News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A new column of Ukrainian armored vehicles has been spotted near Mariupol.

Interestingly, most of the samples in it were previously intended for export, but after the events of 2014, they appeared in the units of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Formations of the 58th Combined-arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of diverse tactical ones at the Opuk combined-arms training ground in the Crimea, the press service of the SE.

The resident of the special economic zone of the capital "Special Design and Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics" ("SKTB PR") has delivered a batch of eight mobile robotic complexes MRK-15 for the Russian law enforcement agencies, designed to neutralize explosive objects, said the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow Alexander Prokhorov.

A universal complex of guided and unguided weapons is being developed in the Russian Federation for several types of attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the "Outpost" drones, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

Two more radars will go on combat duty in the Arctic until the end of 2021

The Resonant-N hypersonic target detection radar (RLS) will go on combat duty in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago no later than June 2021. This was reported to TASS by the General Director of the research Center (SIC) "Resonance" Alexander Shramchenko.

On the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, the Resonance-N hypersonic target detection radar will be put on alert. This will happen no later than June of this year.

At the enterprise of the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSBC) in Kaohsiung on April 13, the launch of the country's first landing helicopter dock ship (LPD-Landing Platform Dock) (1401) "Yushan" (Yushan) took place.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of the Russian Federation went to sea to conduct artillery firing. This was reported on April 14 in the department of information support of the fleet.

Now Russia is creating the most powerful icebreaker fleet in the world. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society on April 14.

The exercise with the participation of servicemen of the Ural tank division started at the training grounds of the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Wednesday.

Armored vehicles "Typhoon-K" entered service with the intelligence unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Republic of Buryatia.

The sniper unit of the motorized rifle unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory, received modern thermal imaging sights 1PN140-2.

Syrian attack helicopters are used not only during the day, but also during combat missions at night. So, in the Network there were shots of the Mi-24P attack on a ground target, made in the dark.

The enemy was fired from a twin 30-mm automatic gun GSH-30K. This gun is considered one of the most powerful among those used on rotorcraft.

This is two years earlier than originally planned

TASS, April 14. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch its own lunar exploration program in 2022, rather than in 2024, as originally planned. This was reported on Wednesday by the Emirati newspaper The National.

Russia's Northern Fleet will receive at least four diesel-electric submarines by 2027, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The naval search and strike group consisting of the small anti-submarine ships "Snezhnogorsk", "Brest" and "Junga" conducted an anti-aircraft defense exercise in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet said.

To date, the water intake, built in the Republic of Crimea by the forces of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry, has transferred more than 1 million tons of fresh water to the city waterworks of Sevastopol.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the first unit equipped with combat robots will be formed in the Russian army in the near future. According to the head of the General Staff of the Ground Forces V. Tonkoshurov, we are talking about five "Uran-9" robocomplexes developed by specialists of 766 UPTK (Nakhabino, Moscow region). In total, the unit will receive two dozen combat vehicles.

The Russian leadership has approved the decision to create an independent Russian space station, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported.

The large landing ship (BDK) of the Russian Black Sea Fleet "Novocherkassk" on Monday, after passing the Bosphorus, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, local information portals reported, publishing photos of its passage through the Strait.