News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Air tanker KC-46A of the US Air Force took part in ultrafast refueling

Air Force (Air Force) The USA demonstrated ultrafast refueling from the KC-46A Pegasus air tanker. The Drive edition drew attention to the video posted on YouTube.

The Training Center received optical sights and simulators for training astronauts in the skills of manual docking of spacecraft

Shvabe Holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) supplied optical sights and simulators for training astronauts in the skills of manual docking of spacecraft to the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC). This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the state corporation.

The next stage of the combat training of the minesweeping forces will be mine countermeasures for planned joint exercises of homogeneous and heterogeneous naval tactical groups

The naval minesweepers of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) "Valentin Pikul" and "Vice Admiral Zakharyin" have worked out setting minefields in the Black Sea, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Thursday.

In the waters of the Gulf of Finland, the diesel-electric icebreaker Buran, assigned to the Leningrad Naval Base of the Baltic Fleet, conducted an ice break. This is necessary to maintain the readiness of warships and the navigation of civilian vessels. You can watch the work of the icebreaker on video.

Domestic UAZ-469 and UAZ-3151 all-terrain vehicles continue to be used in many armed forces and law enforcement agencies of the world. There are still quite a lot of them in Africa.

For example, the Ghanaian army has adapted Ulyanovsk jeeps for the installation of small arms and anti-tank weapons.

On February 9, a delegation of the French company Naval Group visited the PT PAL Indonesia submarine manufacturing facility in Surabaya (Indonesia).

Six large landing ships of the Baltic and Northern Fleets arrived in Sevastopol from the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday, February 10. The video of the ships entering the Sevastopol Bay was distributed by the Information support Department of the Black Sea Fleet.

NATO is considering the possibility of deploying combat groups in Romania, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. The head of the bloc also added that today the Ukrainian army is much better prepared than in 2014.

The first flight of the Bayraktar TB3 deck drone will take place in 2022

The Turkish Defense Industry Secretariat plans to launch a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into the air for the first time in 2022. The Defense Turk publication announced the first flight of the Bayraktar TB3 carrier-based drone.

The launch of the enterprise is scheduled for 2022

A joint Russian-Kazakh enterprise, the launch of which is scheduled for 2022, will provide the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan with the latest submachine guns, the press service of the Kalashnikov group of companies told reporters on Thursday.

Construction for the Brazilian Navy of the Tamandare-class multi-purpose frigate (MEKO A-100) will begin in September.

In the armed forces of many countries, there are specially created units that portray the enemy during various military exercises.

In the USA, for example, the so-called "32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment" existed for a long time in Fort Irwin (Mojave Desert, California).

91 percent of Russians who served in the army on conscription believe that this service did not interfere with their career, and only 9 percent are sure of the opposite, according to the survey of the SuperJob service.

The Russian Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with 34 OneWeb satellites launched from the Kourou cosmodrome

The Russian Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with 34 communication satellites of the British company OneWeb launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the broadcast.

This program assumes the use of the Angara-A5B launch vehicle, said Rafail Murtazin, head of the RSC Energia Ballistics Department

Four-launch launches of astronauts to the Moon using Angara launch vehicles will be possible only with the implementation of a single-turn approach scheme. This opinion was expressed to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos), Rafail Murtazin.

More than 300 units of weapons and military equipment will be involved in the exercises

The gunners of the formations of the 49th Army of the Southern Military District stationed in the Caucasus have begun field exercises. As the press service of the district told reporters on Wednesday, more than 2.5 thousand servicemen are taking part in the maneuvers, who will fire from howitzers "Acacia", "Carnation", multiple rocket launchers and other weapons.

Military specialist Litovkin: Sirius drones will be able to be used on Russian UDC

The universal amphibious assault ships (UDC) under construction in Russia, which are also called helicopter carriers, will be able to carry promising drones. Sirius unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of taking off from the deck of the UDC, Dmitry Litovkin, editor-in-chief of the Independent Military Review, suggested in an interview with TASS.

The marines of the Northern Fleet destroyed the forces of a conditional enemy at a training ground near the village of Sputnik in the Murmansk region. This was announced on Wednesday, February 9, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

While on combat duty on the Caspian coast in Dagestan, servicemen of the Bal coastal missile systems division of the Southern Military District successfully worked out electronic missile launches against the forces of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The crews of the army aviation of the Russian airbase Erebuni (Armenia) of the Southern Military District performed training flights in high-altitude terrain, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.