News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A Chinese-made F-7 fighter belonging to the Namibian Defense Forces was seriously damaged at the end of last week as a result of a descent from the runway of the airport located near the city of Ondangwa in the north of the country.

The fourth of a series of patrol ships of the project 22160 "Sergey Kotov" will join the ships of the Novorossiysk naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet at the end of this year.

The Command of the US Navy announced the christening ceremony of the LCS-32 Santa Barbara coastal warship of the Independence class, which took place on October 16 at the Austal USA company in Mobile (Alabama).

An exercise was held at the Opuk training ground in Crimea, where units of the Black Sea Fleet worked out the protection of the coast from enemy landing.

If we do not take into account the geography of these maneuvers, then "ours" and "not ours" were not there, in general. Everyone was their own. It's just that according to the scenario, some participants got the role of the defenders, and others - the attackers. Moreover, during the exercise, both of them changed places.

Rebel formations of the Tigray People's Liberation Front continue to use captured armored vehicles, including tanks of various models, in battles against Ethiopian government forces.

So, in recent clashes in the area near the city of Vegel-Tena in Amhara State, a T-55 medium tank was seen, which was modernized at one of the defense enterprises.

The inspection also involved about 1.5 thousand units of weapons, military and special equipment

About 5 thousand servicemen of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne Assault Mountain Unit were alerted as part of a control check and moved to training grounds in three subjects in the south of Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

Currently, the KamAZ-63969 is not a very common representative of the Typhoon-K family. Outwardly, it looks very much like a three-axle armored personnel carrier. Its characteristic feature is a kind of driver's cabin with armored glass.

The service life of the UR-100N UTTH Stiletto intercontinental missiles (under the START - RS-18B treaty, according to the NATO classification - SS-19 mod.2 Stiletto) has been extended until at least 2023, Alexey Leonov, Director General and designer of the NPO Mashinostroeniya Military Industrial Complex, member of the regional council of the Moscow regional branch of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

As part of a large-scale command and staff exercise (KShU), the crews of about 20 Mi-8AMTSh helicopters of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Southern Military District (SE) ensured the landing of motorized rifle units of the coastal defense unit of the Black Sea Fleet during the practical actions of troops at the Opuk training ground in the Crimea.

One of the solar panels of the Lucy probe, launched to study Trojan asteroids near Jupiter, could not be fixed in a state of full disclosure, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported.

There is no talk of merging all aviation design bureaus

The design center, which unites all aircraft design bureaus, should be built in three to four years on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, said the head of the UAC Yuri Slyusar.

The construction of prototypes of military transport aircraft IL-112B and passenger IL-114 does not stop, despite the investigation of the crash of Il-112B that occurred in August, said the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar.

The ground forces are equipped with modern means of communication and automation of the Unified Tactical Control System (ESU TK), which allows for the control of troops and weapons in close to real time.

The National Interest tried to figure out which tank is better:T-90, Type 99 or Abrams M1.

The National Interest magazine wondered if the newest Chinese Type 99 tank is the best on the planet? And for this, he compared it with the Russian T-90 and the American Abrams M1.

Russian law enforcement agencies and special services should introduce modern information technologies, including artificial intelligence, according to experts of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

The Russian fifth-generation fighter Su-57 has an impressive strike potential. This conclusion was reached in the publication Military Watch Magazine.

Docking with the ISS of the Progress MS-18 spacecraft, which will launch the launch vehicle, is expected on October 30

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, which will launch the Progress MS-18 cargo ship into orbit, is scheduled for 03:00 Moscow Time on October 28. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

The fifth-generation Russian fighter is capable of destroying enemy ships alone.

The wide range of weapons used by Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters forced the American edition of The Military Watch to recognize the lethality of this combat vehicle not only for aerial purposes, but also for ships.

The modernization of Abrams tanks continues in the USA. The M1A2S (M1A2 SEPv3) are currently considered the most advanced.

They received a more advanced fire control system, with the ability to use more powerful armor-piercing sub-caliber feathered projectiles with cores made of depleted uranium, programmable multipurpose XM1147 with aerial detonation, destroying not only ground objects (infantry, light armored vehicles), but also low-flying targets such as helicopters.

In France, the lead patrol ship Auguste Benebig, developed according to the POM program (Ratrouilleurs Outre-Meg), was launched. They want to use it in overseas territories. There will be six such ships in total.