News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In the Mediterranean Sea, the ships of the permanent connection of the Russian Navy will conduct missile firing 30 kilometers from the aircraft carrier strike group of Great Britain, led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. This follows from the international notification system for air staff NOTAM.

A joint exercise of the forces of the Navy (Navy) and the aviation of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia is taking place in the Mediterranean Sea.

The American analogue of the Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower" is a system of three Surface Wave Radar (SWR) radars from Raytheon, the designer of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS.

At the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet, it was previously reported that Alrosa is planned to return to the combat fleet after November 2021

TASS, June 26. The oldest submarine of the Black Sea Fleet, Alrosa, can be sent to the Baltic Fleet after repair, a military source told TASS.

In terms of the depth of impact on the enemy, an aircraft carrier with long-range radar detection and control aircraft and carrier-based fighters will lose to surface ships equipped with Kalibr-NK missiles, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, predicts in the Military-Industrial Courier.

The experimental satellite Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX)of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is comparable in size to a football field, has completed its work, reports C4ISRNet.

The Russian Defense Ministry has presented a video of the launch of a Soyuz-2 class launch vehicle with a spacecraft. The launch took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region.

Three months have passed since Norway announced that after lengthy negotiations, they have finally agreed on an agreement with the German shipyard ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) on the acquisition of new submarines.

As reported, on June 25, 2021, a special - purpose nuclear submarine Belgorod of project 09852 (factory number 91664), completed by the construction of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (SMP, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation-USC), went to sea for the first time from Severodvinsk for factory sea trials.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched the construction of the Istanbul Canal, which will connect the Marmara and Black Seas and will become a stand-in for the Bosphorus Strait.

As reported, on June 25, 2021, a large diesel-electric submarine B-602 "Magadan" (factory number 01616) of project 06363, built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), entered the Baltic Sea for the first time for factory sea trials. This is the third of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.

The MiG-41 interceptor fighters currently being developed could be based on such aircraft carrier platforms, said one of their creators, Valentin Belanenko

The technical problem of creating offshore platforms for deck aviation of the Russian Navy can be solved with the help of "floating berths" - non-nuclear aircraft carriers with a flight deck of about 500 meters.

The new Russian nuclear submarine K-329 "Belgorod" is capable of destroying not only an aircraft carrier, but even an entire city, British journalists told the Daily Mail.

French main battle tanks will undergo a deep modernization. June 26, portal janes.com He reported that the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) has signed a contract with Nexter for the repair and modernization of 200 Leclerc combat vehicles and 17 Leclerc DCL evacuation vehicles.

The team of the InSight automatic Mars station decided to complete the operation of the device ahead of time, if effective methods for cleaning solar panels from dust are not found. Currently, the batteries are heavily dusted, and electricity generation has fallen by almost eight times compared to the initial level, according to the website Space.com.

One of them shows the moment when the parachute of the lander opens

The Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) has published four new videos of the Tianwen-1 mission on Mars. The videos were posted on Sunday on the official website of the Central Television of China.

New generation heat traps guarantee protection against the most "smart" missiles with infrared homing heads, they are presented for the first time at the MILEX 2021 exhibition in Minsk

Many countries are interested in developing electromagnetic weapons, which are called "invisible killer". With its help, you can instantly disable radars, computers and other electronic equipment, paralyzing the entire control system. Many countries are interested in this type of weapon, and Russia is no exception.

In China, a restyling of the legendary Chinese all-terrain vehicle Beijing BJ 212 is presented, which in turn is a modified copy of the Soviet GAZ-69. Now the updated Beijing BJ 212 has a clear external similarity with the Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV.

The construction of two BDK is carried out in accordance with the technical project approved in 2020, said Ilya Samarin, general director of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar"

The hull of the main large landing ship (BDK) of the modernized project 11711 will be formed by the end of 2021. This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar".