News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The probability of a war with Russia can no longer be called hypothetical, but the US government is not ready for it at all. This was stated in an interview with The Hill by former American intelligence officer Rebecca Koffler.

The image was taken by the Resurs-P satellite

The Russian remote sensing satellite of the Earth removed the Bagram base (Afghanistan), from where the US and NATO withdrew their forces. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Roscosmos.

The purchase of new JLTV army SUVs is hampered by the desire of the US army to maintain an existing fleet of Humvee vehicles. July 9, portal thedrive.com he reported that the US Army has submitted a request for the redistribution of funds allocated for the purchase of new cars.

According to the data presented, the first full-time carrier of the latest hypersonic missile will be the frigate Admiral Golovko. It is also known that, in addition to surface ships, submarines will use it.

The strategic nuclear submarine Tennessee of the Ohio type of the US Navy has received a passive Large Vertical Array (LVA) sonar system that provides an almost 360-degree view, which reduces the "blind spot" area in the aft part of the submarine, writes The Drive.

The crews of Su-25SM attack aircraft of the Russian Kant air base in Kyrgyzstan conducted an exercise to search for bases of conditional militants, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Saturday.

The Ministry of Defense reported that the artillery unit of the Central Military District stationed in Kuzbass received 6 modernized self-propelled anti-tank complexes 9P149 "Sturm-S" based on the tracked armored tractor MTLB.

The American company SpaceX has shown the work of a new autonomous floating platform Shortfall of Gravitas, which is designed for landing the stages of Falcon rockets. The corresponding video was published on July 9 on his Twitter account by the founder of the company, Elon Musk.

The Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense will take part in the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021" scheduled for September, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

The nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Vepr" arrived on July 10 in the Gulf of Finland to prepare and participate in the main naval parade, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.

In Ukraine, the sunken boat "Burevestnik", known in Soviet times as the boat of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was raised from the bottom of the Black Sea in the port of Odessa.

The last time about the corvettes "Reshef "("Saar-72" for the Israeli Navy) I wrote in November 2019. Then the company announced that it had signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense for the development and construction of a new generation of rocket ships to replace the Saar-4.5, but apparently it was only a preliminary design.

In honor of the 85th anniversary of the 38th Research Institute of Armored Weapons and Equipment, journalists were shown how "Armata" shoots at a fellow strong Soviet T-64 tank. The Zvezda TV channel showed the process in all possible forms: from outside from different angles, in slow motion, from the Armata control room and from inside the target tank.

Virgin Galactic's Unity rocket plane with its billionaire owner Richard Branson on board on Sunday, July 11, reached the Pocket line, which is considered the boundary of space. The flight was broadcast on the company's YouTube.

On board Cygnus will be, among other things, a 3D printer that uses a material that simulates the soil of the Moon, an air purification device for carbon dioxide, a mounting bracket

The next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) using the Cygnus cargo ship is scheduled for August 10. This was announced on Wednesday by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The Turkish media do not miss the opportunity to remind about domestic drones, which have become the property of the country for many. And again there was a reason. The analysis, published on the British defense industry information platform called "Drone Wars", contains very flattering reviews and even bold statements.

The US Air Force conducted a test detonation of a conventional warhead of an AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic air-launched missile, according to a message from military representatives of the Elgin Air Base (Florida).

Astronomers from the University of Arizona (USA) and the University of Paris Sciences et Lettres (France) have discovered a mysterious source of methane, which is probably hiding in the ocean under the icy crust of Enceladus, Saturn's moon. This source can be living organisms. The discovery is described in an article published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

Russian artillery has traditionally been considered one of the best in the world, which has been repeatedly confirmed by numerous wars and military conflicts.

MBDA Group announced the signing of several contracts for the modernization of air defense systems/ABOUT six destroyers of the Type-45 class of the British Navy.