News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

[b]It is expected that it will move 15 billion km from the Earth, the Xinhua news agency reports.]

Chinese scientists are considering sending a spacecraft to the edge of the Solar System - a distance of 100 astronomical units (15 billion km) from Earth. This was reported on Wednesday by the Xinhua news agency.

[b]The press service of the US Space Command noted that this rocket does not have several stages, like many others.]

The Pentagon is not sure that the Changzheng-5B rocket (CZ-5B; Long March 5B), which put the Chinese station module into orbit, will disintegrate upon re-entry into the atmosphere. This was reported on Wednesday by TASS in the press service of the US Space Command.

The South Koreans launched another FFX type frigate of the second series (Batch II), also known as Daegu. In total, they plan to build eight such ships.

According to the agency's interlocutor, the deadline was postponed to at least 2022

The deadline for the delivery of the new ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in Yeisk - the second Russian ground-based analog of the aircraft carrier-has been postponed to at least 2022 with the start of operation in 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

According to the results of the winter training period of the 2021 academic year, the servicemen of the Airborne Troops made more than 65 thousand parachute jumps.

The functionality of the spacecraft has been fully restored

The Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. 2 is again operating normally. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday in the press service of JSC "Corporation "VNIIEM".

The failures with the Altay tank only encourage Turkey to reduce its dependence on imported military technologies. Yesterday, May 3, portal defenceturk.net he reported that the company Aselsan has started testing a new tank fire control system VOLKAN-M.

As of May 4, 22 spacecraft are operating as part of the Russian GLONASS orbital constellation, the Information and Analytical Center for Coordinate-Time and Navigation Support said on Tuesday.

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army Air Force pilots demonstrated how they can fly at extremely low altitudes.

The demonstration of such skills took place at one of the air bases under the control of the LNA. The MiG-23 passed at the highest possible speed just a couple of meters above the runway.

British Marines practiced landing on a warship using a jetpack created by Gravity Industries. The military believes that the new method can be considered as an alternative to conventional methods of air landing.

An unguided Chinese rocket weighing 21 tons falls to the Ground. Astrophysicists believe that it is impossible to predict the place of the fall, the device can fall on a populated area. Changzheng-5 was delivering a space station module to orbit. Now the rocket freely rotates around the Earth at a speed of 27.6 thousand km / h. gradually decreasing, reports the TV channel "Izvestia". The spacecraft is expected to return to Earth on May 8-12. The time of the collision will be known 6 hours before the event.

Intel boasted that the rover received two COMEX-IE38 modules from the company CompuLab, which are based on the Bay Trail generation Intel Atom processors.

The new strategic nuclear submarine of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA) is capable of carrying a missile that can hit targets throughout the United States. This was reported on May 2 by the South China Morning Post, citing military sources.

Russian Su-30 fighters will undergo a deep modernization. Yesterday, on May 2, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Su-30SM fighters in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Navy will be upgraded to the Su-30SM2 version.

This year, the Airborne Forces will receive more than 13 thousand sets of modern landing equipment and parachute systems. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. These funds, among other things, will be used to equip two more paratrooper battalions with BMD-4M armored vehicles.

In the UK, parts of the hull of the promising Type 26 frigate were successfully docked. In the future, such ships will become one of the main combat units of the Royal Navy, and will also serve in the navies of partner countries.

A recent study, the results of which are published in the journal Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, found that the ever-growing mass of space debris in low-Earth orbit creates another unexpected problem. The fact is that the sunlight reflected from it, falling on the Earth, makes it difficult for astronomers to observe the stars.

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

Both subsequent launches will be commercial. They will be produced in May and July.

The work with the two Fregat upper stages is carried out by specialists at the Amur Vostochny cosmodrome. One of them is filled with fuel components and compressed gases at the filling and neutralization station.

The M1 Abrams is the best American tank, says 19FortyFive. The publication recalls that the development of the M1 Abrams began in the 1970s to ensure superiority over Soviet tanks. According to 19FortyFive, even almost 40 years after its creation, the M1 Abrams, which has undergone various upgrades, "is considered one of the best tanks in the world."