News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

According to a source in the shipbuilding industry, "if the launches are successful, the transfer of the nuclear-powered vessel to the customer is expected at the end of 2021"

The first serial strategic missile submarine of the project 955A (code "Borey-A") "Prince Oleg" will perform at least six trips to the sea during factory and state tests. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry on the sidelines of the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

A unit of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian military base of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in South Ossetia has received modern domestic Tachyon complexes.

As the press service of the Central Military District reported on June 22, 2021, by the end of this year, eight modernized Su-34M fighter-bombers of the "4++"generation will be put into service with the mixed aviation regiment of the Central Military District (CVO) in the Chelyabinsk Region.

The Russian wheeled infantry fighting vehicle VPK-7829 on the "Boomerang" platform, shown at the MILEX 2021 military exhibition in Belarus, attracted the closest attention of military experts from the United States.

The contract for its construction was signed in April 2018

JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" will hand over the ice-resistant self-propelled platform "North Pole" to the customer in 2022. This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by the general director of the enterprise Alexander Buzakov.

It is planned to enter the factory sea trials in the third quarter of 2023

JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" will begin mooring tests of the ice-class patrol ship "Ivan Papanin" of project 23550 at the end of 2022. This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by the general director of the enterprise Alexander Buzakov.

These amphibious hovercraft are among the largest platforms of this class in the world

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of Rostec) has developed a domestic gas turbine engine (GTD) for the landing craft on the air cushion "Zubr" and "Murena". This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by Deputy General Director-General Designer of the UEC Yuri Shmotin.

It monitors the surface and air situation and provides information about it to the command posts of the coastal surveillance system and the national Coast Guard forces

The over-the-horizon radar station (ZG radar) "Sunflower-E" was presented at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) in St. Petersburg.

The widespread use of unmanned vehicles: flying, surface and underwater, is an important part of the modernization of the Russian Navy. Drones will rid the ships of some intelligence tools, providing in return more advanced and powerful tools for monitoring the situation, and will allow the fleet to successfully resist new threats - for example, hypersonic weapons.

According to Vladimir Korolev, vice president for military shipbuilding of the USC, the aircraft carrier will go to sea in June-July 2023 after the repair is completed for tests that will last about a year

The repair and modernization of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will be completed in 2023, and at the end of the same year it will be transferred to the Russian Navy. Vladimir Korolev, Vice-President for Military Shipbuilding of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told TASS on the sidelines of the International Naval Salon.

In addition, contracts are being prepared for the creation of coastal infrastructure for the maintenance of electronic weapons installed on ships of a foreign customer

Concern "Granit-Electron" (part of the corporation "Tactical missile weapons") in the near future will upgrade all ship-based automated control systems (CASU) 3R-60UE on ships of a foreign customer.

Earlier it was also reported that Admiral Vinogradov will receive new missile weapons and air defense systems

The new ship's automated control system (CASU) 3R-60U-1155 will be installed on the frigate of the project 1155M "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet.

At a recent military parade in Zambia, Russian-made Tiger armored vehicles were demonstrated for the first time.

They differ from the already familiar models with reinforced weapons. In the rotating armored turret with an open top, the Vladimirov heavy machine gun, currently considered one of the most powerful in the world, is installed.

On June 17, Andrey Pokhodaev, Senior Managing Director for Investment Activities of RUSNANO Management Company, took part in the session "Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development" of the Forbes conference "Sustainable Development. Profitably together."

The 10th International Naval Salon will open in St. Petersburg on Thursday, but it actually started working the day before. The Expoforum exhibition complex has an exhibition of the latest achievements of the military industry, and in the Gulf of Finland there are samples of ships and ships that Russia is ready to offer to foreign partners within the framework of military - technical cooperation.

Rostec reported that the product is twice as superior to foreign analogues in terms of operating time, radiation strength and the degree of protection of the aircraft

The new L376-2 "Yagel" trap cartridge for the protection of combat aircraft will be presented at the International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021 in Minsk. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the press service of the Rostec state Corporation.

The Navy ships taking part in the X International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) moored at the berths of the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

Eight upgraded Su-34M fighter-bombers of the 4++ generation will enter service with the mixed aviation regiment of the Central Military District (CVO) stationed in the Chelyabinsk Region by the end of the year, the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.

NSU signed a long-term partnership agreement with the State Corporation Roscosmos and the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring

Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Roscosmos and Roshydromet will launch satellites created at the university to monitor "space weather" - phenomena in near-Earth space. This was reported by the press service of the NSU.

In a fire on the submarine AC-31 in 2019, 14 sailors were killed

The Malachite Design Bureau has developed a technical project for the modernization of the AS-31 project 1083 nuclear submarine habitable vehicle (unofficially called Losharik), which killed 14 sailors in a fire in 2019. This is stated in the company's annual report.