of air defense systems to the Kiev regime. What kind of systems can we talk about and why won't they save Ukraine from Russian missile strikes anyway?

Analysts have warned Europe's industry that the crisis it will face this winter will not end with the end of the cold weather. At least two more difficult years are waiting for her. Many companies in the EU will become unprofitable due to expensive energy resources. They will be forced to either close down or move production to other countries. Where will European industry move to and how many years will it take to deindustrialize the EU?

The criteria for striking are incomprehensible even to specialists

At the end of October, the administration of US President Joseph Biden finally introduced its fellow citizens to the unclassified version of the Nuclear Policy Review (NPR). A classified version of the review was sent to Congress in March of this year, but its public publication was postponed due to the start of a special military operation (SVO) of Russia in Ukraine.

Missile troops represent the most classified type of PLA

The type of PLA, formerly known as the "Second Artillery" or "Second Artillery Corps", is the Chinese equivalent of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN). It includes ground-based nuclear deterrence forces (SNF). At the beginning of 2016, this type of troops was officially renamed the PLA Missile Forces.

It is reported that on November 26, 2022, the Admiral Golovko frigate (factory number 923) of project 22350, built for the Russian Navy by PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation), first left St. Petersburg for factory sea trials in the Baltic Sea. This is the third ship of Project 22350.

FA: The US should not try to defeat Russia and China at the same time

A weakening America cannot fight on two fronts in peacetime, not to mention a global military conflict, writes FA. Russia and China are formidable rivals, but the United States should try to find common ground with them.

What undoubtedly helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine to effectively fight the Russian troops is the informational advantage. Ukrainian commanders know better where their units are located, as well as where and in what quantity the enemy forces are located, writes the Polish edition of Defence24.

Rostec enterprises have been creating and producing specialized equipment for the Marines for many years, which, like the "black berets" themselves, can both swim and descend from the sky, helping the marines to perform all the necessary tasks.

Vladimir Putin at the conference "Journey into the world of artificial Intelligence" (AI Journey) said that a new federal project for the development of robotics will appear in Russia. It is necessary to eliminate the gap between Russia and other countries in the implementation of industrial robots.

Victory in the armed conflict of the future will ensure superiority in high technologies

Military experts from the leading countries of the world are constantly trying to predict what the war of the future will be and what weapons will be crucial to ensure victory in it. The United States, one of the world's leading military powers, is also striving to solve this problem, faced with challenges that are not typical of armed conflicts of the past. Moreover, the military-technical potential of states that Washington considers opponents or strategic rivals has significantly increased.

One of the most bottlenecks in the equipment of the Russian armed forces is the low production volumes of high-precision weapons for aviation. There are many video frames demonstrating the use from a low altitude of not only Su-25 attack aircraft designed for dive attacks, but also Su-30SM, Su-35, Su-34 vehicles designed to operate at high echelons.