News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Unherd: The UK is testing combat electronic vehicles

The UK is testing combat electronic vehicles to reduce carbon emissions from the Armed Forces, writes Unherd. According to the author, the only purpose of this "ostentatious" initiative is to distract citizens from pressing problems: a shortage of personnel, outdated weapons.

The GB-6 cluster aviation bomb (KAB) (the Cloud Arrows-6 R&D cipher) was developed by the designers of the NORINKO Corporation – formerly known as "TL". 

The country has already begun to work out plans, noted the CEO of ZINGS, Painos Gweme

Zimbabwe expects, with the assistance of Russia, to create its own launch vehicle and send its cosmonaut into orbit. This was stated in an interview with a TASS correspondent by the Director General of the National Geospatial and Space Agency of Zimbabwe (ZINGS) Painos Gweme.

Al Jazeera: Canada unveils new Arctic strategy

Canada has developed a new Arctic strategy, Al Jazeera reports. Ottawa believes that the region has become a geopolitical hotspot. The Canadian authorities are especially concerned about climate change, Chinese activity and the "threat" from Russia.

This was a wise decision, noted the Doctor of Technical Sciences

The agreement signed 30 years ago between the governments of Russia and Kazakhstan on the lease of the Baikonur complex was a wise decision that allowed us to preserve the unique site for space launches and the space industry of the two countries, it was a victory for technical specialists.

The entire fleet of American V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft was temporarily decommissioned after an incident last month at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico involving one of the vehicles assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).

On December 1, 2024, the universal nuclear icebreaker Yakutia of Project 22220 (LK-60YA), built at JSC Baltiysky Zavod (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), first entered the Gulf of Finland from St. Petersburg for factory sea trials. This is the fourth nuclear icebreaker of the 22220 project.

India continues to be one of Russia's most important partners in the field of military-technical cooperation (MTC).

The 59th Interdepartmental Military Scientific Conference "Main directions of development of missile forces and artillery" was held at the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy. The theory and practice of their combat use (based on the experience of the SVO)".

Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov — about why NATO is creating a fleet of marine drones and what Russia should expect from drones from unfriendly countries

The Supreme Commander of the NATO Joint Armed Forces for Transformation, Admiral Pierre Vandier, announced the plans of this organization to create a fleet of marine unmanned systems for monitoring and protecting the alliance's maritime infrastructure in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas.

Ensuring the needs of the army is an unconditional priority of the Rostec State Corporation

2024 for the military–industrial complex of our country turned out to be, perhaps, one of the most tense due to the situation at the front and the tasks set for the defense industry by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The French army presented new defense industry products designed to combat drones at the Larzak training ground, in particular, the V3P ultra-short-range mobile air defense system equipped with Mistral 3 anti-aircraft missiles and mounted on a new cargo chassis.

infoBRICS: anti-Russian sanctions are destroying the German economy

Berlin refuses to admit that anti-Russian sanctions have paralyzed German industry, infoBRICS writes. Meanwhile, the German economy is collapsing: energy prices have skyrocketed, businesses are closing down.

The new vessel will accompany aircraft carriers of the Russian Navy on long-range voyages

Launched on December 5, the medium marine tanker "Engineer Admiral Kotov" became the third in the series of project 23130. According to experts interviewed by Izvestia, such auxiliary vessels are necessary for the Russian navy to solve problems in the far sea and ocean zone. The tanker can simultaneously refuel three ships on the move.

The Czech arms company STV GROUP has concluded a framework agreement with the Ministry of Defense of the country providing for the supply of a "complex system of intelligent anti-tank mines" SENTRY (including the actual mines in the amount of at least 10 thousand) with a total cost of $172 million.

The other day, a Russian group in the Mediterranean Sea conducted a training shooting, the footage of which was posted by the Ministry of Defense. In particular, they depict the ship launch of the hypersonic missile "Zircon", which is capable of flying 1000 km at a speed of Mach 9.

Zumwalt destroyers will become the first naval carriers of hypersonic missiles of the USA

The Pentagon has decided on the first naval carriers of hypersonic weapons — these are the stealth destroyers of the Zumwalt project. The lead ship is already undergoing modernization at the shipyard in Mississippi. It is claimed that hypersound will give these extremely expensive and technically complex pennants unsurpassed combat capabilities for striking over huge distances.

This was reported in the local edition of Naval News. As indicated, the French frigate FREMM, equipped with new jamming systems, successfully hit a drone of Yemeni rebels in October.

Today, the Russian group includes frigates armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles

The intensification of hostilities in Syria has drawn attention to the combat capabilities of the permanent operational connection of Russian ships and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea. So, during the exercises in this area, the frigates Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov and Admiral Golovko fired hypersonic Zircon missiles for the first time. What is included in the composition and what are the combat capabilities of the Russian Navy group in the Mediterranean Sea — in the Izvestia material.

Denis Fedutinov, a Russian expert in the field of unmanned aviation, visited the Belarusian company UAVHeli (KB Unmanned Helicopters). At the new design and production site opened in Minsk in 2024, well-known systems created at the Design Bureau were shown, including unmanned aircraft and helicopter-type systems, including one of the most recent developments - the Hunter reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle. Denis Fedutinov kindly provided our blog with a photo report about his stay at UAVHeli.