News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The British company OneWeb plans to complete the deployment of the entire satellite constellation to provide global coverage by June 2022, the company said in a statement published on its website.

This depends on the technical requirements of the customer, said Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the corporation

Severnaya Verf and the Baltic Shipyard, which are part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), are able to build large-capacity hospital ships for the Russian Navy. This was announced by the general director of USC Alexey Rakhmanov in an interview with TASS.

Kyle Mizokami, a military observer of the Popular Mechanics publication, called the Arena-M active protection complex (KAZ) installed on the T-72B3 tank" Cool military technology". According to him, the system allows you to leave vehicles that have been in service for many years in the ranks, without hanging additional armor on them.

The newest Russian submarine K-573 "Novosibirsk" has entered factory sea trials. They want to transfer the ship to the fleet in 2021.

More than 10 modern armored personnel carriers with improved combat and driving characteristics of the BTR-82A entered service with the newly formed [503rd] Motorized Rifle Regiment [19th Motorized Rifle Division]of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in Ingushetia.

The Russian military is conducting a special exercise to test the systems and weapons of submarines in the deep-water areas of the Barents and Norwegian Seas, the Northern Fleet said.

The need to consolidate efforts has intensified against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic

A specialized formation of radiation, chemical and biological protection is planned to be created in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff reported on Friday.

The Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASZ) is the main base in the Far East for the construction of warships for the Pacific Fleet. In particular, Amur shipbuilders have successfully mastered the construction of corvettes of the project 20380.

More than 30 years ago, an attempt was made to create a ZA-35 anti-aircraft self-propelled gun on the basis of the Soviet T-72 tank. It is interesting that such work was carried out by specialists of the Republic of South Africa.

Submarine exercises at extreme depths have begun in the Barents and Norwegian Seas. This was reported on Friday, July 2, by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The construction program of the Chinese aircraft carrier of the new generation has passed an important stage: the ship received a superstructure. Earlier, the Celestial Empire assembled its body.

On July 2, the US Space Command explained the situation with an American satellite "secretly launched" from the ISS as an error. The day before on a specialized website space-track.org there was information that the American satellite BD-28 was launched from the ISS.

In the Moscow region, at the Alabino training ground, servicemen of the Taman Motorized Rifle Division of the Guards Tank Red Banner Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) worked out actions to destroy low-flying air targets from 12.7-mm large-caliber machine guns "Cord".

The exercises of the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet together with the aviation of the Southern Military District were held against the background of NATO maneuvers. More than 10 aircraft were involved in them

The naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, together with the aviation of the Southern Military District (SE), conducted combat training flights over the Black Sea against the background of the exercises of NATO and the partner countries of the Sea Breeze-2021 alliance. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

An American journalist filmed the exercises of Russian ships and aircraft that took place in the Black Sea against the background of the international maneuvers of NATO Sea Breeze.

The Russian fleet is preparing to replenish with a new nuclear submarine. On June 2, the TASS news agency reported that the Novosibirsk submarine of the Yasen-M project 885M entered the White Sea for the first time for factory sea trials.

Former US military captain of the first rank of the US Navy, retired Harry Tabach, compared the Russian army with the "Zaporozhets", and the NATO forces with Tesla. This was announced on Saturday, July 3, according to InoSMI.

American strategic aviation will be able to destroy enemy targets with nuclear weapons without response. With the new cruise missiles, missile-carrying bombers will be inaccessible to enemy air defense systems. On June 2, the press service of Raytheon Technologies announced the signing of a new contract with the US Air Force for the development of a Long Range Stand-Off missile (LRSO).

China is engaged in the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in manned fighter jets, which turns the latter into partially or completely unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), says the American edition of The Drive.

Stefan Israel recalled that the main European competitors are the American company SpaceX, as well as China

Mass launches of satellite groups and large financial injections into the space industry in the United States can lead to a significant advantage in favor of American companies in the space launch market, and Europe should join forces to create competition.