News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In mid-2022, the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus will test a laser communication system for aircraft, which is being developed as part of the UltraAir project. According to Flightglobal, a promising satellite communication system will provide data exchange at a speed of several gigabits per second. For testing, a laser communication system will be installed on the aircraft.

According to the Ministry of Defense, MiG-31BM aircraft regularly conduct training flights over the Russian Arctic

The MiG-31BM interceptor fighters have received the latest navigation system, which allows them to successfully solve tasks in the Arctic region. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the United Aircraft Corporation of the state corporation "Rostec".

Combat crews of the anti-aircraft missile and gun complexes of the ZRPK "Pantsir-S" struck the lightly armored vehicles of the simulated enemy during the exercises at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region. This was reported on Thursday, April 8, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

In June of this year, the Russian military will conduct experimental exercises using the Terminator-2 tank support combat vehicle at the Chebarkul training ground. The tactics of their use together with tank units and in separate directions will be tested.

The International Center for Commercial Space Launches will include the launch pad of the cosmodrome and an industrial complex

China plans to begin construction of another spaceport in the mainland, which will be located in the Xiangshan County of the city of Ningbo in the eastern province of Zhejiang. This was reported on Thursday by the newspaper "Zhongguo Hantianbao" with reference to the provincial government.

The multi-purpose nuclear submarine Severodvinsk (project 885, code "Ash") will become the main test base for hypersonic missiles "Zircon", a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The Kalashnikov Concern has prematurely handed over the Vikhr-1 guided missiles to the Russian Defense Ministry. The concern managed to meet the state defense order for 2021 for the delivery of guided missiles "Vikhr-1"ahead of schedule. This was reported by the press service of the company.

At the exercises in the Orenburg region, the military tested the Msta-S self-propelled artillery howitzers, the Central Military District publishes the footage.

During the tests, the upgraded frigate of the Pacific Fleet "Marshal Shaposhnikov" conducted artillery fire from the waters of the Sea of Japan at coastal targets - including invisible ones.

According to the Brazilian Navy Command, on March 30, the Federal Official Gazette published Resolution No. 90 / MB/MD of March 29, 2021 on the creation of the 1st squadron of reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (EsqdQE-1).

The M. L. Mil and N. I. Kamov National Helicopter Center (part of the Russian Helicopters holding company of the Rostec State Corporation) will accelerate the creation of new helicopters by introducing digital technologies into production.

Serbia continues to improve its own anti-aircraft missile and gun system PASARS-16 Terminator.

It is reported that he received an upgraded version of the missile from the Strela-10 military air defense system. Local defensemen carried out its refinement, installing a more advanced homing head and a launch accelerator. It is assumed that these innovations will significantly increase the capabilities of the ZRPC to combat various targets, including unmanned aerial vehicles of various types.

The Americans called their "new" fighter Eagle II. The aircraft was previously known as the Boeing F-15EX. According to a number of analysts, the car can be considered the pinnacle of the development of fourth-generation fighters.

Artillery boats and landing craft of the Caspian flotilla began the transition from Makhachkala to the Black Sea. More than ten boats of the project 1204 "Bumblebee" and landing craft of the class "Dugong" and "Serna"take part in the campaign.

On the coast of the Crimea, a large-scale operation was launched to defend the peninsula from a simulated enemy.

For training battles at sea, in the air and on land, the command of the Southern Military District attracted about one and a half thousand motorized infantry. As well as units of electronic warfare, radiation, chemical and biological protection, air defense calculations and specialists in the destruction of enemy unmanned aircraft.

The weapons are capable of fighting both air opponents, ground armored targets, and long-term firing points, said Kirill Kulakov, head of the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.

A fundamental decision has been made to deploy the latest Bal coastal complexes in the Arctic, which will be located along the entire Northern Sea Route. Together with the Bastion systems previously deployed in the Arctic, they will take control of almost the entire coastal zone in the Arctic. According to experts, with the development of a powerful defense, maritime navigation in the region will become much safer.

As reported in the information support department of the Pacific Fleet, the missile successfully hit the target at a distance of 100 km

The frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov successfully fired a Kalibr cruise missile in the Sea of Japan, hitting a surface target at a distance of 100 km. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Department of information support of the Pacific Fleet.

The training to repel a simulated enemy air raid was conducted on Sakhalin by the calculations of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District, the press service of the department reported on Wednesday.

The representative of the US Department of Defense, Mike Howard, said that the US army can not yet completely abandon the use of anti-personnel mines during combat operations. This is reported by The New York Times on Tuesday, April 6.