News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The new Helicopter target complex will be supplied for the equipment of the ranges of the Vistula Motorized Rifle Division of the Western Military District in the Voronezh Region.

A fragment of a Chinese weather satellite will approach the International Space Station (ISS) on November 12. The threat level is already being studied. This was reported to TASS on November 10 in the press service of Roscosmos.

Novikombank, the main bank of the Rostec State Corporation, has provided financial support for the construction of the research vessel "Evgeny Goriglejan", which is scheduled to begin testing in December.

The troops of the radiation, chemical and biological (RHB) protection of the Southern Military District (SE) will receive 60 units by the end of the year. new and promising samples of special equipment.

In the military harbor of Baltiysk, a detachment of warships returning from a trip to the Baltic Sea was solemnly greeted with an orchestra and a traditional roast pig.

In Rostov-on-Don, soldiers and equipment of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops were attracted to counteract the spread of coronavirus infection. With the help of thermal machines TMS-65U "hot fog", the assembly point of the military enlistment office of the Rostov region and other premises will be disinfected.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that astronauts will not get to the Earth's satellite in 2024. The mission was postponed for at least another year.

It's too early to write off the old American M60 tanks. November 9, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that the Taiwan National Institute of Science and Technology of Zhong Shan (NCSIST) will begin partial modernization of the M60A3 MBT from next year.

An unusual monument has appeared on the territory of the Chengdu Aerospace Corporation flight Training Center - one of the prototypes of the fifth-generation J-20 fighter was placed on a pedestal.

It is reported that the winged car participated in resource tests, and when they were completed, it was decided not to be scrapped, but installed in an honorable eternal parking lot.

The first deliveries of the Tosochka heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 will take place this year, Alexander Smirnov, CEO of NPO Splav, told Interfax.

The crew of the naval minesweeper "Pyotr Ilyichev", built for the Pacific Fleet, settled on the ship after completing training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Pantsir-S short-range air defense system is effective against all existing attack drones, including Turkish Bayraktars, Dmitry Konoplev, managing director of the Shipunov Instrument Design Bureau (KBP), told Interfax.

Military expert Dmitry Litovkin noted that the area of capture and destruction by the complex of typical air targets has been increased by 2.5 times, and the "Willow" has at least 10 times increased the protection of the complex from pyrotechnic interference.

As the President noted, defense industry organizations work stably even in a pandemic

Russian President Vladimir Putin has set a task to take into account the most advanced technologies, including hypersonic and cognitive, in the new state armament program.

According to the results of successful tests, the first batch of nine Terminator BMPT will become part of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District, whose units are stationed in the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, from December 1 this year.

As the President of the Russian Federation noted, such a high bar has been held for five years

The state defense order in the "pandemic" year 2020 was fulfilled by 96.2%, such a high bar has been held for five years. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) on Wednesday.

In a couple of years, the Chinese Navy may have a third aircraft carrier. On November 9, the CNN news agency reported that according to an analysis of satellite images taken by the Washington analytical center, the ship, known as Type 003, could be launched as early as early next year.

On Wednesday, engineering assault groups were used for the first time at the training ground of the Kazan Tank School, where the "Indestructible Brotherhood-2021" exercise of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO is taking place.

Russia has managed to do a lot in the field of diversification of defense industries in five years, but in the future it needs to work more effectively in this direction, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the military-industrial commission.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the development of new weapons to focus on the main trends in the world, in particular, the use of digital technologies and hypersonic weapons.