News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
Americans are learning to use messenger drones
Disposable cargo drones are finding new uses in the US army. On December 1, the press service of Yates Electrospace announced the signing of a contract with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the supply of a new version of Silent Arrow cargo gliders.
The Vietnamese satellite has not sent a signal from orbit in three weeks since launch
Nanodragon was among nine satellites launched into orbit aboard the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
The Vietnamese satellite NanoDragon, launched on November 9 from the Uchinoura cosmodrome in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, has not sent a signal from orbit over the past three weeks. This was stated by the Deputy Director General of the Vietnamese National Space Center (NCC) Le Xuan Hui, the newspaper "Zan chi" reported on Thursday.
Large-scale sniper exercises have started in four regions in Western Russia
Snipers will undergo a course of special, tactical and fire training Large
-scale exercises of sniper units have begun in the Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk and Smolensk regions, the press service of the Western Military District reported on Thursday.
The Urals will create the only stand in Russia for testing satellites up to five tons
The developers assure that it will be an analogue of the NASA stand
Russian engineers will develop the country's first stand for testing satellites weighing up to five tons, the work is planned to be completed in the first half of 2022. This was reported to journalists by the president of Cheltek Holding, which includes Ural Engineering Center LLC (industrial partner), Valery Bodrov.
The United States admitted that they dropped the fuel tank from the F-16 aircraft on a Japanese village due to an emergency situation
The US military admitted that a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet dropped a fuel tank on the village of Fukaura in northeastern Japan before an emergency landing, Kyodo news agency reports.
The President gave instructions on the import substitution of software in state-owned companies and the transition of CII to domestic solutions
A list of instructions from President Vladimir Putin has been published following a meeting with members of the government held on November 24, 2021, during which, we recall, the president agreed with a proposal on the personal responsibility of heads of state-owned companies for the purchase of domestic software.
The world's largest quantum computing company has been formed
Cambridge Quantum, a pioneer in the field of quantum software, operating systems and cybersecurity, and Honeywell Quantum Solutions, which built high-performance quantum equipment based on captured ion technology, announced that they had fulfilled all the conditions necessary to complete the transaction to combine the two businesses, and created a new company called Quantinuum
A new academic year has started in the Russian Armed Forces
In the new academic year, which started in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on December 1, the main priority will be to further increase the level of professional training of military personnel, according to the Ministry of Defense.
In Poland, they announced the backlog of Russian bombers from the American ones
On Monday, November 29, Russia announced preparations for testing a new-built Tu-160M strategic bomber. The Polish edition of Defence24 suggested that this indicates that Russian strategic aviation is lagging behind the United States.
The Russian military will hold a command and staff exercise with groups of troops in the south-western strategic direction in 2022
More than 3 thousand combat training events will be worked out in the troops of the Southern Military District in 2022, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket with Galileo navigation satellites was postponed to December 3 due to bad weather
Due to bad weather, the European aerospace company is postponing the launch of the Soyuz rocket with Galileo navigation satellites on board, previously planned on Wednesday, for December 3," the company's CEO Stefan Israel said on Twitter.
Expert: the improved "Shell" will be able to shoot down attack drones before they launch their missiles
The range of the ZRPC has been increased and sufficiently confident identification of drones is provided in the affected area, the editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine noted
The new improved anti-aircraft missile and gun system (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1M" with an increased target range will be able to shoot down attack drones even before they launch their aircraft weapons. This opinion was expressed by TASS editor-in-chief of the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Viktor Murakhovsky.
Russia's first ultra-short-range mobile air defense system is ready for mass production
The complex has already successfully completed state tests in 2019
The Engineering Design Bureau (KBM, part of the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding) has prepared for serial production the first Russian short-range/ultra-short-range air defense system of the VSHORAD [Very Short-Range Air Defense] "Flexible-S" type. This was reported to TASS by Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of armaments, ammunition and special chemicals of the Rostec State Corporation.
The new airborne regiment will be deployed in Crimea by the end of the year - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The formation of a new airborne assault regiment in Crimea will be completed in December, the Russian military department reported. "In December of this year, the formation of the third airborne assault regiment of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne Assault Mountain Unit will be completed," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
Airborne forces in 2022 will become troops of "tactical surprise and combat initiative"
Airborne troops (airborne troops) will hold a new academic year under the motto "tactical surprise and combat initiative troops," the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.
The Armed Forces have created several network-centric connections, the source said
Several formations capable of conducting large-scale network-centric operations have been created in the Russian Armed Forces, informed sources told RIA Novosti.
Exercises with the participation of ten thousand people started in the Southern Military District
Military exercises have started in the south of Russia, in which over ten thousand soldiers and officers of motorized rifle and tank formations of the Southern Military District take part. The corresponding information was distributed by the press service of the Southern Federal District.
More than 2 thousand large-scale exercises will be held by the Eastern Military District in 2022
The Eastern Military District will hold more than 2 thousand special exercises in 2022, the press service of the Air Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The first full-time unit of Terminator combat vehicles appeared in the Russian army
The first full-time unit in the Russian Armed Forces equipped with Terminator tank support vehicles (BMPT) has been formed in the Central Military District (CVO), the commander of the CVO troops Alexander Lapin told reporters.
SpaceX shifted orbits of Starlink satellites to avoid space debris
At the same time, the head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, noted that both the ISS and the Dragon cargo ship are equipped with protective screens that allow them to absorb the impacts of high-speed objects
TASS, December 1.. The American company SpaceX has shifted the orbits of some Starlink satellites to prevent their possible collision with space debris. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of the company, Elon Musk.
