News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

17 sets should be delivered by 2023 Russian

Helicopters delivered four more sets to Kazakhstan in 2021 for the assembly of the Mi-8AMT/Mi-171E in Alma-Ata, the press service of the holding reported.

Russian main battle tanks with powerful gas turbine engines have traditionally been admired for their high-speed and maneuverable characteristics. The combat vehicles demonstrated their unique capabilities not only at the company's training ground, special screenings of international exhibitions, various tests, but also during real combat operations.

In the Rostov region, training camps for snipers of the Southern Military District were held at the Kadamovsky training ground. The servicemen practiced new tactical techniques based on the experience of modern local conflicts.

The Kronstadt company stressed that the center will additionally create more than 1.5 thousand jobs in the region

The Kronstadt company has created a center for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of aircraft and helicopter types in Dubna near Moscow. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the company.

Assistant to Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Yozo Hirano noted that if he had been given such a chance, he would have taken it

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, who visited the ISS, admitted that they would like to go into outer space. They reported this during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.

He said that his colleagues on the crew helped him in his work - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

Managing the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft alone turned out to be easier than it seemed before the flight, cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin said during a conference in TASS, which was held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC).

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin called this distance the hardest in terms of energy consumption

Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin considered the flight for 12 days difficult in terms of energy consumption, comparing it with a race at a distance of 800-1000 meters. He expressed this opinion during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.

The first factory for the production of Orion and Sirius attack drones has been built in Russia. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Litovkin commented on the event.

The Russian armed forces are staffed by contract servicemen by almost 100%, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Pakistani military has launched a version of its Babur cruise missile with an extended range. According to the Associated Press, a munition called Babur 1B can hit targets at a distance of more than 900 kilometers. Its early version had a range of only 450 kilometers.

American companies L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman have defended the projects of hypersonic weapons detection satellites. Now they can move on to prototype production.

The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the Russian Armed Forces are staffed by contract servicemen by almost 100%

The Russian armed forces are staffed by contract servicemen by almost 100%, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.

An indoor swimming pool has been built and has already been commissioned on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic. This was announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the plenary session of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on Wednesday. According to him, this is "the world's first indoor swimming pool beyond the 80th parallel."

The troops will be armed with the latest portable anti-aircraft missile system "Willow". This effective means of combating low-flying aerial objects will be delivered to the air defense units of the tank Army of the Western Military District in 2022, the press service of the ZVO reported on Wednesday.

According to NHK, this is the fifth launch of the H-2A with a foreign satellite or an automatic interplanetary station

The Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on Wednesday launched an H-2A carrier rocket with a communication satellite of the British telecommunications company Inmarsat. A live broadcast of the launch from the Tanegashima cosmodrome in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan was broadcast on NHK.

The new dock is one of the largest in the world, its dimensions (480 by 114 meters, depth - 14 meters) allow you to build vessels of any size and complexity.

The company's designers have created a unique anti-icing system that allows Orion unmanned aerial vehicles to be used in difficult weather conditions

The Kronstadt Company was awarded the "Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year" award for the creation of an anti-icing system for Orion unmanned aerial vehicles. This was reported on Monday in the company's press service.

Minister Manturov: it is planned to produce more than a thousand aircraft in Russia

It is planned to produce more than a thousand aircraft in Russia by 2030, the statement of the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the country Denis Manturov, made at the government hour in the State Duma, reports TASS.

Many of the spectators of the November parades that took place in the 70s and 80s paid attention to tracked vehicles without weapons, but with mandatory red stars on the frontal armor and guards signs on the sides.

As the executive director of Roscosmos for manned Space Programs Sergey Krikalev noted, if there is a need, the space industry can produce two more ships per year.