News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Israel Defense Forces lost the Merkava Mark IV tank. The incident occurred at the end of last week. Video footage taken at the scene of the incident appeared on social networks.

The combat vehicle is located on a semi-trailer, which is towed by a tractor. Clouds of thick black smoke can be seen rising into the sky. You can hear the bullets for the machine guns exploding from the open fire.

The latest Buk-M3 air defense systems, which entered service with the anti-aircraft missile unit in the Altai Territory, made it possible to increase the combat capabilities of the unit by more than 5 times without increasing the staff and official composition of the military personnel.

The Marine Corps has begun decommissioning the Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, a modern version of the AH — 1 Super Cobra. Purchases of new cars of this type will continue.

Interplanetary missions will be included in the national planetary exploration program

China plans to launch new missions to Mars and Jupiter to explore these planets and return rock samples to Earth. This was stated by the chief designer of the national Mars mission "Tianwen-1" Zhang Rongqiao.

[b]The units and personnel involved in the exercises were alerted, their movements were masked from the air defense of the imaginary enemy, the Ministry of Defense of the republic said.]

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have started command and staff exercises in Nakhichevan. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.

The spacecraft should be launched in 2029

Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Lavochkin NPO for the development of a technical proposal for the new generation Venera-D space complex for basic space research. This is stated in the documents on the public procurement website.

Starting with the Eastern European beggars, the fashion for "digital" camouflage coloring of combat aircraft continues to spread around the world, capturing Russia, and now, perhaps, reaching the United States. An emerging photo of a Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter from the 3rd Fighter Wing of the US Air Force from Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force Base in Alaska, while refueling in the air on May 7, 2021 from a McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender tanker aircraft during exercise Northern Edge 21.

Modern armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and BTR-82AM with improved combat and driving characteristics are entering service with the Ground Forces. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

It is known that the new armored vehicles are intended for the transport of units, their fire support in battle, the destruction of manpower, anti-tank weapons and light armored vehicles of the enemy.

The Nagurskoye Arctic airfield on Franz Josef Land, after the construction of a new runway, can accommodate any class of aircraft, including strategic bombers. As the chief of staff of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, Major General Igor Churkin, told reporters, the airfield was put into operation last year. The length of its runway is 3.5 thousand meters. "This allows the airfield to accept all classes of aircraft," Churkin said.​

[b]According to the China Daily newspaper, the factory in Wuhan is capable of producing up to 240 spacecraft per year.]

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has launched the first production line in China using smart technologies for the construction of small orbiting satellites. This was reported on Friday by the China Daily newspaper.

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet completed a visit to Singapore, where it arrived on May 11, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

Exercises to repel hacker attacks will be held at five cyberpoligons of Rostelecom in 2021, they will allow coordinating the work of various structures, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The Northern Fleet will receive 345 units of weapons this year, the share of modern equipment will be more than 62 percent, the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, said at a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists on the nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".

Russian protected armored vehicles of special purpose K-43269 "Shot" continue to improve. At the parade in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, among the new products from the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" you could see the latest version.

Earlier, a TASS source reported that the transition from automatic to manual docking of the Progress MS-16 was required due to a damaged antenna installed on the cargo ship

The commission, which is investigating the reason for the transition of the docking of the Progress MS-16 cargo ship with the ISS from automatic to manual mode in February 2021, will continue to work. This was told to journalists on Friday by the General director of the Rocket and Space Center (RCC) "Progress" Dmitry Baranov.

Calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10" of the Krasnoselsky motorized rifle brigade of the combined-arms army of the Western Military District have started performing tasks to monitor the foci of wildfires since the beginning of the week.

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system consists of a radar, a control center, and an installation for hitting enemy missiles. It recognizes incoming missiles and can calculate their trajectory and estimated target in a few seconds. The principle of operation of the system was revealed by Deutsche Welle.

Google has agreed with SpaceX to use the Starlink satellite Internet. This is reported by The Verge. Elon Musk's company will provide access to satellite Internet for corporate customers of the Google Cloud service.

On May 13, 2021, JSC "Ural Plant of Transport Engineering" (JSC "Uraltransmash", part of JSC "Research and Production Corporation "Uralvagonzavod") reported that as part of the state defense order, it delivered the first batch of 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S3M "Acacia" to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after major repairs.

The latest anti-aircraft artillery complex ZAK-57 "Derivation-AIR DEFENSE", armed with an automatic gun of 57-mm caliber, successfully hit unmanned aerial vehicles of various types during tests, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (UVZ, part of Rostec) told RIA Novosti.