News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Since the beginning of the Cold War, unmanned US reconnaissance balloons have become a real headache for the Soviet air defense system. To solve the problem, the M-17 Stratosphere interceptor was developed under the guidance of designer Vladimir Myasishchev.

The launch of OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome will take place on July 1, the state corporation Roscosmos confirmed on Sunday.

The Japanese government has considered abandoning the missiles of the American company Lockheed Martin, according to the local newspaper Mainichi. The new shells require the modernization of the F-15 fighters. However, the cost of updating is not included in the budget for 2021. The Japanese are in no hurry to allocate an extra $2.2 billion for aircraft. The rise in price is caused by a shortage of necessary components, the Izvestia TV channel reports. If you can't agree on a discount, the missiles can be abandoned.

The troops in the east of the country will be among the first to receive man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) "Verba" in combination with specially designed to protect the fighters of the armored vehicles "Typhoon-AIR DEFENSE".

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, noted that to monitor CO2 emissions on the topic of so-called carbon units, it will be necessary to create special equipment for spectral analysis

Roscosmos is considering two options for monitoring CO2 emissions from space: creating a separate group or equipping spacecraft already included in the Sphere program with special equipment.

The next attempt will take place in suitable weather, ESA reported

High-altitude tests of the parachutes of the Exomars-2022 lander, which consists of the Russian Kazachok landing platform and the European Rosalind Franklin rover, have not yet been successful, the next attempt will take place in suitable weather.

As reported, on June 16, 2021 in Taganrog from the factory airfield of PJSC "Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G. M. Beriev" (TANTK; part of PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation" - UAC), the first flight of the second amphibious aircraft built for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the performance of a specialized search and rescue aircraft Be-200PS (in fact, this is a Be-200CHS aircraft without a fire extinguishing function) took place.

Threats of a global catastrophe due to which the founder of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, wants to start colonizing Mars, are exaggerated. This was stated by the leading researcher of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Vyacheslav Turyshev.

The chief designer of the CZ-2F rocket, Rong Yi, recalled that the CZ-2F launch vehicle was created in the 90s and is refueled according to the technologies of that time

China plans to continuously improve the environmental friendliness of the fuel for its launch vehicles. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Thursday by the chief designer of the CZ-2F rocket, Rong Yi.

The exercises of the formations of the Russian Navy will be held in the Aniva Bay (south of Sakhalin) from June 19 to 22, the press service of the government of the Sakhalin region reported on Thursday.

A tactical exercise with the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Southern Military District, equipped with a unique S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile system, took place in the Krasnodar Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reported on Thursday.

In the formations and military units of the army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) stationed in the Republic of Crimea, a command and staff training (KSHT) was held under the leadership of the commander of the association, Major General Denis Lyamin.

As reported on June 15, the public relations service of the Armed Forces of Pakistan ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations), a ceremony of cutting the first steel for the fourth corvette of the Ada class (MILGEM) was held at the KSEW enterprise in Karachi) Pakistan Navy.

The latest Russian submarines of the Yasen project have caused great concern in the Pentagon. The quietness of the course, low visibility and powerful missile weapons make the new Russian submarines the most dangerous enemy for the US army and Navy.

In the Network there were photos of another unusual gantrak - this time from Venezuela. There, the military installed a Soviet 23-mm Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft gun in the back of an American GMC M35 truck.

The Royal Canadian Navy intends to return to service the submarine Corner Brook, nicknamed "the damned" for the numerous emergencies on board.

Poland will deploy FGM-148F Javelin anti-tank missile systems in the east of the country. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", told reporters the Minister of National Defense of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak.

The Venezuelan army is completing a program to modernize 78 light armored reconnaissance vehicles "Scorpion-90". At the moment, 75 armored vehicles have been restored.

In particular, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation inspected the final assembly shops of the NK-32 engines of the second series for the Tu-160 "White Swan" bombers and the deeply modernized Tu-160M

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev visited the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) and the UEC-Kuznetsov in Samara.

The new de-icing system sensors can be used on both military fighters and civilian aircraft

Advanced military aviation systems will be equipped with sensors of the de-icing system with elements of artificial intelligence (AI). Serial production of the new sensors has already begun, the press service of the Technomash concern (part of the control circuit of the Rostec Technodinamika holding) told TASS on Thursday.