News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

France has begun flight tests of the latest modification of the Rafale fighter. On May 22, the press service of the French Defense Ministry reported that the first stage of flight tests of the F4 modification aircraft was held at the Istres air base in the south of the country.

The Curiosity rover was photographed from space. The footage was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter interplanetary station, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The device was climbing the Mont-Merc rock, which is named after a mountain in France. Curiosity has been operating for almost a decade. Since August 2012, the rover has covered almost 25 km. 10 years will soon pass since the launch of Curiosity. The photo was taken by the multifunctional automatic interplanetary station MRO.

As reported by the Telegram channel "Kontora Writes", on May 21, 2021 at 18: 49 at the Saki military airfield, in preparation for the exercise No. 20 and 21 "Restoring flight skills in the SMU", the ejection system worked on the Su-30SM aircraft (tail number "37 blue") from the 43rd separate Marine Assault Aviation Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet Marine Aviation when the crew took seats in the cockpit and strapped on.

The crew of the large landing ship of the Northern Fleet "Ivan Gren" worked out in difficult weather conditions the landing of a marine landing on an unequipped coast. This was reported by the press service of the SF.

" The exercise was held in the Motovsky Bay of the Barents Sea. In addition to the landing ship, BTR-80 and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers of the separate brigade of the Northern Fleet Marine Corps were involved in it," the press service informed. They added that this naval amphibious operation was the first in the Arctic practice of the BDK team.

The F-15EX Eagle II fighter of the US Air Force, considered an analogue of the Russian Su-57, is likely to receive a new "very long" range air-to-air missile, reports The Drive.

Washington hopes to expand the number of participants in the agreement on the norms of behavior in space and on the development of the Moon, said the head of NASA Bill Nelson.]

The United States authorities will continue to promote the agreements proposed by the previous administration on standards of conduct in space and on the exploration of the Moon, called the "Artemis Agreements", and hope to expand the number of their participants.

According to the head of the US space agency Bill Nelson, Beijing intends to land a man on the moon soon

China is an extremely energetic rival for the United States in the field of space exploration, including the Moon and Mars, and Washington should step up its efforts to keep up in this race.

The state tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" will be held in June this year. This was announced on Thursday, May 20, TASS reports, citing sources in the military-industrial complex.

The helicopter will move 150 meters in a south-easterly direction and take several pictures of a section of the planet's surface

The Mars-based Ingenuity helicopter will make its sixth flight over the planet's surface next week and move to a new location. This is reported on the website of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet "Vasily Bykov" is making a planned transition from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, currently the crew of the ship has passed the Black Sea Bosphorus Strait and is passing the Dardanelles Strait, said the head of the information support Department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexey Rulev.

In the connection of the ships of the protection of the water area of the Primorsky Flotilla of the heterogeneous forces of the Pacific Fleet, a complex exercise was conducted to disguise ships at the base point and eliminate chemical contamination on one of the missile boats.

Aviation Week magazine predicts an explosive rise in the popularity of attack drones. In their new report 2021 Military Fleet & MRO Forecast, analysts of the publication compared the popularity of existing drones, indicating that in the future their number will only increase.

In 2021, the second batch of the latest Mi-28NM Night Hunter attack helicopters will be delivered to the Aerospace Forces.

In Kazakhstan, an assembly line of small-size reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles "Skylark-1-LEX" developed by the Israeli Elbit Systems was opened at the enterprise of the Kazakhstan Aviation Industry company.

The Mi-8AMT and Mi-8MTV-1 transport helicopters will receive new ballistic protection, Igor Kiyamov, Managing Director of the Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant (NARZ, part of the Russian Helicopters holding and will carry out these works), said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The United Engine Corporation has started mass production of the VK-2500P helicopter engine, which is designed for the latest Mi-28NM attack helicopter and can be used on any type of Mi and Ka military helicopters.

In the press, the United States became interested in the "strange hangar" located on the Chinese base, and are trying to unravel its purpose. Satellite images show that it, along with an auxiliary object, is located at the People's Liberation Army Air Force bomber base 30 miles from the capital of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, according to Military Review.

At a meeting of the Russian organizing committee "Victory", Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the topic of threats against the Russian Federation. The Russian leader noted that our country can "knock out the teeth" of those who try to "bite" it.

The Czech Republic continues to part with the Soviet past. Yesterday, May 19, the press service of the Czech Defense Ministry announced the "equator" of tests of three models of BMP, claiming to replace the Soviet BMP-2, which were produced under license in Czechoslovakia as BVP-2.

The number of the company's satellites in near-Earth space will reach 218, the Arianespace corporation reported.]

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with 36 British OneWeb communications satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for May 27. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the French corporation Arianespace.