News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
Israel Defense Forces: Transformation and its operational consequences
Over the past decade, the Israeli armed forces – the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – have made major changes to their structure and priorities for conducting combat operations. The ground forces underwent a significant reduction.
A new dredging vessel has been accepted into the Caspian Flotilla
On June 23, at the base of the Caspian Flotilla, a ceremony was held for the solemn raising of the St. Andrew's flag on a new vessel – a dredging non-self-propelled dredger of the RDB 66.42M project.
"Durability for half a century": new military storage facilities are being built in Transbaikalia
One of the main problems characteristic of the rear of the Russian troops is the dilapidation of the warehouse economy inherited from the Soviet army, as well as in some cases its inconsistency with the standards of storage of military property, which sometimes leads to its damage and various incidents.
The Russian Defense Ministry will increase the requirements for the Sarmat missile as part of its second test launch - Rogozin
Roscosmos has already started creating serial Sarmat missiles
The Russian military will increase the requirements for the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile during the second flight tests, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.
"Sarmat" launched into mass production
This was stated by the head of the Roscosmos Corporation, which produces new intercontinental ballistic missiles. However, with the progress of rearmament on them, as well as with their influence on the strategic balance on the planet, far from everything is clear.
"Missiles alone are not enough now. The time of "superbombs" and "superbombs" is coming back"
Ex-Colonel of the General Staff Khodarenok: it is necessary to develop conventional weapons of special power
Modern military conflicts raise the question of the relevance of using heavy-duty aviation bombs and artillery of special power. Why previously these types of weapons were abandoned, and now they are returning to their developments - in the author's material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.
France has completed the operation of Mirage 2000C fighters and has not given them to Ukraine
France has completed the operation of the fourth-generation Mirage 2000C fighters and did not transfer them to Ukraine. This is written by The Drive.
Head of Rosseti Andrey Ryumin: the share of Russian equipment should be greater
Andrey Ryumin, CEO of the holding, told TASS in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum about how the Rosseti Group works in conditions of supply chain disruption, the need for import substitution of power grid equipment and software, and what problems need to be solved.
ForgeStar space factory will produce materials that cannot be obtained on Earth
Over decades of space exploration, scientists have found out that only in zero gravity it is possible to create some "unearthly" materials. This is what the ForgeStar platform produced by the Welsh startup Space Forge will do.
Will Poland become the largest helicopter manufacturer with the Motor Sich plant donated by Zelensky?
With the beginning of a special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, Warsaw openly began the stage of mastering the enterprises of the Ukrainian military industry. The Polish military-political leadership has long been hatching plans to transfer parts of the production of various Ukrainian enterprises to its territory, and the military operation only made certain adjustments to the relocation plans.
Sevmash has laid an underwater vehicle commissioned by Gazprom to work on offshore gas pipelines
JSC "PO "Sevmash" (part of the "United Shipbuilding Corporation", USC) has laid a manned underwater vehicle (OPA) of project 03660 "Jason" for work on offshore gas pipelines, the press service of the machine-building enterprise reports.
The House of Representatives approved an increase in the US defense budget by 37 billion dollars
The Profile Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress amended its own draft of the country's defense budget for 2023, increasing it by $ 37 billion, including increasing military assistance to Ukraine to $ 1 billion.
Poland is creating a multibillion-dollar extra-budgetary fund to finance the modernization of the army
Poland is creating a multibillion-dollar extra-budgetary fund to finance the purchase of weapons for its own army. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated to journalists by Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak.
The naval forces of Ukraine are becoming riverine: Kiev has begun the formation of a flotilla on the Dnieper
The naval forces of Ukraine are at risk of becoming completely military-riverine, the fleet command has decided to form a flotilla on the Dnieper. This was stated by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Alexei Neizhpapa.
Turkish universal amphibious assault ship Anadolu at sea
The management of the Turkish shipbuilding company Sedef Gemi Inşaatı Sanayii A.Ş (Sedef Shipyard, part of the Turkon holding) reported that on June 22, 2022, the universal amphibious ship L 400 Anadolu, built for the Turkish Navy at the Sedef Tuzla Tersanesi shipyard in Tuzla (southern the outskirts of the Asian part of Istanbul).
"The equipment, of course, is so-so...": Uralvagonzavod evaluated the weapons seized by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Uralvagonzavod thanked Macron for the artillery installations delivered to Ukraine
Two French Caesar guns were "captured by Russian troops unharmed," they are at Uralvagonzavod to study possible re-design - this was written by the French politician Regis Castelnau. From the account of the Russian company in Telegram, he was answered, indicating that this technique is "so-so, but it will come in handy on the farm." For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".
"The Zala drone is invulnerable to Ukrainian electronic warfare. They don't see him."
General Lyutykh revealed the secret of Russian UAVs used in Ukraine
During the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian army is actively using Zala unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In particular, they are used to adjust the work of artillery calculations. "Newspaper.Ru" together with military experts, I figured out what these drones are capable of.
Invulnerable uniqueness
Flight tests of the Sarmat rocket showed the coherence of the work of a huge cooperation of enterprises
On April 20, 2022 – a historical point for JSC "GRC Makeev" (part of the state corporation "Roscosmos"). The company that created almost all the naval ballistic missiles of our fleet. For the first time in many years, the Makeyevites have tested and in fact have already put into service a new heavy ballistic missile capable of delivering megatons of explosives to anywhere in the world.
From Karelia to the Caucasus, from Yakutia to Donbass
The battle path of the Polar Guard of the Russian Navy
In January 2020, the American magazine National Interest included the Russian Marine Corps in the top five in the world – along with similar branches of the US, UK, South Korea and China. According to the overseas edition, the Russian Marine Corps took second place.
The long road to the "Ash Tree"
Cruise missile submarines solve world-scale tasks
The improvement of anti-submarine warfare forces and means, which pushed back the boundaries of submarine strikes on surface ships (NC), the rapid development of guided missile weapons (URO), which ensures the defeat of both surface and coastal targets, prompted the fleets of the leading countries of the world to turn to equipping submarines with a new type of non–strategic missile weapons - cruise missiles (KR).
