News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The British Navy began to master its new frigate. On October 21, the press service of the British Navy reported that the first sailors "settled" on the lead ship of the Type 26 project.

The US Army and Navy have tested prototypes of hypersonic weapons systems. Earlier it became known about the tests of the HAWC air-based missile.

On October 20, the command of the Turkish Navy received the first medium-altitude long-duration UAV (MALE) Aksungur manufactured by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).

Military aviation will not remain aloof from the unprecedented pace of technology development. According to experts, in the current century, armed struggle will be radically different from the ways and methods of warfare of the past. Artificial intelligence technologies will be introduced into manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.

The American Heritage Foundation Research Institute has published an analysis of the US military potential. The assessment turned out to be the worst in recent years.

According to analysts of the institute, the power of the military potential is only 2/3 of what should be in reality. The problem is also a rather outdated technique that does not meet the challenges of the time.

According to the CEO of Roscosmos, first you need to find out what burned down, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin suggested finding out which device burned down in the sky over the United States, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation.

The preparation of astronauts for landing on the Moon was shown in Russia. The corresponding video was published on the YouTube channel of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, RIA Novosti reports.

The Pentagon reported that the reason for the failure of the hypersonic glider tests in Alaska was a malfunction of the accelerator. - The failed accelerator is not part of the hypersonic program, - DefenceNews quotes the words of the representative of the US military department Timothy Gorman. The accident occurred shortly after the launch vehicle took off from the Pacific Cosmodrome on Kodiak Island.

As a result of the explosion and fire in the powder shop of the plant near Ryazan, 16 people were killed, another one received burns of 80% of the body surface. This was stated by the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Health of Russia Alexey Kuznetsov.

The Verkhneturinsk Machine-building Plant of the Technodinamika holding has produced the first samples of test parts of shell casings for field and tank artillery. The production of trial products is carried out at the site of a new mechanical workshop, where commissioning works are carried out. The cost of the production site was 400 million rubles.

Scientists at the University of Surrey (UK) reproduced the reactions occurring during a supernova outbreak in laboratory conditions using an accelerated beam of radioactive isotopes. For the first time, they measured the cross-section of the p-process, a thermonuclear reaction that occurs at the moment of the explosion of a massive star. The article was published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 was compared with American aircraft. Expert Alexey Leonkov noted that the Su-57 is ahead of competitors in terms of weapons systems and rates of robotization. Also, the radar station and electronic warfare systems of the Russian machine are better than the solutions used in the F-22 and F-35.

The Australian Ministry of Defense announced the launch ceremony of the first (out of six ordered) patrol boat of the "Improved Cape" class for the Australian Navy, which took place at Austal Ships in Henderson (Western Australia).

The new SSP-200 ship-lifting pontoon has been transferred to the forces and means of the search and rescue service of the Navy. This was announced by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Joe Biden administration will be able to save "tens of millions of American lives" from enemy attacks only if it takes steps to strengthen national defense, writes former combat and staff officer of the US Army Devin Pine in the magazine The National Interest.

Tow trucks for Iskander complexes will be delivered to the tank army of the Western Military District by the end of 2021. This is reported by the press service of the ZVO.

We are talking about repair and evacuation vehicles REM-KS, created on the chassis of four-axle all-terrain vehicles of the Bryansk Automobile Plant.

The Russian Navy may receive 18 small rocket ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt". The capabilities of Russian ships were evaluated in the United States. "Karakurt" demonstrates the modernization of the Russian Navy, writes The National Interest.

Conducting manned launches of Soyuz MS spacecraft on medium-sized Soyuz-ST rockets from Kourou will not require modification of the carrier. Dmitry Baranov, General Director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC), called TASS the condition for launching with a crew from the cosmodrome in French Guiana.

Air Force (Air Force) The United States has planned to place an experimental nuclear reactor at the Eilson base in Alaska by 2027, The Drive reports.

The US Navy has established the cause of the fire on the universal landing ship (UDC) USS Bonhomme Richard. The unsatisfactory technical condition of the ship and the low level of training of the crew led to a fire, writes the portal Janes.