News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In the future, China will inevitably become the main rival of the United States in all components, possibly lagging behind in nuclear weapons. Vasily Kashin, Deputy Director of the HSE Center for Integrated European and International Studies, told Izvestia about this on Friday, October 29.

The Agency for the Acquisition of Norwegian Defense Products (Forsvarsmateriell / Norwegian Defense Materiel Agency – NDMA) received the first three of the six ordered armored repair and evacuation / engineering vehicles "Visent-2" (Wisent 2).

The launch of the Ukrainian satellite for remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30" was postponed. In the United States, it was reported that the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was postponed to 2022. This is reported by the information and consulting agency Defense Express.

Vietnam continues experiments on the creation of wheeled self-propelled guns. On October 28, the Vietnamese TV channel QPVN showed a story with video footage of tests of a promising self-propelled gun PTH-130-K255V.

Ukraine took the 25th place in the ranking of the strongest armies in the world, improving the previous indicator. At the same time, Kiev claims that they have the "strongest" troops in Europe. However, according to the compilers of the list, the APU is still far from the Russian army.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced a competition for the disposal of aviation ammunition. The agency plans to dispose of 187 guided missiles of the Navy. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the data of the public procurement portal.

The Kasta-2E2 radar station can detect drones and fifth-generation F-35 aircraft. Methods of repelling attacks of inconspicuous targets are reported in the material of the magazine "Army Standard".

The President traditionally gathers the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, key defense industry enterprises and their chief designers twice a year

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a traditional series of military meetings in Sochi in early November. This was announced to TASS on Friday by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

The launch of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in normal mode, the recent powerful solar flare did not affect the plans. This was announced on October 29 by the head of the NASA manned program, Kathy Luders.

It is planned to carry out five launches for sea and coastal targets

State tests of the newest hypersonic anti-ship missile "Zircon" from the surface carrier - the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" - will begin in November this year. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The M. N. Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope installed there has sensitive detectors for recording X-ray radiation

The developers of the Spektr-RG space observatory were able to register a stream of charged particles caused by solar flares in order to "reject" them in the future due to the negative impact on the detectors. This is stated in the message of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, distributed on Saturday.

The submarine forces remain the most important component of the Russian Navy, having an extremely high combat potential, mainly due to the presence of nuclear submarines equipped, in particular, with ballistic missiles, assessed the state of the Russian fleet in the Polish edition of Defence24.

The final commissioning of this facility is scheduled for the end of 2021

The service center for Russian helicopters of the Mi family, which is being created in Peru, can become a regional hub for the maintenance of helicopters manufactured in the Russian Federation in Latin America. This was announced to TASS during the international arms exhibition SITDEF 2021 by Anatoly Punchuk, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS).

The Russian air defense systems used by Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh turned out to be outdated and unreliable, the American magazine Popular Mechanics tells.

The crews of the Baltic Fleet ships carried out 430 combat exercises in 2021, including rocket, artillery and torpedo firing, mine laying, depth bombing, anti-mine exercises, the press service of the fleet reported.

The United States has made significant progress in increasing the power and accuracy of nuclear weapons, which have become significantly more reliable and effective than ever before, The Washington Post says, citing interviewed experts.

The crews of the large anti-submarine ships Admiral Panteleev and Admiral Tributs of the Pacific Fleet conducted air defense training at their base in Vladivostok, the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.

In the assembly and test building of the Baikonur Cosmodrome site No. 31, the blocks of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle were unloaded, which will launch the Soyuz MS-20 transport manned spacecraft into near-Earth orbit in December, the state corporation Roscosmos reported on Saturday.

The US aviation regulator plans to ban flights over 5G towers, The Wall Street Journal newspaper reports. The Federal Aviation Administration believes that radio signals interfere with aircraft control. However, the US Communications Commission stated that the effect of 5G radiation on aviation systems has not been proven.

German astronaut Matthias Maurer will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on November 3 on a SpaceX spacecraft as part of the NASA program. A few months after his arrival, he decided to throw a party with his colleagues. Maurer shared the details of the event in an interview with Deutsche Welle.