News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On Friday, January 14, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu congratulated the pipeline troops on their professional holiday.

He noted that the servicemen honorably perform their official duty and contribute to strengthening the country's defense potential. "The personnel of the troops have repeatedly proved their professionalism and readiness to act in the most difficult conditions," the Defense Minister stressed.

The newest small rocket ship "Cyclone" of the Karakurt project, built for the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Kerch, is completing factory sea trials, the head of the Fleet information support department, Captain of the second rank Alexey Rulev, told reporters on Friday.

A sudden check of combat readiness is being carried out in the troops of the Eastern Military District, the Ministry of Defense reported.

Kurganmashzavod delivered the final batch of infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3 under a two-year contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the press service of Rostec reported

The Baltic Plant (part of the USC) has completed the construction of the first serial universal nuclear icebreaker project 22220 "Siberia": on January 12, the vessel departed from the mooring wall of the enterprise and headed to the home port in Murmansk.

The new engineering and sapper regiment of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Republic of Buryatia, received the latest robotic mine clearance complex "Uran-6".

Kurganmashzavod continues to implement the state armament program until 2027

State tests of the Octopus-SDM1 light floating tank for the Airborne Forces will be completed in the first quarter of 2022. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the Rostec state Corporation.

The ship's systems are being audited, preparations are underway for the final stage of state tests, which begin next week

The passage of factory sea trials is completed on the small rocket ship "Cyclone", built for the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet). A number of systems have already been tested, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet told reporters on Friday.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation summed up the preliminary results of its activities in 2021. As noted, the corporation's enterprises handed over almost two dozen ships and vessels to customers.

ISS: the first Glonass-K2 satellite is planned to be launched in May

The first Glonass-K2 spacecraft of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is scheduled to be launched in May. The timing of the launch of a new generation spacecraft was named by the Information Satellite Systems company (ISS, part of Roscosmos) in a video posted on YouTube.

In 2022, 67 events are planned to be held on the basis of the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center, of which more than 50 will take place within the framework of the state task.

During the training, they worked out more than 10 training tasks on countering air targets

Crews of upgraded MiG-31BM high-altitude interceptor fighters of the air defense forces on duty of the Central Military District (CVO) covered the airspace and intercepted the "violators" while practicing combat training tasks in the Urals and Siberia. This is stated in a statement issued on Friday by the press service of the district.

This year, Russia will finish manufacturing the latest Proton-M heavy-class missiles. The Angara-A5M rocket is being created to replace it.

A sudden check of combat readiness has begun in the Eastern Military District with the deployment of a number of units and formations to landfills at a considerable distance from their locations, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

About 3 thousand samples of weapons and equipment are planned to be delivered to the troops of the Southern Military District in 2022, said the commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Army General Alexander Dvornikov.

In 2022, the Polish armed forces, despite the expectation of the start of deliveries of American M1A2 SEP v3 Abrams tanks, will continue to modernize the old T-72M/M1. This technique was produced in the country under a Soviet license back in the days of the Warsaw Pact.

The paired 25-mm artillery universal 2M3 of Soviet production has found a new life in Vietnam. Local designers of one of the research institutes working for the defense industry were able to transfer it to remote control.

A group of enthusiasts-testers of small arms from the United States filmed a unique test of one of the modifications of the Kalashnikov assault rifle - AK-105, which is also used by the Russian special purpose group "Alpha". The presented "rifle", as the author calls it, is very different from the well-known AK, and therefore it is extremely interesting to watch this test.

Until 2015, it was believed that only the US and UK fleets were armed with cruise missiles capable of hitting targets far beyond the coastline. In October 2015, Russia launched a strike from the Caspian Sea against targets in Syria, demonstrating its achievements in rocket science.

A sudden check of the combat readiness of the troops of the Eastern Military District (VVO) with the transfer of some units to remote training grounds may be a demonstration of force on the part of Russia against the background of negotiations with the United States and NATO on security guarantees, a Russian military expert believes.