News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

At the Russian-Serbian exercises "Slavic Shield-2021", an aerial target — a helicopter simulator (VM-V) was used. Unmanned helicopters developed by Technodinamika Holding of Rostec State Corporation simulated an air raid by a simulated enemy. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the holding.

This is the second group of vehicles of this series in orbit

China successfully launched a group of Yaogan-32 Earth remote sensing satellites into a given orbit on Wednesday. The launch, Xinhua news agency reports, was carried out at 15:43 Beijing time (10:43 Moscow time) using the Changzheng-2-Xi carrier rocket (CZ-2C, Long March-2C) from the Jiuquan cosmodrome in the northwestern province of Gansu.

The exercises took place near the Crimean Peninsula, up to 10 aircraft participated in the maneuvers

The crews of the aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet, together with the calculations of coastal missile systems, worked out strikes on a sea target during the exercises, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

The American Navy will soon receive the twelfth San Antonio-class amphibious assault ship. On November 2, the press service of Huntington Ingalls Industries announced the successful completion of the first stage of sea trials of the Fort Lauderdale ship (LPD 28).

A new development plan is being developed for the Votkinsk Plant, one of the largest enterprises in Udmurtia. Possible options were discussed by the head of the republic Alexander Brechalov and the general designer of the corporation of the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering Yuri Solomonov.

The old Soviet BTR-152 continues to be improved in Vietnam. Currently, a thoroughly modified version has been created for peacekeeping units operating as part of the UN troops.

The introduction of fifth-generation technologies at the branch of Sukhoi Company JSC - Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin (part of PJSC UAC Rostec Group) required a fundamentally new approach to the organization of production and design.

The Command of the US Coast Guard announced the ceremony of commissioning a new fast patrol boat FRC (Fast Response Cutter) of the Sentinel class – (WPC 1145) "Emlen Tunnell" (Emlen Tunnell), which took place in Philadelphia.

The first use of autonomous drones for military purposes will not be accompanied by the appearance of a giant fireball in the sky and may initially look quite harmless, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

We are talking about January 19, astronauts will have to lay cables between the Berth and Nauka modules

The first spacewalk of Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled for January 19, the cosmonauts will have to lay cables between the Berth and Nauka modules, according to the Russian Cosmos magazine (the official publication of Roscosmos).

The undocking from the Rassvet module and the landing of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is scheduled for March 28

The first launch of the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft in 2022 is scheduled for March 18. This is reported in the magazine "Russian Cosmos" (the official publication of Roscosmos), published on Wednesday.

The reconnaissance units of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District stationed in Buryatia have received the latest AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifles. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the VVO.

Transportation by rail of new 155-mm towed AH4 howitzers was filmed in one of the provinces of China.

In total, eighteen pieces of equipment can be seen on the platforms. At the same time, it is reported that this is only part of what is in the echelon transferring the artillery unit to the exercise area.

Three submarines of the Northern Fleet conducted practical torpedo firing in the Barents Sea, including an underwater duel, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

Chinese military blogs reported on successful ground tests of electromagnetic catapults created for the third aircraft carrier of the People's Republic of China.

On November 3, Xavier Rofe, a columnist for the French edition of Atlantico, spoke about the latest electronic warfare systems (EW), thanks to which Russia will be able to disable the equipment of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Russia has a high level of military security. This result was achieved thanks to the development of weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 3.

The fate of Naval Aviation of the Navy is being publicly discussed at the highest level for the first time. Why is the service of naval pilots extremely important for the defense capability of Russia, what is the state of Naval aviation today – and what needs to be done to revive it?

The Israeli defense showed a high result on the German tank. November 2, portal janes.com He reported that the companies Rafael and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) conducted a joint test of the Leopard 2 tank and the Trophy active protection system.

The US Navy plans to equip the Zumwalt destroyers with hypersonic glider missiles. According to Naval News, they will replace 155-millimeter guns that have never fired. The first "Zumwalt" will begin to be refitted in fiscal year 2024.