News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Russian military base in Tajikistan will be completely re-equipped with modern means of communication by the end of the year.

Novikombank, the main bank of the Rostec State Corporation, has set a lending limit of 1.5 billion rubles to the Helicopter Service Company (JSC VSK), which provides modernization and maintenance of Russian helicopter equipment.

A serviceman of the Ukrainian army demonstrated the effectiveness of the tank's thermal imaging sight on his YouTube channel.

The thermal smoke equipment exposed a fairly dense smoke screen, and if nothing but the cloud itself was visible in the optical device, then during observation through the thermal imager, all nearby objects were guessed without much difficulty.

These days, two exhibitions of military technologies are held simultaneously. AUSA 2021 has opened in the United States, where defense industry enterprises present their latest developments to the military. In Russia, the Interpoltech exhibition brought together professionals in the field of digital security.

The United States surpasses Russia and China in its military power, according to Popular Mechanics magazine, referring to a study by the RAND Corporation.

China's plans to achieve world leadership in the design and manufacture of microchips are threatened by a "chronic shortage of personnel," the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

At the heart of this method is the development of ECB in close cooperation with the development of equipment. This thesis became one of the key ones in the report presented by Ivan Fefilov, Advisor to the General Director of JSC NIIET, as part of the scientific conference of the VII Russian Forum "Microelectronics 2021".

In 2022, all major decisions should be made, including projects for the integrated development of the territory of the city of Kaspiysk, where the flotilla will be located

The creation of the main infrastructure for the deployment of the Caspian Flotilla in Dagestan is planned to be completed by the end of 2022, the head of the republic Sergey Melikov said at a meeting with journalists of the federal media.

The United States is capable of sending up to six thousand high-precision subsonic Tomahawk cruise missiles with conventional and nuclear warheads to the target in just one salvo, writes TASS military columnist Dmitry Litovkin. The author called this circumstance causing an impenetrable headache for Russia.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin recalled that the Luna-26 orbiter will be launched on a Soyuz-2 rocket

The Russian automatic station Luna-27 will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on an Angara carrier rocket. This was stated by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the next issue of the General Line program.

The P-800 Onyx cruise missile will be able to destroy ground objects. Modernization of the Russian development has expanded the list of potential goals. This was stated by Alexander Leonov, General Director, General Designer of the Military Industrial Complex NPO Mashinostroeniya, member of the regional council of the Moscow Regional branch of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The T-72BME main battle tank, upgraded at the 140th repair plant, was first shown at the MILEX - 2017 exhibition.

The servicemen of the air defense unit of the Amur Combined Arms Association of the Eastern Military District repelled the attack of a conditional enemy on strategically important military facilities.

Hypersonic missile tests in China do not pose a threat to Russia. Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky commented on the US reaction to the tests and named the main feature of hypersonic weapons. He cites his words News.ru .

A Su-24 fighter-bomber was brought to Novosibirsk on the night of Tuesday, October 19. They decided to move him from the territory of NAPO im. Chkalov to the Square of Aircraft Manufacturers NSTU NETI, the corresponding footage is published by the REN TV channel.

Tested in the DPRK on Tuesday, October 19, a short-range ballistic missile overcame 430-450 km, reaching a maximum altitude of 60 km. This was reported by Yonhap News Agency with reference to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the South Korean armed forces.

The information mentioned in the media about China's testing of hypersonic weapons in August of this year does not correspond to reality.

This was stated at a regular briefing by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, TASS reports.

In 2022, the delivery of the latest models of small arms to the units of the Ground Forces is planned.

At the same time, the exact date of descent is not specified

A special marine vessel of project 14400 for the training of helicopter pilots of naval aviation of the Russian Navy was launched on the Volga at a shipyard in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

According to Jane's Defense Weekly, the Indian Air Force's modernization program of 51 Mirage-2000N multirole fighters to the Mirage-2000-5 standard is almost three years behind the originally agreed schedule.