News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On Saturday, September 4, State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov inspected the new mobile training complex at the army Center for Mountain training and Survival "Terskol".

Launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk are also planned

Roscosmos plans to conduct two more launches of launch vehicles from the French Kourou cosmodrome by the end of the year. This was announced on Saturday on the air of the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live" by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

In the light of the implementation of the instructions of the President of the country Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, indicated in the Address to the People of Kazakhstan dated September 1, 2021, as well as at the Board of the Ministry of Defense in November 2020, a number of military units of regional commands, Amphibious assault troops, Naval forces, Air Forces are alerted to check combat readiness.

Russia wants to replace the search and reconnaissance helicopters on its ships with longer-range unmanned aerial vehicles.

This week, such a statement was made by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research (which is an analogue of the Office of Advanced Research and Development of the US Department of Defense). 

The operation of the International Space Station (ISS) will not create any big problems until 2025, said Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, on the air of the Solovyov Live YouTube channel.

What is necessary for the old Soviet tank of the early 60s T-62 to get a new life? In Algeria, they decided to massively remake these combat vehicles into a kind of BMPT.

The Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences will test the protection of astronauts from radiation in interplanetary flights on the Science module of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023, Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti on September 5.

The helicopter-drone Ingenuity ("Ingenuity"), which arrived on Mars together with the Perseverance rover ("Perseverance"), made the 13th successful autonomous flight on the Red Planet, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported.

Exercises on conducting reconnaissance by unmanned aerial vehicles were held in the Baltic Fleet.

The training was held in preparation for the joint strategic exercises of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021".

The short range of the F-18 Super Hornet fighters complicates their use in the fight against Russia and China and makes US aircraft carriers vulnerable to long-range attacks. This is reported by the publication Military Watch.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) The United States is investigating an incident with a deviation from the course of the Virgin Galactic Unity-22 spacecraft, which threatened it with an emergency landing, The New Yorker magazine reported on Wednesday, September 1.

Now the drone can be controlled via a radio channel at a distance of 250 km, said Sergey Bogatikov, General Director of Kronstadt JSC

The radius of application of the Orion-E unmanned vehicle will be significantly increased after it is equipped with satellite communications. This was reported to TASS by the general director of JSC "Kronstadt" Sergey Bogatikov.

There is no foreign analogue of this heavy flamethrower system yet, said Omsktransmash CEO Igor Lobov

The Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (Omsktransmash, part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec State Corporation) is working on the inclusion of the TOS-1A "Solntsepek" heavy flamethrower system in the automated control circuit of troops. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Igor Lobov.

The logistics units of the Central Military District (CVO) delivered more than 2.5 thousand tons of cargo for various purposes to the garrisons of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stationed in the Arctic, remote areas of Siberia and the Far East as part of the northern delivery, the press service of the CVO reported on Thursday.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has registered a claim of the Russian Ministry of Defense, in which it demands to recover more than 10.7 billion rubles from the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), it follows from the information in the file of arbitration cases.

The UK Ministry of Defense is considering the possibility of deploying its submarines with a nuclear arsenal on US or French military bases in the event of Scotland gaining independence. This was reported on September 1 by the Financial Times newspaper.

Calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of the artillery unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory, performed live firing at the interspecific training ground "Tsugol".

Popular Mechanics compared the characteristics of two advanced nuclear attack submarines: the Russian Yasen-M and the American Virginia. The conclusion: who is who, is ambiguous. The American submarine carries more missiles, but the Russian one has "more tricks".

The NATO ships and planes that were closely watching the Russian submarines lost them again.

The NATO military, which began tracking three Russian diesel-electric submarines in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea, again failed to cope with its task of establishing the current position of Russian submarines.

On August 30, the US Navy Command announced the completion of the final tests, in accordance with the contract for the supply (FCT), of the new LHA-7 "Tripoli"universal landing ship (UDC).