News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Voronezh Aircraft Factory is capable of producing up to 12 IL-112 light transport aircraft per year.

This was stated in PJSC "Il". According to the United Aircraft Corporation, the second flight of the aircraft took place on March 30, 2021, and its duration was about 30 minutes. The tests were considered successful.

Serial deliveries of the Magister air defense control system will begin this year. This was announced on Wednesday, March 31, by the press service of the state Corporation "Rostec".

Military personnel of the automobile repair unit of the Russian military base in Abkhazia, as part of a tactical and special exercise at the Tsabal training ground, evacuated conditionally damaged equipment, using the latest REM-KL repair and evacuation vehicles in a combined-arms battle.

The President agreed that nationalization is possible "if the owners do not cope with the current work and can not effectively use, including the assistance from the state, which is generally provided."

VNII "Signal" proposed to modernize the artillery from obsolete guns

In Russia, it was proposed to create a "smart" artillery from obsolete guns. For this purpose, the Signal Research Institute plans to develop a set of unified equipment that will provide automatic data entry for firing on towed guns. In turn, this will allow them to upgrade to the level of highly effective artillery systems. Military observer " of the Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok dealt with the company's initiatives.

In March, the specialists of the Ship Repair Center "Zvezdochka" in Severodvinsk completed the unloading of the core of the nuclear reactor of the burned-out nuclear deep-water station (AGS) AS-31 "Losharik" project 10831, TASS reports, citing a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Baltic Fleet corvette Stoyky and the tanker Kola, which are on a long cruise, completed the passage of the Suez Canal and entered the Mediterranean Sea after navigation in this blocked water corridor was restored.

The crew of a diesel-electric submarine dived to a depth of 190 meters in the sea ranges of the Baltic Fleet.

The fifth submarine of the Yasen-M project will be the first to receive the latest missile system

The newest hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon" was identified as a carrier submarine. The first production submarine with these munitions in the arsenal will be the Perm. All subsequent cruisers of the Yasen-M project will also be equipped with these complexes. The new weapon will allow submarines to deliver high-precision strikes both on enemy ships and on ground targets, experts say.

Tu-142 aircraft flew over the Northern and Barents Seas, as well as over the North-Eastern Atlantic. As reported in the press service of the Northern Fleet, the crews of two long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 performed a scheduled flight. "After working out the flight task, the pilots landed at the Kipelovo airfield in the Vologda region," the press service noted.

Two long-range anti-submarine aircraft of the Russian Navy Tu-142 on Monday flew near Alaska, said the Joint Aerospace Defense Command of North America (NORAD).

The state and prospects of the French naval forces

Although France is located on the continent, military construction in this country is much like the Anglo-Saxon, with the main focus not on the army, but on the navy. But as pioneers of aviation, the French are not indifferent to the Air Force.

The creation of high-tech weapons is possible only on the basis of solid-state technologies

Laser weapons are firmly established in real life and their first use in the war of Argentina and England for the Falkland Islands, when the simplest LO was used to blind the enemy, was just the beginning.

The Pentagon has finally decided on the strike armament of the newest Zamvolt-type destroyers. The US Navy requested a version of the upgraded ships with launchers for hypersonic missiles — the current mines did not fit in size. With the help of three improved "Zamvolts" (two are already in service, one is being tested), Washington expects to put pressure on possible opponents in the world's oceans.

The Zenit 3-12x50 sight and other optical devices of the Shvabe holding company of the Rostec State Corporation will be tested during the expedition to Novaya Zemlya, the press service of the holding company reports.

According to a TASS source, the repair and modernization of the Admiral Vinogradov BOD will begin in 2021

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of Project 1155 "Admiral Vinogradov "of the Pacific Fleet (TOF), following the example of a similar BOD" Marshal Shaposhnikov", will become a frigate by 2025, having received Kalibr-NK cruise missiles to increase its strike capabilities.

A unique aircraft with a new electronic warfare system was used in a planned tactical flight exercise of the Air Force units stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

The crew of the small rocket ship "Grad Sviyazhsk" of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) conducted a training for the fight for the survivability of the ship on special simulators of the training complex "Caspian".

This number will meet the needs of the Ministry of Defense in military transport aircraft of this type, said the Deputy General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation, which is part of Rostec.

As training targets, target missiles such as "Strizh", "Armavir", "Pischal" and "Saman"were used

The Ministry of Defense showed footage of combat firing of S-400 anti-aircraft systems and Buk-M2 complexes at an exercise in Buryatia.