News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Russian Foreign Ministry published data on the total number of strategic offensive weapons in Russia and the United States under the START Treaty, extended at the end of January this year for five years.

Artillery units of the Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Navy are planning to purchase 2S22 Bogdana self-propelled guns and Verba M1 multiple rocket launchers.

According to the Defense Express portal, such equipment should arrive by 2025.

The Northern Fleet conducted exercises in the Barents Sea to search for submarines of a simulated enemy. They were led by the flagship of the SF-heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".

In the United States, the launch ceremony of the destroyer USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) was held. The ship belongs to a new subtype of the famous Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.

During the exercises held last month, a unit of the ground forces of the Estonian Defense Army resisted a simulated attack by enemy armored vehicles, the function of which was performed by the body of a decommissioned car. The main forces were on the defensive a kilometer away from the imaginary enemy. Milrem Robotics ' unmanned ground robot THeMIS, equipped with the deFNder machine gun system, was sent to help them.

The authorities of countries around the world have entered a new "arms race", in the role of which now act as semiconductors, writes CNBC. The publication calls semiconductors "the blood of today's global economy", pointing to their demand in many industries, primarily in microelectronics and the defense industry.

The flight of Russian cosmonauts to the moon can cost from 400 billion to 1.7 trillion rubles. Earlier it became known that Russia plans to build a lunar base together with China.

The head of the concern, Yan Novikov, said that the Russian Nebo-M radar station is capable of detecting the latest low-visibility combat aircraft, including the American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II fighters.

Inside the folding kung there are tables, chairs and an automatic dishwasher

In 2021, the military authorities of the Russian Federation will receive new high-tech field kitchens AMPP-150, equipped with an electronic control panel and capable of feeding 50 military personnel at a time. This was announced by the head of the Department of Resource Support of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Sergei Nikhelman, in an interview with the newspaper "Independent Military Review".

Two submarines of the project 636.3 "Varshavyanka" will be laid for the Pacific Fleet by the end of the year, Fleet Commander Sergei Avakyants said.

A large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation is planned to be sent for modernization, said the commander of the fleet, Admiral Sergei Avakyants.

The Joint Strategic Command (USC) "Northern Fleet", which ensures the security of the Russian part of the Arctic, in the event of a war with the US Navy (Navy) will be destroyed, predicts in the "Military-Industrial Courier" Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov.

The Ministry of Defense and one of the enterprises of the United Shipbuilding Corporation signed a contract for the repair and modernization of the ground test training complex

A contract was signed for the repair and modernization of the ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in the Crimea - a complete ground-based analogue of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. This was reported to TASS by two sources in the military-industrial complex.

According to the German Defense Ministry, on May 17 at the naval base in Wilhelmshaven, a ceremony was held for the commissioning of the German Navy frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" project F125.

The M1A2C (M1A2SEPv3) Abrams tank works perfectly at temperatures typical of Alaska, writes the American magazine Forbes, referring to the results of the test of the combat vehicle conducted by the US Army.

The Pacific Fleet will receive serial corvettes of projects 20380 and 20385, frigates of project 22350. Military sailors will also have new universal landing ships.

The Pacific Fleet's Admiral Vinogradov BOD will be the next Project 1155 ship to be upgraded.

The destruction of the targets by the Algerian "Pantsir-S1" and "Cornet-EM" was shown on video. The network published a video from the recent exercises of the 2nd military district of the National People's Army of Algeria.

Two new ships with Aegis systems, which Japan plans to build as part of a plan to strengthen its missile defense system, will cost the country at least 900 billion yen (over $ 8.3 billion at the current exchange rate). This was reported by the national newspaper The Asahi.

The project 20380 corvette "Zealous", which is being built by the Northern Shipyard (part of the USC) on the order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the Black Sea Fleet, is preparing for the crew's arrival.