News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In the noughties, Ukraine continued to think about what to do with outdated T-64A tanks. No modernization made it possible to tighten their characteristics to a modern level, the best thing that could be done with them was to adapt them to solve engineering problems, use them as training until the resource was fully developed, and then dispose of them.

Thanks to the adaptation to any type of chassis, it will fit everything from a car to a robot, said Alexey Leonkov, editor of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

The latest modification of the Kornet-EM anti-tank missile system (ATGM), thanks to adaptation to any type of chassis, can be installed on any equipment, starting from a car and up to a robot. This opinion was expressed by TASS editor of the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Alexey Leonkov.

The missile is part of the armament of the Chrysanthemum-S self-propelled anti-tank missile system, and is also adapted for the latest combat helicopters, in particular, the Mi-28NM and Ka-52M

The Engineering Design Bureau (KBM, part of the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding) is upgrading one of the most powerful guided anti-tank missiles in the world, the Chrysanthemum. This was announced to TASS by the general designer of the KBM Valery Kashin during the international arms exhibition EDEX 2021.

Presented this year at the defense industry exhibition "Army-2021" in Moscow, the guided missile "product 305E", originally developed for FSB helicopters, is capable of hitting targets at a distance of about 15 kilometers, which will make it attractive to foreign buyers, writes Defence24.

Next year, the Tunguska 2S6 anti-aircraft missile and cannon, considered one of the world's best air defense systems of the ground forces, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its adoption.

All this time, the complex has been constantly improving, and now new versions significantly exceed the original samples. In particular, they received additional multi-channel sights that allow them to detect and attack the enemy at any time of the day.

At the Baikonur cosmodrome, work has been completed on placing cargo intended for delivery to the International Space Station in the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft.

The Aerospace Forces of Russia have received the first batch of automated training systems (AOS) for the training of Mi-8AMTSh helicopter crews. The kit was supplied by Technodinamika Holding to Rostec State Corporation. This is reported by TASS with reference to the message of the holding.

A solid line of defense is being created on the southern Kuril Islands. On Thursday, December 2, military historian Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia, commenting on the assumption of duty of calculations of the Bastion coastal missile system.

In 1971, on December 2, the descent module of the Soviet Mars-3 station made a soft landing on the surface of Mars for the first time in history.

Russia will not allow a significant superiority of the Naval forces of other states over the Navy of the Russian Federation, especially in the light of the American concept of a "global strike", said the chief adviser to the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), Commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy (2012-2016), Admiral Viktor Chirkov.

The appearance of calculations of the Bastion coastal missile system (DBK) in the Kuril Islands became possible after Russian specialists managed to solve problems with the water supply of the military camp. This explanation was given by journalist Alexander Kotz in his Telegram channel.

Bastion coastal missile systems on the Kuril island of Matua will provide protection of Russian waters. This is reported by the Zvezda TV channel with reference to military expert Viktor Litovkin.

Russia has the right to deploy military facilities in those areas of the country where it considers it appropriate. This was announced on December 2 by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting to journalists on the deployment of new military facilities on the Kuril Islands.

The engineering and sapper brigade of the Western Military District (VVO), stationed in the Moscow region, received two robotic complexes of mine clearance "Uran-6".

The program of sea trials of the main universal nuclear icebreaker project 22220 "Arctic", built at the Baltic Plant (part of the USC), has been completed.

Disposable cargo drones are finding new uses in the US army. On December 1, the press service of Yates Electrospace announced the signing of a contract with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the supply of a new version of Silent Arrow cargo gliders.

Nanodragon was among nine satellites launched into orbit aboard the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

The Vietnamese satellite NanoDragon, launched on November 9 from the Uchinoura cosmodrome in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, has not sent a signal from orbit over the past three weeks. This was stated by the Deputy Director General of the Vietnamese National Space Center (NCC) Le Xuan Hui, the newspaper "Zan chi" reported on Thursday.

Snipers will undergo a course of special, tactical and fire training Large

-scale exercises of sniper units have begun in the Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk and Smolensk regions, the press service of the Western Military District reported on Thursday.

The developers assure that it will be an analogue of the NASA stand

Russian engineers will develop the country's first stand for testing satellites weighing up to five tons, the work is planned to be completed in the first half of 2022. This was reported to journalists by the president of Cheltek Holding, which includes Ural Engineering Center LLC (industrial partner), Valery Bodrov.

The US military admitted that a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet dropped a fuel tank on the village of Fukaura in northeastern Japan before an emergency landing, Kyodo news agency reports.