News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

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.

During the successful offensive actions of parts of the People's Republics in the Donbas, Ukrainian armed formations lose a large amount of military equipment. Part of it is completely destroyed, other samples have various damages.

NASA said that they will not have time to land on the moon until 2026

The Inspector General of NASA criticized the American lunar program. Speaking to US lawmakers, he said that the Artemis program required several billion dollars more than planned, and people will not be on the surface of the Moon until 2026.

Thirty years of the Scientific research center of the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Smolensk

The military air defense of Russia has gone a long way in development, starting from the three-inch anti-aircraft gun of the 1915 Franz Lender model to the modern S-300V4 long-range air defense system equipped with hypersonic anti-aircraft guided missiles.

The ships of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) of the Southern Military District (SE) conducted an air defense exercise at their base in Kaspiysk, the press service of the SE reported on Tuesday.

The head of Roscosmos also suggested that European colleagues were surprised when they read the news about the continuation of full-time cooperation between NASA and the Russian state corporation

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin ironically reacted to the idea of the European Space Agency (ESA) to use European rockets to launch satellites into orbit, which were planned to be launched on Russian Soyuz rockets.

Rogozin said that ESA will launch satellites on its rockets when they have them

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, in his Telegram channel, appreciated the idea of the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch satellites planned for launches on Russian Soyuz rockets on its own rockets.

FAR EAST - Units of the combined arms Army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) will perform combat training tasks at the Kapustin Yar interspecific training ground in the Astrakhan Region and will work out issues of transportation of formations and military units over long distances, the press service of the VVO reports.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has agreed with the private aerospace company SpaceX to add three additional missions to transport crews to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon ships.

The training on the protection of airspace on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands was conducted by servicemen with combat calculations of the S-400 Triumph and S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile systems of the air defense units (air defense), the press service of the Eastern Military District reported on Tuesday.

More than 500 servicemen took part in the exercise

Calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical missile systems of the Central Military District (CVO) at an exercise in the Orenburg region worked out the destruction of the base camp of a conditional enemy at a range of more than 300 km, the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.

According to the plan for the supply of the main samples of weapons and military equipment, two new mobile radars "Casta" with improved characteristics have entered service with the units of the radio technical troops of the Central Military District stationed in Siberia.

The first detailed video of the tests of the hypersonic anti-ship missile "Zircon" appeared on the Network. TV journalists went to sea on the frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" to witness the launch of two cruise missiles at once: "Caliber" and "Zircon".

The units of the combined arms Army of the Eastern Military District will perform combat training tasks at the Kapustin Yar interspecific training ground in the Astrakhan region and will work out issues of transportation of formations and military units over long distances.