News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On September 29, 2021, exactly 1,000 days have passed since the planetoid appeared on the Earth's natural satellite, passing over 839 meters on the surface of the Moon.

In the report of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, losses from corrosion of F/A-18 deck aircraft were disclosed. In the period from fiscal year 2017 to 2020, the US Navy spent more than $ 2 billion on corrosion control. This is reported by the Navy Times.

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, MIPT, the V. P. Ivannikov Institute of System Programming, Innopolis University, ITMO, and HSE have won a competition to select research centers that will receive grant support under the federal Artificial Intelligence project, the government announced on Monday.

Scientists noted that the growth of vegetables on the ISS turned out to be less significant than those grown on earth

For the first time, US astronauts were able to grow peppers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of an experiment that began on July 12. This was announced on Tuesday by the Space Center. John F. Kennedy of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in his Twitter.

The DART spacecraft will have to separate from the rocket and reach the Didymus-dImorph double asteroid in the fall of 2022, collide with the smaller of them - Dimorph, and change its orbit

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will test the protection of the Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids for the first time.

A second toilet has been launched on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), it is deployed in the new NAUKA module, which docked to the ISS in July.

This became known from the crew's negotiations with Earth, which are broadcast by NASA.

"I am ready to test in combat conditions," cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky said after completing the connection of the toilet in the new module. 

The Iranian military industry currently produces several types of modern ATGMs capable of destroying any tank. For example, mass production of the Toophan-3M guided missile, which is an analogue of the American TOW-2B, has begun in the Islamic Republic.

The cruise missile "Malachite" was hit by missiles of the anti-aircraft missile system "Redut" and the fire of a 100-mm naval artillery installation A-19

The Pacific Fleet corvette "Loud" during exercises in the Sea of Japan hit the Malachite cruise missile with anti-aircraft missiles. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the fleet.

According to the Cosmonaut Training Center, as a rule, after short flights, rehabilitation takes seven days

The terms of rehabilitation after short flights into space are usually seven days, for actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko, they will depend on their well-being. This was reported to TASS at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC).

The Luna-25 automatic station will be launched in July 2022. This was announced on October 5 by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

The station will be the first domestic device in modern Russia on a natural satellite of the Earth

The LUNA-25 automatic station will be launched in July, and the Russian-European ExoMars mission will be launched in September next year. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on the air of Channel One.

Aircraft coloring can be divided into "livery" and "camouflage". And if the first type refers more to civil aircraft, then the second is an important element in reducing the visibility of a combat vehicle.

The State Commission has accepted the third diesel-electric submarine of project 636.3 Magadan, built for the Pacific Fleet, the press service of Admiralty Shipyards reported.

Mooring tests of the corvette project 20380 "Zealous" have begun at the enterprise of the United Shipbuilding Corporation "sEvernaya Verf" in St. Petersburg.

Russia is expanding the list of carriers of hypersonic weapons. On October 4, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on its official YouTube channel published a video of the launch of the Zircon missile from the nuclear submarine Severodvinsk.

For the first time in Russia, a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile "Zircon" was launched from an underwater position from the nuclear submarine "Severodvinsk". The missile successfully hit a target in the Barents Sea. According to Military Watch, with such missiles, the Russian Navy will significantly increase the firepower of its ships.

Tests of the Zircon hypersonic missile from a submarine have been completed, all its characteristics have been confirmed, Commander of the Northern Fleet Alexander Moiseev reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a conference call.

The Su-24MR reconnaissance planes and Su-34 fighter-bombers bombed the hidden objects of the "enemy" at the aviapoligon in the Kurgan region. Here, the press service of the Central Military District reports, the servicemen passed the "exam" on combat training for the 2021 academic year.

IN Afghanistan, the Soviet BTR-70 significantly increased its firepower. The armored personnel carrier received a ZU-23-2 rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun and was successfully used in battles.

Before the advent of the BTR-80, the Seventies had long been the main wheeled means of delivering infantry in units and formations of the Limited Soviet Contingent - the 40th Combined Arms Army, as well as border troops and other forces involved.

On October 5, the General Director of PJSC UAC (as part of Rostec Group) and other heads of the corporation paid a working visit to the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ named after Yu.A.Gagarin, a branch of sUkhoi Company JSC).