News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Australian company Austal Limited announced that its Austal USA division has signed the first contract for the construction of two NAVAJO-class rescue and towing vessels (T-ATS-11 and T-ATS-12) for the US Navy.

The US Air Force is one step away from certifying F-35A Lightning II fighters as nuclear weapons carriers. October 6, portal dvidshub.net He reported that the aircraft had completed a cycle of test drops of B61-12 bombs.

Russia has allowed the creation of a new Arctic fleet as part of the Navy (Navy), TASS reports, citing a source in the naval sphere.

The army corps stationed in the Kaliningrad region received a batch of 23 modernized T-72B3M tanks, the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation reported on Thursday.

A US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet crashed in Death Valley. In California, an F/A-18F Super Hornet carrier-based fighter-bomber crashed in Death Valley National Park. This is reported by the Navy Times.

The "combat broom" - the Soviet ZPU-4 - was one of the most popular anti-aircraft machine guns after World War II.

It was operated by about fifty armies of the world. In numerous armed conflicts, these weapons demonstrated high firepower, they hit air (planes and helicopters) and ground targets (IFVs, armored personnel carriers, light tanks and self-propelled guns) at distances of 2000 meters.

Ships of the Caspian Flotilla of Russia carried out launches of "Calibers" on coastal targets during the exercises, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

According to Alexey Volin, Director General of FSUE "Space Communications", it will be a large satellite weighing more than 2 tons

FSUE "Space Communications" has announced a competition for the creation of a new satellite AMU-4, which will provide communications to Siberia and the Far North, as well as ships passing along the Northern Sea Route. This was announced on Thursday by the company's CEO Alexey Volin during the Satcomrus 2021 conference.

The salon opened on October 6 as part of the congress and exhibition events of the "Sea Week of Russia 2021"

The mine defense ship of the new generation of project 12700 "Vladimir Yemelyanov" has joined the list of ships participating in the third Sevastopol Maritime Salon (SVMS-2021), which opened on October 6 as part of the congress and exhibition events of the "Russian Maritime Week 2021". This was announced to TASS on Thursday by the head of the forum Alexey Malko.

The Ukrainian upgraded T-64BM2 is currently considered the most advanced serial version of the entire family of these tanks produced in Kharkov. A Ukrainian tankman, who posted a video on his Youtube channel, told about the features of its design.

Over 4.5 thousand tactical exercises have been conducted in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation since December last year

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the plans for combat training of the Armed Forces for 2021 have been fully implemented.

Building up the combat capabilities of the Ground Forces in Russia is one of the priorities for the development of the Armed Forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

ROSCOSMOS and the Android Technology company have begun testing the MARKER robotic platform at the Vostochny cosmodrome, the state corporation reports.

The production of Russian NK-32 engines, considered the world's most powerful power units for combat aircraft, will increase, TASS reports, referring to the statement of UEC-kUznetsov.

By launching Kalibr-NK missiles, the crews of the Caspian Flotilla corvettes celebrated the first combat use of high-precision weapons against terrorist targets in Syria. This time the targets turned out to be targets imitating enemy objects on the island of Chechnya.

The US Marine Corps (KMP) is equipped with its own aircraft and armored forces, which causes a wide arsenal of weapons of this kind of troops. The author of the publication 19FortyFive compiled a list and named the deadliest weapons samples of the USMC.

According to the Director General of Roscosmos, they will be used to control cruise missiles, special forces and an agent network

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin is convinced that Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellites will be able to be used for military purposes in the future, including for controlling cruise missiles, special forces and an agent network.

A joint venture created by Yandex, LANIT Group of companies, Gigabyte computer equipment manufacturer and VTB Bank has started construction of a plant for the production of server equipment, Yandex reported on Wednesday.

The St. Petersburg Tractor Plant will launch serial production of unmanned tractors next year. This was announced by the Cognitive Pilot company, which signed an agreement with him. Under the contract, Cognitive Pilot will equip the updated model of the Kirovets tractor with autopilot systems based on artificial intelligence.

As we have already written, in the 90s, the Ukrainian military industry associated a lot of hopes with the modernization of Iranian military equipment. Moreover, the developers from Kharkov were going to improve the characteristics of not only T-55, T-62 or T-72 tanks, but also other equipment, for example, 155-mm self-propelled artillery units Raad-2, which were a local modification of the American M109A1B.