News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Polish Ministry of Defense has ordered the repair of Soviet short-range anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) "Osa". The combat readiness of Soviet weapons will be maintained until the creation of new missile defense systems (air defense). This is reported by Defence24.

In Russia, the production of modifications of the heaviest helicopter will begin. A permit for serial production of the Mi-26T2B will be issued by the end of 2021. Andrey Boginsky, General Director of the Russian Helicopters holding of Rostec State Corporation, said this in an interview with TASS.

The operation of several thousand T-55 and T-62 tanks continues in the world. Somewhere they are planned to be replaced with more modern combat vehicles, somewhere they are being upgraded and left in service, and somewhere they are being converted into equipment of a completely different purpose.

The maximum load for it is 8.25 tons

Roscosmos may set a record for the mass output to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Soyuz-2 rocket during the launch of the Berth node module. This was reported to TASS by cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov.

The launch of the James Webb space telescope is postponed from December 18 to December 22 due to an incident in the vertical assembly workshop during the preparation of the device for launch, NASA reported.

The FAR EAST - The planned shift of the aviation forces on duty, carrying combat duty for air defense, took place in Chukotka, the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) reported on Tuesday.

If the submarine is not ready for the launches of the Zircon in 2024, they will resume in the first half of 2025, the agency interlocutor noted

Flight design tests (LKI) of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from an underwater carrier after two successful test launches will resume in 2024 on the Perm nuclear submarine of project 885M (code "Ash-M") of a modified design. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

During the exercises of the Serbian army held last week, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic was shown the latest military equipment and weapons.

According to the country's defense ministry, we are talking about more than sixty samples that are planned to equip parts of the ground forces.

On November 21, the Ministry of Defense of India announced the ceremony of the adoption of the Indian Navy's lead destroyer URO (D66) Visakhapatnam, built under the Project-15B program, at the Mumbai Naval Base.

China has successfully put an Earth sensing satellite into orbit. The Gaofen-3 device is designed to monitor the sea and land, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The radar scans the Earth's surface in 12 modes. From orbit, images with a resolution of 1 m can be obtained. With this technology, the clarity of the shooting is not affected by weather conditions and illumination. The satellite became the second device from the Gaofen-3 series, the first was launched in 2016.

The American fifth-generation fighter F-22 Raptor was spotted with a "mirror" coating. The Drive drew attention to the pictures posted on Instagram by aviation photographer Santos Caceres.

The pilots of the fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District showed a highly maneuverable air battle. They took off from an airfield stationed in Karelia.

Tests of the Ansat-M helicopter should be completed in 2023, the general director of the Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec) said in an interview with RIA Novosti Andrey Boginsky.

As early as next year, American aviation may arm itself with a secret AIM-260 missile. November 22, portal thedrive.com He reported that the US Air Force is actively testing a munition developed under the Joint Advanced Tactical Missile program.

2600 children from 63 countries of the world took part in the international drawing contest

Eight-year-old Yarina Zakalyuzhnaya from the city of Zhytomyr won the drawing contest of the European Space Agency, now a copy of her work will be applied to the body of the Ariane 5 rocket, which will go into space in 2023. This was reported on Tuesday by the Ukrainian publication "Public".

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said earlier that the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 telecommunications satellites was postponed to December 12

Specialists of the M. V. Khrunichev Center eliminated the remark identified earlier on the Briz-M upper stage, which will be used to launch the Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 spacecraft into target orbits. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of Roscosmos.

At the Austal USA company's facility in Mobile (Alabama), the baptism ceremony of the EPF (Expeditionary Fast Transport) high-speed expeditionary transport of the "Sperhid" class, intended for the US Navy Maritime Transportation Command, took place.

In the 50s and 60s, the militarily leading powers were actively engaged in the creation of gas turbine engines for armored vehicles. Work in this direction was also carried out in Nizhny Tagil, in the design bureau of the famous Uralvagonzavod.

The new 2021-2022 academic year has been declared the year of combat training in the Armed Forces of Belarus.

And taking into account the difficult military-political situation and the "migration crisis" created by Western countries, the process of preparing the Armed Forces has been significantly adjusted, said the chief of the Belarusian General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister, Major General Viktor Gulevich.

Pilots of the fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District (ZVO) have practiced conducting highly maneuverable air battles. The maneuvers of the Su-35S in Karelia were shown on video. This is reported by the press service of the ZVO.