News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The first Soviet submarine K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" was delivered to Kronstadt. She arrived here accompanied by tugs. This is stated in the information message of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

State tests will also be completed by the Novosibirsk and Knyaz Oleg nuclear submarines

The carrier of the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicles, the Belgorod nuclear submarine, as well as the Novosibirsk and Knyaz Oleg nuclear submarines will complete state tests by the end of the year, Mikhail Budnichenko, Director General of sEvmash, told TASS.

It is not known how long it will take to test the Poseidon nuclear submarine system or its prototypes on board a submarine, since it has no analogues in the world. It will probably take two or three years. Military expert Dmitry Kornev told Izvestia about this on October 1.

At the ZAPAD-2021 exercises, Russia tested a new BMP B-19 with an EPOCH combat module. The vehicle received two types of missiles and a modern fire control system (FMS). Military expert Alexey Khlopotov called Izvestia the features of the new car that will help save the crew.

NASA and SpaceX have announced the date of sending the Crew Dragon spacecraft with several astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS), according to the website of the European Space Research Administration (ESA).

Combat vehicles of the Russian army will receive a chameleon coating that can change color depending on the surrounding landscape, the prototype is already being tested, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

Iran is enriching uranium at an unprecedented pace, but Tehran does not have the ability to create nuclear weapons in the near future, said the head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Department, Major General Tamir Hayman.

Joint Russian-Pakistani exercises "dRuzhba-2021" are taking place in the Krasnodar Territory, during which the military uses the latest OVR-3SH mine clearance kits when storming buildings.

Ship's crew - 24 people

The crew of the small sea tanker "Vice Admiral Ferries" of the Black Sea Fleet will perform tasks in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time as part of the forces of the grouping of the Russian Navy (Navy), the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reported on Saturday.

The US Navy has officially decommissioned the lead ship of the Freedom type. Earlier, the first trimaran of the Independence type was written off, which also belongs to the LCS class.

Russia, in response to the tests of American hypersonic weapons, promptly reported on the completion of flight design tests of the "blind" Zircon missile, according to the Ukrainian information and consulting company Defense Express.

In Ulyanovsk, they want to establish the production of seaplanes. Executive Director for manned programs of the state Corporation "Roscosmos" Sergey Krikalev discussed the development of small aircraft with the acting governor of the region Alexey Russian.

During the NEVA-2021 exhibition, held in St. Petersburg, JSC "Equality" presented a promising marine navigation radar station "Ocean-300" with a 6-foot antenna.

Calculations of Iskander-M missile systems have worked out the destruction of objects of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Saturday.

Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, revealed the future operation of the Proton-M heavy launch vehicle after 2025. His words are transmitted by RIA Novosti.

The program of sea trials and state tests of at least three nuclear submarines planned for transfer to the Navy in 2021 is being carried out in accordance with the schedule. This conclusion follows from the statements of SEVMASH CEO Mikhail Budichenko.

The probes of the BepiColombo mission, flying to Mercury, successfully performed the first gravitational maneuver near their target, flying at a minimum distance of 199 kilometers from the planet. During the flyby, the spacecraft received a number of images of the surface of Mercury and other scientific data, according to the ESA website.

Masten Space Systems company presented the results of work on the project for the rapid creation of landing sites on the Moon using the exhaust of a rocket engine and aluminum oxide particles. Specialists have developed a two-level system for introducing particles into the engine nozzle and experimentally confirmed the viability of the idea in practice using a bench engine, according to the company's website.

On September 29-30, a conference of the Polish defense sector was held in Warsaw, during which the country's leadership officially and publicly presented plans for the "transformation of the Polish Army." Among other things, the programs for further equipping the Ground Forces with new types of weapons have been published.

As it became known, Russian specialists have successfully completed flight design tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from a surface carrier. Soon the fleet may receive the first such complexes.