News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
The Agriculture complex and the Solntsepek system were used together for the first time at the Zapad exercises
The heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is designed for fire support of infantry and tanks, destruction of enemy manpower. The complex "Agriculture" is built on the principle of multiple launch rocket systems.
Iskanders launched a group strike against a conditional enemy at the Zapad-2021 exercise
The calculations of the Iskander-M operational and tactical complexes from the starting positions located 50 kilometers from the Mulino training ground at the Zapad-2021 exercises carried out a group missile strike on the command post and other critical objects of the imaginary enemy, the Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday.
Engineering troops blew up a multi-row fire shaft 1.5 km away at the Zapad-2021 exercise
Engineering troops undermined a multi-row fire shaft with a length of 1.5 kilometers, disrupting the approach of the reserves of the conditional enemy during the episode of the Zapad-2021 exercise at the Nizhny Novgorod Mulino training ground.
The Pacer and Outpost attack drones were used for the first time at the Zapad-2021 exercises
The Terminator tank support combat vehicles and the Pacer and Outpost attack drones at the Zapad-2021 exercises supported the offensive of the motorized rifle division and tank brigade of Russia and units of Armenia and Belarus with fire and air strikes.
Putin was shown combat robots
Russian President Vladimir Putin observed the actions of a unit of combat robots during a trip to the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021"are taking place. This is reported by TASS.
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gerasimov reported to Putin on the progress of the Zapad-2021 exercises in Mulino
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, reported on the progress of the strategic exercises "West-2021" to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian companies will become suppliers of hydrogen solutions at the early market stage
The early market for hydrogen in transport is limited by the appearance of infrastructure and will last for another 5-7 years, Mikhail Nenyukov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Operating Officer of RUSNANO Group, said during the panel session "Digital and Green Transport: development trends and agglomeration aspect" at the 16th International Commercial Vehicle Exhibition COMTRANS 2021.
FSUE "VNII" Center " presented a new mechanism for interaction with the defense industry at the ARMY-2021 forum
On August 22-28, the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "ARMY-2021" and the Army International Games – 2021 were held in the military-patriotic park "Patriot".
Lockheed Martin showed a map of 13 air bases with 450 F-35 fighters in Europe
In the current century, it is planned to deploy 13 permanent air bases in Europe with 450 fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters, follows from the presentation of the American corporation Lockheed Martin, presented at the 27th international exhibition MSPO 2021. The corresponding slide was posted on Twitter by the user @Maciej_Szopa.
The main missile corvette-catamaran of the Tuo Jiang II project became a part of the Taiwan Navy
On September 9, 2021, at the Zhongzheng Naval Base of the Navy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Suao (Yilan County), in the presence of the President of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen, a ceremony was held to introduce the lead missile corvette-catamaran "Tajiang" of the improved Tuo Jiang II project (tail number 619) into the Taiwanese Navy.
The space forces of the VKS successfully launched the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1b " from the Plesetsk cosmodrome
The space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a successful launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1b " from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense told RIA Novosti.
The procurement and repair plan of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for 2020-2022 includes 9 thousand units of armored vehicles and cars
The development of armored vehicles on the Armata platform is planned to be completed in 2022, said the acting head of the Main Armored Vehicle Department of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Alexander Shestakov
More than 9 thousand units of armored vehicles and vehicles are included in the procurement and repair plan of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2020-2022. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the acting head of the Main Armored Vehicle Department of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Alexander Shestakov.
The cosmonauts completed all the tasks of the spacewalk-MCC
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov have completed all the main and additional tasks of spacewalking, it follows from the broadcast of Roscosmos. "In any case, I congratulate you on the fact that we have already completed all the tasks set and even managed to do two additional ones," the representative of the MCC said during the broadcast.
ATGM "Chrysanthemum-S" with supersonic missiles - the perfect tank killer
The anti-tank missile system "Chrysanthemum-S" still attracts the attention of foreign and Russian specialists. It is armed with fifteen unique supersonic missiles that can destroy any modern tank day and night, in any weather, at a distance of 6000 meters.
KTRV has developed a radar station for monitoring the ice situation in the Arctic
It will be used on the route of ships along the Northern Sea Route
Specialists of JSC " Northern Press "(part of the corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons", KTRV) have created a radar station (radar) to track the ice situation in the Arctic. This was reported to TASS by the engineer of the enterprise Vadim Ralnikov.
The launched spacecraft of the Ministry of Defense was included in the catalog of space objects
We are talking about a single information database containing information about each space object
Specialists of the Space Control Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces have entered into the main catalog of space objects of the Russian space control system information about a new space object-the apparatus of the Russian Defense Ministry launched by the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket.1b" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. This was reported to journalists in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense.
S-400 and Pantsir-S went on duty to repel the attack at the Zapad-2021 exercise
Before that, the combat crews made marches from the points of deployment, repelling at the same time the attacks of conditional saboteurs
Calculations of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems and radar stations have taken up combat duty to repel an air attack within the framework of the strategic exercises of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported to journalists in the Russian Defense Ministry.
The Russian base in Tajikistan will receive 30 tanks by the end of 2021
The Russian military base in Tajikistan will be strengthened by the end of the year with thirty modern tanks. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) on Friday, September 10.
About 100 units of armored weapons have been received by the Central Military District troops since the beginning of the year
About 100 units of armored weapons have been delivered to the troops of the Central Military District since the beginning of the year, Colonel Hanif Beglov, the head of the armored service of the Central Military District, said on the eve of the Tanker's Day.
The astronauts placed containers with earth outside the ISS
Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitsky installed three containers of the Biorisk-MSN experiment on the Poisk module of the International Space Station (ISS). This follows from the broadcast on the Roscosmos website on Friday, September 10.
