News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The fate of Naval Aviation of the Navy is being publicly discussed at the highest level for the first time. Why is the service of naval pilots extremely important for the defense capability of Russia, what is the state of Naval aviation today – and what needs to be done to revive it?

The Israeli defense showed a high result on the German tank. November 2, portal janes.com He reported that the companies Rafael and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) conducted a joint test of the Leopard 2 tank and the Trophy active protection system.

The US Navy plans to equip the Zumwalt destroyers with hypersonic glider missiles. According to Naval News, they will replace 155-millimeter guns that have never fired. The first "Zumwalt" will begin to be refitted in fiscal year 2024.

The creation of weapons in Russia that have no analogues in the world has ensured a high level of military security of the country for decades, helped to strengthen strategic parity, the president said.

At the final meeting in Sochi on strengthening the Armed Forces, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief proposed to discuss equipping the army and navy with systems based on new physical principles.

All Russia's priorities should be reflected in the new state armament program until 2033, the development of a unified system of initial data for its formation is already underway in the Ministry of Defense, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Artificial intelligence should provide a qualitative breakthrough in improving the combat characteristics of weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The United States decided to dismantle the 155-millimeter guns in the bow of the Zumwalt, installing vertical shafts with hypersonic missiles in their place.The US plans to equip the "scandalous" Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with hypersonic weapons are becoming more and more specific.

The entire crew of the AN-12 crashed near Irkutsk was killed. This was announced on November 3 by the governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev, who arrived at the crash site near the village of Pivovarikha.

It is very difficult to detect a diesel-electric submarine like the Russian project 636 submarine of the Varshavyanka type because of the nature of its acoustic signature or even the absence of such a signature, Kevin Noonan, a veteran of the US Navy (Navy), writes in the American edition of The Drive.

The German Leopard 2A7 tank has passed the first stage of testing of the active protection complex (KAZ) Trophy. The development of the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems provided effective protection of the tank. The Israeli Defense Ministry has published a corresponding message on its Twitter account. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The analyst of the US Department of Defense on military capabilities and armaments, David Reimers, in a material for 19FortyFive, suggested arming civilian aircraft with missiles. He believes that this will preserve the strike potential after reducing the number of bombers.

Russian weapons were evaluated in the United States. The 19FortyFive edition has published a list of the most common submachine guns. The list included a Russian-made submachine gun.

Scientists hope that thanks to this they will be able to find traces of life on the Red Planet

According to the results of the study of soil samples from the so-called Bagnold dunes, which was conducted by the Curiosity rover, scientists concluded that there are large reserves of organic matter on the surface of Mars. This is the second alleged "deposit" of organic matter on the Red Planet. A description of the study was published by the scientific journal Nature Astronomy.

The eleventh issue of the magazine "Army Collection" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation contains an article by V. Litvinenko, A. Klyukoyt "Modernization and development of new artillery models". In particular, the article mentions possible measures to improve the capabilities of the famous Russian 240-mm self-propelled mortar 2C4 "Tulip".

The launch of the NASA and SpaceX Crew 3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed due to the health condition of one of the crew members. This is stated in a NASA statement, RIA Novosti reports.

The first launch of the carrier with OneWeb satellites in 2022 is scheduled for January 27

Most of the launches of British OneWeb communications satellites in 2022 will be carried out from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

Russia will continue to improve its aerospace defense system. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and defense industry enterprises, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The President noted that by 2027 the share of modern weapons will be at least 80%.

The ships also conducted artillery firing on the sea towed shield

Crews of large amphibious ships of the Pacific Fleet conducted artillery firing in the Sea of Okhotsk, destroying an "enemy" command post on the shore and floating sea mines, the press service of the fleet reported on Tuesday.

The control check of combat training, in which over 70 thousand servicemen took part, was completed in the Central Military District (CVO), the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.

The latest radio-controlled target complexes have been installed at the new training ground of the Sosnovy Bor tank unit in the Republic of Buryatia.