News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Israeli company Israel Shipyards announced the signing of a contract for the supply of four Shaldag-class patrol boats Mk.5 in a configuration adapted to the requirements of the Israeli Navy command.

The show of force at the naval parade will take place after a recent spat with a Royal Navy destroyer. According to the author, the participation of three large submarines is presumably a reaction to the recent incident in the Black Sea, when the destroyer Defender was opposed by Russian troops during its passage past the Crimea.

Teams of military engineers of the armed forces of India, Venezuela, Tajikistan, Laos and Afghanistan will take part for the first time in the international stage of the "Safe Route" competition ArMI-2021, which will be held in the Tyumen Region at the Andreevsky training ground at the end of August this year.

Currently, experimental molds and rods are being created on a 3D printer for casting parts for promising samples of equipment as part of the diversification of production. The device provides high-speed printing of sand molds of various sizes. So, the creation of the product takes only about 16 hours. All printed forms have sufficient strength, high accuracy of execution and quality.

The South Korean company SK Innovation aims to become one of the three industry leaders by 2022: it will invest $ 26 billion in the production of batteries for electric vehicles to increase it five times.

At the final stage of large-scale tactical flight exercises of long-range aviation, the crews of the Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers launched air-launched cruise missiles at ground targets at a training ground in the Arctic.

According to the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, three nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet will arrive in Kronstadt from July 8 to 10.

The Soviet mobile operational-tactical missile system of front-line subordination "Temp-S" was adopted at the end of December 1965.

The crew of the minesweeper "Valentin Pikul" conducted exercises with the development of mine action in the Kerch Strait, the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The re-equipped units of the Strategic Missile Forces continue to receive modern equipment for logistics, engineering, medical and automotive support units, as well as for communications units.

Divisions of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are able to conduct reconnaissance of premises with zero illumination using a small-sized wireless inspection robot "Sphere".

About 40 quadrocopters have been put into service with reconnaissance units and special-purpose formations of the Southern Military District.

This satellite will relay data and measurements for guided spacecraft, satellites, launch vehicles, the Central Television of the People's Republic of China reported

China, using the Changzheng-3C launch vehicle (CZ-3C, Long March-3C), successfully launched the Tianlian-1-05 data relay satellite (Tianlian 1-05). This was reported on Wednesday by the Central Television of China.

The Russian Navy is introducing new tactical techniques for using mine defense ships of the 12700 project. The newest minesweepers have the most modern weapons, sailors consider them ships of the XXI century.

In the Kaliningrad region, mortar crews of the Baltic Fleet destroyed a column of military equipment of a conditional enemy.

A battery of 120-mm mortars "Sani" of the motorized rifle regiment of the Army Corps of the BF was involved in the exercises held at the Pravdinsky training ground.

The Russian Navy will receive a "mini-cruiser missile carrier". On July 6, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Ministry of Defense agreed on a plan to modernize the Admiral Chabanenko BOD under a project similar to the one under which the Marshal Shaposhnikov BOD was updated.

Danish television has published a video taken by the installer Mads Christensen from the bridge over the Great Belt Strait at the moment when the nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Eagle" was passing under it.

The Terminator-2 BMPT is made on the basis of the T-72 tank chassis

Uralvagonzavod (UVZ, part of Rostec) has begun serial deliveries of the Terminator-2 tank support combat vehicle (BMPT) to the troops. This was announced in an interview with TASS at the international exhibition "Innoprom" by the general director of the concern Alexander Potapov.

Two Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers accompanied by Su-30M2 fighters flew over the Black Sea against the background of the Sea Breeze exercises conducted by NATO countries and their allies.

The Russian T-14 Armata tank is terrible for the enemy, but it has one giant problem, writes the American publication 19FortyFive.