News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
Construction of the terminal of the new airport of the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed by 2025 - Rogozin
The construction of the terminal of the new airport complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed in 2024-2025, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.
The border service of the FSB of Russia received a new patrol boat "Manatee"
Tests of a new river boat for the border service of the FSB of Russia have been completed, it will soon begin service, the Vimpel shipbuilding plant (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region) reported.
Improved "Strela-10MN" and "Tunguska-M1" were seen at the Mulino training ground
Various air defense systems were used at the Mulino training ground (Nizhny Novgorod Region) during the main stage of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus "West-2021".
"Dmitrov" assessed the situation at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
A Russian diesel-electric submarine has made a deep-sea dive.
As part of the shipboard exercises, the crew of the Dmitrov worked out tasks at various depths, Captain Roman Martov, head of the information support department of the press service of the Western Military District for the Baltic Fleet, told the Military-Industrial Courier.
In the south of Russia, reservists will be transferred to rocket and machine-gun "cars"
The servicemen of the country's Combat Army Reserve (BARS) will master the tactics and use of all-terrain vehicles with machine-gun and anti-tank weapons. Training sessions for the crews of automobile "wheelbarrows" will be held at the Tarskoye training ground.
Roscosmos plans to carry out three launches with OneWeb satellites by the end of the year
Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.
ARCAS sight will turn an assault rifle into an information combat center
Gone are the days when the electronic filling of an assault rifle or submachine gun was limited to a pair of sights (optical and night vision) that allow a soldier to make an accurate shot.
The Americans will combine groups of small satellites into a "space layer"
The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".
The Russian-European ExoMars spacecraft will be able to drill on Mars to a record depth
A mock-up of the Rosalind Franklin rover of the Russian-European ExoMars-2022 mission extracted soil from a depth of 1.7 meters during tests, Roscosmos reported, citing materials from the European Space Agency (ESA).
Borisov: Russia will retain its advantage in the field of hypersonic weapons
According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the latest Russian weapons systems fully comply with global trends
Russia plans to maintain its leadership in the field of hypersonic and innovative weapons systems. This was stated on Wednesday to journalists at the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum (TNF 2021) by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.
Not only helicopters: the carriers of the newest missile "Product 305"have become known
They want to integrate the latest air — to-surface aviation missile of the LMUR class not only into the armament of attack helicopters, but also manned aircraft and UAVs. The carrier will be able to act, in particular, the Su-25 attack aircraft.
Powerful landing support. Military expert on the BMD-4M landing
During the Zapad-2021 exercise, a battalion was parachuted for the first time using the latest BMD-4M amphibious assault vehicles, the Defense Ministry reported. Military expert Viktor Litovkin on the air of Sputnik radio spoke about the unique qualities of this machine.
A Russian " spy " vessel was spotted in Britain
British analysts have noticed the Russian oceanographic research vessel "Yantar". H. I. Sutton, an open source intelligence specialist, drew attention to the ship near the territorial waters of Ireland. The " spy " ship can be used for cutting underwater cables and reconnaissance missions, according to the UK Defense Journal.
Apple co-founder Wozniak announced the creation of a space company
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of his own space company Privateer Space. "A private space company, Privateer Space, unlike any other, is being created," Wozniak wrote on Twitter.
SpaceX launched a new group of Starlink Internet satellites into orbit, brought the grouping to 1789 spacecraft
The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a batch of 51 mini-satellites into polar orbit on Tuesday, Moscow time, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.
The reusable stage of the Falcon 9 made a successful landing on a platform in the Pacific Ocean
The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which launched into orbit on Tuesday with 51 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX said.
The ships of the Baltic Fleet conducted firing in the waters of the Baltic Sea as part of the exercise "West-2021"
Within the framework of the joint strategic exercise "West-2021" in the Baltic Sea, the crews of the corvettes "Steregushchy", "Stoyky" and the patrol ship "Yaroslav the Wise" successfully fulfilled the tasks of repelling attacks by means of an air attack of a conditional enemy and inflicted an artillery strike on sea and coastal targets, the press service of the Western Military District reports.
The Russian ship scared the British
The Russian research vessel "Yantar", engaged in the study of the World Ocean, scared the British. It appeared near the territorial waters of Great Britain.
Bombing from the Russian drone "Outpost" was shown on video
A video of the combat use of the Russian reconnaissance and strike drone "Outpost-R"appeared on the Network. The device performed bombing on a ground target.
The nuclear icebreaker "Arctic" has arrived at the Baltic plant
The main universal nuclear icebreaker "Arctic" of the project 22220, after undergoing dock repairs, performed an inter-factory transition from Kronstadt to the Baltic Plant (part of the USC).
