News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
Ukraine armed itself with pre-war DP-27 machine guns
The Drive: Territorial defense units of Ukraine are armed with DP-27 machine guns
The territorial defense units of Ukraine may be armed with pre-war DP-27 machine guns, writes the American edition of The Drive, which drew attention to the corresponding video posted on YouTube.
Gunners of the 150th Division of the Southern Military District conducted howitzer practice in the Rostov region
The gunners of the 150th Division of the Southern Military District, as part of planned exercises, destroyed a unit of a conditional enemy in the Rostov region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.
WWII fighters mastered tracked floating all-terrain vehicles "Aleut"
In Ulan-Ude (Buryatia), exercises of units of the Eastern Military District were held at a specialized training ground of a tank compound.
In Ulan-Ude, exercises of units of the Eastern Military District took place at a specialized training ground of a tank compound, reports OTR. They involved tracked floating all-terrain vehicles "Aleut".
Shoigu visited the new plant of the Kronstadt company for the production of UAVs in Dubna
According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on January 27, 2022, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu inspected the first specialized plant in Russia for the production of large-sized military unmanned aerial vehicles, which the Kronstadt company built in Dubna near Moscow. Denis Manturov, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and Andrey Vorobyov, the Governor of the Moscow Region, also got acquainted with the new production. They were shown the capacity of the plant and the stages of the production process of unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type.
Boa constrictor pistols in special equipment with a silencer will begin to enter the army in 2023
Combined arms deliveries of 9x21-mm pistols began in 2021
The latest "Boa" pistols in a special configuration with a silencer will begin to enter the Russian Armed Forces in 2023. The first pistols in the combined arms configuration have already been received by the troops, the press service of the Rostec State Corporation told TASS.
The gunners of the 58th Army conducted firing practice at a training ground in North Ossetia
The military destroyed the conditional command posts of the enemy and his manpower
The gunners of the 58th Army destroyed the command posts of the conditional enemy during exercises at the Tarskoye training ground in North Ossetia. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the press service of the Southern Military District.
Black Sea Fleet ships hit air and sea targets during exercises in the Black Sea
The main focus of the exercises is to work out the actions of the forces of the Navy and Aerospace Forces to protect Russian national interests in the World Ocean
Crews of ships of the Black Sea Fleet performed artillery firing on air and sea targets during planned exercises in the Black Sea. This was reported to journalists in the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet of the press service of the Southern Military District.
More than 1 thousand soldiers took part in anti-terrorist training in the Far East
Blank ammunition and other means of imitation were used in the exercises
Comprehensive anti-terrorism training took place in the military garrisons of the Pacific Fleet in Primorye, Sakhalin, Kamchatka and the Khabarovsk Territory, more than 1 thousand servicemen took part in them. They have worked out various scenarios for repelling attacks on military facilities, the press service of the TOPF reported on Friday.
China and Russia may sign an agreement on the creation of a lunar station by the end of the year
Basically, the parties reached a consensus, said Wu Yanhua, deputy head of the Chinese National Space Administration
An intergovernmental agreement between Russia and China on cooperation in the creation of a lunar station may be signed before the end of the year. This was announced at a press conference on Friday by the deputy head of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) At Yanhua.
The attack of the conditional enemy was repelled by the calculations of the Buk air defense system in Primorye
A large-scale air defense training was conducted with servicemen of the anti-aircraft missile unit of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Primorsky Territory, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
The newest MRC "Cyclone" is undergoing state tests in the Black Sea
The crew of the MRK Cyclone project 22800 Karakurt, built for the Black Sea Fleet at the B.E.Butoma Shipyard in Kerch, has started the marine part of the state tests in the Black Sea.
Video: Ships of the Black Sea Fleet hit air and sea targets
During the large-scale naval exercises, the ships of the Black Sea Fleet performed artillery firing on air and sea targets in the Black Sea. This was reported by the Information support department of the Black Sea Fleet.
Ukrainian "Sich-2-30" turned away from the Sun and did not follow the Donbass
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau: communication with the Sich-2-30 satellite is periodic due to a shortage of energy
The Ukrainian satellite of remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30", launched in January on a Falcon 9 rocket, got in touch, reports TASS the message of the head of the Design Bureau (KB) "Yuzhnoye" Konstantin Belousov. As Vladimir Taftai, the head of the country's State Space Agency, stated in October 2021, the spacecraft can be used to track the movements of military equipment in the Donbass and ships on the Black Sea.
Video: F-35 crashed into a US aircraft carrier
A video has emerged of the last seconds of the flight of a US Navy F-35 fighter jet that fell into the South China Sea after hitting the deck of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. Recall that seven people were injured in the accident.
The Daily Star called the Belgorod submarine a killer of cities
The Russian special-purpose submarine Belgorod, whose commissioning is scheduled for July, is capable of leading to indescribable chaos and destruction in the UK.
Serial deliveries of Sirius attack drones will begin in 2023
The Russian Armed Forces will begin mass-producing Sirius attack drones in 2023. The first flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle is expected in May this year.
In Britain, they found a "killer of cities" among Russian weapons
Military expert Clark called the Russian nuclear submarine K-329 "Belgorod" a killer of cities
The Russian nuclear submarine K-329 Belgorod is capable of causing "incredible chaos" and destruction in the UK, said defense expert Rob Clark of the Henry Jackson Society. His words are quoted by the Daily Star newspaper.
Chinese Shijian-21 "buried" satellite BeiDou
The Drive: Chinese satellite Shijian-21 moved the BeiDou spacecraft to another orbit
The Chinese satellite Shijian-21 captured another, spent spacecraft of the BeiDou navigation system, and moved it from geostationary orbit to the burial orbit, writes The Drive.
The American artillery was called a colossus on clay feet
The artillery of the US Army is inferior in combat capabilities to similar weapons of Russia and China. Calculations for the support of infantry and marines only by aircraft and helicopters, taking into account the development of air defense systems, did not come true.
A clone of the T-54 tank was tried to modernize in China
In the early 70s, the most modern tank of the People's Liberation Army of China was the Type 59, which was, in fact, a clone of the Soviet T-54A, launched in a series back in 1955.
At this time, the Armed Forces of the USSR and Western states continued to receive new generation equipment: T-64A, AMX-30, Leopard, Chieftain. Work has also begun on Leopard 2 and XM803.
