News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

At the Austal USA company's facility in Mobile (Alabama), the baptism ceremony of the EPF (Expeditionary Fast Transport) high-speed expeditionary transport of the "Sperhid" class, intended for the US Navy Maritime Transportation Command, took place.

In the 50s and 60s, the militarily leading powers were actively engaged in the creation of gas turbine engines for armored vehicles. Work in this direction was also carried out in Nizhny Tagil, in the design bureau of the famous Uralvagonzavod.

The new 2021-2022 academic year has been declared the year of combat training in the Armed Forces of Belarus.

And taking into account the difficult military-political situation and the "migration crisis" created by Western countries, the process of preparing the Armed Forces has been significantly adjusted, said the chief of the Belarusian General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister, Major General Viktor Gulevich.

Pilots of the fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District (ZVO) have practiced conducting highly maneuverable air battles. The maneuvers of the Su-35S in Karelia were shown on video. This is reported by the press service of the ZVO.

"Silver lions" in sandy coloring: from Germany to Estonia in the place of the commander of the main battle tank of the US Army

This video, taken from the commander's workplace at the training grounds in Germany and Estonia, shows the work of the crew of the tank of the currently main modification M1A2 SEP V2, belonging to the 1st battalion "Silver Lions" of the 68th armored Regiment. The crew practices landing in a tank, charging and firing from a gun and a machine gun, maneuvering, as well as using smoke grenades to set up a curtain during retreat.

In 2024, Russia may conduct the first launches of the newest hypersonic missile "Zircon" from aboard the submarine "Perm". Earlier it became known that she will be a full-time carrier of the hypersonic complex.

Scientists believe that it was formed from 1.7 to 2 billion years ago

TASS, November 23. Thanks to seismic data collected by the InSight Martian lander, scientists have discovered traces of an ancient crater under a layer of frozen lava. The description of the work was published by the scientific journal Nature Communications.

The crew of the Russian submarine Veliky Novgorod carried out the laying of mines as part of tactical exercises in the Black Sea, writes Argumenti.ru with reference to the press service of the Southern Military District.

A solemn opening ceremony of the Baltimore military airfield after reconstruction took place in the Voronezh Region. This was announced on November 23 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

China Aircraft Corporation (AVIC) has completed calibration tests of the FL-64 wind tunnel. Now it is officially possible to test hypersonic developments in it. FL-64 allows you to simulate flights at speeds from four to eight Mach at an altitude of up to 48 kilometers at temperatures up to 626.8 degrees Celsius.

On November 19, 2021, it became known that the state-owned company was on the verge of default. So, a message about a meeting with creditors and large bondholders appeared on the company's website.

There are five new ways to destroy an aircraft carrier, writes 19FortyFive. The publication from the USA notes that the aircraft carrier can be tried to sink by traditional means, for example, with the help of torpedoes and ballistic missiles. However, in the future, according to the publication, these ships will face new threats. 19FortyFive calls them.

An urgent telemedicine consultation, which became the one thousand five hundredth this year, was held at the Kirov Military Medical Academy (VMA) in St. Petersburg in real time for the treatment of a patient with a coronavirus infection, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, predicted the timing of the emergence of the Internet from space in Russia. He noted that the Sphere program will allow receiving it in 2024, TASS reports.

In the second half of the 80s, the USSR was going to make a real revolution in the world tank building - the first prototype of the Object-477 "Hammer" tank was made in Kharkov.

Spacecraft will also be used to monitor possible natural disasters, the newspaper notes

The Japanese government plans to launch three small satellites in the middle of this decade that will be able to track the enemy's hypersonic gliding warheads. This was reported by the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday, citing sources.

Next January marks the 95th anniversary of the most massive public organization in Russia - DOSAAF. On the eve of the significant date, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Moscow regional branch of DOSAAF and the National Association of Reserve Officers "Megapir" presented for wide discussion the results of the interaction of civil society institutions with DOSAAF on military-patriotic education of youth and the development of military-technical sports.

The ship's remotely controlled Narwhal combat module will allow you to fight drones. Japanese columnist Masashi Sato assessed the capabilities of Russian weapons in a Yahoo News Japan article.

About 100 servicemen were involved in the exercises

Crews of Mi-8AMTSh transport and combat helicopters-In the Central Military District, about 10 combat training tasks were completed at the first night flight tactical exercises at the mountain range in Tuva. This is stated in a message distributed on Monday by the press service of the district.

The training on the detection, classification and destruction of air targets took place with calculations of S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile systems deployed on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.