News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The crews of the ships of the Baltic Fleet (BF) have carried out 430 combat exercises this year, including rocket, artillery and torpedo firing, mine laying, depth bombing, anti-mine exercises. This was announced on Sunday, November 7, by the press service of the BF.

They worked out the steps to exit the main module of the Tianhe into the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft

Cosmonauts of the Chinese orbital station conducted emergency evacuation exercises in case of an unforeseen collision with an object. This was announced on Sunday by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

In 2022, the Azerbaijani government will allocate 1.6 billion manats ($941.2 million at the current exchange rate) for projects to strengthen the country's defense potential and improve the material and technical base of the armed forces, the Ministry of Finance told Interfax-Azerbaijan.

The unique capabilities of the new knife of combat swimmers of the Navy "Igla" were shown on video.

The next program "Military acceptance" on the TV channel "Zvezda" was dedicated to the knives of Russian special forces.

As the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation noted, that is why it is so important to comply with all measures to combat coronavirus

Enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) cannot go to lockdown due to obligations under the state defense order, therefore it is so important for them to comply with all measures to combat coronavirus. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.

The F-22 Raptor fighters will undergo the last large-scale modernization during their military career. November 6, portal defensenews.com He reported that the US Air Force had signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to modernize the Predator fleet.

The Army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. This is stated in the report of the US Department of Defense, distributed on Wednesday, November 3.

The crews of the Russian submarines Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod of the Varshavyanka project worked out the launch of Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercises. Conditional defeat of surface targets was made after the entry of the US Navy destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) into the Black Sea. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia.

The upcoming equipping of the Russian Navy with Zircon missiles will be a powerful deterrent to any potential enemy, military political analyst Alexander Perendzhiev expressed this opinion on Sputnik radio.

A large hydrographic catamaran of modular design "Grigory Shadrin" has completed the marine phase of state tests in the designated area of the Barents Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

Major General, Honored Test Pilot Magomed Tolboev described the problems with the AN-12 aircraft, one of which crashed in the Irkutsk region the day before. According to the expert, these aircraft are old, there are no spare parts and factories in the country where they could be repaired. He stated this in an interview with URA.ru .

The experiment starts on November 4 in Moscow

The results obtained during the SIRIUS-2021 isolation experiment, which starts on Thursday, will be implemented into the cosmonaut training system at the CPC. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by Vladimir Dubinin, Deputy head of the Gagarin Research Institute for Science and Development.

The US Navy is expanding the Tomahawk missile family. November 3, portal navalnews.com He reported that the command of the US Navy has signed a contract with Raytheon Missiles & Defense for the small-scale production of Maritime Strike Tomahawk Block Va missiles.

Sergey Ponomarev, Executive Director of the project, said that an operational and technical program aimed at increasing the realism of the mission is also planned

The crew members of the SIRIUS-2021 mission will conduct more than 70 experiments during 240 days of isolation. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by the executive director of the project Sergey Ponomarev.

The SIRIUS-2021 isolation experiment will start on November 4 in Moscow on the basis of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The emblem with the flags of the countries participating in the SIRIUS-2021 experiment, as well as the names of all 12 applicants for crew members, will become the mascot of the project participants. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the crew commander Oleg Blinov.

According to cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, one of the units being removed is the docking mechanism of a multi-purpose laboratory module, which was the first to touch the ISS during docking

More than a ton of spent equipment and household waste will be on board the Progress MS-17 cargo ship, which will be undocked from the ISS on November 25 before flooding. This was announced by Roscosmos cosmonaut Peter Dubrov on Thursday.

China continues to develop its nuclear weapons program. November 3, portal cbsnews.com He reported that a new report from the US Department of Defense indicates that by 2030, China will be able to have thousands of nuclear weapons.

Participation in the scientific work of the SIRIUS-21 experiment will allow the European Space Agency (ESA) to prepare its astronaut for a flight to the Moon, head of the ESA representative office in Russia Rene Pichel told Interfax.

NASA astronauts have grown and eaten chili peppers on the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time in history. This was announced by American Catherine MacArthur on her Twitter account.

For the last 45 years, the peculiarity of domestic tanks is that they can use guided missile weapons. Initially, these were complexes with radio command guidance.

Then, in the mid-80s, combat vehicles were adopted by the ground forces, the ammunition of which included more advanced ammunition, already guided by a laser beam.