News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The US Navy has approved the production of the long-range anti-radar missile AARGM-ER. The military plans to order the first two pilot batches in the next few months.

All UAVs will be controlled from a unified ground station, developed and manufactured by the Kronstadt company

The Kronshtadt company will supply the Ministry of Defense with five new unmanned complexes "Inokhodets-RU" and two sets of helicopter-type UAVs "Platforma", the company's press service reported on Tuesday.

The Tor-MF air defense system is capable of providing not only self-defense of the ship on which it is installed, but also air defense of a connection of ships or a naval base on an area of up to 500 square kilometers.

Eleven new simulators of the Diamond DA-42T combat training aircraft will be delivered to the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots until 2025.

This launch was the 386th launch for the Changzheng series launch vehicles

China has launched an experimental communications satellite using the Changzheng-3-bi launch vehicle (CZ-3B, Long March-3B). This was reported on Wednesday by the Central Television of China.

A spectacular video of the destruction of the US Navy frigate was published online.

The US Navy has released a video of the recent SINKEX exercises off the coast of Hawaii. As The Drive portal explains, they were aimed at demonstrating various capabilities of a long-range naval strike.

The newest missile "Product 305E" for combat helicopters began to be mass-produced. The missile, depending on the requirements and tasks, can be equipped with different combat units. It is able to destroy all targets on the battlefield.

Rosoboronexport signed a contract at the Army-2021 forum for the integration of the Russian Palm air defense system into the armament system of the foreign customer's ship. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev.

As part of the scientific and business program of the MVTF "Army-2021", Alexey Shchekin, head of the Department for the development of small arms ammunition of TSNIITOCHMASH JSC, announced priority directions for the development of small arms ammunition.

The development of the Laguna-I radar is carried out using lightweight antenna modules of a new design, which allows the station to be deployed on unprepared sites, including those not equipped with a foundation.

After the commissioning of the purchased equipment, the capacity of the metal processing enterprise will increase, the head of the AK Bars shipbuilding Corporation Renat Mistakhov said

The Gulf shipbuilding plant in Kerch, where, in particular, the universal landing ships of the 23900 project are being built, will be modernized.

The General director of the NCPPP, Sergey Tsurkan, noted that this complex can be placed on warships so that they can independently overcome minefields without the help of minesweepers.

China has proposed to build a multi-kilometer space station in a long-term orbit around the Earth. It is planned to spend 15 million yuan ($2.3 million) to study the feasibility of such a project. This is reported by the South China Morning Post.

At the moment, the drones are almost ready for testing

JSC "Kronstadt" is negotiating with the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the possibility of using helicopter-type drones in extinguishing forest fires. This was announced to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Sergey Bogatikov at the Army forum.

Most of the modules have been independently tested

The Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, part of the Rostec State Corporation) has developed a series of remotely controlled combat modules (DUBM) designed to equip ships of the Navy. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the UVZ during the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The modernization potential of the small rocket ships of the project 21631 is huge, said the head of the corporation Renat Mistakhov

The AK Bars Shipbuilding Corporation is ready to begin the modernization of small rocket ships (MRCS) of the Buyan-M type project 21631, the relevant proposals with their justification have been submitted to the command of the Russian Navy.

During the exercises of front-line aviation near Voronezh, an episode was worked out with the relocation of Su-34 bombers to an operational airfield equipped directly on the federal highway E-38 Kursk-Saratov.

The ship "Naro-Fominsk" is planned to be launched in the first quarter of 2022 The

small rocket ship "Grad" of project 21631 of the Buyan-M type will be launched until August 30, 2021. This was announced to TASS on the sidelines of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" by the head of the AK Bars shipbuilding Corporation Renat Mistakhov.

The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system has been successfully tested against cruise missiles in the United States. August 24, portal upi.com He reported that the US Army conducted the first fire tests of its intermediate anti-missile system.

The device will consist of several modules that will be launched into orbit separately and assembled in space

The National Foundation of Natural Sciences of China is considering a project to create an "ultra-large spacecraft extending for kilometers". This was reported by the South China Morning Post newspaper.