News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Military aviation exercises have begun in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Pilots of supersonic fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM will have to work out interception and counteraction to high-precision weapons of a conditional enemy.

The new Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory has transmitted the first data to Earth. The process of its commissioning took a month.

Russia's military exercises on its territory begin and end as planned, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Metal cutting for the fourth and fifth diesel-electric submarines of Project 677 Lada has begun at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. Today, on February 15, the press service of the enterprise reported about it. The contract for the construction of this pair of submarines was signed with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in June 2019 as part of the Army forum.

The launch of the spacecraft to the ISS is scheduled for March 18

The main and backup crews of the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft, whose launch to the ISS is scheduled for March 18, will begin passing comprehensive examination training on February 22. This is stated in the message of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC), distributed on Tuesday.

NPO Energomash has carried out work to reduce the cost of RD-191 engines for Angara rockets

Roscosmos is working to reduce the cost of RD-191 engines and their modifications for Angara family rockets, the state corporation says.

SpaceX will launch a tourist into outer space for the first time

The American company SpaceX, as part of the Polaris program initiated by billionaire Jared Isaacman, will launch a tourist into outer space for the first time in the world, according to the project's website.

The military has worked out the skills of destroying helicopters, armored vehicles, ground objects and manpower of a simulated enemy at ranges up to 5 km

Anti-aircraft gunners of the Western Military District have worked out the cover of columns of military equipment departing to permanent deployment points after successfully conducted exercises. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the ZVO.

A unified version of the Russian Ansat can be created before the end of the year. Among other things, they want to provide it with a glass cabin, air conditioning and additional tanks.

Having studied the situation on the global market of electric vehicles, the specialists of the analytical company Canalys came to the conclusion that 6.5 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide in 2021, which is 109% more than in 2020.

More than 30 Mi-8AMTSh transport and assault helicopters are involved in bilateral company tactical exercises in the south of Russia, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

NAS scientists said that aliens can make contact with people with the help of stars

Experts from the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) have listed the ways in which aliens can get in touch with people. This is reported by The Sun.

The ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) have worked out the destruction of a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk, the press service of the fleet reported.

Warships of the Pacific Fleet in the Sea of Okhotsk as part of the exercises destroyed surface targets imitating a simulated enemy with artillery fire, the information support department of the Pacific Fleet reports.

EOS-04 weighing 1,710 kg is designed to obtain high-quality images of the Earth's surface in all weather conditions

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday morning successfully put into orbit a satellite for radar sensing of the Earth, as well as two other small devices. ISRO announced this on its Twitter page.

Modern training facilities are widely used in the training of rocket scientists of both mobile and stationary groups of the Strategic Missile Forces.

They involve more than 150 pieces of equipment and over 500 military personnel

Complex exercises of calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Hurricane" and unmanned aircraft started at the training ground of the Central Military District (CVO) in the Chelyabinsk region. This is stated in a message distributed on Monday by the press service of the district.

The Russian army adheres to the Soviet doctrine, according to which the decisive force on the battlefield is not tanks with infantry, but artillery. All other types of troops are needed only to provide the "god of war" (the name of Russian artillery since World War II) with advantageous positions for delivering crushing blows. And then use the gaps punched by the guns in the enemy's defense.

Last week, the US Army presented its own strategy for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. It is worth clarifying that it is not only about eliminating greenhouse gas emissions, but also about adapting "infrastructure and the natural environment to the risks of climate change."

In Russia, they will create a repository for storing software that everyone can freely use. First of all, it will host programs created with budgetary funds. This is reported by RBC with reference to the relevant draft government decree.