News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The 201st Russian military base stationed in Tajikistan will receive upgraded T-72B3M tanks with improved maneuverability and crew protection.

For the first time, the newest special vehicle of mine clearance groups (SAGR) based on the UAZ-2363 pickup truck entered service with a separate marine engineering regiment of the Pacific Fleet.

Parts of Russian floating nuclear power plants will be built at the Wison (Nantong) Heavy Industry Co Ltd. shipyard in Nantong. A Chinese manufacturer has won a competition for the construction of two nuclear power plant buildings for the needs of the Baim Mining and Processing Plant. The Chinese shipyard offered the lowest price, Kommersant reports.

The undocking of the Progress MS-17 transport cargo ship from the Poisk module is scheduled for October 23, after two days of autonomous flight, the truck will be re-connected to the Nauka module, Roscosmos reported.

The launch of the Atlas V launch vehicle with a satellite was postponed to September 27

The launch of the next - already the ninth - Earth remote sensing satellite from the Landsat series has been postponed from September 23 to 27. This was announced on Wednesday on its website by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

To send astronauts to the station, individual lodgments are cast, as well as special loads are used that ensure the correct alignment of the ship

The lodgements (chairs for high loads, which are made individually) of the film crew of the film " Challenge "on the next day after docking with the ISS will be moved from the Soyuz MS-19 to the ship in which the film crew will return to Earth. This was announced by cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov during an online conference in TASS.

Russian T-80UD tanks and BTR-70 armored personnel carriers imitated a likely enemy at the Zapad-2021 strategic exercises. The decommissioned equipment was shot by tankers and soldiers of motorized rifle units, reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The company Planet Labs took a satellite image from the emergency landing site of a heavy strategic bomber B-2 Spirit of the US Air Force. The photo, which shows the Whiteman base in Missouri, was published on September 15 by The Drive.

The forces and troops of the Northern Fleet operating in the Arctic as part of an exercise with an expeditionary group have begun to return to their places of deployment. This was reported by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The Northern Fleet conducted six missile firings during the recently completed large-scale Arctic exercises, the press service of the SF told reporters on Thursday.

The Russian military used Su-25SM attack aircraft in a missile launch exercise in Kyrgyzstan, the maneuvers took place against the background of the difficult situation in Afghanistan.

GLONASS JSC will participate in the launch of innovative services for vehicles connected to the road infrastructure on the A-113 Central Ring Road (CCAD), the company's press service reports.

The parties are starting to reconstruct the launch and technical complexes of the Zenit rocket for their modernization within the framework of the Baiterek project, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said

The Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (part of Roscosmos) and Basis construction LLP (Kazakhstan) signed an agreement to create a complex for launching the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle at Baikonur. This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Developed in the 40s, the Soviet S-60 anti-aircraft artillery system is still in service with almost three dozen countries around the world. These systems are also actively used in the air defense units of the Vietnamese People's Army.

India is named the first potential buyer of the S-500 from Russia

The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have begun to receive the first samples of the latest S-500 anti-aircraft missile system, called Prometheus. This is a modern complex capable of repelling attacks even from space. The government does not exclude that in the future, India will become the first country where the Russian Federation will sell Prometheus.

JSC "Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar" will accelerate the construction of two large amphibious assault ships (BDK) of project 11711, JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" announced on Thursday following a meeting held at the shipyard by Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko.

JSC "Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar" will accelerate the construction of two large landing ships of the project 11711.

This was announced by JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation following the results of a meeting held at the shipyard by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko.

Europe has announced a reduction in dependence on microelectronics suppliers from the United States and Southeast Asia, Reuters reported on Wednesday-the European Commission intends to create its own ecosystem of chip production.

The US Air Force Special Operations Command plans to design, build and test a kit for converting the C-130J transport vehicle into a seaplane in 17 months. The military believes that this will make it independent of the runways and allow it to participate in a larger range of operations.

The heavy, unobtrusive B-2 Spirit strategic bomber is a "cool aircraft" that, unlike others, is " much more difficult to find and track," writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.