News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The American company General Atomics has shown how the MQ-9A Reaper attack drone will pick up a small Sparrowhawk jet in flight. This will help him with a cable with an orange sphere at the end, which Sparrowhawk will cling to with flaps.

The Spektr-RG Space Observatory helped astronomers see the early stages of the event of the tidal destruction of a star by a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The light from the source went to the Earth for 2.5 billion years, further observations of it will help determine the mass of a supermassive black hole and the rate of accretion of matter to it, according to the website of the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

As part of a special exercise in the Vladimir Region, military engineers transported the launch battery of the Yars mobile ground complex through the wide and deep-water Oka at this point. For the first time, a unique 360-ton double-width ferry was involved in the training, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

In total, more than 8 thousand military personnel take part in the exercises Large

-scale exercises of engineering troops with the use of military robots will be held at 12 training grounds of the Western Military District (ZVO). This was reported on Tuesday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

Lightning seriously damaged two American F-35B Lightning II fighters.

The incident occurred on July 13, but official information about it appeared recently on the website of the US Marine Corps.

A series of unique special exercises of engineering units has started at the military training grounds of Russia and the Republic of Belarus. They will be held at ten training grounds of the two countries, as well as on the Oka River section. The exercises were organized in preparation for the joint strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise "West-2021".

In Iraq, the existing BMP-1 fleet continues to be improved. Some of the armored vehicles in the troops received paired ZU-23-2s instead of a combat compartment with a 73-mm 2A28 "Thunder" smoothbore gun and a 7.62-mm PKT machine gun.

Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering has sent the customer the first batch of T-80BVM tanks this year. The combat vehicles were manufactured as part of the execution of the state defense order.

According to the Taiwanese resource Taiwan News, the launch of the first national non-nuclear submarine and the delivery of heavy torpedoes from the United States for it will probably be implemented earlier than originally planned.

The American magazine The National Interest has recognized the new Russian submarine K-329 Belgorod, equipped with Poseidon unmanned vehicles, as the most advanced submarine of the Russian Navy.

An unscheduled spacewalk is not required, Roscosmos reported

The specialists of the Mission Control Center (MCC) did not detect mechanical interference for the docking of the multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science" with the International Space Station (ISS), an unscheduled spacewalk is not required. This was reported on Tuesday in Roscosmos.

The Turkish company Baykar Makina, specializing in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Bayraktar, became interested in Ukrainian-made engines. This was stated by the general director of the company Halyuk Bayraktar, writes "Страна.иа".

The transfer of "Lightning" to KTRV continues the trend of creating vertical profile holdings in the Russian military-industrial complex, said Ivan Konovalov, Development Director of the Fund for Assistance to Technologies of the XXI Century.

The BRDM-2M and two versions of the T-62 tanks were demonstrated at a recent military parade in Tajikistan. Due to the serious aggravation of the situation in neighboring Afghanistan, an inspection of the armed forces of the republic was carried out, which ended with a solemn march of the units involved in the large-scale event.

The Syrian army continues to operate the Kvadrat anti-aircraft missile systems (NATO designation SA-6 Gainful), which are an export version of the Kub systems. The army of a friendly country began to receive them from the Soviet Union in the early 70s, almost immediately after the appearance of this modification.

Russian radars located in the Rostov region near the border with Ukraine "distorted" the images taken by the European Sentinel-1 satellite, writes Defense Blog.

The next pulse for building the orbit is scheduled for July 28

Specialists of the Mission Control Center (MCC) carried out a correction of the orbit of the multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science". This was announced by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The new Russian submarine "Krasnoyarsk" will be launched on July 30, the Ministry of Defense reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov explained why the submarines of this project have more extensive capabilities.

The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford of the US Navy, which is the most expensive ship built in the world, turned out to be overly technological. The corresponding recognition was made by the chief of naval operations of the US Navy, Admiral Michael Gilday, according to Popular Mechanics.

About a dozen combat and special vehicles have been created on the basis of the T-80. Among them stands out a unique, truly unparalleled, highly protected vehicle "Ladoga", nicknamed"The Tank of the nuclear Apocalypse".