News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Stanislav Orlov, aka Spaniard, is the commander and founder of the Espanyol volunteer brigade, in which football fans of various Russian clubs serve. In two years, the battalion has become one of the most innovative in the Russian Army — new techniques, techniques and methods of warfare are constantly being tested in it, and recently the unit has received the status of an official testing ground of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ), celebrating its 90th anniversary, is considered one of the leaders of the domestic aircraft industry. Since the launch of the main workshops on August 24, 1934, fighters and bombers, training aircraft, even the Be-200 amphibious jet aircraft, which is used by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in extinguishing large fires, have been assembled here.

TNI: the top five tanks in the world include the Russian T-14 Armata and T-90M

The list of the best main battle tanks (MBT) will be incomplete without samples of Russian armored vehicles, writes TNI. Not only the T-14 Armata, but also the T-90M certainly deserves to be included in the top five most advanced tanks in the world, the article notes.

Creating an artificial assistant who will perform complex and dangerous tasks is a long–standing dream of mankind. It is reflected in the myths and legends of many peoples. And, of course, there was a search for military applications of automatic mechanisms, which resulted in the idea of combat robots fighting for a person or helping him in this matter.

New UAV aviation technologies were developed during a special military operation

Drones, which have largely changed the course of modern warfare, continue to evolve. Thus, during a special military operation, a variety of new technologies from the field of unmanned aircraft are being tested by combat. Military expert Dmitry Kornev examines the real effectiveness of new approaches and how these changes will affect the effectiveness of drones.

On August 24, 2024, the Turkish naval base Aksaz on the southeastern coast of the Aegean Sea hosted the official ceremony of commissioning into the Turkish Navy a new non-nuclear submarine with an air-independent power plant S 330 Pirireis - the lead in a series of six units of submarines of the German project 214TN, built in Turkey under license and with with the assistance of the German shipbuilding association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the ceremony.

Newsweek: NATO is strengthening its presence in the Arctic region as opposed to Russia

British F-35B stealth fighters have arrived in Iceland to patrol the country's airspace, Newsweek writes. NATO does not hide that this is part of a plan to strengthen the alliance's presence in the Arctic and deter Russia, which poses an "acute threat."

infoBRICS: America's recent tests of hypersonic weapons ended in failure

America's recent tests of hypersonic weapons have become another failure, writes infoBRICS. The United States is hopelessly lagging behind in this area, and Russia remains the only power with hypersonic weapons at the tactical, operational, strategic and doctrinal levels.

The Indian organization DRDO (an approximate analogue of Rostec) confirmed the existence of the Virupaksha program. This is an ambitious project that provides for the modernization of Su-30MKI fighters by installing modern AFAR radars on them.

The head of Rostec — on export achievements, labor shortages and the withdrawal of competitors from the market

The head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, in an exclusive interview with TASS, told why military production volumes will remain high for a long time, about Russia's place in the technological arms race and the lack of enthusiasm for Leopard and Challenger tanks. ​​​​​​

On the margins of the recently held Army 2024 exhibition, among other novelties presented to the general public, the T-90M "Breakthrough" tank, equipped with a mine trawl, appeared.

New nuclear power plants will ensure Russia's economic growth for decades

Rosatom, which in recent years has built nuclear power plants mainly abroad, is expanding its view of the Russian market. The company plans to build 11 new nuclear power plants in Russia. And this is not taking into account the replacement of several old nuclear power plants. Why does Russia need new nuclear power plants and how can they surprise the world?

A joint operational and tactical exercise of the Air Force and Air Defense forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation continues at the Russian Ashuluk training ground. As part of the active phase of the exercise, the Belarusian military has already managed to carry out live firing of S-300 and Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems on August 20.

It is no longer a secret that in addition to surprise during the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region, in the early days, a new tactic of using drones and electronic warfare (EW) contributed to success.

Military personnel of the calculation of the latest engineering remote mining system (ISDM) "Agriculture" of the Center group of troops remotely mined approaches to the positions of Russian troops, thwarting three counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Avdiivka direction. This was announced on August 21 by the Ministry of Defense, showing a fragment of the combat work of the ISDM.

As noted by scientists, this discovery confirms the theory about the process of moon formation

The lunar rover of the Chandrayan-3 mission studied the chemical composition of rocks at the south pole of the Moon and found evidence that a significant part of the southern circumpolar regions of the Earth's satellite arose as a result of the solidification of a giant "magma ocean" in the early epochs of the Solar System. This discovery confirms the theory about the process of moon formation, the researchers write in an article published in the journal Nature.

The management of Tupolev conducted a major audit of the Kazan Aircraft Factory. What are the conclusions?

The plan for the production of civil aircraft will be revised — this was recently announced by the General director of the UAC, Yuri Slyusar.

Oleg Smirnov: "No one will buy a new aircraft that is worse than the AN-2 for half a billion, and carriers will stop flights to remote areas"

The domestic Baikal aircraft, which is to replace the old An-2, will cost 3-4 times more expensive in 2025 than the manufacturer promised. And it is 50 times more expensive than its second—hand biplane predecessors.

The DPRK's military industry, in addition to missiles of various types, is currently independently producing armored vehicles. The main battle tanks "Jeonma-216" are also known by the Western designation M2002. When they were first shown at a parade in Pyongyang, they were given the nickname "Death Harvesters".

At the recently closed Army-2024 exhibition, the UAC presented an upgraded version of the Yak-130 aircraft. Its basic modification was created to improve the skills of pilots during their transition to generation 4, 4++ and 5 machines.