News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Glavkosmos plans to order two manned Soyuz spacecraft for future space tourists, they will be ready by the end of 2023, the head of the company Dmitry Loskutov told Interfax.

Deliveries will begin later on the order of Roscosmos

A prototype parachute system for the Eagle spacecraft will be ready in 2023. This was announced by Igor Nasenkov, head of the Technodinamika holding company of the Rostec State Corporation, on the sidelines of the congress of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia.

More than 4,500 exercises and trainings will be held during the summer training period in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday, June 1, by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The share of foreign electronics in public procurement in 2020 decreased from 51% to 43%, and should decrease even more due to the government decree on the minimum share of purchases of goods of Russian origin, which entered into force on January 1, 2021, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) said at the plenary session "Electronic industry as a technological basis for sovereign and innovative development" of the first International Industrial Forum "Intelligence of Machines and Mechanisms", held in Sevastopol.

Alexander Moiseev said that after the repair is completed, this cruiser will become the most powerful ship armed with missiles

The nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov will become the most powerful ship armed with missiles after the repair is completed. This was stated in an interview with the newspaper "Red Star" by the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev.

Now it sounds like a fantasy, but relatively recently in Ukraine, the 140-mm, as it was called in advertising materials, "super-powerful" tank gun 55L "Bagheera"was tested.

Developed in the 50s of the last century in the USSR, the S-75 Dvina anti-aircraft missile system once again confirmed its effectiveness by destroying a modern drone in the sky of Syria. The shooting took place as part of the air defense training of the government troops.

The launch of the first radar Earth observation satellite "Obzor-R" is planned for next year. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", said the deputy director of the Department of navigation space systems of Roscosmos Valery Zaichko.

Russia will create about 20 new formations and units in the Western Military District for "adequate opposition to NATO". This statement was made on Monday, May 31, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The Russian Mi-28 helicopter will make any enemy run screaming in the opposite direction. This is written by the Canadian portal HotCars.

Russia may deploy more Iskander tactical missile systems on its western borders, and in certain circumstances it will deploy medium-range hypersonic missiles there, Russian military expert Alexey Leonkov predicts.

Russia has begun factory sea trials of one of its most powerful strategic nuclear submarines, the Knyaz Oleg submarine. This is the second ship built according to the upgraded project 955A "Borey-A".

The armed forces are involved in solving general civil issues. So, for the uninterrupted water supply of the population of the Crimea, the military laid a temporary water pipeline with a length of 32 kilometers. This was announced on Monday at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation by the head of the department Sergei Shoigu.

This year, the Baltic Fleet's naval personnel may be replenished with two ships armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, the head of the Baltic Fleet's press service, Captain 1st Rank Roman Martov, told Interfax.

Two Resurs-P Earth remote sensing satellites will be launched next year, said Valery Zaichko, deputy director of the Department of Navigation Space Systems of the state Corporation Roscosmos.

The solemn ceremony of raising the St. Andrew's flag on the newest small sea tanker "Vice Admiral Ferries" was held on Saturday in Sevastopol, the tanker was accepted into the Black Sea Fleet, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The KRET holding company of the Rostec State Corporation will supply unique platform-free inertial navigation systems for domestic unmanned aerial vehicles. The advantage of the development is high accuracy and the possibility of autonomous operation. The system can determine the coordinates and parameters of the movement of objects even in the absence of land, sea or space landmarks.

According to an informed source, the Mi-28NM attack helicopter will be able to take up to four of the latest Product-305 missiles, which will bring it closer to the capabilities of a front-line bomber.

Three launch vehicles were launched from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021, which is a record. Previously, a maximum of two launches per year were carried out from the cosmodrome.

The company said that it had established communication with all 36 satellites put into orbit on the night of May 29

The British company OneWeb will be able to start providing communication services after the next launch of its satellites into low-Earth orbit.