News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford of the US Navy, which is the most expensive ship built in the world, turned out to be overly technological. The corresponding recognition was made by the chief of naval operations of the US Navy, Admiral Michael Gilday, according to Popular Mechanics.

About a dozen combat and special vehicles have been created on the basis of the T-80. Among them stands out a unique, truly unparalleled, highly protected vehicle "Ladoga", nicknamed"The Tank of the nuclear Apocalypse".

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in an open letter addressed the leadership of NASA with a proposal to allocate $2 billion to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in exchange for the participation of his space company Blue Origin in the preparation of missions to the Moon.

According to the chief designer of PJSC "Il" Sergey Ganin, the IL-112B became the first Russian military transport aircraft of this class, equipped with a tail ramp

Tests of the latest Russian military transport aircraft Il-112B are on schedule. This was announced to TASS by the chief designer of PJSC Il (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of the Rostec State Corporation) Sergey Ganin.

More than 12 thousand units of weapons and equipment will be presented at its sites

The international military-technical forum "Army-2021" will be held at 26 sites in 15 subjects of the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasus Federal District, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported. The forum will also be held at Russian military bases in Abkhazia, Armenia and South Ossetia.

Servicemen of the Russian peacekeeping unit of the Central Military District in preparation for joint exercises with colleagues from Uzbekistan, which are to be held in August at the Termez training ground, overcame water obstacles on an armored personnel carrier BTR-82A.

As noted by Sergey Ganin, the test program is currently underway, the aircraft confirms the design characteristics laid down in the design of the machine

The newest Il-112B military transport aircraft will be able to update the fleet of Russian light military transport aircraft, which is dominated by An-26 aircraft. This was told to TASS by the chief designer of PJSC Il (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of the Rostec State Corporation) Sergey Ganin.

On Friday, July 30, the Krasnoyarsk multi - purpose nuclear submarine-the fourth Yasen and the third built according to the modernized project 855 Yasen-M-will be launched from the Sevmash slipway shop.

During the exercises, the units of the Irkutsk Missile connection took up field positions and began to carry out combat duty. The servicemen on the launchers of the Yars PGRK went on combat patrol routes.

More than 8 thousand servicemen are taking part in special exercises of the engineering troops, which are held in preparation for the joint strategic exercise "West-2021", the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Tuesday.

Compatibility of VideoMost software with Astra Linux Special Edition OS has been confirmed

Compatibility tests of the domestic videoconferencing product VideoMost with the special-purpose operating system Astra Linux Special Edition have been completed, the press service of the Astra Linux group of companies reports.

The Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec) will deliver 190 military and civilian vehicles to both Russian and foreign customers in 2021, which is 20 more helicopters than last year.

The deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, said that President Assad's troops successfully repelled an attack by Israeli aircraft with the help of Russian-made air defense systems early on Sunday.

The Soviet medium-range mobile missile systems RSD-10 "Pioneer", also known as SS-20, were called the"Thunderstorm of Europe". And for good reason. They could hit targets with warheads with a capacity of 150 kilotons at a distance of up to 5000 km.

The US Department of Defense showed the aerial refueling of the Boeing E-4B airliner, known as the "Doomsday"aircraft. The corresponding post was published by Pentagon press Secretary John Kirby on Twitter.

Baykar Defense has published the concept of the MIUS jet drone, designed to equip the first Turkish aircraft carrier Anadolu.

General Dynamics-National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) announced the christening ceremony of the head tanker of the next generation of the John Lewis class (T-AO-205), which is also known under the designation T-AO(X), held on July 17 at its San Diego facility.

The lead nuclear submarine of the project 885M "Yasen-M ""Kazan" after participating in the naval parade in Severomorsk went on exercises in the Barents Sea. This was reported on Monday, July 26, by the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF).

The Pier module was undocked on the ISS. The undocking of Progress MS-16 with the module from the ISS took place on July 26 at 13:56, according to the Twitter account of Roscosmos.

The winged infantry continues to be equipped with serial BMD-4M amphibious assault vehicles and BTR-MDM "Shell" armored personnel carriers. On the eve of the professional holiday of the Airborne Troops, who will be 91 years old in a few days, the first batch of such equipment - 37 units-was received by the Ivanovo 98th Airborne Division.