News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) checked the combat readiness of multiple rocket launchers "Alder". The corresponding video is published on YouTube.

Strike and fighter aircraft of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Tuesday evening worked out air strikes against the enemy at the ranges "Wide Lan" and "Kiev-Alexandrovsky", the press service of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

The United States has begun testing a smart bomb on the fifth-generation fighter-bomber F-35 Lightning II. The aircraft will receive a guided precision bomb GBU-53/B StormBreaker. This is reported by Defense Blog with reference to Raytheon.

The launch of the launch vehicle was postponed from December 6 due to the need to refine the upper stage

The launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle is scheduled for 15:09 Moscow time on December 12. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.

The new Berth node module will allow up to five Russian ships to dock simultaneously to the International Space Station (ISS), thereby expanding the technical capabilities of the Russian segment. In addition, the Berth will provide fuel transfer from cargo ships to other modules of the station, the transmission of recharging and the transmission of information between docked objects.

The launch of the Progress M-UM spacecraft with the Berth node module on the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for 16:06 Moscow time on November 24. Docking to the multipurpose laboratory module "Nauka" is planned on November 26.

About the device of the module, its future location as part of the Russian segment of the ISS and new features - in the TASS infographic.

The crews of Su-27SM3 and Su-30M2 fighters from the mixed aviation unit of the Southern Military District (SE) performed training flights over the Black Sea and practiced bombing attacks on the ships of a conditional enemy, said the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexei Rulev.

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched in California (USA) with the kamikaze space probe DRAT, which will crash into an asteroid to test the technology of protecting the Earth from collisions with space objects. NASA is broadcasting live on November 24.

The Russian S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) is superior to the American THAAD anti-missile system, the Chinese portal Sina said.

On November 23, the Russian Helicopters Holding Company of Rostec State Corporation handed over four Ansat helicopters to PSB Aviation in the interests of the National Air Ambulance Service. This is the first batch under the current contract for 37 cars of this model.

In the first half of next year, Rocket Lab will try to return the Electron carrier stage using a helicopter. Previously, the company successfully landed it in the ocean several times.

The main universal nuclear icebreaker of the project 22220 "Arctic" built by the Baltic Plant (part of the USC) entered the waters of the Gulf of Finland to undergo acceptance tests.

A new production site for the manufacture of polymer composite materials has been opened on the territory of the N.P.Fedorov Dubna Machine-Building Plant (DMZ), part of the Kronstadt Company.

The United States cannibalized the aircraft carrier Kennedy under construction in order for another such ship, Gerald R. Ford, to go on a long voyage in 2022, Defense News reports, citing a statement by a representative of the United States Navy and Captain Clay Doss.

The marines of the Baltic Fleet have received new AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifles, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported on Wednesday.

The growing activity of NATO near the Russian borders dictates the need to maintain the combat readiness of nuclear forces, increase the potential of non-nuclear deterrence forces, including equipping with high-precision weapons and effective means of destruction, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Plans for the development of armaments of the army and navy have been implemented despite restrictions due to COVID-19 and rising prices for raw materials

More than 20 thousand basic weapons, about two million pieces of equipment and support equipment were sent to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from 2018 to 2020, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Rostec State Corporation has compiled the top of the most unusual cartridges produced by its constituent enterprises. Among the ammunition, the quietest, longest, miniature, luminous and a sample with two bullets were singled out, the Rostec press service reports.

This will avoid dumping waste into the sea and the formation of space debris

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is working to create self-destructing rockets and satellites that will not pollute the environment or the Earth's orbit. This was reported to journalists by the head of ISRO Kailasavadivu Sivan.

The Marine Corps of the Indonesian Navy simultaneously operates PT-76 light tanks and modern BMP-3F. There is no such thing in any other armed forces of the world.

According to the available reference data, the first 55 units remained, the second - more than fifty. According to the photos published on the Web, you can understand how much the "troika" is more than the "seventy-sixth".

A batch of AK-12 5.45 mm Kalashnikov assault rifles was delivered to the military personnel of the Baltic Fleet Marine Corps unit as part of the fleet rearmament program.