News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Data from any commercially available satellite systems will be uploaded to the service

Sitronics Group together with its member company Sputnix will create a single "store" for the sale of space services and data. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the group of companies.

The unfinished Talayieh reconnaissance ship of the Iranian Navy capsized in the dry dock of the Bandar Abbas port in the Persian Gulf. The ship partially disappeared under water, as the dock turned out to be dry only in class. As a result of the accident, a serviceman was killed, writes Dambiev.

The exercises of the marines in the Crimea began with the loading of military equipment on the large landing ships of the Black Sea Fleet "Caesar Kunikov" and "Novocherkassk". This was reported today in the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Ministry of Defense of India announced on December 5 at the GRSE (Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers) launch ceremony of the main large hydrographic vessel SVL (Survey Vessel Large), designed for the country's Navy.

Many years of efforts in the development of Indian automata have gone to waste. On December 6, the TASS news agency reported that Russia and India signed a contract for the supply of more than 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles.

The launch of the rocket in modification Y2 took place from the Jiuquan cosmodrome

The Ceres-1 launch vehicle of the private Chinese company Galactic Energy successfully launched five satellite vehicles into a sun-synchronous orbit on Tuesday. This is stated in a statement issued by the company.

The carrier, the first stage of which is equipped with a Russian RD-180 engine, launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome

The American company United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V launch vehicle with two satellites on Tuesday by order of the Space Forces of the US Armed Forces. The broadcast is conducted on the ULA website.

Autonomous tests are planned to be completed by the end of 2021

Specialists have started testing the systems of the Soyuz launch complex after upgrading to a new type of fuel at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of Roscosmos.

Russian Helicopters Holding of Rostec State Corporation has increased the flight range of Ansat and Ansat-M helicopters by 140 km due to the installation of an additional tank.

Success Rockets as part of the SR NET project intends to create a satellite constellation to provide broadband communications

Kirill Menshov, Senior Vice President for Information Technologies at Rostelecom, and Oleg Mansurov, founder and CEO of Success Rockets, signed an agreement on cooperation between the two companies. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday in the press service of the space company.

The Egyptian ground forces can currently be called the largest operator of Abrams main battle tanks after the United States. In total, according to various sources, there are more than 1,100 units of this equipment in the troops.

The Uraltransmash plant has handed over the first batch of upgraded 2S7M Malka self-propelled guns to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The military received vehicles with new communication equipment and surveillance devices. This is reported by the Uralvagonzavod concern.

The Government will approve the procedure for assessing the conformity of space technology intended for use in scientific and socio-economic purposes

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill defining the procedure for assessing the conformity of dual-use space technology, which is intended for use in scientific and socio-economic purposes. The document was initiated by the Government of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the training of T-34 tank crews. The maneuvers of Russian tankers were appreciated in Poland. The exercises allow us to consider T-34 tanks as standard military equipment, writes Defence24.

10 ships of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation were involved in the exercises. The shooting area was declared dangerous for navigation and aviation flights

The Russian corvette Stoyky conducted an exercise in the Baltic Sea with a combat launch of an anti-ship cruise missile at a target simulating a simulated enemy ship, the Russian Baltic Fleet reported on Tuesday.

The US Missile Defense Agency has completed the construction of the LRDR (Long Range Discrimination Radar) ballistic target selection radar and has begun testing it. According to Defense News, next year the military will integrate LRDR into the GMD missile defense system and the C2BMC combat information and control system.

Shooting practice has begun on the Kuril Islands.

This is reported by the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO). "The servicemen of the motorized rifle unit of the army corps of the Air Force in the Kuril Islands, as part of the week of intensive training that has started, have begun working out standards for the main subjects of combat training," the press release says.

More than 150 military rescue specialists and medics have been relocated from the Chelyabinsk region, as well as crews of Mi-8 helicopters, An-26 and An-12 aircraft and more than 20 units of ground vehicles, including upgraded search and evacuation vehicles PEM-1 and PEM-2 "Blue Bird".

A new motorized rifle division in the Kaliningrad region, which, according to the Russian military, was created in response to NATO activity, has received more than 40 upgraded tanks this year, the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

A batch of modernized heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek", made as part of the state defense order, has been transferred to the troops. This is reported by Rostec.