News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
British Challenger 3 tanks will dress up in "Windbreakers"
British tanks will become more protected. June 24 portal armyrecognition.com he reported that the company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced the choice of its Trophy MV system for installation on the Challenger 3.
Live firing of the Baltic Fleet helicopter pilots was shown on video
The crews of attack and military transport helicopters Mi-24 and Mi-8 of the Baltic Fleet destroyed the objects of the imaginary enemy-aircraft at the airfield, a command post and a column of armored vehicles.
Two air regiments of the Central Military District will be re-equipped with Su-34M and MiG-31BM by the end of 2021
As the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, noted, these measures "will significantly increase the district's ability to fire at the enemy"
The combat capabilities of the Central Military District (CVO) for the destruction of cruise missiles and the fire defeat of the enemy will be increased by re-equipping two aviation regiments with Su-34M and MiG-31BM aircraft, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
The Ingenuity helicopter has been flying on Mars for almost a kilometer
The eighth flight took place on June 21, the helicopter covered a distance of 160 meters in 77.4 seconds
The Ingenuity helicopter located on Mars flew a total of almost a kilometer during eight flights, which began on April 19. This was reported on Thursday by the American specialized portal SpaceNews, citing a representative of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Teddy Tzanetos.
The Pentagon will upgrade the Apache: we need a superweapon. Isn't it a little late?
I'm looking for new weapons systems. For ex-super-athletes. So that they can fly past the air defense systems of Russia and China. The customer is the Pentagon. The agency decided to equip its AH-64 Apache with combat-ready systems. Better late than never?
MiG-31K aircraft with hypersonic missiles participate in Russian maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea - materials of the exercises
Russian MiG-31K fighters, relocated to Syria for exercises, performed flights over the Mediterranean Sea with hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal complex.
"Nomadic" mortars appeared in the western outpost
This tactic was used for the first time in the Kaliningrad region by the Baltic Fleet mortars.
The tactics of "nomadic" mortars are used during the combat training of gunners of the Western Military District, the Military-Industrial Courier was told in the information support department of the press service of the ZVO for the BF.
An incident with a Ukrainian plane occurred at a British air base
The Ukrainian transport plane An-225 "Mriya" during landing at the British Brize-Norton air base in the Cotswolds demolished the fence set up along the perimeter of the runway with air currents. The incident was reported on Friday, June 25, by the publication GloucestershireLive.
Roscosmos has developed a way to dock satellites for their repair in orbit
The passive vehicle will be in orbit, the movement of the active one must be synchronized with it
Roscosmos has patented a method for approaching spacecraft in orbit for servicing satellites. This is stated in the materials distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).
Rostec said that the "Pantsir-M" will fully provide a solution to the problems of ship air defense
The holding company "High-precision Complexes" noted that the complex can be equipped with both new-built ships and ships undergoing modernization
The Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK) is capable of destroying the latest means of air attack and fully provides the solution of the ship's air defense tasks.
The new generation satellite of the Russian Defense Ministry is included in the catalog of space objects
A new-generation Russian military satellite launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Russian Navy ships will conduct missile firing near the aircraft carrier of Britain
In the Mediterranean Sea, the ships of the permanent connection of the Russian Navy will conduct missile firing 30 kilometers from the aircraft carrier strike group of Great Britain, led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. This follows from the international notification system for air staff NOTAM.
Large-scale exercises of the Russian Navy and VKS are held in the Mediterranean Sea
A joint exercise of the forces of the Navy (Navy) and the aviation of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia is taking place in the Mediterranean Sea.
The designer called the American analogue of the Russian"Sunflower"
The American analogue of the Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower" is a system of three Surface Wave Radar (SWR) radars from Raytheon, the designer of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS.
Source: the oldest submarine of the Black Sea Fleet may be transferred to the Baltic Fleet
At the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet, it was previously reported that Alrosa is planned to return to the combat fleet after November 2021
TASS, June 26. The oldest submarine of the Black Sea Fleet, Alrosa, can be sent to the Baltic Fleet after repair, a military source told TASS.
Russian "Caliber" predicted a loss
In terms of the depth of impact on the enemy, an aircraft carrier with long-range radar detection and control aircraft and carrier-based fighters will lose to surface ships equipped with Kalibr-NK missiles, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, predicts in the Military-Industrial Courier.
The US Air Force satellite the size of a football field has completed its work
The experimental satellite Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX)of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is comparable in size to a football field, has completed its work, reports C4ISRNet.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presented a video of the launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle"
The Russian Defense Ministry has presented a video of the launch of a Soyuz-2 class launch vehicle with a spacecraft. The launch took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region.
Germany has approved a joint program with Norway for the acquisition of submarines of the 212CD project
Three months have passed since Norway announced that after lengthy negotiations, they have finally agreed on an agreement with the German shipyard ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) on the acquisition of new submarines.
Special purpose nuclear submarine "Belgorod" of project 09852 at sea
As reported, on June 25, 2021, a special - purpose nuclear submarine Belgorod of project 09852 (factory number 91664), completed by the construction of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (SMP, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation-USC), went to sea for the first time from Severodvinsk for factory sea trials.