News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Russia may start producing an upgraded version of the fifth-generation fighter in the middle of the decade. The car, among other things, will receive a completely updated cabin.

In 2019, China overtook the United States in the number of warships. Despite this, there are no competitors to the American fleet in terms of total tonnage and combat capabilities yet.

More than 1 thousand servicemen of the missile forces and artillery of the combined arms association of the Central Military District will take part in the exercises that started at the training ground in the Kemerovo region, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

The crew of the Black Sea Fleet minesweeper "Ivan Golubets", who began performing tasks as part of the permanent Naval grouping in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of planned combat training, worked out mine action before entering the ships ' home port – the port of Tartus.

The Russian Navy will receive three nuclear submarines at once this year, a source in the shipbuilding industry said. On the air of Sputnik radio, captain of the 1st rank Igor Kurdin stressed that the Russian navy is restoring the necessary and sufficient number of nuclear submarines.

The motorized rifle troops of the Russian army began to receive modernized armored personnel carriers BTR-82AT, which have an increased level of protection and the latest surveillance equipment.

For the first time, such a machine was demonstrated by the "Military-Industrial Company" at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2019". The armored personnel carrier received additional reflective screens made of armored steel and special anti-accumulation grilles.

The ship grouping of the Northern Fleet carried out a complex of artillery firing at sea target positions in the area of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. She played an episode on the organization of the defense of the island territories of Russia. The command and staff training was led by the commander of the SF, Admiral Hero of Russia Alexander Moiseev.

The node module "Berth"was delivered to the cosmodrome. Already in the fall, he should go to the International Space Station.

The Novosibirsk Instrument-Making Plant (REFINERY) has developed modifications of optical sights for working at small and medium distances, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

The first aircraft carrier built by India has successfully passed sea trials. August 8, portal indiatimes.com He reported that the Vikrant ship had returned from a five-day testing.

The American Air Mobility Command allowed the KC-46A tanker aircraft to use the rod for refueling C-17 Globemaster III, B-52H Stratofortress and other KC-46 aircraft. Now he will be able to perform operational tasks, but not yet in combat missions.

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Corporation (USC) has almost completed the relocation of its main office from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the head of USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, told Interfax on Monday.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova held a meeting on the innovative system of financing the army in wartime, which will be tested at the Zapad-2021 exercises, during a working trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

In 2021, Russia plans to carry out 10 launches of Soyuz-2 and Soyuz-ST launch vehicles in the interests of foreign customers

The launch of the satellite of the European global satellite navigation system Galileo from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana is scheduled for November 23. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.

The complex is equipped with a subscriber terminal "Gonets", which provides a stable data transmission channel anywhere in the Russian Federation

The software and hardware complex "CEDAR" for tracking the location of logging equipment, its technical condition, the volume of logging and other parameters using satellite communications was developed in the Russian Federation. This was reported to TASS by Pavel Cherenkov, general director of the Gonets Satellite System company (part of Roscosmos).

In the early 90s in the United States, having received information about the creation of a new generation of Soviet tanks (for example, about the promising "Hammer"), they began working on a radical modernization of their "Abrams".

It is planned to complete the tests before the ice break on the White Sea with the implementation of several launches

Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the submarine carrier-the nuclear submarine (submarine) of the project 885 "Severodvinsk" - are scheduled to begin at the end of August. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The latest infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3 of the fleet modification, which entered service a few months ago, are being involved in exercises in Primorye for the first time, said Ilya Kolesnikov, head of the information support department of the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) for the Pacific Fleet (TOP).

A number of discoveries with the help of the Russian-German space telescope "Spektr-RG" confirmed the cosmological model of the origin of the Universe as a result of the Big Bang, scientific secretary of the Institute for Space Research Andrey Sadovsky said on Friday, August 6.

The American company Virgin Galactic, which plans to organize tourist suborbital space flights, has started selling tickets for its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. The price of one seat starts from $450 thousand. This is stated in the company's statement published on Thursday, August 5.