News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Traffic News (Japan): The Russian Sukhoi fighter is a high-tech aircraft that has amazed the whole world, and in particular Japan

At one time, Russia produced many masterpieces in the field of military aviation. One of them is considered to be a high-tech Sukhoi fighter, writes Yahoo News Japan. Japan even practically acquired it, but there were nuances.

Published letters about the treatment of gays at NASA in the 1960s

Half a century ago, NASA really fired employees of non-traditional sexual orientation, it turned out from the published correspondence of current employees. This issue was raised by activists who opposed the name of the space telescope in honor of James Webb, the former director of the agency, who was suspected of homophobia.

The special operation in Ukraine has been going on for a month. The army and pilots, the landing on Gostomel, the battles of the militia and special forces in Mariupol are heard. The role of the Navy remains behind the scenes – and completely in vain. What battles was the Russian squadron preparing for in the Mediterranean and how does it affect the ongoing operation right now?

On a web resource habr.com Denis Shamiryan (@CorneliusAgrippa), CEO of MAPPER LLC (semiconductor factory for the contract production of MEMS devices), "Microelectronics in Russia before and after 02/24/2022", has published an interesting material on the current state of microelectronics production in Russia and on the possibilities to create a fully localized production of microelectronic components under large-scale Western sanctions.

Carriers warned of problems with the repair of AN-24 and AN-26 engines due to the closure of the plant in Rostov-on-Don. This may lead to the suspension of flights on these aircraft. They are used for transportation in at least ten regions

On March 18, 2022, at the shipyard of the Italian shipbuilding association Fincantieri in Mudgiano in La Spezia, a ceremony was held for the official commissioning of the Italian Navy of the lead "multipurpose patrol ship" P 430 Paolo Thaon di Revel of the new type Pattugliatore Polivalente d'altura (PPA), which is actually a fairly large multipurpose frigate of the new generation. The ship became part of the La Spezia-based 1st Naval Division of the Italian Navy (COMDINAV UNO).

Chinese air defense has surpassed American and is catching up with Russian

All PLA military equipment is built on the Soviet foundation. At the beginning of its existence, China received a huge amount of Soviet weapons of all classes. And she quickly moved on to its own production - first under Soviet licenses, and then without them.

The beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine has forced institutional investors and governments of many countries to rethink their approach to supporting the defense industry. This area has been off-limits for investors concerned about environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), in recent years many have sought to get rid of the assets of arms companies in their portfolios, and now this situation has worsened. Sofia Karadima writes about this in a material for the Army Technology web resource.

According to the US Department of Defense, in the two weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia fired more than 625 missiles, of which about a hundred were launched in the first hours of the attack. Most of them were short—range ballistic missiles, and some were surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles.

It seems that the United States is "ripe” to expand the fleet of aircraft carriers. March 22, portal scramble.nl He announced that exercises are planned for the next month using the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) in the format of a light aircraft carrier.

Experts told how the Russian drones "Outpost" and "Orion" differ

The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the use of two drones during a special military operation in Ukraine - the strike-reconnaissance "Outpost", created on the basis of the Israeli IAI Searcher apparatus, and the Orion strike. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out what their similarities and differences are.

A large underground warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition of Ukrainian troops in the village of Delyatin, Ivano-Frankivsk region, was attacked.

The hypersonic "Dagger" hit not only a specific target, but most likely also (morally) the NATO command. The fact is that conventional ammunition destroyed not just a warehouse, but one of the central storage bases for nuclear weapons, known as "Object 711". It was built in 1955 and strengthened so that in those years it could withstand the impact of an atomic bomb.

Military Watch Magazine (USA): Will the conflict in Ukraine give a new impetus to the Su-57? Exports of these fighters will grow with high oil prices

The future of the Su-57 program remains extremely vague, writes Military Watch Magazine. But, given the number of potential customers whose incomes and military expenditures are heavily dependent on oil, there is a significant probability that with high oil prices, interest in the aircraft will grow.

American engineers have calculated the maximum flight altitude of a quadcopter powered by a cable of different thickness, above which the mass of the cable and the current loss in it do not allow the drone to maintain its flight. They also tested a bundle of two drones powered by a wire, expanding the possibilities compared to using a single device. The article will be presented at the IROS 2022 conference, its preprint is available at arXiv.org .

The foundations of modern naval forces and the US aircraft carrier fleet were laid in the 70-80-ies of the last century

The construction of 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the Nimitz type took more than 40 years: the lead ship was laid down in 1968, and the last one, the George Bush, was handed over to the fleet in 2009. These ships have a total displacement of more than 100 thousand tons, the length of the flight deck is 333 meters.

Will the Americans get the remains of the Ross "Zircons" from the bottom of the Barents Sea?

The Americans, having lifted the wreckage of the F-35C fighter from the depths of the South China Sea, proved that they are able to find and raise even small objects to the surface if the search area is narrowed. Therefore, it is possible that they will be able to raise the remnants of Russian missiles from the bottom of the Barents Sea and learn the secrets of the latest samples of our weapons from the finds.

Promising samples of weapons show that, technically, the Russian army is at the forefront

While once fraternal countries, to the detriment of their own interests, reviling everything that reminds of a great neighbor, admire Turkish "Bayraktars", Russian engineering thought is constantly progressing, and the domestic military-industrial complex does not cease to delight with novelties in the field of weapons, military and special equipment.

The United States makes maximum use of the situation in Ukraine to gain experience in the operation of RTR and electronic warfare aircraft against the Russian Aerospace Forces

The skies of Europe, or rather the countries bordering Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, are patrolled by reconnaissance aircraft. And NATO tankers of various types are constantly hanging in the air.

Without the nationalization of strategic resources, our country will not survive

The sanctions imposed by the West put Russia in front of the need to take extraordinary measures to restore economic self-sufficiency or, in other words, economic sovereignty. For more than 30 years, a purposeful policy has been carried out in our country to destroy economic independence with the transformation of Russia into a semi-colonial state of the united West.

With noticeable regularity, photos published on social networks show the successes of various man-portable surface-to-air missile systems (MANPADS) in the war in Ukraine. The systems used by the APU come from a variety of sources. Until now, the Piorun MANPADS produced in Poland have not attracted much attention from the Western audience. The change in the situation in Ukraine has forced foreign observers to analyze this system in more detail.