News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The first use of autonomous drones for military purposes will not be accompanied by the appearance of a giant fireball in the sky and may initially look quite harmless, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

We are talking about January 19, astronauts will have to lay cables between the Berth and Nauka modules

The first spacewalk of Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled for January 19, the cosmonauts will have to lay cables between the Berth and Nauka modules, according to the Russian Cosmos magazine (the official publication of Roscosmos).

The undocking from the Rassvet module and the landing of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is scheduled for March 28

The first launch of the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft in 2022 is scheduled for March 18. This is reported in the magazine "Russian Cosmos" (the official publication of Roscosmos), published on Wednesday.

The reconnaissance units of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District stationed in Buryatia have received the latest AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifles. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the VVO.

Transportation by rail of new 155-mm towed AH4 howitzers was filmed in one of the provinces of China.

In total, eighteen pieces of equipment can be seen on the platforms. At the same time, it is reported that this is only part of what is in the echelon transferring the artillery unit to the exercise area.

Three submarines of the Northern Fleet conducted practical torpedo firing in the Barents Sea, including an underwater duel, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

Chinese military blogs reported on successful ground tests of electromagnetic catapults created for the third aircraft carrier of the People's Republic of China.

On November 3, Xavier Rofe, a columnist for the French edition of Atlantico, spoke about the latest electronic warfare systems (EW), thanks to which Russia will be able to disable the equipment of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Russia has a high level of military security. This result was achieved thanks to the development of weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 3.

The fate of Naval Aviation of the Navy is being publicly discussed at the highest level for the first time. Why is the service of naval pilots extremely important for the defense capability of Russia, what is the state of Naval aviation today – and what needs to be done to revive it?

The Israeli defense showed a high result on the German tank. November 2, portal janes.com He reported that the companies Rafael and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) conducted a joint test of the Leopard 2 tank and the Trophy active protection system.

The US Navy plans to equip the Zumwalt destroyers with hypersonic glider missiles. According to Naval News, they will replace 155-millimeter guns that have never fired. The first "Zumwalt" will begin to be refitted in fiscal year 2024.

The creation of weapons in Russia that have no analogues in the world has ensured a high level of military security of the country for decades, helped to strengthen strategic parity, the president said.

At the final meeting in Sochi on strengthening the Armed Forces, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief proposed to discuss equipping the army and navy with systems based on new physical principles.

All Russia's priorities should be reflected in the new state armament program until 2033, the development of a unified system of initial data for its formation is already underway in the Ministry of Defense, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Artificial intelligence should provide a qualitative breakthrough in improving the combat characteristics of weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The United States decided to dismantle the 155-millimeter guns in the bow of the Zumwalt, installing vertical shafts with hypersonic missiles in their place.The US plans to equip the "scandalous" Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with hypersonic weapons are becoming more and more specific.

The entire crew of the AN-12 crashed near Irkutsk was killed. This was announced on November 3 by the governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev, who arrived at the crash site near the village of Pivovarikha.

It is very difficult to detect a diesel-electric submarine like the Russian project 636 submarine of the Varshavyanka type because of the nature of its acoustic signature or even the absence of such a signature, Kevin Noonan, a veteran of the US Navy (Navy), writes in the American edition of The Drive.

The German Leopard 2A7 tank has passed the first stage of testing of the active protection complex (KAZ) Trophy. The development of the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems provided effective protection of the tank. The Israeli Defense Ministry has published a corresponding message on its Twitter account. This is reported by Army Recognition.

The analyst of the US Department of Defense on military capabilities and armaments, David Reimers, in a material for 19FortyFive, suggested arming civilian aircraft with missiles. He believes that this will preserve the strike potential after reducing the number of bombers.