News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

At ThyssenKrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul (tkEBS) in Itajai (Santa Catarina, Brazil), the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the lead frigate of the F200 class "Tamandare" (MEKO A-100MB) took place.

The XXI All-Russian Forum "Information Security. Regulation. Technologies. Practice. Infobear". The event was dedicated to the issues of information security (IS) in strategically important sectors of the economy, the public sector and the defense industry.

SeaTwirl has announced the launch of a revolutionary S2 model wind turbine next year. A device of record size for this class will be installed in the sea near the municipality of Bokn in Norway. The capacity of the windmill should be at least 1 MW, but this is just the beginning – the company's project has devices with a capacity of up to 30 MW.

The total volume of investments in the software industry by the end of 2021 amounted to 232 billion rubles, which is 2.4 times more than in 2020, RUSSOFT reported the results of an annual survey.

According to the captain of the platform Sergey Dyachkin, everything went without incident

NATO forces observed the world's first ice-resistant self-propelled platform (LSP) "North Pole" during its first flight from St. Petersburg to Murmansk, the captain of the platform Sergey Dyachkin told reporters on Thursday.

Starlink satellite terminals have been placed in Antarctica. This is reported by the publication TechCrunch. According to journalists, the placement of SpaceX terminals means that the Starlink satellite Internet is officially launched on all continents of the Earth.

The investigation by the American Air Force of a fatal accident that occurred in 2022 unexpectedly showed that the cause of the death of the F-16 fighter pilot David Schmitz in the United States could be counterfeit ejection seat parts. Its key elements could well be fake.

The company PIT-RADWAR (Poland), part of the holding Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), presented at the MSPO 2022 arms exhibition in Kielce, Poland, a ship-based weapon system equipped with a 35 mm OSU-35k cannon. This modification of it was developed with the assistance of the country's Navy for minesweepers of the Kormoran II type.

Business Insider published Michael Peck's material "HIMARS rockets have been a 'game changer' in Ukraine, and the US Army is now looking for ways to build up to 500 more" ("HIMARS missiles have changed the rules of the game" in Ukraine, and now the US Army is considering the possibility of manufacturing up to 500 more systems"), which states that the US Army has issued a request for information on the production of 24 to 96 M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles annually (up to 480 units in total) for five years from 2024 to 2028 fiscal years.

The newest light multipurpose guided missile (LMUR) "Product 305" is very actively used as part of a special military operation to destroy not only armored vehicles, but enemy manpower. The missile is part of the arsenal of Ka-52 and Mi-28N attack helicopters and allows you to hit targets with high accuracy, which is confirmed by numerous videos of the use of this munition.

Coal-fired power plants in the United States can be upgraded into nuclear power plants if necessary. This conclusion was made by the US Department of Energy on the basis of the conducted research. Specialists of the department have checked 80% of operating and decommissioned thermal power plants. As it turned out, nuclear reactors can be placed on them.

According to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the acceptance test procedure for the first "British" UAV of long duration flight "Protector" RG Mk1 has been successfully completed.

The American authorities continue a series of renaming attempts to erase from the history of the country any mention of the Confederacy of the Southern States (Confederate States of America) and its generals and officers. So, a specially created commission recommended that the command of the US Navy rename the warship USS Chancellorsville.

Currently, the US Navy is beginning to form a community of information warfare specialists. The training will take place under the Bachelor's degree program, which was resumed this year to increase the number of future officers.

The promising MiG-27M: A 21st-century fighter with supersonic cruising speed that could challenge the F-16

Thanks to its avionics, the MiG-27 was more powerful than most fourth-generation models, although it entered service back in 1970, writes MWM. It had considerable potential for modernization, but it was never revealed due to the collapse of the USSR.

The Russian MiG-31, known in NATO as Foxhound, is used as a very effective fighter-interceptor.

On September 12, the Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Lieutenant General Alexander Kurenkov, paid a working visit to the S.P. Gorbunov KAZ - a branch of PJSC Tupolev (part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation).

In conditions of a shortage of natural gas, the leadership of European countries sets as a priority the filling of gas storage facilities to provide heating for citizens and infrastructure facilities. Therefore, gas supply to manufacturing enterprises is carried out on a residual basis, forcing them to reduce production, which often leads to their closure.

In India, the fifth frigate of the project 17A Nilgiri was launched. The ceremony was held at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL) shipyard in Mumbai, due to the declared mourning over the death of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, the celebrations were canceled.

Rostec State Corporation presented the upgraded Mi-8MTV-1, adapted specifically to the requirements of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, inspected the improved rotorcraft at the Kazan Helicopter Plant of the Russian Helicopters Holding. The agency will receive the first helicopters by the end of 2022.