News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Royal Navy of Great Britain received at its disposal an autonomous robotic boat Madfox. After extensive testing, it will be adopted as part of a new strategy of warfare with the participation of rapid reaction forces.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that the mass production of the first Russian electric car is planned to start before the end of the year. Previously, the electric car was planned to start mass production in 2020.

Today, on March 26, a large diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" is launched at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. As already reported, it was built according to the project 636.3 of the Central Design Bureau "Rubin" for the Pacific Fleet and will be the third in a series of six similar ships that are assigned to serve on the Far Eastern borders.

The holding company "Roselektronika" of the State Corporation Rostec presented at the exhibition" Goszakaz-2021 " a comprehensive project to create a high-precision navigation and telecommunications system for the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

Strategic low-visibility heavy bomber B-2 Spirit of the Air Force (Air Force) The United States is "one of the most well-designed and fuel-efficient aircraft ever built for military use," writes the American magazine The National Interest.

Russian anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) S-400 "Triumph", becoming more and more advanced, probably allow you to detect and track the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and B-2 Spirit aircraft of the US Air Force (Air Force), admits the American magazine The National Interest.

The first serial medium sea tanker for the Black Sea Fleet was laid down at the Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant

The first serial medium sea tanker of the project 21130 for the Black Sea Fleet "Vasily Nikitin" was laid on Friday in Shlisselburg.

Russia has started mass production of the first four Angara-A5 heavy-class launch vehicles ordered by the Ministry of Defense. Earlier it became known that they should be delivered in 2022-2024.

The Chinese fourth-generation J-16 fighter is flawless and far superior to the Russian Su-30, writes the Global Times, referring to the statement of the instructor pilot Wang Songxi from the Air Force (Air Force) of the Northern Command of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA).

[b]They were at a distance of up to 300 m from each other, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov reported to the President of Russia.]

For the first time in history, three Russian nuclear submarines performed a simultaneous ascent from under the ice at a distance of up to 300 m from each other during an exercise in the Arctic. This was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

As reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov, the shooting was carried out during the expedition "Umka-21"

A nuclear submarine conducted a torpedo firing from under the ice during the Umka-21 expedition in the Arctic. This was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov.

The Defense Ministry has released a video for the first time showing three Russian submarines surfacing in the Arctic, breaking through the ice.

As reported by the newspaper "Kommersant" in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva, "Siberia" was not immediately built. The delivery of the nuclear icebreaker has been postponed from August to December", the first serial nuclear icebreaker "Siberia" of project 22220 (LK-60YA) will not be delivered in August, the new deadline is December.

Earlier, a TASS source said that state tests of the submarine will begin in May

The special-purpose nuclear submarine "Belgorod" of Project 09852, in addition to the nuclear unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon", will be able to carry the AS-15 nuclear deep-water station. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In the Center for Engineering and Technical Support of Rosgvardiya and in the training center "Novsky" ODON named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky, the department's specialists demonstrated the actions of the units in conditions close to combat, including the clearance of objects with the help of robotic means.

On March 26, 2021, in St. Petersburg, JSC "Admiralty Shipyards "(part of JSC" United Shipbuilding Corporation "- USC) hosted the launch ceremony of the large diesel-electric submarine B-602" Magadan " (factory number 01616) of project 06363, which is under construction for the Russian Navy. It is the third of six Project 06363 submarines under construction for the Pacific Fleet.

Front-line SU-24M bombers and SU-30SM multi-purpose fighters have practiced bombing ground targets at a training ground in the Kaliningrad region, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported.

As reported by JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" (USC), on March 26, 2021, in Shlisselburg, at LLC "Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant" (part of the "United Shipbuilding Corporation"), a laying ceremony was held for the Russian Navy of the medium sea tanker project 23130 "Vasily Nikitin" (factory number 902).

On March 25, 2021, in Astrakhan, at the shipyard of the Astrakhan Ship Repair Plant branch of JSC "Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center "(part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), a solemn ceremony was held for the laying of the rescue and towing vessel of project 22870 "Mikhail Chekov" (factory number 021), which is being built by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Russian Ural-63704-0010 "Tornado-U" was first seen on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. The military all-terrain vehicle was presented at the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2015" and became one of the main innovations of the exhibition. His show aroused considerable interest among domestic and foreign specialists.