News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In Udmurtia, at the Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (CHMP), part of the structure of the fuel company TVEL of the ROSATOM State Corporation, mastered the technology of production of zirconium sponge.

Russia has sent a small ship "Vyshny Volochek", equipped with a Kalibr-NK missile system, to the Mediterranean Sea, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The fighter with a shortened takeoff and vertical landing of the F-35B was tested by taking off and landing on the Japanese promising aircraft carrier Izumo, which is being converted from a helicopter carrier. According to The Drive, a combat aircraft took off and boarded a Japanese ship for the first time since the end of World War II.

The United Arab Emirates has announced the launch of its first asteroid exploration program, under which an interplanetary vehicle will be launched in 2028. In five years, he must fly around Venus and visit seven asteroids of the Main Belt, one of which he will land on, The National News reports.

The orbital grouping of the Russian Federation currently consists of more than 160 spacecraft (spacecraft), said Colonel Roman Vinokurov, Chief of Staff of the Main Test Space Center (GICC) named after G.S. Titov.

More than 1,450 spacecraft were launched into orbit in 2021 under the control of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

In 2021, four launches of sOyuz-2 rockets with military satellites and the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile were carried out at the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The Russian space forces have detected more than 110 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space rockets since the beginning of 2021, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

A dozen new complexes operating on various principles will appear in Russia until 2025 to control space objects, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Exercises continue in Iran on the border with Azerbaijan. Everything suggests that the scale of the demonstration of forces will only increase. Now the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has deployed its units. If the formations of the ground forces have not yet used their newest tanks, the Chieftain, in the maneuvers, then the IRGC has transferred the recently upgraded T-72M1.

At the Airshow China 2021 in Zhuhai, the first flight of a Chinese carrier-based fighter of the next generation was announced, which will be made before the end of the year. In the United States, they doubted China's ability to introduce a new aircraft this year. Former US Army officer Brent Eastwood wrote about this in 19FortyFive.

Military personnel of motorized rifle units of the 201st Russian military base during the exercise practiced conducting combat operations to destroy a sabotage group of a conditional enemy in the mountains of Tajikistan, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video of the launch of the Zircon rocket, the first tests of which took place on October 4 from the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine.

Judging by the video published by the agency, the rocket launch took place at night

The Russian military conducted the first test launch of a hypersonic missile "Zircon" from a submarine. Prior to that, the launches of the Zircon were carried out from a surface ship.

These missile systems are difficult to identify, track down and destroy, which makes them superior to mine-based missiles in terms of survivability.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) have launched large-scale exercises in the center of the country in the Sverdlovsk region.

Under the leadership of the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Osipov, the quality of the work of the fleet units will be evaluated following the results of the summer training period

The inspection of the forces of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) began following the results of the summer training period, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Monday.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, listened to the heads of the relevant departments of the Navy's Main Command about the progress of mooring tests of the corvette "Zealous" project 2030, built at the enterprise "Severnaya Verf" (part of JSC "USC") in St. Petersburg.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law "On the specifics of reforming enterprises of the military-industrial complex of the state form of ownership".

The construction of six Mk VI high-speed patrol boats for subsequent delivery to Ukraine has begun at American shipyards. The contract, funded by the US government, should be completed by March 2025.

The National Interest explained why launching a hypersonic Zircon missile from a submarine could be a breakthrough. No country in the world has ever carried out an underwater launch of such missiles.

The publication The National Interest evaluated the tests of the "Zircon" from the submarine. Special attention of the author Chris Osborne was attracted not by the first surface launch, but by the second, from an underwater position, scheduled for November.