News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The spacecraft has reached the surface of the planet

The Zhuzhong rover successfully descended from the landing platform and began exploring Mars. This was announced on Saturday by the Chinese National Space Administration.

Inherited from the times of the Soviet Union, the weapons have well prepared Russia for the fight for the Arctic, writes the National Interest. According to the author of the article, Robert Farley, Moscow was preparing to confront the West during the Cold War, using the territory of the Arctic. The accumulated experience and a variety of weapons allowed her to acquire a "deadly set of capabilities" in case "something unthinkable" happens in the Arctic Ocean.

The Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" and the frigate" Admiral Grigorovich " returned to Sevastopol after performing planned naval combat exercises in the Black Sea, the Black Sea Fleet said.

The Government of the Russian Federation notes the need to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of a number of state programs. "Pay attention to the low degree of effectiveness of the implementation of the state program of the Russian Federation "Space activities of Russia", - said in a statement posted on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers on Saturday.

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces on Saturday conducted maneuvers in Shizuoka Prefecture (Honshu Island) with the participation of about 3.1 thousand troops, the Kyodo news agency reports.

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov also reported on how experiments on the study of ENT organs were conducted

Spirulina algae can be used as a biological element to restore the atmosphere, it was experimentally grown during an expedition to space, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov said on Saturday at the New Knowledge marathon.

The sailors performed firing from artillery installations at air targets

The Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" and the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" of the Black Sea Fleet (CHM) conducted exercises in the Black Sea to search for a submarine and track it, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Saturday.

Roscosmos does not rule out continuing participation in the ISS project after 2025, the decision is up to the president, Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of the state Corporation for Science, told Interfax.

[b]Executive Director of the Corporation for Advanced Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko said that the tug will fly on ion engines, and not on chemical fuel.]

The executive director of Roscosmos for advanced programs and Science, Alexander Bloshenko, suggested at the forum "New Knowledge" that future orbital stations will be built on the same principle as the transport and energy module "Zeus" (nuclear tug).

Turkish Bayraktar drones were able to prove themselves during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh due to the lack of local military systems to combat them, said Yan Novikov, General Director of JSC "Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey".

The emergency operation of the ejection system occurred on a military aircraft in the Crimea, the pilots are alive, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

NATO countries have "accumulated" more than 8 thousand cruise missiles, including long-range ones, said Yan Novikov, General Director of JSC "Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey".

The weapons belonging to the company EMKO, stored in warehouses in the Czech village of Vrbetice, where the 2014 explosions occurred, were old ammunition from the Warsaw Pact era and were not intended for sale. This was stated in an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday, May 22, the head of the company, the Bulgarian arms dealer Emiliyan Gebrev.

France has begun flight tests of the latest modification of the Rafale fighter. On May 22, the press service of the French Defense Ministry reported that the first stage of flight tests of the F4 modification aircraft was held at the Istres air base in the south of the country.

The Curiosity rover was photographed from space. The footage was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter interplanetary station, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The device was climbing the Mont-Merc rock, which is named after a mountain in France. Curiosity has been operating for almost a decade. Since August 2012, the rover has covered almost 25 km. 10 years will soon pass since the launch of Curiosity. The photo was taken by the multifunctional automatic interplanetary station MRO.

As reported by the Telegram channel "Kontora Writes", on May 21, 2021 at 18: 49 at the Saki military airfield, in preparation for the exercise No. 20 and 21 "Restoring flight skills in the SMU", the ejection system worked on the Su-30SM aircraft (tail number "37 blue") from the 43rd separate Marine Assault Aviation Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet Marine Aviation when the crew took seats in the cockpit and strapped on.

The crew of the large landing ship of the Northern Fleet "Ivan Gren" worked out in difficult weather conditions the landing of a marine landing on an unequipped coast. This was reported by the press service of the SF.

" The exercise was held in the Motovsky Bay of the Barents Sea. In addition to the landing ship, BTR-80 and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers of the separate brigade of the Northern Fleet Marine Corps were involved in it," the press service informed. They added that this naval amphibious operation was the first in the Arctic practice of the BDK team.

The F-15EX Eagle II fighter of the US Air Force, considered an analogue of the Russian Su-57, is likely to receive a new "very long" range air-to-air missile, reports The Drive.

Washington hopes to expand the number of participants in the agreement on the norms of behavior in space and on the development of the Moon, said the head of NASA Bill Nelson.]

The United States authorities will continue to promote the agreements proposed by the previous administration on standards of conduct in space and on the exploration of the Moon, called the "Artemis Agreements", and hope to expand the number of their participants.

According to the head of the US space agency Bill Nelson, Beijing intends to land a man on the moon soon

China is an extremely energetic rival for the United States in the field of space exploration, including the Moon and Mars, and Washington should step up its efforts to keep up in this race.