News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Ministry of Defense showed the training of drone operators before participating in a special operation

The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of training sessions for operators of multifunctional drones-quadrocopters of the Western Military District before performing combat missions in the zone of a special military operation.

Russian military equipment used during a special military operation receives additional protection. This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".

Rostec: the Arena-M tank active protection complex was tested with captured ATGMs

The modernized Russian active protection complex (KAZ) "Arena-M" was tested as part of the T-72 tank with foreign anti-tank missile systems (ATGMs), RIA Novosti was informed in the holding "High-Precision Complexes" (part of Rostec).

Spain's NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) will arrive in Estonia on Wednesday, which will go on combat duty this week.

India will soon test the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system purchased in Russia. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported by the Ani agency, citing a high-ranking source in the country's Defense Ministry.

The Budget Committee of the German Parliament approved the purchase of 227 articulated armored tracked all-terrain vehicles BvS10 Mk.2B for the Bundeswehr.

General Ruzhansky: huge defense spending only harms Poland

Tanks from the United States were bought in order to please Kaczynski, wPolityce quotes a statement by the former commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces, General Miroslav Ruzhansky. He considers the increase in defense spending harmful for Poland and criticizes the government's defense policy.

The Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov and the tanker Kama have made a call at the port of Jeddah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to replenish fuel and food supplies, the Northern Fleet said on Wednesday.

The blessed days of "space racing" are in the past, government funding for new projects outside the Earth is not as generous as before. This forces structures like NASA to take certain adventures, otherwise the Lunar Outpost project will remain just a concept. As part of this program, it is assumed that NASA's knowledge and technology will help private companies establish their colonies, bases, factories and other facilities on the Moon — if they have enough money, of course.

Neither the launch date nor the names and surnames of the participants of the Artemis-2 lunar mission are yet known, and business prospects for the development of our nearest space neighbor are already being discussed with might and main. In particular, Lockheed Martin announced its intentions to become the first company to start making money on the moon.

According to German sources, from April 1, 2023, the German Ground Forces began to reorganize their formations. It is assumed that this type of armed forces of the country "will create prerequisites for the formation of a new category of forces, the so-called medium forces." In the future, the Bundeswehr plans to have three categories of forces (each at the brigade level): light (airmobile), medium (on its own wheelbase) and heavy (mechanized).

On April 4, a thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces 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 Pentagon is going to thoroughly increase the arsenal of weapons of destruction for its combat aircraft. According to Lockheed Martin Corporation, the country's military department has ordered the supply of large batches of JAGM and HELLFIRE air-to-surface missiles, the total cost of which can be up to $4.5 billion, including subsequent possible options.

Julia van der Colff's interesting material "Building A New American Arsenal" ("Creating a New American Arsenal") has been published in the American online publication "Wars on the Rocks" with a discussion of the current problems of the US military-industrial complex in the light of the fighting in Ukraine.

Entrepreneur and owner of Twitter (blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation for refusing to remove extremist content) Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are among the big names in an open letter signed calling for stopping the deployment of artificial intelligence-based tools such as ChatGPT.

Machine vision is a technology for obtaining images, processing them and using the data obtained to solve various kinds of applied tasks without human intervention. One of the important elements of machine vision devices are photosensitive devices that convert the energy of optical radiation into an electrical signal. The holding company "Roselectronics" of Rostec State Corporation is engaged in the production of such devices. And the technology itself is already being used in full force in the work of the Corporation's enterprises.

Foreign Affairs: the conflict in Ukraine has shown how the US is not ready for war with China

The US military-industrial complex is collapsing due to the Ukrainian conflict, which revealed the systemic shortcomings of the American military industry, writes Foreign Affairs. Drastic changes are needed in this area, otherwise America will lose the war with China in the first few weeks, the author of the article believes.

Presumably, the division will be formed in the first half of 2025

The division of special-purpose submarines - carriers of Poseidon super torpedoes - is planned to be formed as part of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet by the end of 2024 - beginning of 2025. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian military department.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the units of the Airborne Troops (airborne), which are sent to the zone of special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine, are reinforced with heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepek".

The US Federal Prosecutor's Office said that three men from Alabama organized a multimillion-dollar accounting fraud scheme at a defense contractor that builds ships for the US Navy.