News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The company produces a wide range of diesel engines for Russian armored vehicles

Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (CHTZ-Uraltrak, part of the Uralvagonzavod concern, part of Rostec) fulfilled its obligations to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the state defense order for 2021 on time, delivering diesel engines and spare parts to them in full, Acting Deputy General Director for Production and Technical Issues of the enterprise Yuri Mamin told TASS.

The Turkish defense company Baykar will soon test two new UAVs.

They will expand the capabilities of drones from ground to naval operations, its CEO said. Haluk Bayraktar, one of the two engineering brothers running the defense firm Baykar, said the new drone will be tested in the next two years and will be able to take off from a Turkish Navy ship, which is currently in production, Duvar points out.

Mock-ups of American fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter-bombers were spotted at a training ground in China. This is reported by the South China Morning Post with reference to the Kanwa International Journal.

The Syrian Golan-1000 still remains one of the world's most powerful multiple launch rocket systems on a tank chassis.

The first demonstration took place at the end of spring 2018 at one of the bases of the fourth armored division of the government army.

Now the GLONASS orbital grouping includes 25 spacecraft

The Russian navigation satellite of the new generation Glonass-K No. 701 has been withdrawn from the orbital grouping. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday by the GLONASS Consumer application Center.

The submarine S-49 of the 633RV project was brought into the underground channel of the Balaklava Museum complex today. After being installed in the dry dock, it will become part of the museum exhibition.

Taking into account deliveries in 2021, the share of modern samples will be 75.6%

The share of modern samples of military equipment in the radiation, chemical, biological protection (RCBZ) troops will amount to 75.6% this year. In the near future, military units will receive more than 200 units of special equipment, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Glen DeVries, vice president of the French company Dassault Systemes, was killed in the crash of a small Cessna-172 aircraft in New Jersey, USA. This was announced on Friday, November 12, by Blue Origin, which sent the New Shepard rocket on a suborbital flight in October, including with DeVries on board.

NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron will go into outer space from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, November 30 to replace a non-working antenna on one of the truss structures of the station, according to the NASA website.

Experts discovered a malfunction during tests of the Doppler speed and range meter (DISD-LR), designed to ensure a soft landing of the Luna-25 spacecraft. This was reported to TASS on November 13 in the press service of Roscosmos.

Maxim Litvak, head of the laboratory of the ICI RAS, said that the launch of the Luna-25 interplanetary station in 2022 will help Russia to get ahead in the "lunar race", RIA Novosti reports.

The newest mine defense ship conducted exercises in the Baltic Sea.

At the first stage of the exercises, the crew of the minesweeper Georgy Kurbatov discovered a "floating mine" with the help of sonar equipment. After that, he successfully destroyed it.

Crews of shipboard Ka-27 helicopters conducted exercises to search for submarines of a simulated enemy in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Saturday.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Saturday successfully launched into orbit a batch of 53 mini-satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The Soviet strategic cruise missile "Meteorite" was a powerful and unusual weapon of the Cold War, ultimately "doomed to failure," reports The Drive.

The Proton-M rocket will launch two Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 communication satellites into orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 6, Roscosmos reported.

Since May 2019, the company has put more than 1.8 thousand satellites into orbit

The American company SpaceX on Saturday successfully delivered 53 more mini-satellites to orbit for its Starlink network.

The next serial mine defense ship of the 12700 project "Anatoly Shlemov" is to be launched on November 26, according to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

China is able to land taikonauts on the surface of the Moon in the period earlier than 2030, the technical adviser of the Chinese Academy of Space Technologies (CAST) said on the air of the Chinese Television Network Ye Peijian.

China plans to land Taikonauts on the surface of the moon earlier than 2030. This was told on the air of the Chinese Global Television Network by the technical adviser of the Chinese Academy of Space Technologies Ye Peijian.