News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Bulgaria currently remains the only state in NATO whose army continues to operate the Soviet tactical missile system 9K79 "Tochka".

This month, live firing was conducted at the Shabla training ground for two days. According to the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense, a division of the 4th Artillery Regiment equipped with such weapons took part in them. The rocket successfully launched from the launcher and hit the target.

The crews of the ships of the Northern Fleet conducted exercises to protect the Northern Sea Route in the Laptev Sea, the Zvezda TV channel reports. The maneuvers involved a large anti-submarine ship "Severomorsk", a large landing ship "George the Victorious", as well as a Ka-27 helicopter.

Very soon, the US Army will receive five new B-21 Raider strategic bombers built by Northrop Grumman Corporation. This was stated by the Secretary of the American Air Force Frank Kendall, speaking at the conference of the Air Force Association on September 21.

In China, the AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle, which entered service with the Russian military, was evaluated. The Sohu publication stressed the importance of such a step.

Anti-aircraft missiles on submarines of the Russian Navy are able to change the situation at sea by the very fact of their appearance, according to professors Denis and Evgeny Losev of the VUNC of the Navy. Their article about promising air defense systems for submarines was published by the Arsenal of the Fatherland.

Fighters from Italy, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and other foreign planes took to the air because of the flight of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Analysts called the shortcomings of the Chinese fifth-generation aircraft with Russian engines, which reduce the efficiency of the J-20. The maneuverability of the aircraft may not be enough to compete with the F-22 and F-35. This is reported by the South China Morning Post.

On Tuesday, September 21, the air defense units covering the capital's sky were put on alert. Although the alarm was a training signal, the soldiers and officers had to act without discounts on conventions. If an enemy missile or an intruder aircraft had happened to fly up to Moscow at that time, they would not have had a chance to evade defeat.

Two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers of Long-range aviation performed a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. Fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35S aircraft of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Western Military District and Su-27 naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet.

Russia's spending on national defense in 2022-2024 will amount to more than 10.8 trillion rubles, according to the explanatory note to the draft federal budget for three years.

Russian journalists named the alleged construction site of the Tesla plant in Russia, but the head of the company, Elon Musk, did not confirm this information. This is reported by the publication Electrek.

A high-quality picture has been published, presumably, of a prototype of a modernized version of the Su-30SM fighter, built at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ) - a branch of PJSC Irkut Corporation (as part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation). The aircraft is unpainted, but it bears the identification marks of the Russian Aerospace Forces and at the same time the atypical tail number "001 red".

The head of the US space agency, Bill Nelson, said that two new directorates will appear instead of one structural unit

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is reorganizing its manned flight program, creating two new directorates instead of one structural unit, one of which will focus on research beyond Earth's orbit, including a flight to Mars.

The crew commander of the first main expedition to the station, William Shepard, said that the ISS could not have been in orbit without the participation of Russia

The International Space Station (ISS) would not have been able to be in orbit if Russia had not participated in this project.

The members of the council noted the need to use the potential of the Vostochny cosmodrome, Roscosmos reported

The participants of the meeting of the Presidium of the Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos and the Bureau of the RAS Council for Space, held on Tuesday by video conference, supported the program of scientific research that is planned to be carried out on board the Luna-25 automatic station. This was reported to TASS in the state corporation.

The Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos recommended that work on the creation of a technical project for a new orbital station be included in the Federal Space Program-2025

The Bureau of the RAS Space Council recommended that Roscosmos submit proposals to the government on the need to create a Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). This was reported to TASS in the press service of the state corporation.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called on the authorities of all countries of the world to tighten control over artificial intelligence. She believes that some developments in the field of AI may violate human rights.

The head of the planetary division of the department, Lori Glaze, noted that this region for landing was not only the most interesting from the point of view of science, but also the most convenient from the point of view of maintaining communication with the Earth.

We are talking about small spacecraft under the Space-Pi program, including for automatic identification of vessels

Sputnix (a resident of Skolkovo) plans to launch small spacecraft under the Space-Pi program, including for automatic identification of ships (AIS), in the first quarter of next year. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization.

Submarines of the Varshavyanka type (projects 877 and 636) began to be called "black holes" because of the appearance of a new main rowing electric motor, from which the submarines became almost silent, Andrei Baranov, deputy General Director of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) "Rubin", said in an interview with RIA Novosti.