News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Russia built the first Tu-160M from a Soviet airframe

The strategic missile carrier Tu-160M, first built in Russia from scratch, and flew in January, turned out to be not entirely new. This circumstance follows from the comment of the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

A number of trainings were conducted with the military personnel of the anti-submarine sabotage forces and means of the Baltic Naval Base at a multifunctional training complex.

The units of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Eastern Military District, stationed in the Khabarovsk Territory, received new radar stations (radars) last year.

The updated strategic missile carrier Tu-160M will become the carrier of a new generation of cruise missiles of various types, writes The Drive. In an article devoted to the first flight of an aircraft built from scratch, the publication tells in detail about the Tu-160M and almost for the first time calls its new armament.

The budget for the planning period from 2022 to 2024 provides for financing of the main activities of the project in the amount of 21 billion rubles

The program for the creation of the multi-satellite grouping "Sphere" is planned to be approved in 2022. This is stated in the presentation of the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The launch is scheduled for the second half of 2022

The device, which will be launched as part of the ExoMars mission in 2022, is scheduled to be sent to the Baikonur cosmodrome in the spring. This was announced on Thursday by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

These launches will be carried out through Roscosmos

Five launches of the Soyuz rocket are planned from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2022. This was announced by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin during a meeting on the results of 2021.

Speaking about the advantages of a promising station, Roscosmos noted the storage and maintenance of spacecraft, the possibility of reconfiguration and the commercial segment

The work in the interests of national defense and security will be carried out on board the promising Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). This is stated in the presentation of the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Potomac Foundation President: Ukraine has the strongest active army in Europe

The president of the Potomac Foundation, Philip Karber, who has visited Ukraine 36 times over the past 8 years, in an interview with 19FortyFive called the Ukrainian army the strongest among those operating in Europe.

Rogozin said that ROSS will work in the interests of national security

It is planned, in particular, to work in the interests of national security at the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). The tasks of a possible Russian replacement of the International Space Station (ISS) are revealed in the presentation of the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin. This is reported by TASS.

The crew completed the inter-fleet transition from the Baltic to the Black Sea Fleet

The crew of the logistics vessel Vsevolod Bobrov completed the transition from the Baltic Sea and arrived in Novorossiysk. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

In addition, the agencies have prepared a draft agreement on cross-flights of US astronauts on Soyuz and Russian cosmonauts on American ships

Roscosmos and NASA are consulting on extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030. This is stated in the presentation of the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The crews of the Su-34 CVO destroyed the "enemy" aircraft during combat training sorties

The crews of Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers worked out overcoming the air defense system (air defense), destroying the airfield and enemy aircraft. The Su-34 aviation Division of the Central Military District (CVO) fulfilled the tasks during the first combat training sorties in 2022. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Central Military District.

Russian electronic warfare systems have proven themselves well during the operation of law enforcement agencies in Kazakhstan. The aerodynamic interference transmitter "Leer-3" and the drone "Orlan-10" left terrorist groups without GSM cellular communication.

The US Navy presented the appearance of the promising destroyer DDG(X), which will become one of the main warships of the American fleet in the future. It will receive extremely powerful laser weapons and hypersonic missiles.

General Director of the Yantar Plant: the plant can continue the BDK series of project 11711

New large amphibious assault ships (BDK) can be built in Russia. Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar", noted the readiness of the enterprise to continue the series of BDK of the modernized project 11711 for the Russian Navy. This is reported by TASS.

The Ukrainian army received overhauled anti-aircraft self-propelled guns ZSU-23-4M "Shilka". According to the press service of the Ukroboronprom concern, restoration work was carried out at the Balaklei Repair Plant, which is located in the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region.

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle will deliver a total of 105 spacecraft from 20 countries into orbit

SpaceX launched private and public spacecraft, including microsatellites, on Thursday as part of its commercial program. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.

JSC GLONASS together with the company "Business Monitoring" launched a new ERA service.RUS, which allows the driver to call a Regardie outfit to his location, the press service of the ERA-GLONASS traffic police operator reports.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are used by 12% and tested by 48% of large and medium-sized businesses. This is reported by Dentons analysts, who got acquainted with the opinions of 210 respondents. The results of the online survey were published by Vedomosti.