News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The ships of the Black Sea Fleet conducted tactical maneuvers as part of the exercises and destroyed the submarine of a conditional enemy with the help of artillery combat. This was announced on Monday, February 15, by the press service of the World Cup.

More than 80% of the cuts were made by overhead personnel and a non-industrial group, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, Deputy director of the State Corporation for Economics and Finance

The reduction in the number of employees of the Russian rocket and space industry almost does not affect employees involved in real production. This was reported to journalists by Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Economics and Finance.

More than 30 warships of various classes take part in the exercises

The crews of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) during the exercises in the Black Sea practiced conducting naval artillery combat, search and destruction of a submarine of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said.

This is due to the introduction of new technologies and getting rid of non-core assets, the first deputy director of the corporation Maxim Ovchinnikov said in an interview with Vedomosti

Optimization of the number of the space industry of the Russian Federation for 2019-2021 amounted to 8.8%. This was announced by the first Deputy Director General of Roscosmos Maxim Ovchinnikov in an interview published on Tuesday with the Vedomosti newspaper.

About 2.5 billion rubles were invested in the project

Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.P.Chkalov (NAZ. Chkalova, a branch of PJSC Sukhoi Company) will modernize production within five years with the construction of a new building for the production of heavy stealth drones S-70 "Hunter", a source in the authorities told TASS.

According to First Deputy CEO Maxim Ovchinnikov, the state corporation, together with federal executive authorities, is doing everything possible to make up for this

The construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome is accompanied by a shortage of labor resources, as well as some building materials, for example, crushed stone. Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the state corporation, told about this in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper published on Tuesday.

Over the past three years, it has decreased by almost 15%, Maxim Ovchinnikov, the first deputy director of the state corporation, told Vedomosti in an interview

The volume of the Roscosmos loan portfolio is 92 billion rubles, Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the state corporation, said in an interview with Vedomosti newspaper.

The National Space Center under construction in Moscow is planned to be put into operation in 2024, and the launch complex for launch vehicles "Angara" at the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed this year, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos.

At the same time, funding for basic research has been increased to an average of 13 billion rubles a year, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, first deputy director of the state corporation

Financing of projects in the space industry decreased by about 277 billion rubles during the implementation of the Federal Space Program (FCP) for 2016-2025, but last year Roscosmos managed to partially eliminate this sequester, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, first deputy director of the state corporation.

Calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Hurricane" and "Grad" conducted firing on artillery targets of a conditional enemy at the Opuk training ground in the Crimea, said the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev.

Su-24 bombers and Su-27 fighters of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation bombed a simulated enemy landing party during exercises for the defense of the Crimea, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The gunners of the Northern Fleet destroyed the tanks of the imaginary enemy with the fire of MT-12 cannons

Units of the Northern Fleet (SF) have worked out the destruction of tanks of a conditional enemy by direct fire. The gunners of a separate motorized rifle brigade of the Army Corps of the Northern Fleet used self-propelled howitzers and anti-tank guns. This was reported in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

They will be launched on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage on the night of March 5

Over 35 British OneWeb communications satellites have been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from where they will be launched on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage on the night of March 5. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

In the Krasnodar Territory, an exercise with engineering assault units of the Southern Military District (SE) with the use of the latest IAD-3SH mine clearance kits has started.

Russia is successfully increasing the potential and capabilities of its armed forces, including the nuclear component. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev.

Fincantieri Company announced the technical launching of the multipurpose patrol ship of the coastal zone PPA - P434 "Giovanni delle Bande Nere" on February 12 at the enterprise in Riva Trigoso (Genoa).

The holding's CEO Nikolay Kolesov said that the Kazan Helicopter Plant expects to transfer 111 helicopters to 10 customers in 2022

The Russian Helicopters Holding Company to Rostec State Corporation is scheduled to produce 311 helicopters in 2022. This was announced on Tuesday by the holding's CEO Nikolay Kolesov in an interview with the Business Online newspaper.

Exercises with engineering assault units of the Southern Military District with the use of the latest demining kits have begun in the Krasnodar Territory.

In the USA, the MiG-29 fighter was confused with the American F-16 and F-15. The image of the Russian plane decorated a billboard in the California city of Santa Monica.

In the joint Russian-Belarusian operational exercises "Allied Resolve-2022", units equipped with multi-axle wheeled tractors played a significant role in the relocation of the military equipment involved to the landfills.