News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Purchases of the "Hunter" will be included in the state armament program for 2024-2033

Serial deliveries to the troops of strike drones "Hunter "will begin in 2024, said in an interview with" Interfax " First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov.

The diesel-electric submarine of the Baltic Fleet "Dmitrov" went on exercises in the area of combat training of the fleet in the Baltic Sea in the Kaliningrad region.

The Russian MS-21 aircraft made its first flight with domestic PD-14 engines. This is a great victory for the Russian aviation industry, which allows Russia to return to the world elite of civil aviation. And although the Russian engine is slightly inferior to the American one in terms of efficiency, it also has a number of undeniable advantages over its overseas competitor.

The line of new aircraft will be created on the basis of the Il-114-300, which made its first flight, and the fifth-generation Su-57 fighter can get a two-seat version, First deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission Andrey Yelchaninov said. In an interview with Interfax, he spoke about working on a new "strategist", a sixth-generation fighter and strike drones.

The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, which is undergoing repairs and modernization, should be handed over to the Navy at the end of 2022, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said during a visit to the Sevmash plant, the Defense Ministry reports.

The American press has become aware of some details about the work of the US military on air-based microwave weapons. Now the Pentagon is working on the possibility of placing energy weapons on fighter jets, and earlier test launches of missiles with microwave warheads from B-52 strategic bombers took place.

the modular system of rescue of crews of submarines can solve an old problem of fleet

The absence of a series of rescue vessels (SS) of submarines (PL) based on the project 21300 with a deep-sea diving complex (GVK) indicates not so much the organizational, technical and financial difficulties of creating a domestic GVK even for work at depths up to 300 meters, but the need to clarify the conceptual directions of development of such vessels.

The missile defense system of the central industrial region is ready to respond to new challenges of the United States

At the end of November, a new missile defense system was successfully tested at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, which will soon take its place in the missile defense system of Moscow and the central industrial district. This is not the first test of a missile with unique ICBM interception capabilities.

The second over-the-horizon radar station "Container" will take up experimental combat duty in the Amur Region in 2024 to control the airspace in the eastern strategic direction, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

military personnel of the mountain motorized rifle brigade of the central military district (cvo), stationed in tuva, received the latest complex of unmanned aerial vehicles "orlan-10", the press service of the cvo reports.

the frigate will work out throw tests from missile systems

The modernized frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" of the Pacific Fleet went to the Sea of Japan to test missile and artillery weapons systems. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of "Dalzavod".

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a fundamental decision to arm the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet with a hypersonic complex "Dagger". According to the Izvestia TV channel, training of personnel and infrastructure for the maintenance and operation of hypersonic weapons will begin in 2021.

In the Ground Forces, the planned re-equipment of rocket artillery units with modern multiple launch rocket systems of the Tornado family continues.

Another regiment equipped with Yars missile systems has entered combat duty in the Barnaul compound of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Altai Territory, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti.

They will increase the effectiveness of detection and destruction of submarines, surface ships, enemy vessels, as well as the protection of naval bases

The Russian Defense Ministry and the Amur Shipyard signed a contract for six corvettes of projects 20380 and 20385. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the military department.

The Northern Fleet will receive a hypersonic missile system

The range of the hypersonic missile system "Dagger" can get the countries of Scandinavia, the Baltic States and a significant part of the Northern Sea Route, if this weapon is adopted by the Northern Fleet, the media write. According to expert assessment, currently there is no technology capable of intercepting the "Dagger".

From the inside, the cabin of the Soviet (Russian) heavy military transport aircraft Il-76, which is distinguished by a glazed nose, looks like that of a SID Fighter from the Star Wars universe directed by George Lucas, notes The Drive, commenting on a recently appeared online picture from the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Pacific Fleet will receive six corvettes with "Zircons" until 2028

Six corvettes of projects 20380 and 20385 will be delivered to the Pacific Fleet until 2028 in accordance with the contract of the Russian Defense Ministry and the Amur Shipbuilding Plant. We are talking about ships that can use hypersonic missiles "Zircon".

russian prime minister mikhail mishustin signed a decree on conducting an experiment on the operation of autonomous (unmanned) vessels from december 10, 2020 to the end of 2025, the corresponding document is published on the official website of the government. 

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