News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The latest military equipment was used at the special exercises of the logistics support units of the Western Military District that were completed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. In particular, in the photo materials published by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, you can see the latest modification of the BMP-3 with the Epoch combat module.

The first attempt of the Ethiopian army to use the T-72UA1 tank modernized in Ukraine in battles ended in failure. One of these combat vehicles in good condition was captured recently by the militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray.

The Russian Defense Minister said that 320 samples were tested

Almost all samples of modern Russian weapons were tested during the counter-terrorist operation in Syria. This was announced by the head of the Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu in an exclusive interview for the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live".

The Finnish shipbuilding company Meyer Turku Oy (a division of the German Meyer Werft) has signed a letter of intent providing for the construction of two multi-purpose ships for the Finnish Border Guard.

The third and last destroyer of the Zumwalt type went to sea for sea trials. The ship was built at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine and was named Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002). The ship is distinguished by a bizarre shape with a nose sloping into the sky, a pyramidal superstructure and flat sides. This is a tribute to inconspicuousness.

A field military airfield appeared near Rubtsovsk in the Altai Territory. It will be used for landing transport aircraft of the Central Military District.

The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to extend the work of the ISS. This was announced on August 30 by the head of the agency, Josef Aschbacher, on the sidelines of the 36th Space Symposium.

The third and last ship of the Zumwalt type — Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) - has begun sea trials. In the future, such ships will become carriers of new hypersonic weapons.

The device arrived at the station half an hour earlier than planned

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. The broadcast was conducted on the website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Roscosmos has already shared the first details about the Russian space station ROSS, which is planned to be launched after the completion of the ISS operation. Now new details have become known. 

In the Kaliningrad region, the marines of the Baltic Fleet repelled the attack of a simulated enemy from the sea in conditions as close to combat as possible.

The American company Astra launched the Rocket 3 light rocket for the third time, but again unsuccessfully: during the launch, one of the five engines of the first stage failed, so the flight began on a horizontal trajectory.

Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (as part of JSC Concern Uralvagonzavod is part of the Rostec State Corporation) took part in the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The next launch of the Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with 34 OneWeb satellites is scheduled for September 14, Roscosmos reported.

PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) in the first half of 2021 reduced its net loss under IFRS by almost 36 times compared to the same period last year, to 976 million rubles, it follows from the company's statements.

Even if there are some cracks in the Zarya module, you can fly for another 20 years

The executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs, Sergey Krikalev, told Interfax that he had no data on the presence of non-penetrating cracks in the Russian Zarya module on the International Space Station (ISS).

The Army-2021 Forum has completed its work, but the analysis and understanding of what was shown in its framework will continue for a long time.

One of the soft, but very important presentations is the creation of a digital model of a gas turbine engine for Navy warships. It is notable for the fact that the university science took the most active part in this work.

The Russian Missile Attack Warning System (SPRN) detected 28 launches of foreign ballistic missiles in the first half of 2021,Sergei Boev, general designer of the SPRN, General Director of the Interstate Joint-Stock Corporation Vimpel, told RIA Novosti.

The delay in the receipt by the Russian army of the first T-14 Armata tanks may " indicate a number of problems in the design," the Defence24 portal reports.

Complexes of reconnaissance drones and cycloplane platforms may appear on Russian warships. This was announced on Friday, August 27, by the head of the project group of air assets of the Foundation for Advanced Research, Yan Chibisov.