News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The press secretary of the President of Russia said that this process is too expensive

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov is convinced that the process of space exploration without the participation of the state with the involvement of only private investment is impossible.

Military personnel of artillery units of the Russian military base of the Southern Military District (SE) in Abkhazia performed live firing exercises from modernized self-propelled artillery howitzers "Acacia".

Researchers sprouted rice from 40 g of seeds that went into space with a lunar probe in November 2020

Chinese breeders have collected the first harvest of rice from seeds that were in space during the mission of the lunar exploration apparatus "Chang'e-5". This was reported by Bloomberg on Monday.

The new Russian fifth-generation engine for surface ships is a big event for the Russian Navy. It will be another evidence that the Russian industry is increasing its capacity and accumulating knowledge.

The Polish military decided to adopt the third type of main battle tanks - Abrams of American production.

As the publication reports Gazeta.pl, negotiations are currently underway for the supply of two and a half hundred units. The transaction amount will be from 2.9 to 5.5 billion dollars.

Modern 7.62 and 5.45 mm AK-12 submachine guns continue to arrive in the units of the Ground Forces. Since the beginning of the year, new submachine guns have been delivered to the combined arms unit of the Eastern and Western Military Districts.

We are talking about the Almaz-Antey concern and the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation

Two companies from Russia-the Almaz-Antey concern and the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation (KTRV) - were included in the rating of the 100 largest defense enterprises in the world according to the profile weekly Defense News.

The Ukrainian defense minister said in Vilnius that no later than next year Kiev will deploy a "mosquito fleet" with American and British help, which will allow it to "pose a certain threat to the Russian naval forces." However, according to him, this is not enough – that is, the policy of "guns instead of oil" will continue steadily.

The elements of the single-turn rendezvous scheme with the International Space Station (ISS) were worked out during the flight of the Progress MS-17 spacecraft on July 2. This was announced on Monday, July 12, by Roscosmos.

The new C-13B aircraft rocket, combining the capabilities of two previously developed products at once - C-13T and C-13OF, will be shown for the first time at the MAKS-2021 air show, Gleb Varenitsa, general director of the rocket manufacturer, the Novosibirsk Artificial Fiber Plant (NZIV), said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Two Tu-160 strategic bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew from the Saratov Region to the Anadyr airfield in Chukotka during the exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

According to the head of the technodinamika holding Igor Nasenkov, it is assumed that the vehicle in landing is the staff

The technodinamika holding of rostec state Corporation conducts experimental design work (OKR) Parachute within which to create a cargo parachute system for the landing of armored vehicles "Typhoon" and "Tiger". This was announced to journalists by the general director of the holding, Igor Nasenkov.

Calculations of anti-aircraft missile and gun systems "Pantsir-S1" in the Crimea conducted exercises to destroy drones that "attacked" the S-400 air defense systems, the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, captain of the second rank Alexey Rulev, told reporters on Friday.

The head of the Technodinamika holding, Igor Nasenkov, clarified that the main quality of the new systems is controllability, the parachute can turn around the 360-degree axis in 12 seconds

The new Cadet-100D parachute systems are planned to be delivered to the troops as early as 2023 to replace the main parachute of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation D-10.

JSC "CAMPO" has completed the first stage of construction of the large hydrographic boat "Grigory Shadrin" of the series of hydrographic boats of the project 23370G.

A ceremony of the transfer of new weapons for the ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was held in Iran, at which a number of new models of weapons that recently went to the troops were lit up.

In Ukraine, an electronic panel for the modernized T-64 "Crab" tank was shown. It is surprising that for some reason such equipment was demonstrated not inside the combat vehicle, but outside, although it is clear that wires are connected to it.

The equipment is designed for receiving and transmitting telemetric information of the module, as well as for monitoring parameters during its preparation at the launch complex

Work on retrofitting the launch complex of the Proton-M launch vehicle (RN), which will ensure the launch of the Nauka laboratory module (MLM), has been completed at Baikonur. This was reported on Friday on the official website of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI).

Antivirus VR Protect for Linux " has received certificates of compatibility with the operating system (OS) of the Astra Linux family, the press service of the OS developer reports.

The launch was carried out using a CZ-6 rocket from the Taiyuan Cosmodrome

China on Friday successfully launched the Zhongzi-02 remote sensing satellite ("Zhongzi-02") into orbit. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).