News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The United States is "woefully far behind" Russia and China in terms of the size of the icebreaker fleet. US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas complained about the lack of icebreakers, TASS reports.

The US Navy has transferred the equipping of Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with medium-range hypersonic missiles. American sailors will receive the first ship with new weapons no earlier than fiscal year 2025. This is reported by The Drive.

At the end of the day on November 4, with reference to the top officials in the command of the US Navy, two messages came about the causes of the emergency with the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in the South China Sea and about who and what responsibility was incurred for what happened.

European astronauts can start flying into space again on Russian ships after the conclusion of an agreement on cross-flights between Roscosmos and NASA, the official representative of the European Space Agency Rene Pichel told Interfax.

Modernization costs will exceed 2 billion rubles

The state Corporation Roscosmos plans to modernize simulators for training astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) for 2 billion rubles, it follows from the materials of the public procurement portal.

At the latest exercises at the Kapustin Yar training ground, improved ammunition for the S-300V4 anti-aircraft system was tested.

On November 5, 1976, the missile cruiser "Moscow" was laid down, then it was called "Glory". This is the lead ship of Project 1164 "Atlant". After the decommissioning of the Project 1123 anti-submarine cruiser Moskva, the ship inherited his name.

In the Pacific Fleet in 2021, according to the results of combat training, 27 military units were awarded the honorary name "Shock".

The American army has begun to master a new generation of tank shells. Yesterday, November 4, the portal defence-blog.com He reported that at the Yuma training ground (Arizona), the first crews of Abrams tanks fired M1147 ammunition.

The Russian Defense Ministry has tested an improved version of the S-300V4, equipped with new missiles. Among other things, they worked out the interception of hypersonic blocks.

For the crew members of Shenzhou-13, this will be the first trip outside the ship

The crew members of the Chinese Shenzhou-13 manned spacecraft in orbit are planning to make a spacewalk in the next few days. This was announced on Friday by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

The surface component of the Pacific Fleet will be replenished by 2027 with 12 corvettes of projects 20385 and 20380, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, quoted by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The units and divisions of the Western Military District receive the latest digital portable radio stations of the sixth generation "Azart-P1". Another such batch of more than 400 communication devices has been transferred to the troops. This was announced on Friday by the press service of the ZVO.

US Vice President Kamala Harris noted that the meeting of the interdepartmental National Space Council is scheduled for December 1

The US administration intends to highlight key areas of work in space, including in the military sphere, at a meeting of the relevant council next month. This was stated on Friday by US Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt (Maryland).

Such space projects will increase preparedness for various natural disasters on Earth, the department noted

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to launch three satellites in 2027 to study tropical storms and thunderstorms from space. This was announced by the director of the department Bill Nelson, speaking on Friday at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt (Maryland).

Russian military intelligence officers confirmed at the exercises the possibility of effective firing from silent special screws "Val" and "Vintorez" at record distances of over 1 kilometer, although officially their firing range is limited to no more than 450 meters, the Rostec state Corporation told RIA Novosti.

The Russian "bioequipage" of fruit flies that flew into space can help develop a means to increase reproductive function in men. This was told to RIA Novosti by Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Cell Biophysics at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irina Ogneva.

Crews of infantry fighting vehicles BMP-2 overcame a water barrier and destroyed tanks of a simulated enemy with the help of an anti-tank missile system (ATGM) "Fagot" in the Moscow region. This was reported by the press service of the Western Military District on Saturday, November 6.

The flight will take place no earlier than November 10

The dispatch of the third crew on the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed until at least November 10 due to the later return of the second crew of this project. This was announced on Friday by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The Pacific Fleet headquarters summed up the results of combat training in the past academic year. It, we recall, in the Armed Forces begins in December, and ends in October.

It is reported that the largest event at the Pacific Fleet was an operational exercise in the Central Pacific Ocean - the first in the recent history of the fleet. There, the command involved more than 20 warships, submarines and vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation. In two months, the detachment of ships overcame more than 20 thousand nautical miles and performed about fifty combat exercises.