News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The first Finnish F-35 fighters will be put into service in Rovaniemi — 150 million euros will be spent on the construction of an air base in Lapland

The first American F-35 fighters from among the 64 that Finland has decided to purchase will arrive in 2026, Yle reports. They will be stationed at a new airbase in Lapland. Its construction will begin this year and will cost 150 million euros.

Roscosmos told how the Sphere satellite group will work under sanctions

The total amount of financing of the Russian multi-satellite grouping "Sphere" will amount to about 180 billion rubles, Roscosmos reported recently.

Uralvagonzavod has supplied the Russian Defense Ministry with a batch of upgraded commander combat reconnaissance vehicles BRM-1K with firepower like an IFV, the concern said.

The Command of the US Navy announced the official commissioning ceremony of the Virginia-class submarine (SSN-793) Oregon, which took place on May 28 at the submarine base in New London.

Bayraktar TB2 drones are widely advertised by the Turkish side for their striking power and allegedly high resistance to the effects of air defense. However, the use of these UAVs by the Kiev regime was accompanied by the loss of an impressive number of drones: the number of cars shot down by Russian troops has already exceeded a hundred.

Amazingly, Russia will have three aircraft carriers by 2030 – and that's where they will be stationed

The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will return to service by 2024, and a little later the Russian Navy will receive two universal amphibious assault ships Sevastopol and Vladivostok, which are currently being built in the Crimea, Military Watch writes.

The main threat to the Turkish-made Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles is the Russian Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system (SAM), or Viking. This is the conclusion reached by the experts of the publication Army Recognition.

Doctor of Military Sciences Valintin Karpov told how the Tulumbas missiles work

In the list of high-precision weapons used by the Aerospace Forces aviation during a special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry named the S-13 Tulumbas ammunition - an unguided missile, the power of which allows you to break reinforced concrete shelters. Inside the rocket is 15 kilograms of TNT. "Newspaper.Ru" together with experts, I understood the features of an aircraft projectile.

The TOP500 project has published a new version of the rating of the most productive supercomputers in the world. The first place in it was taken by the American Frontier, built on the platform from HPE Cray and AMD 7A53 Epyc processors. He became the first supercomputer to overcome the exaflops milestone — his performance reaches 1,102 exaflops.

Tank support combat vehicles are successfully used during a special operation against the nationalist formations of Ukraine. At the same time, Russia has created a second version of the "Terminator" - BMPT-72.

Why won't aviation replace guns and is the American howitzer "three axes" so good

The fighting in the Donbass is artillery. It was self-propelled artillery, howitzers and mortars, as well as multiple rocket launchers that became the basis of the firepower of both the allied forces and the Ukrainian armed formations.

MAI told how plasma engines have increased the payload capacity of Russian missiles

Plasma engines were able to significantly increase the payload capacity of the Russian Soyuz and Proton rockets. Slow, but effective, they allow you to take much more cargo into high orbits. What will be the new fuel for such engines and whether they can be used for flights to the Moon, other planets and on the ISS, "Gazeta.Ru" said Vladimir Kim, Chief Researcher at the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics and Electrodynamics of the Moscow Aviation Institute.

The Russian private company MCST, which at one time developed microprocessors called "Elbrus", wants to move their production from Taiwan to the Russian city of Zelenograd. Representatives of the MCST are already negotiating on this issue.

77 years after the defeat in World War II, Japan is militarizing again. Although the "samurai are no longer the same", but in the Asia-Pacific region only Australia, Japan and South Korea, as well as the troubled Taiwan, can be considered full-fledged allies of the United States. Therefore, Washington is influencing Tokyo so that Japan strengthens its armed forces.

The Russian manufacturer of service robots "Promobot" has announced the launch of a center for the development of robotic solutions. The Center, in partnership with market leaders, carries out activities in the field of creating scalable solutions in the direction of mechatronics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other areas of robotics.

How did attack helicopters manifest themselves in the skies of Syria and Ukraine

The further the Russian troops advance in the course of the special operation in Ukraine, the more difficult it becomes to carry out operational strikes on reconnaissance targets and military facilities. Artillery does not always reach them or does not have time to cover them due to the rapid change of the enemy's locations. In such cases, army aviation is simply irreplaceable – including Mi-28N "Night Hunter" helicopters.

New Russian armored vehicles are tested in combat conditions

Russian armored vehicles of the latest models are also used in a special military operation in Ukraine. In particular, the deeply modernized BMP-1AM "Basurmanin". The equipment has just entered service with the Russian army. As they say, an egg is expensive for Christ's Day.

As part of the development of a 30-year fleet construction plan (2020-2049), the US Navy is betting on new frigates and ships of the LCS class. It is assumed that together they will form a category of small surface combatant ships (Small Surface Combatants, SSC), which will not only expand the geographical presence of the fleet, but also increase its ability to operate in a geographically spacious operational area and overload the enemy's defenses.

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Levchenko" worked out the defeat of air and surface targets of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Barents Sea. The crew used the anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) "Dagger" and artillery. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the fleet.

On the second serial icebreaker of the project 22220 "Ural", built at the Baltic plant in St. Petersburg, the reactor plant was launched. This is reported by the USC press service.