News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Over the years (since 1908), the US FBI has accumulated a huge archive of documents. Since the beginning of this year, the secret service archive has been located in the small town of Winchester, Virginia and covers an area of 22,500 square meters. meters, where 360,000 boxes store almost 2 billion rubles. office management pages.

The history of American fighter aviation has more than a hundred years. Today, us air force fighters are head and shoulders above their competitors in terms of technology, but at the dawn of their existence, American aviation purchased aircraft from the allies.

In the latest edition of the program "Military acceptance" on the TV channel "Zvezda", the capabilities of combat boats manufactured by the Kalashnikov concern-BK-10 and BK-16 were demonstrated. the Numbers in this case indicate the length of the vessel in meters.

The team of the Chinese mission "Chang'e-4" published new photos of the surface of the back side of the moon, obtained by the lunar Rover "Yutu-2", including a circular panorama and a three-dimensional image of the surrounding area. To date, the lunar Rover has traveled several hundred meters on the surface of The earth's satellite and worked for almost two years, although initially its service life was estimated at three months, according to the website Space.com.

California transportation authorities have allowed companies to transport passengers in fully driverless cars without a driver in the cabin and charge money for it. At the same time, even companies that have already been allowed to test drones on California roads will have to get separate permits to create an unmanned taxi service.

Rocket troops and artillery celebrate their professional holiday on November 19. Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveevsky, chief of the missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta about how this branch of the armed forces is being modernized.

More than 4,000 military exercises using anti-aircraft missile and artillery firing has fulfilled the Navy's missile troops and artillery in 2020, also held over 30 practical shooting high-precision missiles during planned military training, said the Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

The latest automobile HF and VHF radio station of medium power "Artek"has been put into service in the Department of the Eastern military district stationed in the Republic of Buryatia.

250 units of modern armored weapons and equipment were received by the Airborne troops during the school year.

According to the information support group of the Airborne troops, a meeting of the military Council was held in Moscow under the leadership of the commander of the airborne forces, Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov.the main topic of discussion was summing up the results of the academic year in the troops in 2020.

The Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation this year ahead of schedule received all parties of equipment "Ratnik", delivered about 18 thousand sets, reported on Thursday in the state Corporation"rostec".

Today on the market there are 4 and a half representatives of the iron hands, which are very common. These are Fanuc, Yaskawa, ABB, Kuka (I won't mention rare earth samples). Next to them are Universal Robots-cool guys whose robots look like a nice pile of aluminum pipes and plugs, which are very actively promoted on the market.

the Russian "Magnolia", according to military experts, is currently considered the most all-terrain self-propelled artillery in the world.

It is not afraid of difficult terrain, including swampy areas. She will feel confident in the snow of the Arctic.

Disclaimer. Robots are very reliable guys. The average Robert of a normal brand can work like hell for years without interruption, requiring only short breaks for maintenance and calibration checks.

On the day of rocket troops and artillery, units of the 150th motorized rifle division of the southern military district (SE) in the Rostov region mastered the upgraded 2s19m2 "Msta-S" self-propelled howitzers.

MiG-29M2 Fighters of the Egyptian air force at the exercise "Eagles of the Nile-1" for the first time operated together with Chinese-made FTC-2000 aircraft.

These training and combat vehicles belong to the Sudan, over the ranges of which, in fact, various scenarios for the use of this winged equipment are being worked out.

The first detailed photos of the interior of the VN1 armored personnel carrier produced by the Chinese Corporation Norinco, which is in service with the Royal Thai army. Earlier, Thailand signed two contracts with the Chinese state Corporation Norinco for the supply of 75 wheeled armored combat vehicles of the ZBL-08 family (export designation VN1), some of which have already been delivered to the Thai army.

the Helicopters have passed all necessary ground and flight tests

Russian Helicopters holding (part of rostec) has completed the transfer of Ka-52 helicopters as part of the state defense order for 2020. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the holding.

The South of Russia will be protected by wheeled thermobaric flamethrowers. The southern military district (SE) will be the first to be re-equipped with the latest heavy flamethrower systems TOS-2 or Tosochka, sources in the Ministry of defense told Izvestia. Now the new cars are completing state tests.

outdated "Hurricane" systems will also be replaced, the defense Ministry said

Tornado-S large-caliber multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) will completely replace the existing Smerch MLRS and outdated Uragan systems by the end of 2027. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Red Star" chief of the missile forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Mikhail Matveevsky.

The people's liberation army of China should soon receive its own tanker aircraft, which Xian developed on the basis of the first Chinese heavy military transport aircraft Xian Y-20.