News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Igla man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) units intercepted an unmanned "swarm" of a simulated enemy during the All-Army Field Training competition among the air defense units of the military air Defense named after Colonel General B. I. Dukhov.

Since the beginning of the year, the troops of the Western Military District (ZVO) have received about 300 units of military and special equipment under the state defense order, said the commander of the troops of the ZVO, Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev.

Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding (ADSB) announced the conclusion of a contract with the Ministry of Defense and the command of the UAE Navy worth 3.5 billion dirhams (about 952.8 million dollars) for the construction of four patrol ships of the Falaj-3 class (Falaj-3).

"Kalashnikov" boasted of its improved missiles. On May 26, the press service of the company announced the successful completion of flight tests of guided missiles "Vortex".

The American company SpaceX has conducted 100 successful launches of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket in a row, according to Ars Technica. The publication notes that the last launch of the carrier took place on May 26, when the Starlink satellites were delivered to Earth orbit.

There was information about the fall of a fighter designed to simulate an air battle with the enemy during the training of American pilots. Videos from the crash site have also been released.

A US Army Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopter has made an emergency landing during an exercise in Romania. This happened last Tuesday in the district of Pecinaga, a commune in the district of Constanta (Northern Dobruja).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the armed forces should receive sufficiently high-precision long-range weapons.

The Russian Defense Ministry needs a much larger number of military transport planes and helicopters, President Vladimir Putin said.

Analysis of military conflicts shows that the use of cruise missiles is playing a growing role. This was announced on May 27 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Rare examples of military equipment for Libya can now be seen during the preparation of the military parade of the formations of the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Field Marshal Haftar.

Rehearsals for the ceremony are being held at the Benin air base near Benghazi. It seems that the LNA command has concentrated most of its available forces on this military facility.

The Ministry of Defense reported that this is the largest vessel built in the entire history of the Vympel enterprise

The latest naval armament transport "Gennady Dmitriev" of the 20360M project will be launched on June 1 at the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk. This was reported on Thursday to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Members of the crew of the only submarine of the Polish Navy criticized the command of the fleet and reported on the deplorable condition of the submarine. This is reported by the portal "Military Review" with reference to the Polish edition of Gazeta Wyborcza.

In the Moscow region, on the basis of the Patriot Park, Russian sappers showed how the latest means of engineering weapons work and how to train specialists in humanitarian demining. The participants of the 4th International Conference on Mine Clearance looked at what protective equipment Russian sappers use, how they search for mines and explosive objects, as well as what tools are used in mine clearance and clearing the area.

The company "Stankoprom", which is under the management of "RT-Capital" of the State Corporation Rostec, and the German manufacturer TRAWEMA GMBH signed an agreement on the localization of production of mobile turning and milling complexes that have no analogues in Russia. 

The module confirmed the claimed characteristics for detecting both small-sized aircraft and helicopters, and mini-unmanned aerial vehicles

The Russian military has successfully tested an economical radar module that can detect planes and drones the size of a sheet of A4 paper, said Colonel Viktor Pigarev, Deputy Chief of the Air Defense and Aviation Forces of the Western Military District, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

The next stages of the project are planned to be completed during 2021-2022

Tula "Instrument Design Bureau" (KBP, part of the NGO "High-Precision Complexes" of the state Corporation "Rostec") and the operators of the scientific company of the Military Innovation Technopolis "Era" are working on the modernization of radar systems developed by KBP to increase their ability to detect low-visibility targets, including anti-ship missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as ground and underwater robotics. This was reported to TASS by the press service of "High-precision complexes".

The crew of the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" fired the anti-aircraft missile system "Calm" during a joint exercise with the anti-ship missile systems "Utes "and" Bal", the Black Sea Fleet reported on Wednesday.

The Army and operational-tactical aviation of the Southern Military District conducted a massive relocation to field airfields. About 100 planes and helicopters of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense participated in the exercises to withdraw aircraft from the attack of the simulated enemy.

More than 50 units of the second-generation anti-tank missile systems "Fagot" entered service with the motorized rifle unit of the Southern Military District (SE), stationed in the Stavropol Territory.