News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The National Space Administration of China (CNSA) has published a new photo of Mars taken by the Zhurong rover ("Zhuzhong"). This is reported by CNN.

The existence of living organisms on Venus is impossible due to the almost complete absence of biologically available water and the presence of sulfuric acid. This conclusion was reached by scientists at Queens University in Belfast, who measured the activity of water in the clouds of the second planet from the Sun and other large objects of the Solar system. The astronomers published their findings in the journal Nature Astronomy.

About 20 aircraft and helicopters, several divisions of the S-400 and Pantsir-S air defense systems conducted a training test in Crimea against the background of the Sea Breeze exercises launched on the eve of Ukraine, the United States and other NATO countries.

India has a new carrier of nuclear warheads. On June 28, the press service of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of the Ministry of Defense of India announced the successful tests of the new Agni P missile.

The Network posted high-quality photos of the Russian special purpose submarine K-329 "Belgorod" — the longest in the world.

It is planned to pass it by the end of the year

Specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry have begun the construction of a training center for divers of the Pacific Fleet. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday in the Russian military department.

The Ukrainian state Enterprise "Kharkiv State Aviation Production Enterprise" officially employs 1,580 people, but more than a thousand of them have not appeared at the plant for a long time.

A new school, kindergartens, as well as a yacht club and a ski track will be built as part of the development of social infrastructure at the base of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF) in Kamchatka, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

On June 28, 2021, the ceremony of commissioning the second universal landing ship (UDC) LPH 6112 Marado was held at the naval base of the South Korean Navy in Chinhaegu (Gyeongsangnam-do Province).

The Pakistani Navy, according to Shepherd, has decided to replace the anti-aircraft missile weapons of the Ada-class corvettes under construction (the Turkish MILGEM project).

MiG-31K fighters capable of carrying hypersonic missiles and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers flew over the Mediterranean Sea as part of the exercises. This was announced on June 29 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Self-propelled artillery installations 2S3M "Acacia" of the Belarusian army will undergo major repairs at the Ural plant of transport engineering of the Uralvagonzavod concern.

According to Rostec, this information was announced at the 10th International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021, which was recently held in Minsk.

The Chinese decided to use the promising superheavy carrier "Changzheng-9" in the creation of a space solar power plant. It will be located at an altitude of almost 36 thousand kilometers and transmit the collected energy to the Earth.

MiG-31K hypersonic weapons carriers and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers performed flights over the Mediterranean Sea

Russian ships conducted training to repel an air attack by a simulated enemy in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

Launched on June 25, 2021 at 22: 50 Moscow time from Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk Region with a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket, the Kosmos-2550 spacecraft is the first "active" radar reconnaissance satellite 14F139 "Pion-NKS" of the space complex of marine reconnaissance and target designation 14K159 "Liana", writes the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

The ship of the Pakistani navy PNS Zulfiqar together with the Russian Navy can take part in the anti-piracy exercises Arabian Monsoon 2021 in the Baltic Sea, RIA Novosti reports, citing a high-ranking source in the Pakistani navy.

The official launch of the telescope is scheduled for 2027

SKA, the world's largest radio telescope under construction, will be equipped with equipment that will allow it to become part of the largest global networks that combine the capacities of the largest radio telescopes in the world. This was announced to TASS by the director General of the SKA Observatory, Professor Philip Diamond.

The Russian Armed Forces see the development of strategic nuclear forces and robotic equipment as their priority.

Financing of the supply of weapons and equipment within the framework of the State Defense Order to the army and navy is proceeding at a faster pace. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the board of the military department. Shoigu said that already now the rate of placement of the state defense order is higher than last year and is 95 percent.

During the joint exercises of the forces of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea and the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces, tasks were worked out to repel the attack of enemy air assets and air defense training was conducted. This was told in the Russian Defense Ministry on June 28.

Mig-31K fighters armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers made training flights accompanied by Su-35 and Su-34 fighters during exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday.