News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Russian Ministry of Defense conducted experimental exercises in the Black Sea. As sources in the military department told Izvestia, the maneuvers ended last week.

The ballistics input system, taking into account the distance or angle of the target location, allows the fighter to quickly and accurately change the firing settings, said Alexander Novikov, General Director of KMZ

The newest 3-12x50 sight for installation on large-caliber machine guns was developed in Russia at the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev (KMZ, part of the sHvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation). This was told to TASS by the General director of KMZ Alexander Novikov.

The National Guard of Ukraine will abandon Soviet rifles and submachine guns. The UAR-15 semi-automatic rifle will replace Kalashnikov assault rifles. This is reported by the Defense Blog.

Pilots of a separate naval fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet, who arrived from the Kola Arctic in the Crimea, began training at the Saki airfield.

The navy conducted exercises in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of the African continent, where they freed a ship "captured by pirates". The crews of the large anti-submarine ship "Vice Admiral Kulakov", the medium sea tanker "Academician Pashin" and the rescue tugboat "Altai" took part in the exercise. They are currently on a long hike.

The company announced that it already has a set of proposals

Branch of PJSC "sUkhoi Company" Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yuri Gagarin" (part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation) plans to enter the state program of the military-industrial complex, which will be calculated until 2033, said the director of the branch Alexander Pekarsh.

Seventy-year-old HYDRA 70 rockets have received modern capabilities. On October 12, the press service of BAE Systems announced the successful use of APKWS ammunition against aerial targets.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in the Greek Parliament on October 7 that the corvette supply program for the Greek navy will follow the already agreed frigate construction program.

As the TASS news agency reported on October 13, 2021, the first brigade set of the newest S-500 anti-aircraft missile system (SAMS) produced by ALMAZ-ANTEY Concern of East Kazakhstan Region entered the troops of the 15th Special Purpose Army of the Aerospace Forces of Russia, covering Moscow and the Central Industrial District. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

There are also plans to build three universal vessels. They will deliver goods to garrisons in the Far North

The program for the development of the auxiliary fleet of Russia until 2033 provides for the construction of five icebreakers and three universal vessels for the delivery of military cargo to garrisons in the Far North. This was announced on Wednesday at a round table in the Federation Council by Deputy Chief of Staff of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Andrey Yefimov.

Combat crews of coastal missile systems "Bastion" of the Baltic Fleet during an exercise in the Kaliningrad region discovered and destroyed a ship strike group of a conditional enemy.

The US Air Force has completed a series of tests of the new GBU-72 concrete-piercing bomb weighing 2.3 tons, during which it was dropped from the F-15 Strike Eagle heavy fighter-bomber. The striking capability of the GBU-72 will be significantly higher than that of the comparable GBU-28, which the US military has been using for three decades.

The pseudo-satellite Zephyr S of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has set a flight altitude record for its class of drones. He climbed 23.2 thousand meters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was surprised by the reaction of the United States to Russia's creation of hypersonic weapons, because, according to him, at first Washington said that it didn't care, and now it doesn't like it.

ROSCOSMOS continues a series of trouble-free rocket launches for the third year in a row, which is an absolute record in Russian history. During this time, 67 successful launches of space rockets manufactured at the enterprises of the state corporation were carried out from the Baikonur, Vostochny, Guiana Space Center and Plesetsk military cosmodrome.

European partners are considering a proposal from ROSCOSMOS to create the necessary infrastructure for manned launches of the Russian sOyuz-2 rocket from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, negotiations are underway, Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, told RIA Novosti.

As part of the NS-18 mission, Blue Origin conducted the second launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with people on board. The 90-year-old Canadian actor William Shatner takes part in the mission. The other three tourists are Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.

The Azerbaijani army has adopted the Yugoslav triple-barreled 20-mm M55 Zastava cannons captured from the Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Calculations of the S-400 tRiumph anti-aircraft missile systems of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Western Military District (VVO) destroyed hypersonic targets during control classes for the 2021 academic year in the Leningrad Region, the press service of the VVO reports.

Coastal missile launchers of the Pacific Fleet have been alerted as part of exercises in Kamchatka, the press service of the Air Force for the Pacific Fleet reports.