News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A minute and a half before the start, an automation command was formed to cancel the start

The launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, scheduled earlier on Friday, was postponed due to a malfunction in the ground complex one and a half minutes before launch. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of the Zircon hypersonic system. On the air of Sputnik radio, military political scientist Alexander Perendzhiev commented on this event.

The Gibka-S anti-aircraft missile systems will enter the army in 2022

The new Gibka-S anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) will be delivered to the troops in 2022. Platoon sets of systems will receive parts of air defense (air defense). This was announced by the head of the military air defense of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov, in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

The State Commission may postpone the launch of the Angara-A5 rocket to December 25

The State Commission is considering the issue of postponing the launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle, which had previously failed. The launch from the Plesetsk cosmodrome may be postponed to December 25. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to sources in the rocket and space industry.

Serbian President noted the work of Russian anti-tank missile systems in Syria

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the installations of anti-tank missile systems (ATGM) "Kornet" the best in the world. According to the Serbian leader, they are superior to the American Javelin missile systems. The Serbian leader made such a statement on Friday in an interview with Prva TV.

Two Borey-A missile submarines will be laid down at Sevmash in 2023

In Russia, two strategic missile submarines of Project 955A ("Borey-A") will be laid down at the Sevmash enterprise in 2023, a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS.

Hainan and Sichuan account for 45% of all Chinese launches

Hainan, together with the southwestern province of Sichuan, brought the total number of launches of the Changzheng series launch vehicles to 180 times in 2021 (out of a total of 402 launches carried out in China). This was reported by the Chinese Aerospace Research Academy (CAECC).

New ways of conducting combat with tanks, artillery and helicopters were demonstrated during exercises in the Voronezh region, the press service of the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

SpaceNews: In December, SpaceX landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket for the hundredth time

The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after launching in December with the Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) made its hundredth landing, SpaceNews reports.

The purpose of the experiment is to check how many tasks can be completed after landing on another planet

One of the space crews who returned to earth is planned to be left at the landing site for several days to practice landing on another planet, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

Now people with fractures and poor eyesight can fly into space

The medical requirements imposed on participants of short-term space flights have greatly decreased in recent years, the deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) told reporters RAN Oleg Kotov.

More than 10 thousand servicemen of the Southern Military District will return to their places of permanent deployment from field exercises that took place at the training grounds of the Crimea, Astrakhan, Volgograd and Rostov regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory.

RIA Novosti: IL-76 aircraft can be used for bombing

During the war in Afghanistan, the IL-76 heavy military transport aircraft was used to drop bombs, RIA Novosti recalls.

The Russian military held a gathering of the command staff of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) in Crimea with exercises of ships and marines, the navy said on Saturday.

Two newest vessels in August of this year, which became part of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, passed the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea. This was announced by the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexey Rulev.

The Baltic Fleet of Russia conducted an exercise to eliminate helicopters and drones of a conditional enemy with the help of anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S", the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.

The newest MS-21-300 airliner with a wing made of polymer composites of Russian production proved to be worthy. This was stated by the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov on Saturday, December 25.

The long-awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope orbital infrared Observatory took place. It is considered as a replacement for the Hubble telescope, launched into orbit in 1990.

The Drive: the military aviation of Ukraine can hardly compare with the Russian

In a hypothetical air battle with each other, Ukraine and Russia can use many identical aircraft models, but in completely different quantities. A comparison of the military aviation of the two countries was carried out by the American edition of The Drive.

The Ariane V heavy rocket on Saturday launched the world's largest and most powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWTS) worth $ 10 billion into orbit to study the processes of evolution of the Universe, the Arianespace carrier development company said.