News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Sweden has seriously taken up the defense of its largest island in the Baltic Sea. October 7, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the regiment stationed on the island of Gotland will again receive tanks.

The universal amphibious helicopter carrier ship Mitrofan Moskalenko will become the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. The location of the project 23900 ship is already being prepared in Sevastopol. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source.

About 100 Russian ships and support vessels are performing tasks in the World Ocean, said Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-chief of the Navy. On the air of Sputnik radio, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin commented on these data.

The commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, noted that the current generation of Russian ship commanders carries the naval flag with honor and dignity in the vastness of the World Ocean

About a hundred ships and vessels of the Navy are currently involved in solving problems in the far sea and ocean zones. This is stated in the message of the information support service of the Main Command of the Russian Navy.

A UAZ car with an unusual machine gun was seen at events dedicated to the seventh anniversary of the creation of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic.

The creation of new GLONASS-K2 satellites costs ROSCOSMOS twice as much as the GLONASS-K spacecraft of the previous generation, Nikolay Testoyedov, CEO of Information Satellite Systems (ISS), told RIA Novosti, calling it an absolutely natural process.

Ukraine has high technologies that allow, through the American Artemis program, to have claims to access to lunar resources, the statement of the head of the country's State Space Agency (SCAU), Vladimir Taftai, reports RKB-Ukraine.

Ukraine plans to create a light space rocket designed to be launched from a floating platform located in the Atlantic or Indian Ocean, the statement of the head of the country's State Space Agency (SCAU) Vladimir Taftai reports to RKB-Ukraine.

The heavy flamethrower system TOS-1 "pInocchio" uses projectiles that can be compared to napalm. In the United States, they were concerned about the "life-sucking" Russian weapons. Journalist and former US Army officer Brent Eastwood wrote about the capabilities of the Russian system for 19FortyFive.

The AC-130J Ground Forces flying support battery will be equipped with a laser cannon. The American aircraft will receive the Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL). Air Force (Air Force) The USA received a prototype of the installation. This is reported by The Drive.

The United States Department of Defense has expressed concern for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) created by the Pentagon due to the threat of hacker attacks on it, including from hackers acting in the interests of other states. This statement was made by the director of the Joint Center for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence of the Pentagon, Lieutenant General Michael Gron on Friday, October 8.

According to a TASS source, one missile will hit the Kura test site in Kamchatka

The strategic nuclear submarine missile cruiser "Prince Oleg" of project 955A (code "Borey-A") will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile "BULAVA" on state tests in November 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Problems with the supply of components due to sanctions and the closure of industrial enterprises in Ukraine may become a threat to the Russian segment (RS) of the International Space Station (ISS), experts of the rocket and space corporation Energia believe. They presented their arguments in an article published in the scientific journal "Space Engineering and Technology".

The Ukrainian satellite sIch-2-30, which is scheduled to launch in December, can be used to monitor the movements of military equipment in the Donbass and ships on the Black Sea, the head of the country's State Space Agency (SCAU), Vladimir Taftai, said in an interview with RKB-Ukraine.

Researchers from Australia, the UK, China and the USA have determined that the age of the lunar soil delivered to Earth by the Chang'e 5 mission is 1.96 billion years old - which indicates relatively recent volcanic activity. The scientists' article was published in the journal Science.

The rocket and space corporation Energia called one of the main problems the termination of the release of the element base, which existed during the development of the first modules of the Russian segment of the station.

At the end of 2022, American astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) not on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, but on SpaceX Crew Dragon, Spaceflight Now reports.

The Agency for External Labor Migration of the country clarified that, according to the applications of Russian departments and companies, a total of 5 thousand workers are planned to be sent to the construction sites of Vostochny

Agency for External Labor Migration (AUTM) Uzbekistan, with the participation of specialized Russian companies, has already sent 1,466 Uzbek citizens to the Russian Federation, who will take part in the construction of infrastructure facilities at the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Saturday by the press secretary of the AUTM Ortikhuzha Norov.

Landing from airplanes and helicopters is practiced in the Kaliningrad region by more than 250 military personnel of the airborne assault and reconnaissance amphibious battalions of the Army Corps and the Marine Corps of the Baltic Fleet (BF).

Developed specifically for the Su-57 fighter, the K—77M air-to-air missile will allow the Russian aircraft to gain superiority in air combat, Military Watch magazine writes.