News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

According to unofficial data, the first full-time underwater carrier of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" will be the multipurpose nuclear submarine "Perm" project 885M. Earlier it became known that the first full-time surface carrier of the complex will be the frigate Admiral Golovko.

The captured T-64BV main battle tank of one of the Donbass People's Militia units received "red eyes" - two special searchlights are installed on both sides of a 125 mm smoothbore cannon.

The Russian army is armed with more than 2 thousand unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This was announced on Tuesday, November 2, by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and representatives of the defense industry.

The President believes that it is necessary to introduce promising technologies, including artificial intelligence, in the development of unmanned military aviation

The Russian military can effectively repel drone attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Another batch of upgraded T-72B3M tanks has been received by the motorized rifle unit of the Baltic Fleet Army Corps stationed in the Kaliningrad Region.

The first series of successful firing tests of the Trophy active protection complex installed on the German Leopard 2 tank took place. According to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, these works are carried out in accordance with an agreement signed in February last year with the German Ministry of Defense.

The launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft with two tourists on board is scheduled for December 8

The Main Medical Commission has decided that cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano are ready to make a space flight for 12 days. This is stated in the message of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC), distributed on Tuesday.

Thematic meetings on defense are held annually in May and November

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, November 3, will conclude the next series of meetings on defense issues, which is taking place in Sochi. This was reported to TASS by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

The Americans have "revealed the cards" of further modernization of their main battle tank. November 1, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that US Congressman Tim Ryan boasted of "knocked out" funding for an Army Tank Plant in Lima (Lima Army Tank Plant, LATP).

At the end of last month, the Ukrainian army received more than a dozen medium-sized BTS-4 tractors restored by the Lviv Armored Plant. According to the press service of Ukroboronprom, the first batch of repaired equipment has already been sent directly to the troops, the second is waiting for shipment.

Amazon has announced the launch date of the first prototypes of spacecraft of the Kuiper global Internet system, which will become a competitor to Starlink. According to ArsTechnica, referring to the application of the US Federal Communications Commission, the KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 satellites should be launched in the fourth quarter of next year.

A source in the rocket and space industry previously told TASS that the launch of OneWeb satellites is scheduled for December 27

The next launch of the British OneWeb communications satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for the end of the year. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

Researchers from Perm Polytechnic University have developed a unique regulator for the operation of a gas turbine aircraft engine, which is based on a combination of "intuition and rigor" of artificial intelligence. According to scientists, the technology will significantly improve the safety of civil airliners.

China will accelerate the energy transition with wind farms and photovoltaic projects. This promise was made by Chinese President Xi Jinping in his written address to the participating countries of the climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Xinhua news agency reports.

In the USA, the approach of one of the Russian spacecraft (number 40258 in the catalog of the North American Aerospace Defense Command) of the Luch series to the Intelsat 36 commercial satellite was shown on a computer model. The corresponding video was published by the American company COMSPOC on Vimeo.

Practical work is planned to be carried out approximately starting from mid-November, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The newest nuclear submarine of the 885M project (code "Yasen-M") "Novosibirsk" will perform at least four launches of Onyx and Kalibr-PL cruise missiles in the next two months before being transferred to the Russian Navy during state tests in the next two months. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In the Altai Territory, anti-sabotage exercises with the Barnaul missile compound have ended, in which more than 1,000 servicemen and 100 pieces of equipment took part, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

The search and rescue detachment of the Pacific Fleet conducted exercises in Peter the Great Bay in Primorye. The team of the rescue deep-sea vehicle worked out actions to assist the crew of an emergency submarine lying on the ground, the head of the information support department of the VVO press service for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3rd rank Ilya Kolesnikov, told RG.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, congratulated the sailors on the Day of the Seaman and the Day of the foundation of the Russian Regular Fleet. These two dates are celebrated on October 30.

A new automatic sonometric complex AZK-7 has been delivered to the compound of rocket troops and artillery of the combined-arms army of the Air Defense Forces, stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.