News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Russia continues to build a factory in Venezuela for the licensed production of AK-103 and ammunition, a source familiar with the work told Interfax.

The servicemen of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine were left without an underground training complex with engineering communications. It was flooded, so the complex is not suitable for its intended use.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will deliver nine ships to the Russian Navy in 2021, the head of the USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, said.

Unknown people previously painted the space shuttle with graffiti

Roscosmos took the Buran spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome facility under round-the-clock security. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at SPIEF-2021.

The Soviet T-72 tank in the 90s was one of the most common modern tanks in the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that proposals for their further modernization have begun to appear in many countries.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin spoke about the threats in the near future that the Russian military sees. According to him, the most serious security challenges and threats are caused by several recent trends in the world.

In Ukraine, they said that they managed to localize the Soviet 23-mm twin anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2. According to the "Ukrainian Militaristic Portal", the first sample is currently located at the Rivne test site, where it is checked by specialists of the State Research Institute for Testing and Certification of Weapons and Military Equipment.

Russia is considering the possibility of creating a reusable super-heavy rocket that could be used for flights to the moon. Earlier it became known that the appearance of the carrier "Yenisei" will be revised.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that, therefore, today the country is mainly engaged in ensuring the life of the station

Russia has conducted almost the entire cycle of scientific experiments of interest to it on board the International Space Station. This was stated on Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov during an interview with RBC at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

[b]According to the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin, one heavy rocket will be delivered in June, a light one - in July, and the rest are planned to be delivered by the end of the year.]

Four Angara launch vehicles will be delivered by the end of the year, but not all are planned to be launched by January. This was announced on Thursday in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2021), the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

High metal prices may negatively affect the implementation of the state defense order, said Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov

The calculations of mobile ground missile systems of the easternmost - Irkutsk missile compound-have begun to carry out combat duty as part of the exercise that has begun in the Strategic Missile Forces, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

[b]According to the CEO of the state corporation, such cooperation is possible if the United States "really behaves like gentlemen".]

Roscosmos has something to offer the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), if the United States behaves like gentlemen. This was announced in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2021), the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

According to the head of Roscosmos, the years of the ISS are numbered

Russia and the United States are facing problems on the ISS, which arise from the aging of the structure. This was announced on Thursday in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2021), the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

At the same time, the head of Roscosmos did not name the exact price, referring to the commercial secret

The cost of a place in the Soyuz spacecraft for tourists is cheaper than on the Starliner and Crew Dragon ships. This was announced in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin.

The sixth generation of cellular communication (6G) may appear in Russia in 2035. Izvestia writes about this, referring to the forecast of the Radio Research Institute (NIIR) and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

In Ukraine, they tried to create a 125-mm gun of increased power 50L "Vityaz", which, according to some propagandists from Nezalezhnaya, was supposed to compete with the gun of the T-14 tank on the Armata platform.

A demonstration sample of the system is planned to be demonstrated to representatives of the Ministry of Defense at the Army-21 forum

The concern "Techmash" (located in the control loop of the holding "Technodinamika" of Rostec) plans to start production of a light multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) of 80 mm caliber in 2024. This was reported to journalists by the head of the holding "Technodinamika" Igor Nasenkov on the sidelines of the Congress of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia.

The engine power at the maximum take-off mode is 3100 hp, while the specific fuel consumption is at the level of the best world analogues

The United Engine Building Corporation (UEC) of Rostec plans to start mass production of the TV7-117ST engine for the latest IL-112B military transport aircraft in 2023. This was reported to TASS by the general designer of UEC-Klimov (part of the UEC of the state Corporation Rostec") Vsevolod Eliseev.

On June 1, at the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk, a solemn ceremony of launching the latest naval transport of weapons "Gennady Dmitriev" project 20360M was held.