News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On October 2, 2021, the Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine of the US Navy, USS Connecticut, while performing a mission in the waters of the South China Sea, was damaged as a result of a collision with an unknown object. 11 members of the submarine crew were injured. But the submarine's nuclear power plant was allegedly not damaged.

For a long time, a number of US military bases bore the names of generals and officers of the Confederacy of the Southern States. It was a kind of gesture of reconciliation between the parties, since both northerners and southerners were considered by the American authorities to be part of the overall national history of the American state for more than a century. Everything changed after the new US President Joe Biden came to power, or rather those people who surround him.

Romania resumes flights of MiG-21 Lancer fighters of the country's Air Force, suspended in mid-April this year due to the high accident rate of the aircraft. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the country extends the operation of Soviet fighters for another year. This is stated in the message of the Romanian military department.

The Russian military said that the port of Mariupol began to operate normally. The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on Wednesday that the measures for demining and demilitarization of the seaport have been completed.

The missile Attack Warning System (SPRN) of Russia will be improved. The project of modernization of the SPRN will include the ability of radar stations (radars) to track promising targets of a likely enemy. This was told by the General director of JSC "Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician A. L. Mints" (RTI) and JSC "NPC "NIIDAR" Yuri Anoshko, his words are quoted by TASS.

The crew paid special attention to the detection of underwater targets at long distances

The crew of the guard ship of the Baltic Fleet "Intrepid", undergoing sea trials in the sea ranges of the Baltic Fleet, checked the operability and effectiveness of the ship's sonar system, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

In total, he performed more than 10 combat exercises, towed and float shields became targets for him

The patrol ship of the Baltic Fleet "Yaroslav the Wise" performed artillery firing on surface targets during exercises at sea, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

JSC "Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician A.L. Mints" (RTI) and JSC "NPC "NIIDAR" (NIIDAR) — leaders in the field of creating complex radio engineering systems. Specialists of the institutes create both separate equipment and complex radar stations (radars) and hardware and software complexes.

By 2025, the Ministry of Education and Science expects its well-established production and implementation for the needs of partner enterprises of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation.

Russian high-precision missiles destroyed the workshops of the plant, which is of interest to several great powers at once. We are talking about the Zaporozhye "Motor Sich" – an enterprise with a huge potential in the aviation engine building. What exactly is the value of this plant and why in the future Russia will definitely take it under control and modernize it?

Russia will soon put about 50 new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on combat duty, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

As reported by JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), on May 21, 2022, the ice-resistant self-propelled platform "North Pole" of the project built at this enterprise in St. Petersburg for the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) entered factory sea trials for the first time. 00903 (factory number 02404).

As reported, on May 21, 2022, the Mercury corvette of the modified project 20380 (factory number 1007, originally called "Zealous"), built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at PJSC "Shipbuilding Plant "Severnaya Verf" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"), entered the factory sea trials in the Baltic Sea for the first time").

The Russian aviation complex of electronic warfare "Khibiny", used on front-line bombers Su-34, will be upgraded. This decision was made following the results of the use of aircraft with an electronic warfare system during a special military operation in Ukraine.

The scientific and business program of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" is posted on the official website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. The events will be held from August 15 to 21 at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center.

The United Aircraft Corporation and the Mechanics Machine tool Holding (both part of Rostec State Corporation) have signed a strategic partnership agreement.

The shipyard "Severnaya Verf" continues construction of a series of fishing trawlers-processors of project 170701 for the holding NOREBO. According to the press service of the enterprise, the fifth trawler of the series has already received the main engine.

Rosatom will build a huge plant for the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and industry for 26 billion rubles. At the same time, the products will be focused mainly on the domestic market.

In the last few days, there has been a lot of talk about the "revived" Moskvich plant and the production of a certain electric car on its basis.

The project of the second Chinese interplanetary station "Tianwen-2" has passed into the engineering design stage, and the device itself will be launched into space in 2025. It is expected that the station will be able to deliver soil to Earth from the Kamoalev Earth quasi-satellite, as well as study the active asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS, according to the website Space.com .

The Broken Socket

The "Pearl of Taiwan" is called the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing company – TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company).