News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A batch of Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems has entered service with the air defense units of the Eastern Military District. As stated in the Ministry of Defense, the equipment was delivered as part of the state defense order.

The ships of the Russian Navy will be protected by electronic warfare systems (EW), which will be placed in 40-foot sea containers. This is reported by Izvestia with reference to sources in the Ministry of Defense of the country.

The United States has another problem with the fifth-generation fighter F-35. As it turned out, the aircraft manufacturers use materials produced in China in its design, which violates American law.

The project to build a new large-tonnage shipyard in Kronstadt is an interesting and timely initiative, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov told Interfax on the sidelines of the WEF.

India has strict restrictions on purchases of defense products abroad. They were introduced to create favorable conditions for the development of the domestic defense industry, but now they prevent the replacement of obsolete military equipment with modern models.

Among the published archival documents is an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Board of the Ministry of General Engineering, during which the prospects for the development of spacecraft for the study of the planets of the Solar system, including Venus in 1972, were considered.

Britain was forced to urgently change the aircraft carrier for deployment off the eastern coast of the United States – instead of the Prince of Wales, the Queen Elizabeth went on a campaign. And all because HMS Prince of Wales shamefully broke down right at the beginning of its journey. What happened to the UK's most modern ship, why has this country been doing badly with aircraft carriers in recent decades – and what lessons does this bring for Russia?

Russia intends to completely rebuild air transportation. And the first important step on this path is to transfer Russian airlines from foreign planes to exclusively domestic ones. Western sanctions have pushed our carriers to form the largest package of orders for domestic trunk aircraft in modern history. Is the domestic industry ready for such a challenge?

Innovative materials will protect submarines from sonar detection and hide the noise of mechanisms

Russian submarines will become elusive. They will receive the latest coating that will protect them from enemy sonar stations. Made from a new generation of special materials, it will make them practically invisible.

In order to disorient the intelligence of a conditional enemy during the strategic command and staff exercise "Vostok-2022", military personnel of engineering units of the Eastern Military District (VVO) use modern means of imitation and disguising weapons. This is reported by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The rapid pace of development of China's military aviation is well documented. Western observers are looking forward to new designs and variants of existing ones, and manufacturing plants maintain a seemingly inexorable pace of deliveries. At the same time, the domestic production of air-based weapons for arming these aircraft is covered in less detail. For years, China's progress in air-to-air missiles, or AAM [air-to-air missiles], has been ignored or achievements downplayed.

The American newspaper "The New York Times" published a material by John Ismay "How Russia Uses Low Tech in Its High-Tech Weapons" ("How Russia uses low-tech components in its high-tech weapons"), which provides a summary of the report of the "private independent research group" Conflict Armament Research on the widespread use of Western commercial electronic components in Russian precision weapons and military electronics.

The French company Naval Group announced on September 1 at the Itaguai Naval Base the ceremony of commissioning the head of the Riachuelo class into the combat strength of the Brazilian Navy.

On September 14, 1401, according to the Iranian calendar (September 5, 2022, according to our calendar), the lead ship of the Shahid Soleimani type missile catamarans, named in honor of the martyr General Qasem Suleimani, who died as a result of an American strike in early 2020 during a visit to the Iraqi capital, was officially accepted into the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps..

Five of the most dangerous multiple rocket launchers in the world: the conflict in Ukraine has proved their importance

Multiple rocket launchers have played a key role in many conflicts, writes MWM. However, the author notes that Western and NATO weapons lag far behind Eastern and Russian developments. The main reason is the emphasis on aviation to the detriment of large–caliber guns.

The requirements of the US Navy for means designed for long-range operations against surface targets are evolving. This is necessary in order to focus on developing the potential of hypersonic missiles for rapid response to threats that are increasing in range and complexity every year. This is how the processes in the USA themselves are interpreted.

The American edition of 19FortyFive published an article in which columnist Harrison Cass expressed the opinion that the Swedish fourth-generation fighter JAS 39 Gripen is not inferior (literally) to the "best Russian aircraft" and could fight them on an equal footing in a hypothetical battle.

The domestic space industry should radically change the approaches to the creation of orbital vehicles, says the head of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov. How are Russian satellites arranged today, what are their disadvantages compared to foreign competitors, and how are satellites proposed to be changed?

Roscosmos State Corporation and TERRA TECH JSC (part of the Russian Space Systems holding of Roscosmos State Corporation) are launching a joint portal that will tell about significant changes in nature and ecology, emergency situations, socio-economic processes in Russia and the world visible from space.

70 years ago, the tests of the legendary Mi-4 amphibious transport helicopter began

Serial rotorcraft appeared in the Red Army even before the Great Patriotic War. These were two-seat autogyros A-7–3A designed by Nikolai Kamov. An autogyro is an aircraft with a pulling propeller, in which the bearing rotor rotates not from the engine, but freely, under the influence of an incoming air flow. However, there were very few of them: just one correction and reconnaissance squadron of five vehicles.