News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The airborne troops of Russia cause pride among our citizens and envy among our "partners". The proposed article was published in early February 2022, before the start of a special military operation in Ukraine. At the same time, it was written under the impression of the actions of the CSTO peacekeeping forces in Kazakhstan and accurately conveys the state and capabilities of the Russian Airborne Forces.

The ex-commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Georgy Shpak, spoke about the reform of the Airborne Troops

In Russia today marks the Day of Airborne Troops (airborne). Now they are in the stage of reform. "Newspaper.Ru" together with experts, I figured out what the airborne forces would look like in the future.

In a special military operation, airborne units are active and highly competent. Paratroopers, of course, fly and jump with parachutes. But the main theater of their military operations is the earth. And on land they are in no way inferior to the classic motorized infantry.

Turkish drones have vision problems

The Bayraktar Akinci (Bayraktar Akinci), a Turkish-made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), successfully launched an LGK-82 laser-guided missile developed by the national company Aselsan (Aselsan). This was reported on Saturday, July 1 by the Anatolian Agency.

The Navy requires submarines and carriers of unmanned vehicles

The cooling of East-West relations, the growing volume of economic sanctions, a special military operation in Ukraine, the expansion of NATO and the creation of new military-economic blocs in Asia will inevitably lead to a revision of previously adopted long-term programs in the Russian defense industry.

Russian troops need long-range artillery systems

On July 24, 2022, five months have passed since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. A line beyond which you can sum up some results, as the sailors say, look around in the compartments. And then draw new red arrows on the commander's maps. What are these five months talking about, is everything going as planned?

When the army becomes the reason for the existence of the country

The history of the DPRK is very peculiar. This explains to a large extent the uniqueness of the country in its current form.

Weapons of rocket volleys in the first thousand years

Artillery has always been an important means of achieving victory over the enemy. The appearance of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) has moved the armed confrontation to a completely different level, which is due to a number of advantages. The most important of them are:

The publications of some Russian media about the development of a new hypersonic missile "Serpentine" attracted considerable attention of Western observers. Below we bring to your attention the article "Anti-ship ballistic missile of Russia", published by the War Zone resource. The author of the material conducts some analysis on the topic of the "Coil" and, to a certain extent, reveals the likely consequences of the deployment of this product. [As before, IVi's remarks are given in square brackets]

The myth of the S-400: why the power of the Russian air defense is exaggerated

The S-400 poses a great danger to NATO, warns the author of the Business Insider article. It is capable of detecting all American stealth fighters. The West should not underestimate this SAM, otherwise it may end badly. However, it is not without drawbacks, the author notes.

NATO calls this Russian submarine a "Black Hole" for one frightening reason

The basis of the Russian non-nuclear fleet consists of submarines of the "Project 877", which the West calls Kilo-class submarines, writes TNI. The US Navy gave them the nickname "black hole" because they are very invisible.

In the United States, the National Guard conducted exercises at Camp Roberts in California. During the maneuvers, the military used inflatable models of Russian armored personnel carriers BTR-90 on the chassis of Humvee cars, Defense Blog writes.

We continue to talk about missile systems manufactured in North Korea. Last time in the article "The vaunted HIMARS is a firecracker in comparison with it: 600-mm MLRS from the DPRK", multiple rocket launchers were considered. This time we will talk about the KN-02 Toksa or Hwasong-11. Ballistic missiles are a local modification of the famous Soviet 9K79 "Dot" (SS-21 Scarab according to the NATO classification).

The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will be the first in the Russian Navy to take up combat duty with the Zircon hypersonic missile systems, Russian President - Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin said, speaking on July 31 at the Main Naval Parade.

According to the Ministry of Defense of India, the command of the country's Navy during the ceremony held on July 28 received the first aircraft carrier of national construction P71 "Vikrant" (IAC-1 – Indigenous Aircraft Carrier).

On July 28, the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan hosted the launching ceremony of the 8,200-ton URO-class destroyer Sejong Deuong of the KDX-3 Batch II series, designed for the Republic of Korea Navy.

Such accusations "do not take into account the facts at all," the department noted

The Chinese Foreign Ministry considers unprofessional criticism of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regarding the launch of launch vehicles of the PRC into orbit, since such accusations "do not take into account the facts at all." This was stated on Monday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

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Atul Rane, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Russian-Indian joint venture (JV) BrahMos Aerospace, in an exclusive interview with TASS, told about the details of the first export order for BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to the Philippines and countries of Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Putin announced: a new Russian hypersonic missile is coming, which is called "unstoppable"

These Russian missiles have no analogues in the world, and their characteristics will be the envy of any other country. Putin made it clear that Russia with the help of "unstoppable" and "invincible" weapons can hit almost anywhere in the world, writes Haber7.

Readers of the Chinese portal "Guancha" were delighted after the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Russian fleet will soon receive hypersonic missile systems "Zircon".