News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The rear units of the Southern Military District (SE) have begun to march to the points of permanent deployment after the end of the exercises in the Crimea, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday.

The Russian army is able to cope with any enemy in Europe. The latest weapons and training of personnel, combined with the experience of modern military conflicts, make the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation the most powerful in the region.

Popular Mechanics magazine compared the Russian and Ukrainian Air Forces against the background of the ongoing hysteria around Ukraine

According to the Flight Global almanac for 2022, the Ukrainian Air Force has only 69 fighters in service. These are 43 multi-purpose MiG-29 fighter-bombers and 26 Su-27 air superiority fighters. All of them were built during the Cold War. That is, they are more than 30 years old. Since then, the state has not purchased new aircraft.

The Vietnamese army is in no hurry to abandon outdated, but at the same time simple and reliable Soviet equipment. For example, T-34-85 medium tanks and SU-100 self-propelled artillery units are still in operation in coastal defense units.

More than 140 warships and 1,000 units of military equipment were involved in a series of exercises of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.

In the Leningrad region, the crews of the ZVO worked out the interception of a conditional violator

The crews of the MiG–31 high-altitude interceptor fighters worked out the coercion to land a conditional intruder of airspace. Pilots of the fighter aviation regiment of the Western Military District (ZVO) conducted an exercise in the sky over the Leningrad region, the press service of the ZVO reported.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia noted the superiority of a number of foreign missiles over Russian

The telecommunications and geoinformation space systems available in Russia do not fully meet the challenges facing the country's economy, according to the High-Tech White Paper posted on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia (MAYOR).

According to Bloomberg, the EC intends to spend €2.4 billion from its budget for these purposes

The European Union plans to spend €6 billion ($6.8 billion) to create a constellation of communications satellites in low Earth orbit to ensure secure communications for member countries. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton.

The Russian missile attack warning system will be fully updated by 2030. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Alexey Leonkov told about the new Voronezh high-readiness radars.

Bloomberg: The European Union will spend 6 billion euros on an analogue of the British OneWeb system

The European Union will spend 6 billion euros on an analogue of the British OneWeb system, Bloomberg reports, referring to the European Commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published the first image of a long-range missile carrier Tu-22M3 with a new cruise missile X-32 on an external suspension.

As a result of the maneuver, the altitude of the orbit will increase by 1.1 km

Correction of the orbit height of the International Space Station (ISS) is expected on February 26. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.

The units of the tank Army of the Western Military District are returning to their permanent locations after the exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

In the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad region, an exercise was held to repel a missile and air strike of a conditional enemy by the forces of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs).

CSIS stated that the US will be able to overcome Russia's advantage in hypersonic weapons

Hypersonic missiles of Russia and China can maneuver, bypassing missile defense systems (ABM). At the same time, the influence of overloads and temperature can make rockets vulnerable. In the publication The Foreign Policy talked about ways to counter hypersonic weapons.

According to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Rostechnadzor and its head Alexander Trembitsky should use modern technologies to ensure safety at work and conduct risk analysis.

Specialists of the IDC analytical company expect that the revenues of suppliers of solutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including software, equipment and services, will grow by 19.6% in 2022 compared to 2020.

Acting Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan expressed the opinion that the work of rescuers should not be commercialized. Such a statement was made at the annual expanded board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Acting head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexander Chupriyan said that the agency has adopted a program for technical re-equipment until 2030. The statement was made during an expanded board of the Ministry with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In particular, the agency will purchase new special vehicles for mine clearance and heavy-class robotic complexes for clearing minefields.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published the first pictures of the Tu-22M3 bomber with the X-32 missile

The Russian Ministry of Defense has published the first images of long-range Tu-22M3 bombers with new weapons. The planes in the image are equipped with a new X-32 missile, the Telegram channel bmpd reports.