News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The EU countries plan to strengthen their air defense after the incident in Poland. Le Figaro writes about this. Germany, for example, has already made a proposal to create a single missile shield on the territory of 14 European states. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tried to get out of a difficult situation and said that the fall of missiles on the territory of Poland says nothing about the ability of the alliance countries to defend themselves.

Mikhail Kotov — about spaceplane projects in the USA, China and the USSR, as well as what functions such devices can perform

For the sixth time, one of the most classified spacecraft, the American Boeing X—37B spaceplane, has been in space and returned to Earth. His first flight lasted a little more than 200 days, but all the others were much longer — from 400 to 900 days in orbit. At the same time, there is very little specific information about what he was doing there in the public domain.

Losing hegemony on Earth, the United States is making plans to gain leadership in near-Earth outer space, primarily in lunar orbit and on the satellite itself.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that another regiment of Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) The Orenburg Region is being equipped with a new Avangard complex.

The first patient, who had a part of the tibia restored, again went to the area of the special operation, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Military doctors of the Main Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Russia named after N. N. Burdenko in Moscow for the first time in medical practice have developed and implemented a new method of 3D modeling of implants for the full restoration of the limbs of patients who received severe mine-explosive and gunshot wounds during a special military operation. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

After the start of the special operation in Ukraine in the West, especially among NATO countries, there was a reasonable increase in interest in studying and analyzing the capabilities of Russian military equipment and weapons. The aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which show high efficiency both in defeating ground targets in the frontline zone and in the enemy's rear, and in aerial battles, were not left without attention.

The transfer of citizens to the Russian mobile OS will cost half a trillion

The implementation of the mobile ecosystem on the Aurora operating system (OS) will require 480 billion rubles by 2030, Kommersant learned.

Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Karakayev reported on the successful tests of the Sarmat complex

The Sarmat complex, an intercontinental ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear charge of 8 megatons for 18 thousand kilometers, has successfully passed flight tests. This means that he is actually ready to be sent to the troops and combat duty. "Newspaper.Ru" recalls the panic caused by the Western media against the background of the launches of the latest Russian missile.

On November 16, 2022, a laying ceremony of a linear diesel-electric icebreaker of project 21900M2 was held in Vyborg at PJSC Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant (VSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation). The vessel with the factory number 510 (the name has not yet been assigned) It is being built by order of the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport, the developer is FSUE Rosmorport.

As reported, on November 16, 2022, a solemn ceremony of raising the Naval flag of Russia on the naval minesweeper "Pyotr Ilyichev" (factory number 526) of project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") took place in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This ship, built by JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg, became the sixth minesweeper of the new generation of Project 12700 commissioned by the Russian Navy, and the second as part of the 114th Brigade of the protection of the water area of Troops and Forces in the North-The East (Kamchatka), after the minesweeper "Yakov Balyaev" (factory number 525), which entered service in December 2020.

On November 16, 2022, a solemn ceremony of raising the Naval Flag of Russia on a large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363 took place in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC). This is the fourth Project 06363 submarine commissioned by the Russian Navy out of six units ordered for the Pacific Fleet. The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense announced another missile test conducted by the DPRK troops. It is stated that the North Korean military launched an "unidentified ballistic missile".

In the first big interview with TASS, the Director General of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, told about how long it will take, at what stage the project of the national orbital station is and why cooperation with NASA continues, despite the geopolitical situation.

The Accounting Chamber of the United States found that a significant part of American military aircraft is not ready for full combat use. Experts of the Accounting Chamber of the American Administration, as columnist Rachel S. Cohen writes, analyzed the state of the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Army aviation.

As reported by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation on November 16, 2022, Russian aircraft manufacturers handed over a batch of front-line bombers to the Armed Forces. The next batch of new Su-34 aircraft was manufactured at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.P. Chkalov of the United Aircraft Corporation (part of the Rostec State Corporation). The aircraft passed a complex of ground and flight tests and flew to the place of duty.

In particular, the devices can be used to ensure the operation of automatic identification systems in civil aviation and the reception of data from sensors of the Internet of Things

Devices for remote sensing of the Earth and the automatic identification system of ships (AIS) of Sputnix were demonstrated to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov and Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin at the Aeronet-2035 exhibition. This was reported to TASS on Thursday by the Sitronics Group.

The US Pacific Fleet has published the results of an investigation conducted last year against the command and crew members of the universal landing ship Bonhomme Richard.

Anton Guglya is the head of qApp, a Russian company developing complex cybersecurity software solutions based on post-quantum encryption algorithms. In 2022, the qApp team presented a pilot project unique for Russia, providing quantum-stable data protection of Gazprombank, and also proved the compatibility of domestic Baikal and Elbrus processors with post-quantum cryptography. Anton Gugli's interview is in the TASS project "Conversations with Ivan Survillo".

Anti-satellite weapons are developing rapidly

In October, 65 years have passed since the day when Sputnik-1 (code designation PS-1 - from "simplest satellite") was launched into near-Earth orbit on a Soviet carrier rocket, created on the basis of the R–7 intercontinental ballistic missile, the famous "seven". The spacecraft (spacecraft), whose name has become a household name, made a global furore, forcing the whole planet to talk about itself.

The output of Chinese weapons is increasing both by orders of the PLA and for export

An analysis of Chinese military-technical publications shows that by 2010 China was able to provide its own production of almost a full range of nomenclature of weapons and military equipment (IWT). The few exceptions were heavy military transport aircraft (VTS) and tanker aircraft based on them, medium transport helicopters, certain types of deck-based helicopters.