News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Next year, the Baltic fleet will continue to form another motorized rifle unit with a location in the Kaliningrad region.

According to Indian media, on November 29 at the enterprise of the Indian company Larsen and Toubro in Surat (Gujarat) the 54th and last C-454 interceptor speedboat was handed over to the Indian Coast guard.

The VN-1 armoured personnel carriers purchased by Gabon last year in China have demonstrated low technical reliability during operation.

It became known that these samples of equipment serving in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, constantly experience problems with the engines.

The first aircraft carrier developed and built by the Indian defense industry, the Vikrant (IAC-1-Indigenous Aircraft Carrier), successfully completed mooring tests on November 30, 2020, which included checking the systems and equipment installed on Board.

United engine Corporation Rostec has applied new materials and modern technologies to increase the engine life of the Yak-130 combat training aircraft.

Ultralight tactical vehicles are finding more and more buyers in the world. Yesterday, November 30, portal armyrecognition.com reported that the German defense Ministry announced the signing of a contract for the supply of vehicles based on Polaris MRZR for special operations forces.

The Russian military has deployed the S-300V4 air defense system on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern military district (VVO) said on Tuesday.

The Chinese Chang'e-5 probe landed gently on the surface of the moon

The Chinese Chang'e-5 spacecraft made a soft landing on the surface of the moon. In the near future, it will start drilling the ground to deliver samples to Earth. If everything goes smoothly, China will become the third country to deliver a piece of the moon to Earth.

Over the past 12 months, means of the over-the-horizon detection radar (zgo) "Container", located in Mordovia, were detected" flights of inconspicuous fighters of NATO countries", reports"RTI". The latter include the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

The Russian squadron in the Mediterranean sea has more than 10 ships, including the Admiral Essen frigate equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles and the Vyshny Volochyok small missile ship, the Russian black sea fleet said on Tuesday.

The export of hydrogen, 5-7% of which can be added to natural gas transported through pipelines without negative technological effects, can become a global Russian-European project. This was announced on Tuesday by Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the management Board of RUSNANO management company, at the plenary session of the Russian-European climate conference.

Three aircraft of this type are purchased by gtlk

The state transport leasing company (STLC) will order the first series of three promising Russian Il-114-300 aircraft, according to the tender documents reviewed by Izvestia. The contract with the United aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of rostec) will be the first order for this type of aircraft. Currently, only one Il-114-300 aircraft is ready, it is being prepared for flight tests and has not yet received a type certificate. The customer expects the first serial copy in 2023. The aircraft will be in demand, although it will not fully replace the Soviet an-24, experts say. A key factor in the project's payback will be its after-sales service, which is traditionally the Achilles ' heel of the Russian aviation industry, experts say.

Boats can perform diving operations at depths up to 60 m

Flags of the search and rescue service were raised on the newest RAID diving boats of the Pacific fleet (TOF), which will be based in Kamchatka. This was reported by the press service of the military Department on Monday.

Radio training was conducted with the communications units of the 41st combined arms army stationed in the Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions, as well as in the Altai territory, using a new generation of communications equipment.

A prototype of the Vitacycle-T greenhouse for growing edible biomass on the ISS will be ready next year, the press service of the high-Tech research Institute of inorganic materials named after academician A. A. Bochvar reported.

The ground-based Subaru telescope was able to see in the sky the Japanese interplanetary station Hayabusa-2, which is supposed to drop a capsule with the substance of the asteroid Ryugu into the atmosphere of our planet on December 5. The images obtained by the telescope helped clarify the station's trajectory, according to the telescope's website.

There was a video of the return to the concrete of the an-124 "Ruslan" transport plane, which rolled out of the runway during an emergency landing at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo airport.

Four top-secret submarines tried to characterize the expert portal Covert Shores. Data on submarines that don't even have public names was obtained by intelligence and by studying satellite images.

Coastal missile systems "Bastion" and " Bal " destroyed the ship of a simulated enemy during exercises in the Black sea. This was announced on Monday, November 30, by the information support Department of the black sea fleet (BSF) of Russia.

the US air force equips the B-1B bomber with hypersonic weapons

Created decades ago, the American supersonic strategic bomber with a variable sweep wing B-1B Lancer ("Ulan") of the US air force will acquire new combat capabilities - the ability to use hypersonic weapons.