News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The issue of Russia's continued participation in the International Space Station (ISS) project should be decided in the coming months. This was announced on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station on Tuesday, August 24, by Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the Roscosmos state Corporation.

Russia, in case of withdrawal from the ISS project, will not abandon its obligations to organize the flooding of the station when its resource is exhausted, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The rocket divisions of the artillery unit of the Western Military District stationed in the Leningrad Region destroyed the command posts of the conditional enemy located at a distance of about 90 km during a tactical exercise. This is reported by the press service of the ZVO. After the combat launches, the calculations of the multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Tornado-S" performed a change of firing position.

Heavy flamethrower systems "Pinocchio" and "Solntsepek" have been used by our army for several decades. The successor of these legendary machines should be the Tosochka flamethrower system. Although it is currently at the stage of field tests, it has already managed to prove itself in all its glory at the strategic exercises "Caucasus-2020".

The soldiers of the engineering units of the Russian army are almost always on the front line. People in special equipment and with mine detectors at the ready appear in the center of events in any military conflict. Military engineers are also involved in the elimination of natural disasters and emergencies.

In the period from August 22 to 28, 2021, JSC "Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation "(KTRV, a member of Soyuzmash of Russia) takes part in the seventh International Military-Technical Forum" Army-2021 "held in Kubinka.

The International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is held from August 22 to 28 at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Complex in Kubinka, near Moscow.

In 2020, the newly formed 47th Missile and 238th Artillery brigades were deployed on the territory of the military garrison of Korenovsk (Krasnodar Territory).

Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General of Roscosmos, and Bill Nelson, the head of NASA, will discuss the issues of extending the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) at a meeting in October. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy head of the state corporation for international cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

Sergey Savelyev, Deputy General Director of the state Corporation Roscosmos for International Cooperation, told RIA Novosti that the corporation is considering the possibility of sending two tourists to the ISS on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

The BMP-3 is one of the main models of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the most popular infantry fighting vehicle in the world

A new modification of the BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle equipped with the Berezhok module will be presented for the first time at the Army-2021 international military-technical forum. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the holding company "High-precision Complexes" of the Rostec State Corporation.

A pilot project on digitalization of large-scale production has been launched in Penza. At one of the defense industry enterprises, which is part of the Rostec Group of Companies, they created their own production management information system, which was called "Platon".

As part of the work on further modernization of the complex, it is planned to increase the capabilities of the mobile sonar mine detection station in terms of increasing the detection range

The newest mine defense ships of the project 12700 ("Alexandrite") continue to be equipped with integrated systems for searching and destroying mines "Alexandrite-ISPUM-E".

The newest logistics support vessel of the Navy "Vsevolod Bobrov", on which the St. Andrew's flag was raised on August 21, will begin an inter-fleet transition from Kronstadt to the Black Sea Fleet by the end of August. Currently, the vessel is being prepared for the transition.

The concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey" spent 73 billion rubles on the construction of a new production cluster in Kirov and Nizhny Novgorod, the company's general director Yan Novikov said.

The reasons for the crash of the Il-112B have not yet been established, Bekhan Ozdoev, Rostec's industrial director, said in an interview with Interfax.

Russian special services are receiving a new submachine gun for shooting under water, it is already being mass-produced, said Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of weapons, ammunition and special chemicals of the state corporation Rostec.

Russia continues to equip the Iskander-M complexes with new missiles, Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of weapons, ammunition and special chemicals of the Rostec state Corporation, said in an interview with Interfax.

The production of the latest BT-3F floating armored personnel carriers is planned to begin at the end of 2021, Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the Rostec arms cluster, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

It is planned to start testing the new ship in the near future The

small rocket ship "Cyclone" will become part of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) at the end of the year. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the fleet.