News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On September 9, 2021, at the Zhongzheng Naval Base of the Navy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Suao (Yilan County), in the presence of the President of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen, a ceremony was held to introduce the lead missile corvette-catamaran "Tajiang" of the improved Tuo Jiang II project (tail number 619) into the Taiwanese Navy.

The space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted a successful launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1b " from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense told RIA Novosti.

The development of armored vehicles on the Armata platform is planned to be completed in 2022, said the acting head of the Main Armored Vehicle Department of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Alexander Shestakov

More than 9 thousand units of armored vehicles and vehicles are included in the procurement and repair plan of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2020-2022. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the acting head of the Main Armored Vehicle Department of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Alexander Shestakov.

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov have completed all the main and additional tasks of spacewalking, it follows from the broadcast of Roscosmos. "In any case, I congratulate you on the fact that we have already completed all the tasks set and even managed to do two additional ones," the representative of the MCC said during the broadcast.

The anti-tank missile system "Chrysanthemum-S" still attracts the attention of foreign and Russian specialists. It is armed with fifteen unique supersonic missiles that can destroy any modern tank day and night, in any weather, at a distance of 6000 meters.

It will be used on the route of ships along the Northern Sea Route

Specialists of JSC " Northern Press "(part of the corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons", KTRV) have created a radar station (radar) to track the ice situation in the Arctic. This was reported to TASS by the engineer of the enterprise Vadim Ralnikov.

We are talking about a single information database containing information about each space object

Specialists of the Space Control Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces have entered into the main catalog of space objects of the Russian space control system information about a new space object-the apparatus of the Russian Defense Ministry launched by the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket.1b" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. This was reported to journalists in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense.

Before that, the combat crews made marches from the points of deployment, repelling at the same time the attacks of conditional saboteurs

Calculations of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems and radar stations have taken up combat duty to repel an air attack within the framework of the strategic exercises of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported to journalists in the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Russian military base in Tajikistan will be strengthened by the end of the year with thirty modern tanks. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) on Friday, September 10.

About 100 units of armored weapons have been delivered to the troops of the Central Military District since the beginning of the year, Colonel Hanif Beglov, the head of the armored service of the Central Military District, said on the eve of the Tanker's Day.

Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitsky installed three containers of the Biorisk-MSN experiment on the Poisk module of the International Space Station (ISS). This follows from the broadcast on the Roscosmos website on Friday, September 10.

In the Astrakhan region, the military personnel of the Southern Military District trained in repelling air raids and unmanned aerial vehicles of a conditional enemy. Special attention was paid to the fight against attack drones and kamikaze barraging drones.

Any machines will be able to become "smart" and unite in the network. On September 9, the press service of the Israeli company Elbit Systems presented the universal ARCAS system, which is a computerized system for small arms.

Combat crews of the S-400 and Pantsir-S complexes repelled a massive air strike by a simulated enemy in the Nizhny Novgorod Region as part of the strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise Zapad-2021, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

The Navy of the Republic of China received the first corvette catamaran of the Tuo Jiang II project. A total of 11 such ships should be built. Taiwan is seriously concerned about the growing power of the Chinese Navy. One of the efforts to neutralize the threat was the Tuo Jiang II missile corvette-catamaran project.

The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, which are the longest-range air defense systems among those in service with Russia, were able to fully confirm the previously stated characteristics about the possibility of intercepting hypersonic targets.

In the United States, pictures of an aircraft with an unusual appearance have appeared. The designers crossed the nose of the F-16 fighter with the Bombardier CRJ-700 business jet to test the new radar. This is reported by The Drive.

The height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be increased by 750 m before the arrival of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft with a crew of cinematographers to shoot the first feature film in space. This was told to RIA Novosti by a representative of the press service of Roscosmos on Saturday, September 11.

During the meeting held by the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine-Minister for Strategic Industries Oleg Urusky with the participation of the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SCAU) Vladimir Taftay, held at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (KB), it was confirmed that work on the Sich — 2-30 Earth remote sensing satellite is proceeding in accordance with the previously approved schedule, Defense Express reports.

When they talk about towing tanks, they usually mean the use of armored tracked tractors or special repair evacuation vehicles like the BRAM-1 or the most advanced T-16 in the world.

Also, tanks themselves are often used for this. Sometimes, when it is necessary to rescue a multi-ton car that is firmly stuck in the mud captivity, several units are attracted at once. And even such measures do not always help.