News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

On March 17, 2021, the European Missile Association MBDA announced that it had received the first launch contract for the supply of the new Teseo Mk 2/E (Teseo Evolved) anti-ship missile system to the Italian Navy.

All multi-purpose nuclear submarines (submarines) The Russian Navy of projects 971, 949A and 885 will be armed with Kalibr, Onyx and Zircon missiles, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The success of the Russian operation in Syria, the development of modern weapons and the special attention in Western countries to space as a theater of possible military operations confirmed the correctness and timeliness of the creation of Space Troops in Russia, the first commander of the Space Forces, Colonel-General Anatoly Perminov, told RIA Novosti.

Shooting down anti-tank guided missiles and rocket-propelled grenades RPG Ukrainian complex of active protection "Zaslon" was officially adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine more than 10 years ago.

The exercise with the withdrawal of autonomous launchers of the Yars PGRK to combat patrol routes began in the Strategic Missile Forces in Yoshkar-Ola (Republic of Mari El) and Teikovsky (Ivanovo region) missile formations.

Ships from the strike and anti-submarine groups of the water area protection unit of the Troops and forces in the North-East of Russia during the planned exercises performed a series of artillery fire to suppress visible coastal targets.

The Russian advanced long-range aviation complex (PAK DA) will be able to surreptitiously overcome the borders of the air defense of NATO countries, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the military-industrial complex.

[b]More than 1.5 thousand paratroopers, six BMD-2K-AU and three P-7 parachute platforms took part in the exercises.]

The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of a mass landing of airborne troops with BMD-2K-AU combat vehicles at the Budikhino landing site in the Kostroma region.

The Russian authorities will hold a trial in connection with the incident with the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber at the Shaikovka airfield near Kaluga, which killed three soldiers. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, who oversees the military-industrial complex, RIA Novosti reports.

The Indian Ministry of Defense announced the adoption ceremony of the multi-purpose amphibious assault boat (LCU) L58 project Mk, which took place on March 18 in Port Blair.4, built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE).

The crew of the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" this year will be involved in testing hypersonic weapons, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) reported on Wednesday.

The head of Roscosmos stressed that he counts on the support of the federal government

The final decision on the mechanism for the construction of the third stage of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region should be made in April this year, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state corporation Roscosmos, told reporters on Wednesday during a trip to the Amur Region.

This year, several types of military aircraft will be tested in the Arctic, including Su-34 bombers, Su-35 fighters and Be-200 amphibians.]

They will be tested for their readiness to operate in the Arctic and in the area of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This was told to Izvestia by sources in the defense ministry.

As reported on March 22, 2021, the KORABEL web resource.EN, Saint-Petersburg JSC "Arsenal Machine-Building Plant" has successfully completed the qualification tests of the A-192M 130 mm naval artillery system and is launching mass production.

The crews of the Su-25SM attack aircraft of the joint Russian military base "Kant", stationed in Kyrgyzstan, worked out elements of complex aerobatics during an exercise in the sky over the Tien Shan, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Tuesday.

In St. Petersburg, the crews of heavy transport helicopters Mi-26 transported cargo on an external suspension. This process can be observed on the video provided by the press service of the Western Military District.

The construction of a large hydrographic boat (BGC) of project 23370G, commissioned by the Russian Navy, continues at the KAMPO shipbuilding plant near Moscow.

Yuri Gektin, Deputy Head of the department for the development and Creation of multi-zone scanning systems in the RCS, noted that such delays are not critical

Russian satellites lag behind their foreign counterparts in some technical parameters, but this is not critical. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by the deputy head of the department for the development and creation of multi-zone scanning systems in JSC "Russian Space Systems" (RKS) Yuri Gektin.

On February 28, the Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle with the Fregat upper stage launched the first hydrometeorological satellite Arktika-M into orbit, and on March 22, Roscosmos published the first images obtained from it.

In Kerch, a solemn ceremony of the first raising of the flag on the new border patrol ships "Vulture" and "Sarych" project 03050, built for the Border Department of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Crimea, took place. This was reported by the press service of the department.