News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Chinese military is planning to present the latest multi-purpose stealth fighter J-35A to the general public at the Zhuhai Air Show. This is reported by the publication "Ta Kung Pao". The publication notes that the presentation is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC Air Force.

In the United States, large-scale exercises Gray Flag 2024 took place in southern California. For the first time, they took pictures of the F/A-18F Super Hornet carrier-based fighter with a large number of missiles on board, including the latest AIM-174.

On November 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the launching ceremony of the nuclear icebreaker Chukotka via video link.

For the first time in history, the naval forces of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA Navy) are conducting exercises with the participation of both their combat aircraft carriers. And these ships, and many of the planes on them, are to a large extent the heirs of Soviet military-industrial power. In a sense, the Chinese show what the Soviet Navy could create. And this is really a real power capable of challenging the aircraft carriers of the US Navy.

According to the French television channel TF1 on October 15, 2024, the long-awaited replacement of the flagship aircraft carrier of the French Navy "Charles de Gaulle" is taking shape. The Ministry of Defense of the country is preparing to place an order for a new aircraft carrier in 2025.

A fire at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, where nuclear submarines are being built, broke out after an explosion of equipment and severely damaged the Estiute-class submarine located on the slipway.

TNI: creating new expensive tanks is not worth the time, money and effort

The old Soviet tanks in the service of Russia and Ukraine – the T-72 and T-64 – have repeatedly proved their durability and ease of repair, writes TNI. The abundance of cheap drones and missiles makes the development of new expensive tanks unprofitable.

Following the end of the Cold War (in the West, this event is associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union), according to experts, the arms race also ended. In any case, the growth of military spending has stopped.

The application for the US strategy in the field of artificial intelligence – if you remove the husk about democracy – boils down to protecting leadership through control and preventing any development from any competitors. Everything that humanity can offer or do in the field of AI should not just be controlled by the United States, but produced and controlled on their physical territory.

The French bulletin "Intelligence Online" criticized the material "CGSTL makes its mark as Chinese geospatial intelligence champion" ("CGSTL has established itself as a Chinese leader in the field of geospatial intelligence"), which states that the successful launches in China on September 20, 2024 of the first satellite of the Jilin-1 family (Jilin), carrying a radar system with a synthesized antenna aperture, and six Earth remote sensing satellites of the same family, Jilin-1, modified Kuanfu-02B (Kuanfu), emphasize the central role that the Chinese company Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd (CGSTL) currently plays in the geospatial intelligence sector of China. Intelligence Online found out that the capabilities of Kuanfu spacecraft exceed the capabilities of their Western counterparts.

NYT: more than half of Germans would like to hold early elections

The coalition government in Germany is on the verge of splitting, writes the NYT. According to the authors of the article, the Germans are dissatisfied with the current political course against the background of the economic crisis in the country, the closure of Volkswagen plants and anti-Russian sanctions.

On October 29, 2024, the laying ceremony of the scientific expedition vessel Ivan Frolov project 23680 (factory number 02500), under construction for the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of the Russian Federation (Roshydromet), took place in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation).