News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The American company SpaceX plans to launch another batch of 60 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday, according to the specialized website Spaceflight Now.

Specialists of electronic warfare (EW) of the Army Corps of the Eastern Military District (VVO) on Sakhalin conducted exercises to suppress the control channels of the simulated enemy drones and cellular communications, the press service of the VVO reported on Wednesday.

A large-scale exercise with the Novosibirsk missile formation of the Strategic Missile Forces, which is armed with the Yars PGRK, ended in the Novosibirsk region. Large-sized equipment returned to the points of permanent deployment.

The issue of modernization is being worked out by the state Corporation "Roscosmos" with partners from Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates

The contract for the modernization of the Gagarin Launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome for the launch of Soyuz-2 launch vehicles will be designed for three years. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure (CENKI) Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov.

[b]They included representatives of the military and diplomatic corps from 52 countries of the CIS, Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.]

The Russian military demonstrated to military attaches from 52 countries live firing from the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems and the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The mine defense ship "Pyotr Ilyichev" of the project 12700 was launched at the Sredne-Nevsky shipyard, the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports.

The United States is ahead of other countries in terms of the technical equipment of the ordinary soldier. Another example is a video from an exercise where soldiers of the 4th Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Regiment use the latest ENVG-B thermal imaging binoculars.

The promising strategic low-visibility B-21 Raider bomber of the US Air Force, called the killer of the Russian S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile systems, is a ray of light in the Pentagon budget, the American magazine Popular Mechanics admits.

France on Wednesday conducted a test launch of the M51 submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile, the country's defense ministry said.

It should go to Jupiter and its moons in May 2022

The JUICE spacecraft has begun undergoing the first pre-flight tests in the laboratories of the European Space Agency (ESA). This is reported by the official Twitter of the mission.

[b]Astronomers assume that a large star or some other object is orbiting around them.]

The eROSITA telescope, installed on board the Russian-German space observatory "Spektr-RG", has discovered two galaxies, supermassive black holes in the center of which recently awoke and began to produce periodic flashes of light and energy. This is reported by the press service of the Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics of the Max Planck Society (MPE).

The latest modification of the Russian armored vehicle "Shot" K-43269 is currently used in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. Judging by the photo published on social networks, we have a version with the MB2-04 combat compartment.

The Russian diesel-electric submarine Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (built for the Pacific Fleet) has carried out training torpedo firing from an underwater position in the Baltic Sea, the Russian Baltic Fleet said on Wednesday.

The images were taken during Ingenuity's third flight on April 25. They show the rover, as well as the surface of the Red Planet.

Two new motorized rifle regiments have been created in the Kaliningrad region, it follows from the message of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation. In recent years, Russia has strengthened its military infrastructure in the western direction, in particular, in the Kaliningrad region.

The company demonstrated to the representatives of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission the implemented methods of mathematical computer modeling, with the help of which it is possible to almost halve the debugging and testing processes of aircraft components and components.

Russian shipbuilders will lay down six ships and submarines for the Victory Day. This was reported on Tuesday, April 27, by TASS, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.

It has completed the factory test program

The carrier of the Kalibr and Uran cruise missile systems, the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate, has joined the permanent readiness forces of the Pacific Fleet, the fleet's press service said on Tuesday.

Delivery of objects to the agency is planned in October 2022

The Vostochnaya Verf plant in Primorye, under contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, will build two berths for parking submarines and surface ships and a universal ramp ramp that allows you to install floating berths on an unequipped shore. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the company.

It was postponed due to an unfavorable weather forecast

The manned Crew Dragon spacecraft of the American company SpaceX will land on May 1, a few days later than planned. This was announced on Monday by the press service of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).