News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin denied reports that in a conversation with the head of NASA Bill Nelson confirmed his readiness to extend the work of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030. He announced this in his Telegram channel.

An agreement on extending the work of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030 was not reached during a conversation with the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, to begin with, the United States should lift sanctions from the enterprises of Roscosmos, said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos has announced plans to improve the location accuracy of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS to 10 cm after 2030. This was announced on Saturday, June 5, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the materials of the state corporation posted on the public procurement portal.

Roscosmos does not rule out NASA's participation in the project of a new space station, but this issue will be resolved later, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

Humanity is not ready for flights to Mars in the near future, the corresponding plans are technically illiterate and absurd, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The crew of the world's oldest ship "Commune" of the Black Sea Fleet (it traces its history back to the Imperial Russian Navy) successfully tested the underwater inhabited search and rescue vehicle AS-28 at sea.

Russia is conducting non-nuclear experiments at the test site on Novaya Zemlya, aimed at confirming the reliability of the domestic nuclear arsenal, said the head of the 12th Main (Nuclear Weapons) Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Kolesnikov.

It is expected that the production of 30-mm VOG shots for the AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher will be made from components of domestic production and individual materials produced by the chemical industry of one of the NATO member states.

Missions will be sent in 2028-2030

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to send two missions to study Venus. This is stated on Wednesday in a statement of the organization published on the official website.

At the Vostochny cosmodrome, new frauds worth hundreds of millions of rubles were revealed, the investigative department of the TFR in the Amur Region opened two criminal cases. This became known to the newspaper "Kommersant".

Russian scientists from 3D Bioprinting Solutions have started an experiment to transplant bone tissue obtained in space to rats. This was announced on Thursday, June 3, by the managing partner of the company, Youssef Hesuani, to RIA Novosti.

The device will be used for weather forecasts and disaster prevention, Xinhua news agency reports.]

China has successfully launched the Fengyun-4-bi meteorological satellite into the specified orbit. This was reported on Thursday by the Xinhua news agency.

Russia continues to build a factory in Venezuela for the licensed production of AK-103 and ammunition, a source familiar with the work told Interfax.

The servicemen of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine were left without an underground training complex with engineering communications. It was flooded, so the complex is not suitable for its intended use.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will deliver nine ships to the Russian Navy in 2021, the head of the USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, said.

Unknown people previously painted the space shuttle with graffiti

Roscosmos took the Buran spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome facility under round-the-clock security. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin at SPIEF-2021.

The Soviet T-72 tank in the 90s was one of the most common modern tanks in the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that proposals for their further modernization have begun to appear in many countries.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin spoke about the threats in the near future that the Russian military sees. According to him, the most serious security challenges and threats are caused by several recent trends in the world.

In Ukraine, they said that they managed to localize the Soviet 23-mm twin anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2. According to the "Ukrainian Militaristic Portal", the first sample is currently located at the Rivne test site, where it is checked by specialists of the State Research Institute for Testing and Certification of Weapons and Military Equipment.

Russia is considering the possibility of creating a reusable super-heavy rocket that could be used for flights to the moon. Earlier it became known that the appearance of the carrier "Yenisei" will be revised.