News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Military Transport Aviation Command conducted a research flight-tactical exercise on the basis of one of the VTA aviation regiments stationed in the Southern Military District as part of a control check following the results of the winter training period.

Roscosmos spends about 3 billion rubles a year on the maintenance of the Vostochny cosmodrome, Maxim Ovchinnikov, the first Deputy General Director of the state corporation for Economics and Finance, said in an interview with Interfax.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space, the Russian Defense Ministry published a short video from the Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces, where more than 30 samples of space technology are collected in a special audience.

The US Department of Defense in 2022 will receive no more opportunities than in the current year. April 11, portal defensenews.com He said that the budget request of US President Joseph Biden for the 2022 fiscal year indicated $753 billion to finance national security.

The number of launches of Angara missiles in 2021 may increase from two to three, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters.

[b]The head of the Ballistics Department of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Raphael Murtazin, clarified that it is already a regular one for the Progress cargo ships.]

The three-hour flight plan of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is still a test flight, and it will become standard after three such flights. This was reported to TASS by the head of the ballistics department of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) "Energia" Rafail Murtazin.

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is currently the primary heavy military transport aircraft of the United States Air Force.

They are actively used for the delivery of troops, military equipment, and other cargo. Such intensive exploitation is accompanied by various incidents. Like what happened at the end of last week at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina.

Firearms are one of the few areas where there is little use of electronics. But that's for now. April 11, portal thefirearmblog.com He reported that the American company Radetec officially presented a serial sample of the kit for turning the Glock 17 into a "smart" weapon.

Thanks to this algorithm, satellites, in particular, will be able to determine the strength of the magnetic field at any point in the orbit

Russian scientists have developed algorithms for the interaction of nanosatellites, which are designed for scientific measurements. The article describing the work was published by the scientific journal Advances in Space Research, the press service of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology writes briefly about it.

Earlier, the General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that private space companies in the next 10 years will begin a powerful integration with the companies of the state corporation

Russian private companies are not yet able to perform major tasks of Roscosmos, said the General Director of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on Monday in an interview with the RBC TV channel.

According to US and South Korean sources, the new North Korean submarine weighing 3,000 tons is ready to be launched. It is assumed that it will be able to carry three ballistic missiles.

Glavkosmos believes that as this direction develops, demand will increase, as the price will fall

Mass tourist flights to low-Earth orbits can begin by 2030, according to the General Director of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov.

The crews of the Su-34 multi-role fighter-bombers together with the Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft of the Central Military District aviation unit (CVO) at the test site in the Kurgan region, as part of a control check for the winter training period, worked out refueling in the air and missile launches.

In recent years, the Ukrainian military industry has mainly been engaged in the repair and modernization of old Soviet equipment.

The room is designed for 200 military personnel

The only barracks in the Far East, decorated in the loft style, was put into operation after reconstruction in a historic building built almost 120 years ago in Ussuriysk in Primorye, the press service of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry told TASS on Friday.

This year, China plans to carry out at least 40 launches and set a new national record

China on Friday successfully launched the third satellite of the Shiyan-6 series to explore near-Earth space and test space equipment. This was reported by China Central Television.

Russian marines in the framework of the exercise broke through the defense of the imaginary enemy and landed on the unequipped coast in Kamchatka, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday, April 9.

At the same time, Josef Aschbacher considers it necessary to achieve greater commercial returns from the exploration of outer space

The project to build a space station in Earth's orbit, which will function as a hotel, is still reminiscent of science fiction and is unlikely to be implemented in the near future. This opinion was expressed by the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, to a TASS correspondent.

According to the US Navy Command, on April 6, the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) company held a keel laying ceremony for the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer URO (DDG-124) "Harvey S. Barnum".

The commander of the air and missile defense forces - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Yuri Grekhov, spoke about the S-350 Vityaz medium-range anti-aircraft missile system and the Container radar. The S-350 is deployed at the anti-aircraft missile Forces training center in Gatchina.