News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Two long-range anti-submarine aircraft of the Russian Navy Tu-142 on Monday flew near Alaska, said the Joint Aerospace Defense Command of North America (NORAD).

The state and prospects of the French naval forces

Although France is located on the continent, military construction in this country is much like the Anglo-Saxon, with the main focus not on the army, but on the navy. But as pioneers of aviation, the French are not indifferent to the Air Force.

The creation of high-tech weapons is possible only on the basis of solid-state technologies

Laser weapons are firmly established in real life and their first use in the war of Argentina and England for the Falkland Islands, when the simplest LO was used to blind the enemy, was just the beginning.

The Pentagon has finally decided on the strike armament of the newest Zamvolt-type destroyers. The US Navy requested a version of the upgraded ships with launchers for hypersonic missiles — the current mines did not fit in size. With the help of three improved "Zamvolts" (two are already in service, one is being tested), Washington expects to put pressure on possible opponents in the world's oceans.

The Zenit 3-12x50 sight and other optical devices of the Shvabe holding company of the Rostec State Corporation will be tested during the expedition to Novaya Zemlya, the press service of the holding company reports.

According to a TASS source, the repair and modernization of the Admiral Vinogradov BOD will begin in 2021

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of Project 1155 "Admiral Vinogradov "of the Pacific Fleet (TOF), following the example of a similar BOD" Marshal Shaposhnikov", will become a frigate by 2025, having received Kalibr-NK cruise missiles to increase its strike capabilities.

A unique aircraft with a new electronic warfare system was used in a planned tactical flight exercise of the Air Force units stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

The crew of the small rocket ship "Grad Sviyazhsk" of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) conducted a training for the fight for the survivability of the ship on special simulators of the training complex "Caspian".

This number will meet the needs of the Ministry of Defense in military transport aircraft of this type, said the Deputy General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation, which is part of Rostec.

As training targets, target missiles such as "Strizh", "Armavir", "Pischal" and "Saman"were used

The Ministry of Defense showed footage of combat firing of S-400 anti-aircraft systems and Buk-M2 complexes at an exercise in Buryatia.

The first heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A entered service with the Iraqi army in July 2014.

They were taken to the airport in Baghdad by the heavy transport aircraft AN-124-100 "Ruslan". The next shipments began to arrive by sea, at the port of Umm Qasr.

Mobile missile systems "Yars" began to carry out combat duty during the command and staff exercises (KShU) with the Barnaul division of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

The first spacecraft of the new satellite system "Arktika-M", launched at the end of February and already sending unique images of northern latitudes from a highly elliptical orbit, will also make it possible to predict space weather.

The squadron of the Kursk Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Western Military District (ZVO) carried out night launches of aviation guided weapons at the Ladoga training ground in Karelia, the press service of the ZVO reported on Monday, March 29.

By the beginning of the operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani ground forces were armed with about a hundred T-90S main battle tanks. This technique in its tactical and technical characteristics significantly surpassed not only the old modifications of the T-72 available to the Armenian side, but also the Azerbaijani T-72 "Aslan"modernized with the help of the Israelis.

Large-scale tactical exercises with military personnel of motorized rifle, tank and artillery formations of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) ended with large-scale combat shooting at the Sergeyevsky training ground in Primorye, the press service of the VVO reported on Monday.

The Biden administration returned to the issue of the early decommissioning of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. The ship should serve for at least another 25 years, but most likely, it will be cut into metal much earlier. However, this is not the first time that the fierce discussions around the US aircraft carrier fleet have arisen. About how to decide the fate of the "symbols of democracy" - in the material of RIA Novosti.

A video of the work of the crew of a Russian submarine in preparation for the use of its main weapon, the Kalibr cruise missiles, has appeared on the Network. The training was held on the submarine of the Black Sea Fleet "Veliky Novgorod".

Artillery fire to suppress invisible coastal targets hidden by the terrain was conducted in the Sea of Japan by the corvette "Perfect".

In accordance with the task of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, project 636.3, which is building a series of non-nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy, has been thoroughly modernized and meets all modern requirements.