News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) will go into outer space about 10 times by the end of 2022 to integrate and retrofit the Russian Nauka and Prichal modules. Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky told about this on August 25 in the Twitter microblogging network.

At the International Military-Technical Forum "Army–2021", a round table "Prospects for the development and application of robotic complexes for military purposes of air, land and sea basing"was held.

Intel has signed a contract with the US Department of Defense, according to which it will lead a program to create the production of advanced chips in the United States, TechCrunch reported on Monday.

The construction of the Chinese hypersonic wind tunnel JF22 is scheduled to be completed next year. According to China Central Television, it will be able to simulate a maximum speed of up to 10 kilometers per second — 30 times the speed of sound — and an altitude of 40 to 100 kilometers.

The Indonesian shipbuilding company PT Lundin launched an inconspicuous missile trimaran "Golok". According to Naval News, this is the second ship of the X3K type after the Klevang, which burned down in 2012.

On Wednesday, August 25, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, after visiting the shooting center in the Patriot Park, instructed to speed up state tests of promising small arms and protective equipment for VKS pilots.

The head of Roscosmos intends to send invitations on August 25

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said that he intends to invite entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to launch the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is scheduled for October 5.

Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, part of the Rostec state Corporation) plans to modernize the T-80BVM tanks. The car will increase the main characteristics, including firepower and mobility, - reports TASS with reference to the press service of the UVZ.

The start of construction of two warships for the Russian Navy at the enterprise in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Khabarovsk Territory is an honor and prestige. This statement was made by the acting governor of the region Mikhail Degtyarev on Monday, August 23.

The author of the publication The National Interest questioned the protection of modern Russian tanks. In an article about the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile system (ATGM), Sebastien Roblin suggested that the characteristics of the T-72B3, T-80BVM, T-90M and T-14 tanks are insufficient to protect against an anti-tank complex from the United States.

The T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks of the Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District will be used for the first time in a number of tactical exercises taking place in the Nizhny Novgorod region at the Mulino training ground. This is reported by the press service of the ZVO.

One fired grenade creates a curtain of 100 square meters at a distance of 70 to 100 meters from the protected object

The latest small-sized complex for protecting boats from high-precision weapons was created by Novosibirsk scientists at the Institute of Applied Physics. The development of JSC "IPF" was presented for the first time at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The company noted that it can be performed during the service contract

The Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) has begun to offer customers the modernization of the Dragunov-SVD sniper rifle. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Kalashnikov.

The 305E multi-purpose missile became known relatively recently, and now it is already being demonstrated at the Army-2021 International Military-Technical Forum. Now anyone can get acquainted with an exhibition copy of this powerful weapon that can turn any NATO tank into a pile of scrap metal.

At the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" held in Kubinka from August 22 to 28, 2021, JSC "Tactical Missile Armament Corporation" (KTRV) presented two new samples of air-to - surface guided aircraft weapons-X-MD and X-50 missiles.

It is planned to complete them before the ice break on the White Sea with the implementation of several launches

Flight tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the underwater carrier-the nuclear submarine "Severodvinsk" - are scheduled to begin in September of this year. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The upgraded BMP-3 will be able to be used in the conditions of the North

PJSC Kurganmashzavod (part of the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding) will equip the BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle with an active protection complex during modernization. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the holding "High-precision complexes" during the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

The Bulava ballistic missile for submarines will undergo modernization in the future and will remain in service for a long time, Yuri Solomonov, general designer of solid-fuel missiles, general designer of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering, developer of the Bulava, told RIA Novosti.

Kurganmashzavod (part of the High-Precision Complexes holding of the Rostec State Corporation) will equip the BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle with an active protection complex during the modernization. This was announced on Tuesday, August 24, by the press service of the holding at the international military-technical forum "Army-2021".

FAR EAST - Two new corvettes - "Grozny" and "Buyny" -were laid down at the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ) in Komsomolsk-on-Amur of the Khabarovsk Territory, the press service of the regional government reports.