News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, spoke about the operational life of the Russian upgraded Soyuz-2 rocket. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov were unable to connect an Ethernet cable to the Nauka module, NASA reported on Saturday, September 4, in a broadcast.

Units of the Marine Corps and the Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet will conduct live firing exercises in the Crimea on September 7, using ships. This was reported on September 4 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The newest American stealth destroyer of the Zumwalt type has returned to its native shipyard after a five-day voyage. On September 3, the press service of the Bath Iron Works shipyard, part of the General Dynamics Corporation, announced that the USS Lyndon B. Johnson passed factory sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean.

US military experts have included the Russian Ka-52, Mi-28HM and Mi-24 in the top five combat helicopters in the world, Military Watch magazine reports.

The launch of superheavy-class Angara missiles is planned to begin in 2026. This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel.

SpaceX plans to launch another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit at the end of September, according to the data of the specialized website Space Launch Now. The launch of the Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle is scheduled for the first time from the US Space Force Vandenberg Air Base in California, the Izvestia TV channel reports. This will be the 31st launch of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019.

The general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live" that the new airport, which is being built at the Vostochny cosmodrome, will have unique runway capabilities.

On Saturday, September 4, State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov inspected the new mobile training complex at the army Center for Mountain training and Survival "Terskol".

Launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk are also planned

Roscosmos plans to conduct two more launches of launch vehicles from the French Kourou cosmodrome by the end of the year. This was announced on Saturday on the air of the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live" by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

In the light of the implementation of the instructions of the President of the country Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, indicated in the Address to the People of Kazakhstan dated September 1, 2021, as well as at the Board of the Ministry of Defense in November 2020, a number of military units of regional commands, Amphibious assault troops, Naval forces, Air Forces are alerted to check combat readiness.

Russia wants to replace the search and reconnaissance helicopters on its ships with longer-range unmanned aerial vehicles.

This week, such a statement was made by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research (which is an analogue of the Office of Advanced Research and Development of the US Department of Defense). 

The operation of the International Space Station (ISS) will not create any big problems until 2025, said Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, on the air of the Solovyov Live YouTube channel.

What is necessary for the old Soviet tank of the early 60s T-62 to get a new life? In Algeria, they decided to massively remake these combat vehicles into a kind of BMPT.

The Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences will test the protection of astronauts from radiation in interplanetary flights on the Science module of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023, Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti on September 5.

The helicopter-drone Ingenuity ("Ingenuity"), which arrived on Mars together with the Perseverance rover ("Perseverance"), made the 13th successful autonomous flight on the Red Planet, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported.

Exercises on conducting reconnaissance by unmanned aerial vehicles were held in the Baltic Fleet.

The training was held in preparation for the joint strategic exercises of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021".

The short range of the F-18 Super Hornet fighters complicates their use in the fight against Russia and China and makes US aircraft carriers vulnerable to long-range attacks. This is reported by the publication Military Watch.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) The United States is investigating an incident with a deviation from the course of the Virgin Galactic Unity-22 spacecraft, which threatened it with an emergency landing, The New Yorker magazine reported on Wednesday, September 1.

Now the drone can be controlled via a radio channel at a distance of 250 km, said Sergey Bogatikov, General Director of Kronstadt JSC

The radius of application of the Orion-E unmanned vehicle will be significantly increased after it is equipped with satellite communications. This was reported to TASS by the general director of JSC "Kronstadt" Sergey Bogatikov.