News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

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.

The Russian government will quadruple financial support for domestic software projects in industry. This was announced on Monday by the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Mishustin at a meeting with deputy prime ministers via videoconference, reports TASS.

In the early 70s, a very interesting tank was designed in the USSR, even by modern standards. We are talking about the Chelyabinsk main combat Facility 780.

The repair of the ship will be completed in the summer of 2023, and at the end of the same year the aircraft carrier will be handed over to the fleet, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The heavy aircraft carrier of the 1143.5 Admiral Kuznetsov project is planned to be delivered to the modernized dry dock of the 35th SRZ branch of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center in June next year. At the same time, the ship's delivery dates will be shifted to 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The camera was chosen as the first object to be restored, because failures in the operation of this device are rare

The team of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, restored the operation of one of its cameras after the entire telescope went into safe mode due to a loss of synchronization.

The device must receive and transmit signals of an automatic identification system for tracking the movement of ships and monitoring activities at sea

Japan on Tuesday launched an Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is broadcasting the launch live.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, servicemen of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District conducted an air defense training on the new S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS), the press service of the Air Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

On board the ship are US astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Tom Pesquet, as well as Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.

According to the chief project manager Mark Belakovsky, many countries have applied to Russia to participate in the one-year experiment, a number of contracts have already been signed

The SIRIUS international annual experiment simulating a flight into deep space is scheduled to begin at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in the first quarter of 2023. This was reported to TASS by SIRIUS project chief Manager, Head of the Department of IMBP RAS Mark Belakovsky.

The commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Army General Alexander Dvornikov, spoke at a briefing about equipping the district's troops with modern types of weapons and equipment.