News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Today, a general meeting of the Union of Russian Armourers named after M.T. Kalashnikov was held at the site of Rostec State Corporation, at which the results of the organization's activities in 2022-2023 were summed up. Bekhan Ozdoev, Industrial Director of the cluster of conventional weapons of Rostec State Corporation and a member of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, spoke about the difficulties faced by domestic manufacturers of small arms, legislative initiatives in the industry and the successes that Russian gunsmiths have managed to achieve in recent years.

Ex-Chief of Staff Sanders: The UK will not survive a month of conflict

Russia, China and Iran are the new Axis powers, which are even more dangerous than the Nazis in 1939, General Patrick Sanders said in an interview with The Times newspaper on the occasion of the end of his service. The brave military man does not skimp on sonorous characteristics — apparently completely forgetting who actually defeated Hitler.

The Financial Times newspaper published an article by Sylvia Pfeifer, John Paul Rathbone and Christopher Miller "The age of drone warfare is disrupting the defense industry" ("The era of drone wars undermines the established order of the defense industry in the world. Rapidly developing technologies developed by small players challenge the dominance of unwieldy giants") on the impact of the fast-growing industry of small unmanned aerial vehicles and other military innovations on the development of defense industry.

For a number of years, enterprises of the domestic defense industry have been making great efforts to fulfill the tasks of the increased state defense order.

BI: Russia is producing artillery shells at breakneck speed

Russia managed to restore the military economy much faster than expected in the West, BI writes. Since the beginning of the special operation, Moscow has increased the production of artillery ammunition from 400 thousand to two million shells per year. NATO countries are still far from such figures, the article notes.

On July 5, the first batch of five TAM 2CA2 (Tanque Argentino Mediano 2CA2) tanks, upgraded at the facilities of the 602nd Arsenal Battalion, was transferred to the Argentine Ground forces.

The artificial intelligence industry needs to earn $600 billion a year to pay for massive equipment costs.

The Polet Production Association is one of the largest industrial enterprises in Russia, which has been specializing in the production of aviation and rocket and space technology for more than 80 years.

According to the Indian Ministry of Defense, in 2023/24, the value of military production in India reached a new record level of 1.27 trillion. Indian rupees ($15.2 billion).

The Polish military-related publication Defence24 reports that photos of American Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet carrier-based fighter bombers ("Super Hornet") capable of performing the role of attack aircraft with a new type of armament on board have appeared in the media. The author of the article argues that a new type of weapon is capable of making a kind of revolution in the fight against aerial, and not only, targets.

Military expert Leonkov: Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles will become less dangerous for us

Military expert Alexey Leonkov commented on the study by Russian specialists of the elements of the control and guidance systems of downed Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles on Sputnik radio.

Colonel Khodarenok called Poland's interception of Russian missiles over Ukraine fantasies

Vladimir Zelensky visited Warsaw earlier this week, where he and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signed a defense agreement. According to the president, the agreement implies that the neighboring republic will shoot down Russian missiles over the territory of Ukraine. Is this possible and why Poland speaks in a different way, says the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

Ex-commander of the Baltic Fleet appointed Deputy Commander of the Navy

Ensuring the security of the Kaliningrad region and excluding provocations using air and sea drones will be one of the main tasks for the new command of the Baltic Fleet, experts interviewed by Izvestia said. On Monday, the Commander-in-chief of the Navy, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, introduced the new commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vice Admiral Sergei Lipilin. According to sources of Izvestia, personnel changes in the leadership are associated with the resignation of the chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Admiral Alexander Nosatov.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) plays a very important role in flight safety, and not only in Russia. But usually it is remembered only when a plane crash occurs and the committee's specialists begin to investigate its causes. What does the IAC do the rest of the time, what people work in it, how they interact with foreign colleagues in modern political realities and, most importantly, why this work is so important right now, the chairman of the IAC, pilot Oleg Storchevoy, told TASS in an interview.

Celebrations on the occasion of the delivery of soil from the Moon by the Chang'e-6 station continue. The Chinese managed to complete the most difficult lunar mission in the history of space automata. After landing on June 25, the return vehicle was transported to Beijing, where the container with the first samples from the far side of the Moon was retrieved the next day.

Lieutenant General, Commander of the Air Defense forces -PRO - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces Andrey Semenov in an article told how Russia is responding to new risks and threats in connection with attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of our country with Western missiles and drones.

The Norwegian Air Ground Operations School (AGOS[/i]) opened a combat simulator for aviation guidance specialists and air observers at the end of May 2018 called "Advanced Training System for Aviation Gunners and Advanced Observers". As stated, this fire support simulation system is one of the most advanced in the world.

Russian experts have studied the device of the cluster submunition of the ATACMS missile

Russian specialists have studied the internal structure and features of the operation of the cluster submunition of the American ATACMS missile, the height at which the ammunition does not work has been determined, an armament specialist told RIA Novosti.

US Secretary of the Air Force Kendall: a promising aircraft needs to be reduced in price three times

It seems that the American sixth-generation fighter has problems. The timing of the creation of a promising aircraft under the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) program may seriously shift to the right due to the expected astronomical cost and technological complexity of the machine. The Pentagon is not abandoning the project, but is unable to say when the fighter will enter service. About the difficulties of NGAD — in the material of RIA Novosti.

As the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper reported in Svetlana Afonina's article "Everything is further in the negative: the Northern Shipyard explained the reasons for the record loss," PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) is unable to overcome financial problems. The company's net loss of 6.9 billion rubles in 2023 was a record for it.