News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Russian servicemen used the calculation of the Tachyon drone, which helped to control the capture groups and fire cover, which made it possible to neutralize the conditional saboteurs at the captured checkpoint in the shortest possible time.

The Fifth Fleet of the US Navy, based in the Middle East, said that it will deploy a new task force in the region, which will include air, surface and underwater unmanned vehicles.

The general director of the Kazakhstan JSC "Rocket and Space Company "Baikonur" Dauren Musa said that his company owns the second flight model of the Soviet "Buran". The businessman assured that the company does not plan to transfer it to Russia, TASS reports.

The commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov called this series of ships reliable

The Russian Navy plans to order 10 more mine defense ships of the 12700 project. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov after the laying ceremony of the ninth ship of the Afanasy Ivannikov project, which was held at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.

The CSTO exercises "Rubezh-2021"are coming to an end at the Edelweiss training ground in Kyrgyzstan. According to the plan of one of the episodes, the Russian contingent disrupted the offensive of an armed enemy who planned to occupy a settlement, the press service of the Central Military District reports.

During the visit of the delegation of Kazakhstan led by Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar to the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec State Corporation), further prospects for the development of cooperation in the production of Mi-171 helicopters were discussed.

The launch was the 388th for the Long March series rockets

China on Thursday successfully launched the Zhongxing-9B satellite from the Xichang Cosmodrome in the southwestern province of Sichuan. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

The specialists of the enterprise visited the Baikonur cosmodrome only for the purpose of assessing the technical condition of the structures in which the spacecraft is located

The Molniya Scientific and Production Enterprise (NPO) visited Baikonur in order to assess the condition of the technical structure in which the Buran flight sample is stored, the enterprise has no plans to return the spacecraft to Russia. This was reported to TASS on Thursday in the press service of the NGO.

The Polish Army currently continues to operate more than 1,200 BWP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, which are local clones of the old Soviet BMP-1.

It is believed that this technique, created in the first half of the 60s, is outdated and does not meet modern requirements. It has weak armor protection, simple sights.

The Buran orbiter, located in Kazakhstan, has not yet lost its relevance. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, September 9, by Mikhail Kornienko, a pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, hero of Russia, to Izvestia.

Large-scale exercises have started in the Arctic, in which about 8 thousand military personnel, 800 units of combat and special equipment, as well as up to 50 ships and vessels will take part.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of land and coastal troops, as well as air defense troops of the Northern Fleet moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region as part of an exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group.

The Northern Fleet has begun large-scale exercises in the Arctic zone, its press service told reporters. The maneuvers will take place in the waters of the Barents and Kara Seas, the Laptev Sea, in the area of the Novosibirsk Islands and the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

In addition, the astronauts need to complete the operations for the final connection of the Ethernet cable to the "Science", connect the interfaces of the MLM module and the "Star", install several cables and mount the installation platform.

The Israeli company Elbit Systems has introduced a system for ARCAS submachine guns, which shows soldiers information about the combat situation, including the sources of fire and ammunition levels, in augmented reality. You can control the layers of information using the joystick on the front handle of the machine.

Russian military and civilian aircraft will receive a search and sighting system "Kasatka". Elements of the system designed for reconnaissance, rescue operations and environmental monitoring are already being placed on Russian aircraft. This is reported by TASS with reference to the words of the executive director of the scientific and production enterprise "Radar mms" Ivan Antsev.

According to the press service of the Southern Military District, on September 6, 2021, the newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov" of project 12700 (factory number 524) arrived in Sevastopol to the place of permanent basing after the transition from the Baltic to the Black Sea Fleet. It became the second base minesweeper of the project 12700 in the Black Sea Fleet after the ship "Ivan Antonov" (factory number 523), which arrived in Sevastopol on September 7, 2019.

Russia is superior to the United States in some aspects of weapons. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

Ukraine wanted to create an upgraded version of the RK-360MC "Neptune" coastal missile system. The modified complex can be used to defeat ground targets. Oleg Korostelev, the general designer and general director of the Luch State Design Bureau, told about this in an interview with the Texts publication.

In Kamchatka, the division of the coastal anti-ship missile complex "Bal", which is part of the missile connection of troops and forces in the North-East of Russia, was alerted as part of a tactical exercise that has begun, said on Wednesday the head of the information support department of the press service of the VVO for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3 rank Ilya Kolesnikov.

Large-caliber NSV machine guns have entered service at the Russian military base in Tajikistan. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the Central Military District (CVO).