News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Landing is expected at 06:18 Moscow time in the steppe of Kazakhstan

The crew of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, consisting of cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, who will become the first special correspondent of TASS in orbit, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano, will return to Earth on the morning of December 20. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Roscosmos on Wednesday.

The winter training period begins in the parts of the RVSN. In 2022, the General Staff plans to master new weapons and rearm missile units. Special attention is paid to combat duty and improving the quality of training, the Izvestia TV channel reports. In 2022, more than 200 exercises and maneuvers are planned in the Strategic Missile Forces. Special battle scenarios will be worked out with each missile regiment.

The anti-aircraft missile regiment of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Federal District received a modern S-350 Vityaz air defense system. Combat crews of the complexes have started receiving equipment on the territory of the 4th State Central Interspecific training Ground of the Russian Ministry of Defense "Kapustin Yar".

As reported in the holding "Precision complexes", the basic model "Kornet-EM" is placed on two telescopic masts with four missiles each

The holding "Precision complexes" (part of state Corporation rostec) has adapted anti-tank missile system (ATGM) "Kornet-EM" for any type of chassis. This was announced to TASS by Sergey Mikhailov, Deputy General Director of the holding, during the EDEX 2021 international arms exhibition.

The engineering unit of the Central Military District, stationed in Bashkiria, received unique simulators that will allow military personnel to work on engineering equipment.

The engineering units of the Eastern Military District (VVO) stationed in the Republic of Buryatia will receive the latest robotic mine clearance complex "Uran-6".

Servicemen of the 58th combined arms army of the South Ossetia in North Ossetia began the school year with classes on a modern mobile integrated simulator MKT-188A of the crew of the T-90A tank.

The upgraded anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1M" will be able to shoot down drones before they launch weapons of destruction. The advantages of the Russian complex were called by the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Viktor Murakhovsky.

The system includes a server, a set of workstations, a place for an instructor, software, a video projector and other equipment

Technodinamika Holding (part of Rostec) delivered the first serial batch of an automated training system (AOS) to the Russian Aerospace Forces for the training of Mi-8AMTSh crew members. This is stated in the message of the holding, distributed on Wednesday.

Two diesel-electric submarines - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov, and in the same detachment with them and the corvette "Gremyashchy" completed most of the transoceanic transition from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean and arrived in Vladivostok. During the inter-fleet passage, the sailors crossed the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, as well as the Baltic, Northern, Mediterranean, Red, Arabian, South China and Japan Seas.

During combat training, modern aircraft and aviation weapons were actively mastered, which greatly contributed to the growth of qualification and professional training of specialists, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted.

Half of the orders were completed ahead of schedule, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said

The enterprises of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) handed over four warships to the Navy this year, half of the orders were completed ahead of schedule, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The mine defense ship (PMO) of project 12700 "Pyotr Ilyichev", built by the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (part of JSC "USC"), entered the factory sea trials in the waters of the Gulf of Finland.

A solemn flag-raising ceremony was held in Makhachkala on the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov. The corvette of the project 22460 "Hunter" will serve to protect the state border in the Caspian Sea.

The Russian Navy is expected to receive the first serial nuclear submarines "Prince Oleg" of project 955A (code "Borey-A") and "Novosibirsk" of project 885M (code "Yasen-M") by the end of the year. This was announced on Wednesday, December 1, by the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu.

Landfills in the Crimea, Volgograd and Rostov regions are involved

More than 10 thousand servicemen as part of battalion tactical groups of motorized rifle formations of the Southern Military District marched to the areas of combined-arms ranges, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

An updated commander's T-64BVK was demonstrated at the Kharkov Armored Plant. It is reported that this upgraded model of equipment has already been successfully tested. It is designed to control tank units and brigade-battalion level units.

For the first time, a full-time company of nine Terminator tank support combat vehicles has been formed in the Russian army. On the air of Sputnik radio, a military observer, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, commented on the event.

Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky on Wednesday, December 1, in an interview with Izvestia, assessed the beginning of the exercises in the Southern Military District, and also spoke about their characteristic features.

The army corps stationed in the Kaliningrad region is training motorized rifle and tank regiments with the withdrawal of more than 1 thousand servicemen to the training grounds, the press service of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday.