News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The ban on "Boeing" and "Airbases" will make you remember the Soviet experience

Russia will be able to cope with the painful sanctions of the United States and the European Union in the field of civil aviation and will ultimately benefit greatly from import substitution, URA said in an interview.EN Head of the State Duma Committee on Industry and Trade Vladimir Gutenev.

Military expert Andrey Frolov — on how the Ukrainian military-industrial potential has changed during the Russian operation

On March 31, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich made a remarkable statement. According to him, "They [Russia] have practically destroyed our military industry, in many ways. And in many ways they finish off the civilian." Let's try to consider how this corresponds to reality.

Washington, London and Berlin announced new arms supplies to Ukraine. This time we are talking about tanks, armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles. In this regard, the Federation Council stated the need for Moscow to take a decisive position on the supply of weapons to the conflict zone. How much will Western supplies strengthen the AFU and complicate Russia's special operation?

MAI Design Engineer - on the method of improving the performance of aerodynamic surfaces "Balancing and controllability": MAI design engineer - on the methodology for improving the performance of aerodynamic surfaces.

The newspaper "Kommersant" under the heading "There cannot be a low-cost airline in such a situation." The ex-head of Pobeda, Andrey Kalmykov, about his resignation, sanctions and ticket prices," published an interesting interview with the former CEO of the low-cost airline Pobeda (part of the Aeroflot group) Andrey Kalmykov on the prospects for the existence of Russian civil aviation in the conditions of total Western sanctions imposed against it.

Anti-missile weapons are as diverse as the missiles themselves. Among the many complexes and systems there is a very unusual sample. And a successful one, which shot down a real ballistic missile warhead during an intercontinental launch. Perhaps soon this unique system will be adopted. Naked Science reveals all the details about her.

Russia is ready to massively use missiles that have no analogues

Mass use of high-precision weapons is becoming one of the main trends of the Russian Armed Forces. Its use began from the first minutes of the special operation in Ukraine. And if at first these were infrastructure facilities, now we are talking about well-protected ammunition depots and area targets.

About the US nuclear policy in the new conditions

At the very beginning of March 2022, the US Congressional Research Service published a report "Russia's Nuclear Weapons: doctrinal foundations, organization of troops and modernization". The head of the team of authors of this document was Amy F. Wolf, a nuclear weapons specialist and consultant to the US Department of State and the US Department of Defense.

Development of Chinese fighter aircraft

The basis of the PLA Air Force (as well as all the air forces of the main military powers in the world) are fighters and fighter-bombers ("Through the thorns to the fifth generation", "HBO", 25.02.22). Naturally, they are part of the aviation of all five regional commands and all three fleets of the Chinese Armed Forces.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers should join the ranks of the Polish Army in the coming years, and even more Poles should undergo special military training. For all this, Warsaw allocates unprecedented money for the country. Of course, what is happening is explained by the events in Ukraine, but this is only the outer part of the iceberg. In fact, Polish ambitions go much further.

There is no doubt that electronic warfare plays an important strategic role for the Russian Armed Forces. In this regard, we offer an article from the electronic magazine Global defense technology, which explores Russia's electronic warfare and its ability to support the country's defense capability.

In Russia, they can build two diesel-electric boats of the 636 Varshavyanka project, which are called black holes, per year. This was announced by the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov, RIA Novosti reports.

Military expert Khramchikhin spoke about the pros and cons of the Pantsir-S1 missile defense system

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published a video about the use of anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" during a special operation in Ukraine. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the specifics of the operation of this complex.

The Russian-French company PowerJet, which produces SaM146 engines for the Superjet 100 aircraft, has stopped their maintenance and repair due to sanctions, a source close to the aviation industry told Interfax.

In Soviet times, being a place of storage of nuclear ammunition, "Object 711" was cut down in rocks at a depth of several tens of meters.

The NASA federal budget plan for fiscal year 2023 does not provide for the further continuation of the SOFIA flying stratospheric observatory and the closure of the project in 2023. Such a decision was made due to the high cost of the annual maintenance of the project and the insufficient level of scientific productivity, according to the website Space.com .

High-precision weapons are being actively used in the framework of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine. Including the Iskander-M tactical complex.

The design of the complex began in the 1990s. In 2006, it was put into service. Since 2011, the troops began to receive a deeply modernized Iskander-M.

The journey from nuclear missiles to cyberwar planning took seventy years

After World War II, Washington completely abandoned its previously characteristic foreign policy self-isolation (more precisely, "closure" within the Western Hemisphere).

Evolution of the "Crocodile with a propeller"

The combat effectiveness of the Russian army aviation, repeatedly demonstrated during the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, as a rule, does not require confirmation. But especially vivid emotions are caused by the actions of a veteran of Afghanistan, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Chechnya, Georgia and Syria – the Mi-24 attack helicopter, nicknamed "Crocodile".

Electric cars in Russia and lithium fever in the world

Against the background of the special military operation of the Russian army in Ukraine, Russia came under numerous sanctions mainly from Western countries, which exposed the country's significant dependence on imports in the field of high technologies of a number of industries.