News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On Wednesday, engineering assault groups were used for the first time at the training ground of the Kazan Tank School, where the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2021" exercise of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO is taking place.

Russia has managed to do a lot in the field of diversification of defense industries in five years, but in the future it needs to work more effectively in this direction, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the military-industrial commission.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the development of new weapons to focus on the main trends in the world, in particular, the use of digital technologies and hypersonic weapons.

The Russian government will quadruple financial support for domestic software projects in industry. This was announced on Monday by the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting with deputy prime ministers via videoconference, reports TASS.

In the early 70s, a very interesting tank was designed in the USSR, even by modern standards. We are talking about the Chelyabinsk main combat Facility 780.

The repair of the ship will be completed in the summer of 2023, and at the end of the same year the aircraft carrier will be handed over to the fleet, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The heavy aircraft carrier of the 1143.5 Admiral Kuznetsov project is planned to be delivered to the modernized dry dock of the 35th SRZ branch of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center in June next year. At the same time, the ship's delivery dates will be shifted to 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The camera was chosen as the first object to be restored, because failures in the operation of this device are rare

The team of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, restored the operation of one of its cameras after the entire telescope went into safe mode due to a loss of synchronization.

The device must receive and transmit signals of an automatic identification system for tracking the movement of ships and monitoring activities at sea

Japan on Tuesday launched an Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is broadcasting the launch live.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, servicemen of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District conducted an air defense training on the new S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS), the press service of the Air Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

On board the ship are US astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Tom Pesquet, as well as Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.

According to the chief project manager Mark Belakovsky, many countries have applied to Russia to participate in the one-year experiment, a number of contracts have already been signed

The SIRIUS international annual experiment simulating a flight into deep space is scheduled to begin at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in the first quarter of 2023. This was reported to TASS by SIRIUS project chief Manager, Head of the Department of IMBP RAS Mark Belakovsky.

The commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Army General Alexander Dvornikov, spoke at a briefing about equipping the district's troops with modern types of weapons and equipment.

During the development of the Yars PGRK, fundamentally new models of weapons, military and special equipment were created, significantly increasing the capabilities of the missile complex.

The frigate Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov made the transition from the main base of the Northern Fleet – Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula - to the city of Severodvinsk on the White Sea to continue the testing program of modern sea-based weapons.

According to the Minister of Defense, the ship is planned to be equipped with the latest missile, torpedo and radio equipment, as well as modern means of communication

The service life of the Irkutsk multipurpose nuclear submarine of the Antey project 949A of the Pacific Fleet after its repair and modernization at the Zvezda Far Eastern plant will last for at least 10 years. This was announced on Tuesday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a conference call at the military department.

Negotiations on international participation in the project of a new Russian space station should begin in the near future, said Academician Lev Zeleny, scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The difficult epidemic situation has not affected the effectiveness of combat training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday during a conference call.

According to the executive director of Roscosmos Sergey Krikalev, the launch of the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" and the node module "Berth" does not mean the completion of the development of the ISS

The operation of the International Space Station (ISS) will last at least until 2027-2028. This was announced by the executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs Sergey Krikalev.

Experts also predict low reliability indicators of Angara missiles in the first years of operation

Reducing the load of RSC Energia's capacities can have an extremely negative impact on the reliability of the Soyuz manned spacecraft and Progress trucks, according to the theses of the report of experts from NPO Technomash (part of Roscosmos).

Digital portable radios of the sixth generation "Azart-P1" replaced devices of earlier modifications at the Russian military base in Tajikistan

This was reported by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO). "More than two thousand modern Azart-P1 radio stations have been received by the Central Military District troops since the beginning of the year.