News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Ukraine has lost at least three enterprises engaged in the production of armored vehicles for Ukrainian armed formations.

The workshops of the V. A. Malyshev Kharkiv Plant of Transport Engineering (ZIM) and the enterprise located in the same city that repaired tanks for the AFU were put out of operation. In addition, in Zhytomyr, a military unit A1576 came under air strikes, where light tracked vehicles were being restored.

Experts explained why Russian nuclear weapons caused concern among US intelligence

Russia is expanding and improving its nuclear arsenal and increasing the capabilities of strategic and non-strategic weapons, which is the "main danger" for Washington. This is stated in the published report of the office of the Director of National Intelligence of the United States, Evril Haines. "Newspaper.Ru" analyzed the document.

US sanctions will not do much harm to the Russian defense industry. The blow of the American authorities on this industry, which, according to their plan, was supposed to be "crushing", is unlikely to have a significant impact on it.

Experts named the advantages of the Ka-52 helicopter, which is used in the operation in Ukraine

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed video footage of combat use during a special operation in Ukraine of Ka-52 Alligator attack two-seater helicopters. The footage shows a pair of helicopters destroying targets hidden behind trees. According to the Ministry of Defense, these are "armored vehicles of Ukrainian nationalists", and helicopters use "anti-tank guided missiles" to defeat them.

The institutes are still cautiously optimistic, but no one knows what will happen in two or three months, a year. So far, their directors have been instructed to conduct an audit of the existing capacity, pointing out weaknesses. Since there is no combined data on all Russian institutes, the MK correspondent himself called a number of leading scientific organizations.

The National Interest (USA): America should be afraid of Russian rocket artillery

The author, a well-known American weapons specialist, recognizes the exceptional advantages of Russian rocket artillery on the pages of the National Interest magazine. He tells the story of this type of weapons, rooted in the period before the Great Patriotic War.

Someone finally said out loud about the real price

NASA Inspector General Paul Martin acted as an independent expert on the activities of the space agency. For most of his tenure as Inspector General, since his appointment in 2009, Martin has overseen NASA's development of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft.

St. Petersburg newspaper "Fontanka.<url>" published the material of Lev Godovannik "While the shock. After the sanctions, the shipyards are calm only about icebreakers. Engines from China, electronics from Aurora, dollars and euros in suitcases, and processors are a big question. Fontanka has found out the current prospects of Russian civil shipbuilding."

We continue (part I ) the publication of the reflections of the experts of the British publishing group Shephardmedia on the current state of the Russian Air Force. [Explanations of IVi are given in square brackets]

The Russian edition of Forbes magazine published the material by Katerina Terekhova and Alexey Dertev "Prohibition on development: how will Russian technologies survive without semiconductors", which states that the refusal of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer TSMC from cooperation with Russia means that it will be difficult for Russian companies to implement the planned import substitution program in the IT field.

Tatarstan business resource "BUSINESS Online" in the material of Timur Latypov "What are we going to fly on? Minnikhanov decided to remind Moscow about the ruined "cranes" from Kazan. Even after years of harassment, the Tu-214 and Tu-334 can replace enemy Boeing and Airbus," writes that all imported aircraft are being taken away from Russia. And today it is very clear: in the new world born after February 24, our country should have aircraft of its own production and from its own components. So far, Superjet and MS-21 are seen as such, but, as BUSINESS Online has learned, Tatarstan has a different point of view - to revive civilian "carcasses". What the republic offers, some experts call an adventure, others - a wise step.

Researchers of the US Air Force will develop a satellite for regular patrolling of the circumlunar space. This will expand the permanent presence of the United States up to the far side of the moon, writes Ars Technica. For the first time, the US military has begun expanding the operational zone in space.

According to the scientific director of the project Rashid Syunyaev, the German eROSITA telescope is in safe mode

The Russian Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope at the Spektr-RG Space Observatory (SRG) can observe X-ray sources of interest to scientists or scan certain areas of the sky while the German eROSITA telescope is turned off. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Spektr-RG project Rashid Syunyaev.

Multiple launch rocket systems "Willow" and "Birch bark"

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rocket forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) got a significant number of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of various calibers, including dozens of 122-mm MLRS of the Grad type.

The CEO of Roscosmos stressed that the state corporation will do everything to continue the implementation of priority tasks

The blame for the collapse of space cooperation lies on the shoulders of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. This was stated on Thursday on the air of Channel One by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos has published declassified documents of the Venus-13 mission

"Gazeta.Ru" got acquainted with declassified documents about the Venus-13 program and tells how the historical mission was being prepared and what problems happened on the way to the neighboring planet.

One of the main types of weapons used by the Russian Armed Forces to defeat the IG* in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) were cruise missiles (KR). Surface ships and submarines of the Russian Navy have repeatedly struck Islamist targets in Syria using the 3M-14 Kalibr cruise missile.

Military expert Vladislav Shurygin - about what the APU was on the eve of the Russian operation and why it was called a special

The results of the first days of the special military operation in Ukraine allow us to draw the first conclusions about how the Russian army is fighting and what kind of enemy it is opposed to.

Rogozin announced the direction of Roscosmos resources for the creation of defense systems

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that the state corporation will direct the resources released after the suspension of the participation of Western partners in joint projects with Russia to create defense systems.

The collision will occur on March 4 with the reverse side of the Earth satellite

Timur Nozdrachev, a student of the Institute of High-Tech Technologies and Advanced Materials of the Far Eastern Federal University (INTiPM FEFU), and scientists from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPA RAS) as part of an international team predicted the fall of object WE0913A to the Moon. The collision will occur on March 4, 2022 with the reverse side of the Earth satellite, the press service of the university told TASS on Wednesday.