News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Combat crews of the air and missile defense forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces have successfully launched a new missile of the Russian missile defense system (ABM). This happened at the Sary-Shagan test site in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

China has decided to conduct a lunar mission "Chang'e-6" in 2024. This will be the second Chinese return mission to a satellite of our planet.

The Indonesian navy simultaneously lost a combat submarine and 53 sailors. On April 24, the press service of the Indonesian Navy announced the official death of the submarine Nanggala-402, lost last week.

In Serbia, they worked on their own new-generation tank, which received the preliminary designation M-20UP1. Information about this was announced in the summer of 2015.

At the same time, several images of a promising machine were made public, which outwardly very much resembled the T-14 on the heavy unified Armata platform.

Two large amphibious assault ships of the Northern Fleet, the Alexander Otrakovsky and the Kondopoga, remain in the Black Sea after major exercises near Crimea, the Russian military said on Monday.

The pilots of the Su-27 fighter jets of the Baltic Fleet Naval Aviation unit played a training battle with the planes of a simulated enemy over the Kaliningrad region.

The crews of the landing boats "Ivan Kartsov", "D-704" and "D-57" and "D-107" of the brigade of landing ships of the Pacific Fleet for two days conducted joint tactical and special training with the Marine Corps units on loading and unloading the landing troops on the unequipped coast of Russian Island.

The program for creating a Russian-Chinese station on an Earth satellite involves three main stages. The implementation of the first of them should begin this year.

The first navigation spacecraft of the new generation, Glonass-K2, will be launched into orbit at the end of 2021. This is reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the company "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolai Testoedov.

Recently, it has become fashionable for many weapons manufacturers to show footage of the destruction of Soviet or Russian-made weapons.

The exhibition of radar weapons systems, organized by the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA), China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) and China Electronics Corporation (CEC), opened in Nanjing.

The control check of combat readiness of more than 15 thousand servicemen of the Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District for the winter training period was successfully completed. The exercises were held on the territory of the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, and Ivanovo regions.

FAR EAST-Two naval anti-submarine strike groups of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) attacked a submarine of a simulated enemy in the Sea of Japan during an exercise, the press service of the fleet reported.

To create the station, China plans to carry out 11 launches in the next two years

The heavy launch vehicle "Changzheng 5B" (CZ-5B) for the launch of the main module of the Chinese space station on Friday was sent to the launch pad of the Wenchang cosmodrome, located on the northeast coast of Hainan Island. This was reported by the newspaper "Chinese Cosmonautics".

The logistics support units of the Central Military District (CVO) will deliver more than two and a half thousand tons of cargo for various purposes to remote garrisons of the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov on Friday sums up the results of the interspecific command and staff exercises (KShU) with the participation of the Northern Fleet, which were held since April 19, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

A video of a "hurricane" take-off of a US Air Force CV-22B Osprey tiltrotor from the helipad of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, has appeared online.

The aircraft missile "Armored truck" will be delivered to the troops after 2023. This is due to the time of formation of the plans of the Russian Ministry of Defense for procurement and the technological cycle of missile production.

The Falcon 9 heavy rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from the site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast on Twitter is conducted by SpaceX.

The head of Roscosmos previously reported that RSC Energia set the task of ensuring the readiness of the first base module for the new Russian space station in 2025

The new manned spacecraft with the crew "Eagle" can fly in 2025 not to the International Space Station (ISS), but to the Russian station, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Friday.