News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The lessons learned from the accident of the Kursk nuclear submarine will prevent similar tragedies in the future, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, commander of the Northern Fleet, said.

The American fifth-generation fighter F-22 Raptor made an emergency landing at the Pearl Harbor-Hickam base (Hawaii). The corresponding video was published on Instagram by the user hnlramper.

He delivered 3.7 tons of payloads to the station

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) has completed the docking of the American Cygnus cargo ship of Northrop Grumman Corporation, which delivered 3.7 tons of payloads to the station. The broadcast is carried out on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is working on the issue of completing the Vladimir the Great ship of the 58250 project, the country's military department reports.

According to a high-ranking TASS source in the space industry, a hole in the skin of the Soyuz MS-09 was drilled in zero gravity. At the same time, the alleged culprit did not know the device of the device.

At the Mulino training ground, servicemen of the separate engineer-sapper regiment of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) for the first time used the Uran-6 robotic complex. He was involved in a tactical exercise at a special training ground designed to train the actions of troops in urban conditions.

When the Cassini mission explored Titan from the orbit of Saturn, scientists received a lot of new information, but each answer gave rise to a dozen new questions. To answer some of them, in 2019, NASA approved the development of the Dragonfly research vehicle (Dragonfly). It will not be possible to make it universal, so the other day we decided on the priority goal of the mission – it will be the search for life in any form.

NASA has started selecting candidates for a project to simulate life on Mars. This is a special simulation mission, during which several people will live for 12 months in a special complex "Mars Dune Alpha".

The US Army has signed a contract with re2 Robotics to develop a robotic arm for refueling AH-64 Apache attack helicopters in combat. The robot arm will autonomously bring the refueling gun to the filler neck of the tank and independently determine when the helicopter has received enough fuel.

The head of the strategic command of the US armed forces, Charles Richard, said that US military sensors do not effectively detect the presence of hypersonic missiles, and Russia is a leader in creating this type of weapon. He announced this at the annual symposium on space and missile defense, RIA Novosti reports.

During this exercise, for the first time, military repairs of aircraft will be carried out by means of mobile technical and operational units with the involvement of repair crews of defense industry enterprises, including on the airfield section of the road.

The Russian Air Force will hold a large-scale exercise in the Western Military District at the end of August with the involvement of more than 450 aircraft and helicopters, said the commander of the Air Force - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces, Lieutenant General Sergei Dronov.

According to Oleg Artemyev, the first residents may be members of the crew of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which includes cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko

The crew members of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which includes cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko, can become the first residents of the new cabin of the Russian segment of the ISS, located in the Nauka module. This was reported to TASS by Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.

The Russian Helicopters holding company (part of the Rostec Corporation) will transfer two more new Mi-38 helicopters to the Ministry of Defense by the end of 2022, the company's CEO Andrey Boginsky told RIA Novosti.

The Russian army is "actually troops of constant readiness", which is facilitated by sudden checks of military personnel. This was announced on Tuesday, August 10, by Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu during his speech at the youth educational forum "Territory of Meanings".

Arsenyev Aviation Company "Progress" named after N. I. Sazykin of the Russian Helicopters holding is ready to send a batch of Ka-52 Alligator combat reconnaissance and attack helicopters to the troops. This was told by the acting managing director of the company Andrey Semenov within the framework of a Single day of acceptance of military products, the press service of the enterprise reports.

The first Armata tanks will be handed over to the Russian army this year. On August 10, the Interfax news agency reported that Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko announced the transfer of 20 combat vehicles to the armed forces by the end of 2021.

The new version of the anti-ship complex uses the Tatra T815 as a standard chassis. The prototypes were placed on the basis of KrAZ cars.

Moscow continues to increase its advantage in the submarine fleet over the United States, which has always had a significantly larger number of surface ships. The United States, which has once again started a rivalry of powers, is trying to keep up. Military columnist Peter Suchiu wrote about this for Business Insider, who decided to compare the latest Russian submarines with American ones.

Intuitive Machines has chosen the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to launch its third mission to the moon — IM-3. Before that, the carriers created by Elon Musk's company were chosen for the IM-1 and IM-2 missions.