News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched the construction of the Istanbul Canal, which will connect the Marmara and Black Seas and will become a stand-in for the Bosphorus Strait.

As reported, on June 25, 2021, a large diesel-electric submarine B-602 "Magadan" (factory number 01616) of project 06363, built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), entered the Baltic Sea for the first time for factory sea trials. This is the third of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.

The MiG-41 interceptor fighters currently being developed could be based on such aircraft carrier platforms, said one of their creators, Valentin Belanenko

The technical problem of creating offshore platforms for deck aviation of the Russian Navy can be solved with the help of "floating berths" - non-nuclear aircraft carriers with a flight deck of about 500 meters.

The new Russian nuclear submarine K-329 "Belgorod" is capable of destroying not only an aircraft carrier, but even an entire city, British journalists told the Daily Mail.

French main battle tanks will undergo a deep modernization. June 26, portal janes.com He reported that the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) has signed a contract with Nexter for the repair and modernization of 200 Leclerc combat vehicles and 17 Leclerc DCL evacuation vehicles.

The team of the InSight automatic Mars station decided to complete the operation of the device ahead of time, if effective methods for cleaning solar panels from dust are not found. Currently, the batteries are heavily dusted, and electricity generation has fallen by almost eight times compared to the initial level, according to the website Space.com.

One of them shows the moment when the parachute of the lander opens

The Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) has published four new videos of the Tianwen-1 mission on Mars. The videos were posted on Sunday on the official website of the Central Television of China.

New generation heat traps guarantee protection against the most "smart" missiles with infrared homing heads, they are presented for the first time at the MILEX 2021 exhibition in Minsk

Many countries are interested in developing electromagnetic weapons, which are called "invisible killer". With its help, you can instantly disable radars, computers and other electronic equipment, paralyzing the entire control system. Many countries are interested in this type of weapon, and Russia is no exception.

In China, a restyling of the legendary Chinese all-terrain vehicle Beijing BJ 212 is presented, which in turn is a modified copy of the Soviet GAZ-69. Now the updated Beijing BJ 212 has a clear external similarity with the Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV.

The construction of two BDK is carried out in accordance with the technical project approved in 2020, said Ilya Samarin, general director of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar"

The hull of the main large landing ship (BDK) of the modernized project 11711 will be formed by the end of 2021. This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar".

The main customer of the development of domestic VD was the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

The development of water-jet propulsion systems (VD) for ship equipment, which are being created in Russia, surpass foreign analogues in a number of indicators. This was announced by the chief designer of the Sleming-2 ROC, Hadji-Murat Valeev.

The ADS is built according to the "bull-pop" layout principle, which provides a shorter length of the machine, better balancing, and also eliminates the need for folding and folding the butt The

holding "High-precision Complexes" (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has started mass production of the latest two-medium automatic ADS.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started using a new system for recognizing faces, silhouettes of people and cars in Russia. "The system is already being used in five regions of the country," Andrey Telenkov, CEO of the Ntechlab developer company, is quoted by TASS. - The solution for silhouettes causes serious interest of our customers, we have a lot of requests."

Russian long-range Tu-22M3 bombers as part of the exercises of the ship group of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) in the Pacific Ocean have worked out the destruction of aircraft carriers of a conditional enemy, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Thursday.

On Friday, June 25, the multi-purpose submarine "Novosibirsk" - the first serial submarine of the project 885" Yasen-M " - goes to sea for sea trials. On the sidelines of the International Naval Salon MVMS-2021, which is being held in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of Sevmash, told about this, TASS reports.

Anti-Russian NATO exercises increase tensions in the Black Sea and Baltic regions

The recent NATO summit was anti-Russian, the course taken by Russia to build up its defense capability is without alternative, said the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

The anti-aircraft Missile Regiment of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Irkutsk Region, will complete re-equipment with the modernized S-300PM-2 "Favorit"air defense systems by the end of the year.

At the MVMS-2021 in St. Petersburg, a mock-up of a dehumidifying pump for Borey-type nuclear missile carriers was presented. The unit has exceptional vibration-noise characteristics, ensuring the secrecy of the submarine, writes FlotProm.

French designers tried to cross the T-72 with their 155-mm self-propelled artillery installation AUF1.

Work on this topic was carried out in the early 90s. The fact is that the Indian ground forces then planned to increase the number of self-propelled guns in their artillery units. At the same time, wishes were expressed that the combat vehicle would use the "seventy-second"platform.