News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

More than 12 thousand military personnel are involved in the exercises, which will work out the use of groups of troops to ensure military security in the east of Russia, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Monday.

The data transmitted by the telescope was combined into a single catalog

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 2,241 potentially habitable planets in two years in orbit, in addition to those NASA already knew about. This was reported on Friday by the Internet portal Space.com with reference to the statement of a group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who are working together with NASA on the implementation of this project.

The Directorate-General for Armaments (DGA) of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces has signed a contract with MBDA for the supply of 367 new-generation MICA NG guided air-to-air missiles.

At the request of the Engineering Department of Rosgvardiya, experimental design work is being carried out to ensure the actions of the reconnaissance and mine clearance groups. As reported in the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, within their framework, the Krasnodar Instrument Factory "Cascade" on the basis of the armored bus "Federal-M" created a prototype of a special engineering vehicle SIM-4.

In the Pskov region, at the "Strugi Krasnye" training ground, a tactical exercise will be held, in which more than one and a half thousand soldiers of the Black Sea Guards Amphibious Assault Regiment of the Pskov Airborne Forces will take part. The exercises will take place from March 30 to April 1.

The rearmament of the Barnaul missile compound (Altai Territory) with the Yars mobile ground missile system will be completed by the end of 2021, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergey Karakaev, said during the command and staff exercise.

The United States recognized the loss of superiority over Russia in the electromagnetic struggle

The United States has lost its superiority in conducting operations in the electromagnetic spectrum, according to a report by the American Accounting Chamber. At the same time, as analysts write, Moscow and Beijing are the main challenges in this area for Washington. "Newspaper.Ru " dealt with the details of this document.

Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missile systems are highly effective against well-protected main battle tanks, other types of armored vehicles, as well as low-flying aircraft.

The crew of the MiG-31BM fighter of the Northern Fleet during a five-hour scheduled flight over the Arctic twice replenished the fuel supply in the air from the IL-78 tanker aircraft, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Monday.

The Russian Defense Ministry showed on Monday, March 29, a video of the flight of two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers accompanied by MiG-31 fighters.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain received at its disposal an autonomous robotic boat Madfox. After extensive testing, it will be adopted as part of a new strategy of warfare with the participation of rapid reaction forces.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that the mass production of the first Russian electric car is planned to start before the end of the year. Previously, the electric car was planned to start mass production in 2020.

Today, on March 26, a large diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" is launched at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. As already reported, it was built according to the project 636.3 of the Central Design Bureau "Rubin" for the Pacific Fleet and will be the third in a series of six similar ships that are assigned to serve on the Far Eastern borders.

The holding company "Roselektronika" of the State Corporation Rostec presented at the exhibition" Goszakaz-2021 " a comprehensive project to create a high-precision navigation and telecommunications system for the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

Strategic low-visibility heavy bomber B-2 Spirit of the Air Force (Air Force) The United States is "one of the most well-designed and fuel-efficient aircraft ever built for military use," writes the American magazine The National Interest.

Russian anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) S-400 "Triumph", becoming more and more advanced, probably allow you to detect and track the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and B-2 Spirit aircraft of the US Air Force (Air Force), admits the American magazine The National Interest.

The first serial medium sea tanker for the Black Sea Fleet was laid down at the Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant

The first serial medium sea tanker of the project 21130 for the Black Sea Fleet "Vasily Nikitin" was laid on Friday in Shlisselburg.

Russia has started mass production of the first four Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicles ordered by the Ministry of Defense. Earlier it became known that they should be delivered in 2022-2024.

The Chinese fourth-generation J-16 fighter is flawless and far superior to the Russian Su-30, writes the Global Times, referring to the statement of the instructor pilot Wang Songxi from the Air Force (Air Force) of the Northern Command of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA).

[b]They were at a distance of up to 300 m from each other, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov reported to the President of Russia.]

For the first time in history, three Russian nuclear submarines performed a simultaneous ascent from under the ice at a distance of up to 300 m from each other during an exercise in the Arctic. This was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.