News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Il-76 aircraft have begun delivering the BMP-2M to the Russian military base in Tajikistan to participate in joint exercises of the military contingents of Russia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The program for the creation of enlarged air traffic management centers (ATM) in Russia will be completed next year, said Dmitry Savitsky, Deputy General Director for products for the air navigation system and dual-use products of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

According to a source in the military-industrial complex, the nuclear-powered vessel was fully prepared for performing tasks as a naval museum

The lead nuclear submarine of the project 627 K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" is preparing for the transition from Snezhnegorsk, Murmansk region, to Kronstadt, where it will become an exhibit of the Museum of Naval Glory. This was reported to TASS on Thursday by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The crews of Su-25SM attack aircraft of the joint Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan will be involved in the Russian-Uzbek exercise, which will be held from July 30 to August 10 in the Surkhandarya region of the republic, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

In the new images, you can see the flights of officially decommissioned F-117 strike aircraft in all its glory. Now the machines play the role of" aggressors", imitating enemy aircraft.

Defender, which violated the borders of Russia near the Crimea in June, was the only one operating among the five Type 45 destroyers that are in service with the Royal Navy (Navy) of the United Kingdom, Defense News reports, referring to the statement of the British Minister for Defense Procurement Jeremy Queen.

It was attended by more than 50 warships, submarines, ships, about 50 aircraft of the naval aviation of the Navy, more than 4 thousand military personnel

The dress rehearsal of the 5th Main Naval Parade was held on Thursday in the waters of the Neva River (St. Petersburg), the Gulf of Finland and Kronstadt, a TASS correspondent reports.

The aerobatic group "Strizhi" begins the transition to the latest MiG-35 fighters, the first aircraft will be delivered to it in 2021, the commander of the group, Colonel Sergei Osyaykin, told RIA Novosti.

The enterprises of the United Shipbuilding Corporation handed over 11 warships to the customer last year, said the head of the USC Alexey Rakhmanov at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This makes even more mysterious the results of measurements of the Curiosity rover, which in the summer of 2019 detected methane emissions in the Gale crater

TASS, July 22. The ExoMars-TGO space probe did not find even minimal traces of methane, phosphine and other substances in the Martian atmosphere that can indicate the presence of Earth-type life. The European Space Agency (ESA) writes about this on its website.

As part of the operational-strategic exercise "Zaslon-2021", a field hospital of the special purpose medical detachment of the National Guard of the Russian Federation has been deployed on the territory of the Bogorodsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and the Kazan Helicopter Plant signed a contract for the supply of nine helicopters. The agreement was signed today within the framework of the XV International Aviation and Space Salon "MAKS-2021".

Roscosmos specialists have not yet been able to launch the main engines of the Nauka module (MLM) for orbit correction, which was planned to be carried out today, the cause of the failure is not exactly clear, a source in the rocket and space industry told N + 1.

A special exercise on the exchange of information and the practical implementation of a set of measures to identify and assess the radiation, chemical and biological (RCB) situation has begun in the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces).

London may completely abandon the operation of Ajax armored vehicles of the new generation

The Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom may completely abandon the operation of Ajax armored vehicles of the new generation, produced by a subsidiary of the American company General Dynamics. This was announced on Tuesday by the deputy head of the Defense Department of the United Kingdom, Jeremy Queen, who is responsible for military procurement issues.

The Defense Ministry plans to build several more such stations on the territory of the country, said Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, commander of the 1st Army of Air and Missile Defense (special purpose).

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile systems will enter service with the army, which provides anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense (air defense-missile defense) of Moscow, Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, commander of the 1st Army of special-purpose Air Defense-Missile Defense, said in an interview with the Russian Defense Ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, published on Wednesday, July 21.

First of all, the astronauts will have to unload about a ton of equipment delivered on the module

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov will open the hatches to the multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science" a few hours after its docking with the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported to TASS in the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia.

A unique characteristic of the product is its payload coefficient - the "Drill" has the largest in comparison with other ammunition, said the executive director of the concern Alexander Kochkin

As reported by the rocket and Space Corporation Energia, tests of tanks in which metal chips were previously detected were completed successfully

The multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome passed more than 700 different tests. This was reported to TASS in the rocket and space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos).