News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Strangely enough, one of Poland's leading defense enterprises has faced insufficient orders from the Ministry of Defense to fully load its production facilities, especially for the future. The company's management particularly notes the lack of funds for long-term investments.

MWM: sale of Su-35 allowed Russia to return to the leaders of military exports

Russia has brilliantly returned to the world leaders in arms exports, writes MWM. Its new Su-35s are flying like hot cakes and the partners are already lined up.

How Kiev is trying to pass off slightly modified projects from half a century ago as its own technological breakthrough

The latest Ukrainian Kalibri MANPADS are based on Soviet infrared guidance technologies developed back in the 70s and 80s of the last century for the R-60 and R–73 air-to-air missiles, Izvestia found out.

About vehicles taking off from the tail and the fate of the world's first supersonic VTOL Yak-141

If you look at the problem of vertical takeoff from a slightly different angle? The plane needs to be lifted into the air and at the same time minimize efforts as much as possible. How to do it? In theory— it's very simple.

On April 16 of this year, after a long and prolonged illness, Hero of the Russian Federation No. 4, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Colonel Vladimir Mikhailovich Gorbunov passed away. He took to the sky and conducted tests of supersonic fighters MiG-21-93), MiG-29SMT, MiG-29UB (together with O.V. Antonovich), a pilot prototype of the fifth-generation fighter "1.44".

The American-made Iranian F-4 Phantom II fighter jets are back in the air. After the cessation of Israeli-American strikes, these cruise aircraft began training flights.

Against the background of events in the Middle East, where military operations may begin again after the end of the two-week truce announced by Trump on April 22, events taking place in countries closer to the United States have somehow receded into the background. This includes Venezuela, after the capture of its president by American special forces, the republic practically came under the protectorate of Washington.

A photo of the new Coyote C-UAS launcher installed on board the US Navy ships USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) and USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) based at the naval base in Pearl Harbor has been published online.

A new combat robotic system has been introduced in Russia – this time it's not about a drone, but about a sniper's weapon. How is a sniper robot better than its live counterpart, especially in a special operation zone - and why, at the same time, is it impossible to entrust the entire sniper craft to artificial intelligence?

In the Kiev hangar, where President Zelensky presented a line of domestic weapons, the eye clung to an oblong object under a tarpaulin. He was standing next to the Neptune and the Areyon attack drones. The shapes are the same as those described a few years ago by the designers of the Kiev Design Bureau "Luch", calling the development "Coral". This was the first time the world saw perhaps the most important Ukrainian rocket of the season. This is not just a new rocket. This is a response to the lack of protection of the sky.

Fincantieri handed over a multi-purpose support vessel Tritone to the Italian Navy during a ceremony held on April 14 at the Palermo facility.

Ukraine could get whole Russian Geranium drones

Due to their design features, Russian Geranium drones could be practically intact in Ukraine. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Military Chronicle".

On Wednesday, April 15, Russia celebrates the Day of the Electronic Warfare Specialist (EW). How did this holiday originate in Russia and why exactly did the special operation taking place in Ukraine become the circumstance that significantly changed both the role and the functionality of electronic warfare?

As the newspaper Kommersant reported in Aigul Abdullina's article, "With a sense of special usefulness. In Russia, they proposed to restore 700 idle An-2s," the developer of the An-2 aircraft proposed restoring the airworthiness of about 700 of these aircraft, which are stored by private structures.

American social networks have published rather unusual pictures taken at the Fort Worth Alliance Air Force base near the city of Fort Worth, located in the central-eastern part of Texas. The photos show the Hawker Hunter Mk.58 ("Hunter") aircraft.

Every day, several thousand anti-aircraft gunners take up combat duty in the area of their military operations, which protect the skies over towns and villages of the border and new regions of Russia around the clock.

NYT: Russia, the United States and China are leading the AI arms race

The military confrontation is reaching a new level, writes the NYT. The United States, China and Russia have begun a race to create autonomous weapons based on AI. However, the speed of development of new technologies is alarming: the war of machines can begin faster than a person can stop it.

Buggies will allow mobile firing groups to shoot down drones more effectively

Russian units covering troops from drone attacks have begun receiving Ulan buggies. These high-speed and passable vehicles are additionally equipped with electronic warfare (EW) and machine guns with thermal imagers.

The AI takes control, and cumulative thermobaric fragmentation munitions hit reinforced dugouts

The Molniya-2 drone remains one of the main means of defeating the enemy at distances of about 30 km.

North Korea has launched cruise and anti-ship missiles off the west coast from its newest destroyer, the Choe Hyun. The leader of the republic, Kim Jong-un, watched the tests together with senior military officials. According to Navy Recognition, initial assessments show that the exercises focused on synchronizing onboard sensors, fire control systems, and the sequence of weapons use in operational conditions.