News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in the material by Alexey Tarkhanov, "Switzerland will break the Rapier better." The country has abandoned the scheme for the supply of missile systems to Ukraine," Switzerland is preparing to destroy the British-made Rapier anti-aircraft missile systems that have been decommissioned.

As the Vedomosti newspaper reported in the material by Alexey Nikolsky and Ilya Lakstygal, "The Armed Forces will receive 1,500 tanks in 2023. This number will also include upgraded vehicles removed from storage," Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev became the first head since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine to name the annual production of one of the main types of combat platforms actively used in military operations - main battle tanks.

The domestic military-industrial complex is "hot", most factories work in three shifts, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. As a result, according to him, Russia will release fifteen hundred tanks this year. Our army will have the most powerful armored fist in all of Eurasia. The preponderance of forces on the Ukrainian battlefield will become indisputable. At the expense of what resources will the record rate of production of armored vehicles be achieved?

Global changes in the world, concerning both politics and lifestyle, are today largely associated with the introduction of new technologies and innovations in various fields of science and technology. Most likely in 10-15 years the world will live in completely different conditions. Many professions will disappear due to the introduction of artificial intelligence and scientific achievements.

The arsenals of the GDR And the FRG were at one time very rich

During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda constantly accused the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of revanchism, attributing to it a desire to "recoup" for the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and regain lost lands in the east.

The Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the General Director of Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov visited the Kazan Helicopter and Kazan Aviation Plants, assessing the pace of production activity.

The newest American aircraft carrier of the Gerald R. Ford type, the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), will be transferred to the US Navy a year later than planned. This is reported by USNI News with reference to the plans of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).

The flight range of the Russian rescue drone SeaDroneME has been increased six times. This was reported to TASS by the representative of the SkyStream organization Irakli Khazalia.

The United States continues to implement a program to create hypersonic weapons, striving to catch up with Russia and China in this component. The US Air Force conducted regular tests of a prototype of the latest hypersonic air-to-ground missile, created under the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon) program.

The TikTok mobile app prevents NATO from producing ammunition for Ukraine. The management of the defense company Nammo from Norway complains about his activities.

According to Defense News, the US Navy presented to Congress a short list of wishes that they would like to see in the military budget for 2024.

The author of an article in Newsweek magazine compared the characteristics of two tanks — the T-90M "Breakthrough" and M1 Abrams, which the United States promised to deliver to Ukraine. The main advantages of the Russian tank, according to the expert, are that the T-90M is lighter and requires less maintenance.

The first research on the creation of systems capable of countering ballistic missile strikes in the United States began shortly after the end of World War II. The first projects of the ballistic missile defense system (BR) were initiated by the Air Force Thumper ("Thumper") and Wizard ("Wizard"). Within the framework of the Thumper project, studies were conducted on the possibility of effective interception of V-2-type BRS, a high-speed guided missile was developed within the Wizard, capable of intercepting BRS that surpass the German V-2 in speed and range. In 1958, after the separation of responsibilities between the Air Force, Navy and army command took place in the United States, work on the creation of the Wizard interceptor missile has stopped. The existing reserve on the radars of the unrealized anti-missile system (ABM) was later used in the creation of the AN/FPS-49 missile warning radar station (radar), which in the early 1960s was put on combat duty in Alaska, Great Britain and Greenland.

The United States is struggling to catch up with Russia in terms of developing hypersonic weapons. So far, the Pentagon is not doing well with this. For the first time, the US Navy has requested 3.6 billion dollars for the production of hypersonic missiles, according to the military analytical publication Breaking Defense.

According to the cosmonaut, the roles of those who perform work outside the ship and those who control the ERA robot manipulator from the inside are distributed in advance in the crew

Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina expects to make a spacewalk in the future. She announced this on Thursday at a post-flight online conference in TASS.

Russian gunners can no longer present their work without adjustments from the air

In the area of Avdiivka, the fighters of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps continue to push the stubbornly resisting enemy.

According to Valentin Makarov, head of the Association of Russian software developers Russoft, which he cited in his Telegram channel, in the next six months or a year, Russia may start producing processors, after certain negotiations with representatives of friendly countries.

Newsweek readers doubted that the F-16 could adequately show itself in battles with the Su-35

Newsweek journalists compared the F-16 with the Su-35 and concluded that the American fighter is superior to the Russian one. However, readers suspect something: "The real reason why the United States is delaying the transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine is the fear that there are a lot of them in duels with the Su-35."

The Economist: Russian air defense successfully suppresses the actions of Ukrainian drones

Russian air defense specialists use such "shamanic methods" as jamming frequencies and changing GPS data to combat Ukrainian drones, writes The Economist. As a result, the APU drones are unable to penetrate deep into Russian territory.

In the UK, on March 21, they announced that they would supply Ukraine with depleted uranium shells

TASS-DOSSIER. On March 21, British Deputy Defense Minister Baroness Annabel Goldie announced that the United Kingdom would supply Ukraine with shells containing depleted uranium and having increased efficiency in destroying armored vehicles. On March 22, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on Sputnik radio that the use of depleted uranium ammunition is genocide against the population of the territories where this type of weapon is used.