News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On June 28, the company Austal Limited announced the transfer of a new coastal zone combat ship of the Independence class, LCS-28 "Savannah", by its unit Austal USA to the command of the US Navy, which took place at the enterprise in Mobile (Alabama).

An American expert in the field of strategic weapons noticed signs of the construction of a grandiose positioning area for intercontinental ballistic missile launchers on satellite images of the desert in northern China.

The removal of the devices by the upper stage will take about four hours

The Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and 36 British OneWeb communication satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Two years ago, it became known about the creation of the KF-1 tank in Iraq, known as Al-Kafeel and also had the unofficial nickname "Super T-55".

However, judging by the released video footage, the Chinese Type 69, acquired back in the 80s, during the war with neighboring Iran, was taken as the basis for it. This car had a lot in common with the "fifty-fifth", but was not a complete clone of it. For example, it had a new sighting system with a laser rangefinder.

In the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Amur Shipbuilding Plant PJSC held a solemn ceremony of withdrawing from the slipway shop and placing the fourth serial corvette of the project 20380 "Sharp" in the Pacific Fleet in the transport and launching dock. The ship was laid down at the ASZ on July 1, 2016.

The flagship of the Northern Fleet (SF) heavy nuclear missile cruiser (TARKR) "Peter the Great" has left for the Barents Sea, where the crew will conduct several exercises.

The logistics support point of the Russian Navy is intended for carrying out repairs, resupply and rest of the crew members of Russian warships

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov as his official representative at the ratification by the State Duma and the Federation Council of the agreement on the establishment of a logistics point for the Russian Navy in Sudan. The corresponding decree of the head of state was published on Thursday on the official portal of legal information.

The formation of unmanned logistics corridors can become an extremely promising step for the development of cargo transportation in Russia and increase the attractiveness of Russian transport routes for foreign contractors. This opinion was expressed in an interview in the journal "Vestnik GLONASS" by the head of the Research Department of integrated transport development of JSC NIIAT Tatyana Mikheeva. 

Raphael ,one of the three largest Israeli defense companies, demonstrated its new Sea Breaker cruise missile. But here's the oddity – in the animated video, a guided missile hits a ship launched back in 1983. We are talking about a Soviet missile boat with the tail number 962. Judging by the open data, this is the boat R-71 "Shuya", which is still part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. So, the rocket is new, and the target is old.

The California-based private company Virgin Orbit has successfully launched seven medium-sized satellites into orbit using a LauncherOne rocket, according to the company's broadcast.

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle on Wednesday successfully put 88 satellites into orbit, including four vehicles in the interests of the US military department, the developer company SpaceX said.

The Russian military, as promised, reacted to the large-scale NATO Sea Breeze exercises near our borders. So far, American, British, Ukrainian and others (32 countries in total) ships, armored vehicles and aircraft are practicing joint actions of an allegedly defensive nature, our military decided to check the operation of anti-air defense (air defense) systems in the Crimea.

The laboratory of the US Air Force has published a report "Primer on Near-lunar Space", which contains recommendations to the US space forces on preparing for a situation in which the Moon and the outer space around it will act as a war zone. This became known on Tuesday, June 29.

The vessel will be named "Anatoly Knyazev" in honor of the organizer and participant of the tests of the first high-latitude navigation complex during the nuclear submarine's trip to the North Pole in 1963.

Military personnel of the special purpose compound of the Central Military District (CVO), with the support of snipers, destroyed a field node of a potential enemy in the Novosibirsk region. The event took place within the framework of special tactical exercises, as reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Wednesday, June 30.

The Soyuz-2.1 a rocket successfully coped with the task of launching the Progress MS-17 spacecraft with cargo for the International Space Station (ISS) into near-Earth orbit. This was announced on Wednesday, June 30, by the press service of Roscosmos.

Currently, the United States cannot produce fifth-generation F-22 Raptor fighters, since the corresponding production facilities and supply chains are involved for F-35 Lightning II aircraft, explained Alex Hollings, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, in the Sandboxx blog.

In the Black Sea, the Russian military conducted an exercise with anti-submarine helicopters

The Russian diesel submarine Kolpino, capable of using Kalibr cruise missiles, went on exercises in the Black Sea against the background of the Sea Breeze maneuvers, in which the United States, other NATO members and their partners participate.

By the end of this year, specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Defense Ministry will erect 30 different buildings and structures as part of the development of the infrastructure of the mooring front for the deployment of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet in Kamchatka.

The air defense units of the Russian military base in Tajikistan received 20 modern man-portable air defense missile systems (MANPADS) "Verba".