News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

US President Joe Biden, at a meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, announced that as part of military assistance, Washington would provide Kiev with a battery of this missile system and train the Ukrainian military to work with it.

The head of the USC Rakhmanov reported a fire on the cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov in Murmansk

Another fire occurred on the cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov on December 22. According to the head of USC Alexey Rakhmanov, the "small incident" was quickly eliminated, no one was injured, there is no damage either. This is the second fire on the ship in five years of its repair. In addition, in 2018, the cruiser's hull was damaged as a result of the flooding of a floating dock off the coast of Murmansk.

Project Syndicate: 2022 confirmed that the lessons of history continue to be ignored

In the outgoing year 2022, we have convinced not only that history is returning, but also that it retains the ability to surprise us, writes the author of the article in Project Syndicate. He names the ten main events of the outgoing year and offers to learn from them.

Last Sunday, an attempt to communicate with the InSight research landing platform, which has worked on Mars for more than four years, failed. The device, which has considerably exceeded its service life, did not respond and, most likely, will never be able to. Over the past few months, the energy output of its solar panels has been continuously declining.

Bulgaria has started construction of the second MMPV-type multi-purpose patrol ship, the steel cutting ceremony was held at the MTG Dolphin shipyard in Varna. The work was started by the Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Navy, the Managing Director of NVL Group and the Executive director of MTG-Dolphin.

Putin urged to investigate NATO weapons and apply this data for development in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow. The Head of State announced the preliminary conclusions of the special military operation in Ukraine. He called for making the experience of his military the basis for improving combat training, called on the military to listen to civil initiatives and take into account "even emotional criticism." Putin also compared the fighters in the SVO zone with the soldiers of the patriotic wars.

An expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense was held at the National Defense Management Center on December 21, at which the results of the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2022 were summed up and tasks for the next period were defined.

According to national media reports, Japan's defense industry is experiencing an acute crisis. Large companies continue to withdraw from the market. Since 2003, more than 100 companies have left the defense sector. Therefore, for the next fiscal year, for the development of the country's defense industry, the Ministry of Defense (DoD) of Japan requested a budget for a separate estimate.

In the United States, flights of 20 B-2 Spirit strategic bombers in service with the country's air force have been temporarily suspended. This decision was made by the US military Air Command, according to the official representative of the US Air Force Beth Del Vecchio.

On December 18, the Ministry of Defense of India announced the ceremony of the adoption of the second URO-class destroyer "Visakhapatnam" ("Project-15B"), (D67) "Mormugao", which took place at the shipyard in Mumbai.

The Ukrainian army is armed with more and more strange-looking combat vehicles, which are assembled at enterprises from the wreckage of broken armored vehicles and even museum weapons. Forbes writes about this, analyzing the situation with the provision of armored vehicles to the Ukrainian army.

Spiegel: the "culling" of German Puma infantry fighting vehicles for NATO special forces revealed the disadvantages of the German military-industrial complex

NATO's high-alert forces were left without the German Puma infantry fighting vehicles promised to them, the German magazine Spiegel reports. This "beauty and pride" of the German military-industrial complex turned out to be too difficult to handle.

Russia puts Avangard complexes into service

The 13th missile Orenburg Red Banner Division is being handed over to the newest strategic mine-based complex "Avangard". Newsweek considers this system to be Vladimir Putin's "invincible weapon." As the president himself explained four years ago, Avangard is "absolutely invulnerable to any means of air and missile defense." War correspondent of "Gazeta.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about whether the West can resist Russian hypersonic.

As reported, on the evening of December 18, 2022, a corvette of the Thai Navy FS 442 Sukhothai (Ratanakosin type) sank in the Gulf of Thailand as a result of a strong storm. All crew members were rescued.

The development in Russia of a new generation tank "Black Eagle" became known in 1997. Then, in September, a running model of this car was presented for the first time at an exhibition in Omsk. It was noted that, in case of successful implementation of the project, its purchases by the Russian army and deliveries abroad are possible.

Novi Standard: The West overestimated the impact of sanctions on Russian military power

The West has overestimated the impact of sanctions on Russian military power, writes Novi Standard. If the Kremlin continues its weapons program, the Pentagon predicts that by 2030 it will overtake NATO in key areas.

According to academician Rashid Syunyaev, today this is a record

The Russian-European orbital observatory Spektr-RG has detected over 23 thousand galaxy clusters among 1.5 million X-ray sources discovered by the eROSITA telescope during four full and one incomplete sky surveys. This value is a record, Academician Rashid Syunyaev, scientific director of the Russian part of the Spektr-RG mission, said on Monday.

Specialists of the SSZ Vimpel (part of the USC) have begun assembling the hull of the head passenger catamaran on hydrofoils of the NSS150B project at the industrial site of the East Siberian River Shipping Company.

As reported on December 19, 2022, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC UAC), in December 2022, the next improved strategic missile carrier Tu-160M, developed by PJSC Tupolev (as part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation), made its first flight.

What unites the events in Ukraine, Vietnam and Afghanistan

For the first time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a Russian military airfield on August 9, 2022. At the airfield near Saki in the Crimea, according to American satellite intelligence, 7 to 10 Su-24 and Su-30SM aircraft were damaged or destroyed.