News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

NASA management expects to extend the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) for at least 10 years. This was stated on September 13 during the international Gagarin Conference by the head of the NASA manned flight program, Kathy Luders.

Russia for the first time used the Uran-9 and Nerekhta attack robots in the combat formations of combined-arms units at the joint strategic exercises Zapad-2021, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

The private space company Virgin Galactic found another reason to worry and postpone the next flight of a suborbital spaceplane with tourists. One of the equipment suppliers reported a potential defect in one of the executive mechanisms of the control bodies.

The Russian military for the first time used the Uran-9 and Nerekhta reconnaissance and fire support robots in the combat formations of combined-arms units, the Defense Ministry reported.

The Royal Navy is preparing to defend its positions in the face of a numerical backlog. On September 12, the press service of the British Navy revealed some of the projects developed within the framework of the UK Naval Engineering Science and Technology (UKNEST) forum.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.