News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In the seven years since the conflict in the Donbas, the Ukrainian army has failed to make a leap in technical equipment, but its morale has grown due to propaganda and cleaning of the ranks, Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences (Russia), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

China is setting records in the speed of construction of helicopter carriers. November 29, portal navalnews.com He reported that the third ship of the Type 075 project entered the first sea trials from the Hudong Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai.

Export modifications of Russian combat helicopters Ka-52M and Mi-28NM will receive a new missile "Product 305E". This is reported by TASS with reference to the deputy general director of the holding "High-Precision Complexes" (part of the Rostec state Corporation) Sergei Mikhailov.

Russia is already able to respond to threats that may be directed from the territory of Ukraine in the event of the deployment of strike complexes there.

A new hypersonic weapon with a maximum power of Mach 9 will appear in Russia in the near future. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 13th VTB Investment Forum "Russia is calling!"

The units of the engineering troops of the Central Military District for the first time received the robotic complexes of mine clearance "Uran-6", said the head of the Department of engineering troops of the district, Major General Dmitry Koruts.

Russia has completed factory sea trials of the newest nuclear icebreaker "Siberia" project 22220 type "Arctic". It is planned to transfer the vessel to the customer by the end of the year.

The founder of the SpaceX space company, Elon Musk, believes that difficulties with the production of Raptor rocket engines can lead to its bankruptcy. This was announced by Musk in a letter to the company's employees on November 26, CNBC writes.

Hypersonic weapons with a maximum power of Mach 9 have been tested in Russia. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 13th VTB Investment Forum "Russia is calling!"

Columnist Brent Eastwood in an article for Business Insider called the T-72 tank a reliable support of the Russian army. As the author noted, this military machine was developed about 50 years ago in the USSR, but even after half a century it has great potential.

What is the protection of Russia from the possible appearance of attack complexes threatening it near the Russian borders, military expert Yuri Knutov told Sputnik radio.

New long-range ammunition will ensure the security of the Arctic and Crimea.

Ultra-long-range anti-ship stealth missiles will cover the Arctic and Crimea. 

The coastal brigades of the Northern and Black Sea Fleets will be the first to receive Bal complexes armed with missiles with an increased flight range.

SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft will deliver supplies and fuel to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 21, NASA announced on Sunday.

The aerospace forces of Russia in 2022 will receive more than two hundred pieces of equipment, including promising hypersonic weapons, said Deputy head of the VKS Andrei Yudin.

New aircraft with hypersonic weapons will be put on combat duty in aviation military units of the Aerospace Forces next year, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin, said in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.

At the moment, more than 50 aircraft engines have been repaired and delivered to military units, said Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin

New training aircraft are planned to be delivered to the troops by the end of 2021. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.

The launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the cosmodrome is scheduled for December 2

The American company SpaceX plans to launch 53 more mini-satellites into orbit for its Starlink network on December 2. This was reported on Sunday by a specialized portal Spaceflightnow.com .

The flight is not planned, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The Tu-160M strategic missile carrier, assembled from scratch, will run along the runway for the first time at the S. P. Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant (a branch of PJSC Tupolev) in December 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the aircraft industry.

In 2022, new aircraft with hypersonic weapons will be put on combat duty in the aviation military units of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). This was told to the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the deputy Commander-in-chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke at the VII scientific and practical conference "The system of interdepartmental information interaction in solving problems in the field of defense of the Russian Federation".

According to him, no task of state importance - be it the defense of the country or the fight against coronavirus - can be solved without consolidated efforts, reliable, uninterrupted functioning of such a system. As the minister noted, it is "constantly improving and adapting to changes in the global geopolitical picture. This was clearly demonstrated by the coordinated work in the conditions of continuing restrictions on the coronavirus pandemic."