News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Spanish government has authorized the Ministry of Defense to conclude a contract with Navantia for the construction of a ship to support underwater rescue operations BAM-IS (Buque de Accion Maritima de Intervencion Subacuatica) for the country's Navy.

According to the head of Roscosmos, it is easier to solve large space projects together

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, believes that it is useful for countries to share technologies with each other.

The Perle nuclear submarine with a "sewn" part from the Saphir submarine has been launched. October 26, portal navalnews.com He informed that the Naval Group company has completed the assembly of the hull and is preparing to continue the overhaul of the Rubis-type submarine.

On Wednesday, October 27, Glavkosmos signed an agreement with four space tourists who will fly on Soyuz spacecraft in 2024. This was announced by the company's CEO Dmitry Loskutov at the International Astronautical Congress IAC-2021 in Dubai.

The US Air Force should focus on creating fifth-generation F-35A fighters instead of upgrading aircraft of previous generations. In her article, Heather Penny, an employee of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Research, called the modernization of F-15 aircraft a dead end. This is reported by Defense News.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a planned raid over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas. The previous time such planes appeared in these places was at the end of July this year.

The Soviet T-55 medium tanks created in the 50s are considered obsolete and in many European armies they were decommissioned long ago, almost everywhere they managed to be sent to scrap metal.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been put into safe mode due to problems with internal communication, NASA announced on Twitter on Tuesday.

At the moment, a new multifunctional laboratory module "Science" has not been drawn in the simulator, but its model will appear in the near future, said Dmitry Akhmedov, a leading engineer at RSC Energia.

The Odyssey Virtual Reality System Developed by the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia (part of Roscosmos), it will be used for spacewalk training from November. This was reported on October 26 by TASS with reference to the leading engineer of Energia Dmitry Akhmedov.

Launches of Onyx and Kalibr-PL cruise missiles, including one salvo, from the Novosibirsk nuclear submarine of Project 885M (code "Yasen-M") are scheduled for mid-November. This was announced on Tuesday, October 26, according to TASS, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The Michibiki spacecraft should replace the very first satellite from a similar series, launched into orbit back in 2010

The Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on Tuesday launched the H-2A launch vehicle with a new satellite for the global positioning system. A live broadcast of the launch from the Tanegashima cosmodrome in southwestern Kagoshima Prefecture was conducted on the corporation's website.

A Progress target missile was launched from the installations of the Utes complex, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said

The crew of the frigate Admiral Grigorovich of the Black Sea Fleet conducted joint missile firing with combat crews of the coastal anti-ship missile systems Bal and Utes, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said.

The crew of the frigate Admiral Grigorovich of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) conducted joint missile firing with combat crews of the coastal anti-ship complexes BPRK "Bal" and "Utes".

The reserve composition of the military units of the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in Primorye, has begun training, the press service of the district reports.

The company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, together with Sierra Space, will build their commercial space station in low Earth orbit by 2025-2030, according to the project's website.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet conducted a special exercise to protect objects of maritime economic activity of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea, the fleet headquarters reported on Tuesday.

The state corporation previously reported that in 2019-2020, in particular, the economy was affected by trouble-free launches

Roscosmos was able to save 800 million rubles of the federal budget thanks to the revision of the insurance activity processes. This was announced on Tuesday by Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for Economics and Finance, during the plenary session of the Marathon of Innovators.

In November, as part of state tests, the Novosibirsk nuclear submarine will perform several launches of Kalibr and Onyx missiles, including a two-type salvo launch.

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