News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The economic indicators of Ukrainian rocket and space industry enterprises are getting worse from year to year, since Ukraine does not create demand for space products, and there are no tools to attract international investment, Vladimir Usov, former head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SCAU) and director of the private company Kurs Orbital, said in an interview with Defense Express.

At the military parade in Ashgabat on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Turkmenistan's independence, samples of military equipment recently purchased from foreign manufacturers were demonstrated.

So, for the first time, the Bayraktar TB2 reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles of Turkish production were shown.

Roselectronics Holding (part of ROSTEC) will begin mass production of the first Russian ultrahigh frequency switches for spacecraft in early 2022, the press service of the state corporation reported.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has recovered more than 172 million rubles from the Russian Ministry of Defense on the claim of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant Yantar (Kaliningrad), follows from the operative part of the court decision published on Tuesday.

On board the Yuri Gagarin spacecraft are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, as well as American astronaut Mark Vande Hai

The manned spacecraft "Yu. A. Gagarin" (Soyuz MS-18) docked to the multipurpose laboratory module "Science". The broadcast is conducted on the Roscosmos website.

At the recent command and staff exercises at the Pesochnoye training ground in the Yaroslavl region, most of the latest armored vehicles in service with the Russian airborne troops were presented.

According to the Malaysian media, on September 25, the third patrol ship of the coastal zone LMS (Littoral Mission Ships) of the Keris-Badik class arrived at the Sepanggar naval base in Kota Kinabalu (Sabah State) after a 7-day transition.

The US Navy received the first deeply upgraded Super Hornet. They will serve on aircraft carriers side by side with new generation fighters.

This month, the resident of the SEZ "Dubna" company "Hydrostand" completes the most important project for JSC "RSC "MiG" - a set of stands for autonomous testing of aircraft systems will allow testing the operability of its mechanisms without starting the engine.

Air Force (Air Force) The United States and the American corporation Lockheed Martin showed on YouTube a video of tests of C-17A Globemaster III and EC-130J Super J aircraft dropping pallets with AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise stealth missiles.

Roscosmos first published the composition of the future Russian orbital station on the public procurement website on Thursday, September 23. According to the document, the state corporation has allocated funding for the development of requirements for it and its seven modules in the amount of 1.735 billion rubles.

Retired US Army officer Brent Eastwood explained why Russian Su-35 fighters are dangerous in combat. His article was published by the portal 19Fortyfive.

At the main stage of the large-scale Zapad-2021 exercises, Russian troops had to destroy real tanks. This role was played by real armored vehicles, which were in service with our army until the end of the first decade of the last century.

Currently, Russia has about 3,500 tanks, 7,300 infantry fighting vehicles and 4,500 armored personnel carriers, as well as 4,800 artillery systems, mortars and multiple rocket launchers, according to the Polish newspaper Defence24.

Large-scale exercises of amphibious troops have begun in the Crimea, they will involve about 2 thousand servicemen and more than 100 units of combat and special equipment, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The Arctic group of the Northern Fleet (SF) conducted an interspecific tactical exercise to protect the island zone in the Laptev Sea. This was announced on Monday, September 27, the press service of the SF reports.

Up to 2 thousand military personnel and more than 100 units of combat and special equipment are involved in the regimental tactical exercise Large

-scale exercises of amphibious troops have begun in the Crimea, they involve about 2 thousand military personnel and more than 100 units of combat and special equipment, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

The crews of the Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" and the patrol ship "Ladny" of the Black Sea Fleet conducted exercises with artillery firing at sea ranges, the Black Sea Fleet reported on Monday.

Military Watch evaluated the new combat capabilities of the MiG-31.

The publication Military Watch asked the question, why did the Russian military start installing new short-range R-74M missiles on MiG-31BM/BSM interceptors?

Scientists of the Military Institute of Engineering Troops have created new means of overcoming mine-explosive barriers for wheeled armored vehicles.