News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

According to scientists, water appeared in the lunar soil mostly due to the solar wind

Chinese scientists have discovered water in samples of lunar soil delivered to Earth in December 2020 by the Chang'e-5 spacecraft. This was reported on Saturday by the Xinhua news Agency, citing the results of a study published in the journal Science Advances.

Experts have completed the deployment of components of the world's largest and most powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWTS) worth $ 10 billion to study the processes of evolution of the Universe, follows from the broadcast, which is conducted by NASA.

MAI will create a device for measuring astronauts' stress based on blood glucose levels

Russian scientists are planning to develop a device to measure the stress level of astronauts. In conditions close to weightlessness, researchers are testing the hypothesis of the relationship of this indicator with the amount of sugar in the blood, Izvestia reports.

The start of sea trials of the Sharp corvette is scheduled for the end of January, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported on Sunday.

BRAV The Russian Navy will re-equip the Bastion complexes with new hypersonic missiles in 2022

In 2021, coastal rocket and Artillery troops (BRAV) The Russian Navy has found a new development. The Ministry of Defense decided to strengthen the capabilities of these forces in 2022, Izvestia writes.

Long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 this year will continue to make long flights over the waters of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.

Aviation and air defense forces of the Black Sea Fleet conducted training in the Crimea, the press service of the fleet reported. During the event, the issues of detection and tracking of aircraft, including at ultra-low altitudes, were worked out.

The Americans have decided on optics for a new generation of small arms. On January 8, the US Army press service announced the signing of a contract with Vortex Optics for the supply of XM157 "smart" sights for advanced rifles and machine guns.

Naval aviation and air defense forces of the Black Sea Fleet repelled attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles during exercises in the Crimea. This was reported in the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

The entry into combat service of the Abraham Lincoln nuclear aircraft carrier was overshadowed by an incident involving the radar of the air traffic control system and the US national flag. The rotating radar antenna wound a rising flag around itself, which caused the ceremony to be somewhat blurred. A video of the incident appeared online.

After the cargo ship "Tianzhou-2" undocked from the base module of the station, the manipulator arm moved it to the side, and then returned the ship to its former place

China on Thursday conducted a successful test of moving a cargo spacecraft using a manipulator arm installed on the national space station. This is stated in the statement of the Manned Space Flight Program of the PRC in the social network WeChat.

Crews of warships will work out inspection actions of suspicious vessels

The Arctic grouping of the Northern Fleet will hold joint exercises with the ships of the FSB of Russia to protect the Northern Sea Route this year. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The Laguna combat fire control complex was created and handed over to the customer, the State Military-Industrial Committee (GVPC) of Belarus reported.

On January 6, 2001, two Ka-50 helicopters, better known as the Black Shark, took off from the Severny airfield in Grozny for the first combat mission.

The story of the commissioning of this rotorcraft has been greatly delayed. After all, its prototype began flying back in 1982. But the changes that began in the USSR, and then the collapse of the country, postponed bringing the helicopter to a reliable working model. The first serial samples were received by the Air Force after the Ka-50 was put into service, which happened only in August 1995.

The AK "hundredth" series will appear on the American market in a "tactical" body kit. January 6, portal thefirearmblog.com He announced that Kalashnikov USA has introduced a new model in the line of rifles KR-103 (AK-103).

The press service of the Northern Fleet reported that this year the Arctic group of the SF, created on the basis of the ships of the Kola Flotilla of heterogeneous forces, will ensure the safety of civil navigation and maritime economic activity of Russia along the Northern Sea Route during the next campaign.

This year, for the first time, platoon sets of the Gibka-S ultra-short-range mobile anti-aircraft missile system will begin to arrive in the troops. This was reported in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) plan to further equip the regiments with unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane and copter type, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Thursday.

The Chinese used the manipulator arm of the new Tiangong orbital station to move the Tianzhou-2 spacecraft. The operation was the first test of the manipulator by transferring a large spacecraft.

The Chinese National Space Administration showed new selfies of the orbital probe "Tianwen-1", obtained by a detachable camera. In addition to the device itself, the northern polar region of Mars got into the frame, according to the website Space.com .