News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

An updated commander's T-64BVK was demonstrated at the Kharkov Armored Plant. It is reported that this upgraded model of equipment has already been successfully tested. It is designed to control tank units and brigade-battalion level units.

For the first time, a full-time company of nine Terminator tank support combat vehicles has been formed in the Russian army. On the air of Sputnik radio, a military observer, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, commented on the event.

Military expert Viktor Murakhovsky on Wednesday, December 1, in an interview with Izvestia, assessed the beginning of the exercises in the Southern Military District, and also spoke about their characteristic features.

The army corps stationed in the Kaliningrad region is training motorized rifle and tank regiments with the withdrawal of more than 1 thousand servicemen to the training grounds, the press service of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday.

A fragment of the American Pegasus rocket will fly 5.4 km from the International Space Station (ISS) on December 3. This was announced on Wednesday, December 1, according to Roscosmos.

The European Space Agency reported that the tests confirmed the possibility of Mars Express in the mode of "blind collection" of radio waves

TASS, December 1. Chinese and European scientists have successfully conducted trial communication sessions between the Zhuzhong rover and the Mars Express probe, confirming the possibility of using the European mission to maintain contact with the Chinese rover. This was announced on Wednesday by the press service of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Intel has a secret, as the source calls it, laboratory in Costa Rica, where the processor giant stores its old hardware and software products. 

Specialists of the analytical company IDC have published their first forecast related to the global quantum computing market. According to this forecast, customer spending on quantum computing will grow from $412 million in 2020 to $8.6 billion in 2027. This means that the average annual growth rate in the period from 2021 to 2027 will be 50.9%. The forecast includes quantum computing as a service and related services.

The Russian company Baikal Electronics has decided to conduct an experiment on the assembly of branded processors in Russia.  This was reported by the authoritative edition of RBC with reference to representatives of companies participating in the project.

For the first time, the US Navy and the American company Raytheon have dropped a Stormbreaker planning bomb from an F-35B fighter jet that is insensitive to weather conditions. The flight of the bomb was tracked by another fighter - F/A-18F - over a shared network.

The Ka-62 multipurpose helicopter is certified in Russia, which allows it to begin serial deliveries, said Denis Manturov, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

Roscosmos plans to grow improved varieties of food plants in orbit. This was announced on November 29 by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The contract amount was 5.37 billion rubles

VNIIEM named after A. G. Iosifyan will manufacture the Meteor-M satellites No. 2-5 and Meteor-M No. 2-6. The corresponding contract with Roscosmos was signed on November 25, according to the state procurement website.

The possibility of docking the American Crew Dragon spacecraft with the Russian Berth module has not yet been discussed with Roscosmos, the docking interfaces are currently incompatible, said Dan Weigl, deputy head of the ISS program at NASA.

Russia will strengthen the Western strategic direction with self-propelled anti-tank missile systems (ATGMS) "Chrysanthemum-S", Izvestia reports, citing sources in the Ministry of Defense.

This will strengthen the capabilities of helicopters to defeat all types of targets on the battlefield, said Sergey Mikhailov, Deputy General Director of the High-Precision Complexes holding

Export-oriented modifications of the latest Russian attack helicopters - Ka-52M and Mi-28NM - will receive a guided multipurpose missile "Product 305E" as part of the armament.

Countering drones is one of the most urgent tasks facing modern air defense systems, noted in the holding "High-precision complexes"

TASS, November 30. The upgraded Pantsir-S1M anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (ZRPC) will become one of the main elements of the Russian multidisciplinary system designed to combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

An effective modular air defense network can also be built on the basis of the complex, capable of covering any military units from small-sized and shock UAVs

The upgraded anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1M" is capable of fighting all types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including shock. This was reported to TASS by the industrial director of the arms cluster of the Rostec State Corporation Bekhan Ozdoev.

The sailors have completed the inter-fleet transition from the Baltic Fleet to the Pacific Fleet, in the city they will carry out replenishment of material reserves and scheduled maintenance of ships

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) consisting of the corvette "Gremyashchy" and submarines of Project 636.3 "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov" has arrived at the main base of the Pacific Fleet Vladivostok for the first time, the press service of the fleet reported on Tuesday.

During the Iran-Iraq War, the tank forces of Iraq relied on Soviet-designed vehicles. Some samples of T-72 tanks were upgraded with the help of Chinese developments. Rossiyskaya Gazeta told about the modernization of Soviet tanks.