News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
Corvettes of the Baltic Fleet returned from a sea voyage
In the military harbor of Baltiysk, a detachment of warships returning from a trip to the Baltic Sea was solemnly greeted with an orchestra and a traditional roast pig.
In Rostov, military chemists used "hot fog" to combat COVID-19
In Rostov-on-Don, soldiers and equipment of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops were attracted to counteract the spread of coronavirus infection. With the help of thermal machines TMS-65U "hot fog", the assembly point of the military enlistment office of the Rostov region and other premises will be disinfected.
NASA has announced new dates for the landing of astronauts on the Moon as part of the Artemis program
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that astronauts will not get to the Earth's satellite in 2024. The mission was postponed for at least another year.
Taiwan upgrades M60 tanks
It's too early to write off the old American M60 tanks. November 9, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that the Taiwan National Institute of Science and Technology of Zhong Shan (NCSIST) will begin partial modernization of the M60A3 MBT from next year.
Fifth-generation fighter jet J-20 turned into a monument in China
An unusual monument has appeared on the territory of the Chengdu Aerospace Corporation flight Training Center - one of the prototypes of the fifth-generation J-20 fighter was placed on a pedestal.
It is reported that the winged car participated in resource tests, and when they were completed, it was decided not to be scrapped, but installed in an honorable eternal parking lot.
Deliveries of the new generation Tosochka heavy flamethrower system to the troops will begin before the end of the year
The first deliveries of the Tosochka heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 will take place this year, Alexander Smirnov, CEO of NPO Splav, told Interfax.
The crew of the minesweeper "Pyotr Ilyichev", built for the Pacific Fleet, settled on the ship
The crew of the naval minesweeper "Pyotr Ilyichev", built for the Pacific Fleet, settled on the ship after completing training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy in St. Petersburg.
The Russian "Shell" is the world's most effective means of combating attack drones - developer
The Russian Pantsir-S short-range air defense system is effective against all existing attack drones, including Turkish Bayraktars, Dmitry Konoplev, managing director of the Shipunov Instrument Design Bureau (KBP), told Interfax.
Expert: it is impossible to "deceive" the missiles of the portable anti-aircraft complex "Verba"
Military expert Dmitry Litovkin noted that the area of capture and destruction by the complex of typical air targets has been increased by 2.5 times, and the "Willow" has at least 10 times increased the protection of the complex from pyrotechnic interference.
Putin: the weapons and equipment coming to the Russian troops are not inferior to foreign analogues
As the President noted, defense industry organizations work stably even in a pandemic
Russian President Vladimir Putin has set a task to take into account the most advanced technologies, including hypersonic and cognitive, in the new state armament program.
After the tests, the first nine Terminator BMPT will be adopted by the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District
According to the results of successful tests, the first batch of nine Terminator BMPT will become part of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District, whose units are stationed in the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, from December 1 this year.
Putin said that in 2020, the state defense order was fulfilled by 96.2%
As the President of the Russian Federation noted, such a high bar has been held for five years
The state defense order in the "pandemic" year 2020 was fulfilled by 96.2%, such a high bar has been held for five years. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) on Wednesday.
China is completing a new aircraft carrier
In a couple of years, the Chinese Navy may have a third aircraft carrier. On November 9, the CNN news agency reported that according to an analysis of satellite images taken by the Washington analytical center, the ship, known as Type 003, could be launched as early as early next year.
At the CSTO exercise in Kazan, sappers used the "alive-wounded, killed" sensor
On Wednesday, engineering assault groups were used for the first time at the training ground of the Kazan Tank School, where the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2021" exercise of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO is taking place.
Putin: in five years, we have managed to do a lot to diversify defense industries
Russia has managed to do a lot in the field of diversification of defense industries in five years, but in the future it needs to work more effectively in this direction, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the military-industrial commission.
Putin urged to take into account global trends when developing a new state armament program
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the development of new weapons to focus on the main trends in the world, in particular, the use of digital technologies and hypersonic weapons.
The Cabinet of Ministers will quadruple the financing of software projects in industry
The Russian government will quadruple financial support for domestic software projects in industry. This was announced on Monday by the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting with deputy prime ministers via videoconference, reports TASS.
Object 780 is a project of the original tank of the 70s from Chelyabinsk
In the early 70s, a very interesting tank was designed in the USSR, even by modern standards. We are talking about the Chelyabinsk main combat Facility 780.
Source: the new dry dock will receive the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in June 2022
The repair of the ship will be completed in the summer of 2023, and at the end of the same year the aircraft carrier will be handed over to the fleet, the interlocutor of TASS noted
The heavy aircraft carrier of the 1143.5 Admiral Kuznetsov project is planned to be delivered to the modernized dry dock of the 35th SRZ branch of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center in June next year. At the same time, the ship's delivery dates will be shifted to 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
The Hubble telescope restored the work of a failed camera
The camera was chosen as the first object to be restored, because failures in the operation of this device are rare
The team of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, restored the operation of one of its cameras after the entire telescope went into safe mode due to a loss of synchronization.