News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

An exercise with the personnel of the anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Kantemirovsky Tank Division of the Western Military District (ZVO) to repel massive air attacks on important military, industrial and administrative facilities has started in the Moscow Region.

There should be no great difficulties with the development of a ground-based version of the new Russian sea hypersonic missile "Zircon", if such a task is set, said Boris Obnosov, General Director of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation.

The Russian assault aviation will receive the Armored truck missile no earlier than 2023. This was announced by Alexander Kochkin, executive director of the Techmash concern of the Rostec state Corporation, in a conversation with TASS.

Two Tu-160s performed a planned flight over the waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, at some stages they were accompanied by Norwegian F-16s, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Russia is still ahead of the United States in the field of creating hypersonic weapons, and there is no need to stop, said Boris Obnosov, General Director of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation (KTRV).

The audience will not be able to get to the Main Naval Parade on July 25 in St. Petersburg. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of Rospotrebnadzor in the Northern capital, Natalia Bashketova.

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to assess in which regions it is necessary to increase the grouping of the Defense Ministry to fight forest fires.

At the station in Barnaul, during the launch of the Nauka module to the ISS, telemetry temporarily disappeared. This was announced on July 21 by the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin.

The ISS crew has re-parked the Crew Dragon spacecraft — another one will take its place. The SpaceX spacecraft with four astronauts on board departed from the front module and docked at the anti-aircraft node to make room for the Boeing Corporation's Starliner, the Izvestia TV channel reports. It should arrive at the station at the end of July. According to NASA, this will be the second test unmanned launch. The ship is designed for seven people and an autonomous flight lasting 60 hours.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that within eight days they will work with the module, preparing for rendezvous and docking with the ISS

The multi-purpose laboratory module "Nauka", which was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Wednesday, is in the calculated orbit. This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The United States called the main obstacles to the development of weapons in Russia. This was written by experts of the American research corporation RAND in their report.

The new Voronezh-M radar station of the Russian missile attack warning system (SPRN) near Sevastopol will "see" the Mediterranean Sea and the central part of the Atlantic Ocean, the general designer of the SPRN Sergey Boev told Interfax at the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.

The Kronstadt company is ready to provide flying platforms for testing technologies and technical solutions for integrating unmanned aircraft systems into a single airspace.

Within the framework of the state defense order, 25 special vehicles of mine clearance groups (SAGR) were delivered to the units of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The vehicles were delivered to the engineering units of the military districts, the Northern Fleet and the units of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

In the Leningrad Region, servicemen of the Keletsko-Berlin Artillery Brigade of the Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) began live firing from closed firing positions at targets simulating enemy fortifications and armored structures.

Combat crews of the Leningrad Association of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District hit the equipment and manpower of the "enemy". The exercises were held at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan Region, they fired from the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex.

It will be carried out from the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet, a source in the military-industrial complex said during MAKS-2021

The next test launch of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" at the maximum range will be performed in the near future from the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday during MAKS-2021 by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The Russian navy continues testing the hypersonic missile "Zircon". On July 19, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" successfully fired at a ground target.

The observatory is sending images to Earth again, the department stressed

The Hubble Orbital Observatory has fully resumed its work and is sending images to Earth again. This was announced on Monday by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The Su-34 crews used half-ton corrected aerial bombs with satellite guidance. The exercises of the aviation regiment of the Central Military District are held on the territory of the Kurgan region.