News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

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.

Concern "Constellation" of the holding "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) and JSC "NIIET" combine efforts to create a domestic electronic component base (ECB) for Russian-made communication equipment, including a new generation.

In recent years, the US Navy and Air Force have been writing off more and more outdated equipment, and cruise missile carriers are no exception. Just recently, 17 B-1B bombers were "retired", 22 Ticonderoga-type missile cruisers, 28 Arleigh Burke-type Block 1 and Block 2 destroyers are planned to be decommissioned soon. These losses will only be partially compensated by the construction of new ships.

The American edition of 19FortyFive has compiled a list of the world's best submachine guns. The article noted that in the modern world they are increasingly used in the armed forces.

A planned exercise of the search and rescue squad of the Pacific Fleet took place in Peter the Great Bay, during which the crew of the AS-40 deep-sea rescue vehicle worked out actions to assist an emergency submarine lying on the ground.

Engineers of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in the Kuban received a set of heavy mechanized bridges TMM-3M2 at the KamAZ automobile base.

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