News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The remotely controlled nArwhal combat module has been tested. The installation with a large-caliber machine gun will become the new armament of the ships that will guard the coast of Russia. The module was developed by specialists of NPO eLektromashina (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the ROSTEC State Corporation). This is reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the company Igor Afanasyev.

The United States drew attention to the expanded arsenal of MiG-31BM and MiG-31BSM interceptors. The aircraft received a new short-range R-74M air-to-air missile. The new ammunition makes the MiG-31 one of the most versatile aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). A similar opinion was expressed by the magazine The Military Watch.

As reported in Roscosmos, the declaration will be a continuation of the memorandum of understanding between the governments of the two countries on the creation of a lunar station

Roscosmos and the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) will present a declaration on the International Scientific Lunar Station (MNLS) during the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Four astronauts will take part in the flight, including Chris Boshuizen, a former NASA engineer and co-founder of Planet Labs, and Glen de Vries, vice chairman of the Dassault Systmes division.

The commander of the US Space Forces, General John Raymond, believes that all of them can pose a danger

The US military is monitoring more than 30 thousand objects in Earth orbit and believes that all of them may pose a danger. This was announced by the commander of the US Space Forces, General John Raymond, on Monday, speaking at a video conference organized by the Defense One publication.

The ninth satellite is intended to replace Landsat 7, which was launched in April 1999

The Earth remote sensing satellite from the Landsat series has been successfully put into orbit. This was reported on Monday on Twitter by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The regiment of the mobile ground missile system (PGRK) "yArs" of the Tagil missile compound has begun to march to a field position, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

Units of amphibious troops were transferred to the Crimea from the Krasnodar Territory as part of tactical exercises, according to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The assembly method was developed by the head scientific institute of Roscosmos TsNIIMash

The head scientific institute of Roscosmos TsNIIMash has developed a method for assembling a satellite with wireless charging from composite modules in orbit. This is stated in the patent application, registered in September 2021 (available to TASS).

Russian specialists have developed the first Prometheus perimeter security system, which includes remote-controlled combat modules with a large-caliber machine gun. This was announced by Igor Afanasyev, CEO of the developer company NPO eLektromashina (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the ROSTEC State Corporation).

An international group of scientists has compiled a list of the 50 most dangerous objects in low Earth orbit. The first 20 lines are occupied by the spent second stages of the Zenit-2 launch vehicles assembled in Ukraine. This was reported on September 28 by RIA Novosti with reference to an article by specialists.

Il-38 aircraft and Ka-29 helicopters were involved in the exercises

Combat aviation of the Pacific Fleet conducted exercises in Kamchatka with the implementation of practical bombing and missile launches. Il-38 anti-submarine planes and Ka-29 helicopters launched a bomb and missile attack on a simulated enemy in the area of the Halaktyrsky beach of the Avacha Bay, the press service of the fleet told reporters.

An official ceremony of cutting the first steel for the construction of the head multipurpose frigate of the tYpe-31 class, designed for the country's Navy, took place at the Babcock company in Rosaite.

The Russian military has worked out counteraction to high-precision weapons. During the ZAPAD-2021 exercises, electronic warfare (EW) complexes suppressed the communication channels of high-precision systems. Such tactics will create zones that are invulnerable to smart weapons. This is reported by Izvestia.

Scientists from China, Germany and the USA found fragments with an "exotic" chemical composition in the samples of lunar soil delivered by the Chang'e 5 spacecraft. The results of the preliminary soil analysis were presented by scientists at the European Congress on Planetary Sciences.

The American military-industrial corporation Lockheed Martin in 2022 will supply customers with fewer fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters than previously planned, according to a schedule revised to take into account the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus infection on personnel and production, Bloomberg reports.

In Russia, the development of an air electronic warfare complex has begun to suppress communication systems and automated control systems of enemy troops. The Mi-8AMTSh helicopter will become the base platform for the new electronic warfare equipment.

Currently, Ukrainian enterprises of the military-industrial complex lack more than 3,000 components, which were supplied from Russia until 2014, Ukroboronprom reports.

The Saiga program to replace Soviet UAZ SUVs in the Ukrainian army with more modern cars failed.

The comments of Bulgarian readers to any information about Russia, and even more so about its military power, demonstrate a deep split in the society of this Balkan country. So an article about the modernization of the Russian submarine fleet caused diametrically opposite judgments - from "Russians are only able to stamp cans" to "the stronger Russia is, the safer it is to live in the world."