News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The UEC-UMPO enterprise of the United Engine Corporation has started implementing a new program to improve the reliability of AL-31ST gas turbine drives with a capacity of 16 MW intended for Gazprom facilities.

Kalashnikov is one of the few large private companies operating in the Russian defense industry, the requirements for which have increased sharply against the background of the ongoing military operation in Ukraine. Alan Lushnikov, the main owner and president of Kalashnikov Group, told Kommersant about how sanctions affected the group's activities, the production of drones and precision weapons, as well as the launch of new business lines.

The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle launched yesterday delivered a number of satellites to the calculated orbit, including CUBESX-HSE-2 vehicles, as well as SXC3-214 MIET-AIS, which received engines based on the plasma of the new VERA development and created in Russia by MEPhI engineers.

RG managed to talk with Vladislav Lobaev, a leading Russian expert in the field of sniper weapons, the creator of ultra-long-range rifles. He told how his rifles proved themselves in their own, whether a sniper can destroy a missile system and why high-precision rifles are so slowly being adopted.

At the very beginning of the XXI century, an interesting self-propelled artillery installation was created on the chassis of the Belarusian all-terrain vehicle MZKT-8007 "Volat", which was almost forgotten. However, even now this combat vehicle looks quite modern and is close to Western wheeled self-propelled guns in its main characteristics.

The invention will make it possible to increase the efficiency of the use of drones by increasing their stay in the air, the radius of combat use and the payload mass during takeoff, the Federal Institute of Industrial Property reported.

It is expected that the new Antares 330 rocket will be completely American

The American corporation Northrop Grumman has signed an agreement with the American company Firefly Aerospace with the aim of upgrading the first stage of the Antares rocket and replacing Russian engines with American ones on it. This is stated in a message published on Monday by Northrop Grumman.

More powerful than the American B-2 — details of a new generation of Russian stealth bombers have been revealed. NATO's dreams may be shattered

Russia has released information about even more powerful weapons than American B-2 bombers, writes user Sina. As soon as it enters service, NATO will not be able to sleep peacefully, the author of the article is sure.

When a country decides to test anti-satellite missiles and shoots down its old spacecraft in orbit, the world community immediately condemns it. They say that you increase the amount of space debris for nothing and create a danger for the peaceful use of near-Earth space! Such public statements once again fuel the fear of the notorious Kessler syndrome.

According to the Head of the Department of Space Sciences of the D. V. Skobeltsyn Research Institute of Nuclear Physics (NIIYAF) The Moscow State University of Vladimir Kalegaev, the violation of scientific ties will lead to a slowdown in world development, from which everyone will suffer.

A plant for the production of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles can be built on Ukrainian territory in a few months. Ukraine has also decided on the timing of the launch of the production of Bayraktar drones.

Russia continues to improve one of the main novelties of the Ukrainian special operation – high-precision weapons of destruction. Among them, the Krasnopol artillery shell stands out in particular. What is interesting about this ammunition and what makes it a fundamentally new tool on the battlefield?

The Rostec Certificate Certification Center of RT-Techpriemka conducted a certification audit of the 144th armored repair plant of the Remvooruzhenie Holding of Rostec State Corporation.

The Iranian Air Force had more dangerous fighters than any other army in the world

Even Soviet MiG aircraft were inferior to this fighter, writes MWM. But due to the high cost and complexity of its operation, many countries refused to buy it - all except Iran. As a result, his army had no equal in the number of the most dangerous fighters.

Despite the military assistance coming from Western countries, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are faced with a shortage of weapons, which, in turn, forces the Ukrainian military to actively use various homemade handicrafts.

In Ukraine, they started talking again about the construction of a factory for the production of Bayraktar TB2 attack drones. After all the advisers of the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, the head of the office himself and even the Minister of Defense spoke on this topic, the turn came to the Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey Vasily Bodnar.

The composite wing, which was nicknamed the "black wing" because of the color of carbon fiber, is considered one of the main features of the MS-21. Today it is mass-produced from domestic materials at the Aerocomposite enterprise of the United Aircraft Corporation. This was made possible thanks to the successful replacement program of foreign composites, the supply of which was suspended due to sanctions.

The Design Bureau of the Kazan Helicopter Plant is working to present the Ansat helicopter in a fully domestic configuration as soon as possible, the machine is being reassembled without components from Ukraine, the USA and Europe.

The authorities want to negotiate with banks on granting preferential loans to companies from the electronics sector. The rate should be no more than 5% per annum, but the minimum loan amount, on the contrary, is rather big – 4 billion rubles. The industry reacted extremely positively to this idea, calling the current interest rates of banks unprofitable. The development of the initiative is still at the initial stage.

Perm Promobot is one of the largest companies in the field of service robots in Europe and the manufacturer of the android Dunyasha, which became one of the most mentioned "persons" of the last St. Petersburg Economic Forum, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, according to Brand Analytics.