News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The US Marine Corps (KMP) is equipped with its own aircraft and armored forces, which causes a wide arsenal of weapons of this kind of troops. The author of the publication 19FortyFive compiled a list and named the deadliest weapons samples of the USMC.

According to the Director General of Roscosmos, they will be used to control cruise missiles, special forces and an agent network

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin is convinced that Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellites will be able to be used for military purposes in the future, including for controlling cruise missiles, special forces and an agent network.

A joint venture created by Yandex, LANIT Group of companies, Gigabyte computer equipment manufacturer and VTB Bank has started construction of a plant for the production of server equipment, Yandex reported on Wednesday.

The St. Petersburg Tractor Plant will launch serial production of unmanned tractors next year. This was announced by the Cognitive Pilot company, which signed an agreement with him. Under the contract, Cognitive Pilot will equip the updated model of the Kirovets tractor with autopilot systems based on artificial intelligence.

As we have already written, in the 90s, the Ukrainian military industry associated a lot of hopes with the modernization of Iranian military equipment. Moreover, the developers from Kharkov were going to improve the characteristics of not only T-55, T-62 or T-72 tanks, but also other equipment, for example, 155-mm self-propelled artillery units Raad-2, which were a local modification of the American M109A1B.

The key topics of the forum "Sea Week of Russia" will be shipbuilding, shipbuilding and ship repair, state contracts and state defense orders, geopolitics of the Azov-Black Sea and Mediterranean regions

"Sea Week of Russia - 2021" and the Sevastopol Naval Salon (SVMS) open on Wednesday in Sevastopol.

The Admiral Gorshkov frigate will carry out at least one test launch of the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile by the end of this year, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

In total, over 5 thousand people will take part in the exercises, more than 900 units of weapons and military equipment will be involved in them

A carousel of a pair of Ka-27PS helicopters of the Pacific Fleet Marine Aviation (TOF) will be used for the first time as a defense element at bilateral brigade tactical exercises of marine corps formations in Primorye. This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the fleet.

A single technical standard will be developed for shelters, bunkers, bomb shelters and protective premises, according to which they will have to be built. It will be adopted for the first time in the country. This was reported by the authors - experts from the GOCHS Research Institute, the leading scientific institution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The vessel will undergo mooring tests there

The Amur Shipbuilding Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur sent a multipurpose patrol ship "Sharp" for testing in Primorye, the press service of the plant reported.

The Iskander missile system was tested in practice at the landfills of the Jewish Autonomous Region (EAO), the press service of the Eastern Military District reports.

As of September 2020, the United States had 3,750 nuclear warheads, the United States State Department said.

By the end of 2021, another test firing of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" will take place - from the frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov". Earlier it was reported that the tests of the missile from the surface carrier have been successfully completed.

Calculations of the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes during an exercise in the Novosibirsk region repelled an attack by a group of enemy attack drones on a command post and infrastructure, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Wednesday.

The diesel submarine of Project 636.3, equipped with KALIBR cruise missiles, will join the Russian Navy on October 12.

"This date was approved by the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov," Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo told reporters.

Currently, the submarine is located at the 13th shipyard of the Black Sea Fleet

Plans to transfer the submarine "ALROSA" project 877B "Halibut" from the Black Sea to the Baltic remain. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Crimean law enforcement agencies on the sidelines of the Sevastopol Naval Salon starting on Wednesday.

In recent years, the Black Sea Fleet has received six submarines, three frigates, minesweepers and missile ships. Sevmorzavod's facilities will be used for their maintenance

The leading shipbuilding and ship repair enterprise of Sevastopol "Sevmorzavod" will be re-equipped to ensure the repair of ships and vessels of the Russian Navy. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of the Marine Instrumentation Corporation Leonid Strugov.

Boeing will continue to ensure the combat readiness of the BTA C-17A "Globemaster-3" aircraft for ten years within the framework of the contract signed on September 27 with the US Department of Defense with a total value of up to $ 23.8 billion (including options and incentives).

The exercises are held as part of the completion of the control check on combat training for 2021

Night flight tactical exercises began on Wednesday in the Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk regions with the participation of 30 combat helicopters, crews will perform more than 50 tasks, the press service of the Central Military District said.

State tests will begin in November, a source in the military-industrial complex noted

Two successful launches of the Zircon hypersonic missile from the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine will allow state tests of the missile from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate by the end of the year, a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS on Wednesday.