News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Il-114-300 passenger aircraft will go into production in 2023, the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, said. On the air of Sputnik radio, former pilot, flight safety specialist Alexander Romanov called the main features of the upgraded version of the airliner.

The destroyer Admiral Ushakov sailed to the Barents Sea to perform combat training tasks, maneuvering and anti-sabotage defense of the ship were worked out, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Thursday.

Last week, a photo report appeared on the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from the Kadamovsky training ground (Rostov Region), where shooting was carried out with the participation of commanders of combined-arms units of the Southern Military District.

The US Navy has shown the first F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, painted in the colors of "Russia's best fighter," The Drive reports.

They have been successfully tested and are ready for transfer to the customer, said Viktor Polyakov, Deputy General Director of the United Engine Corporation

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of the Rostec state Corporation) has developed an engine for the latest frigates of the project 20386.

The United Engine Corporation announced that it can fully supply the state customer with gas turbine engines and gas turbine units in the required volumes.

The exercises involve 10 thousand military personnel, 500 units of military equipment, 32 aircraft, 12 ships and vessels

The bilateral military exercise, which involves the forces of the Eastern Military District( VVO), the Pacific Fleet, began on the Kuril Islands (Iturup and Kunashir), on Sakhalin and in the waters of the Sea of Japan, the press service of the VVO reported on Wednesday.

Sniper pairs of special forces units of the Southern Military District for the first time began to train in shooting at drones and ground objects from the side of a helicopter barraging in the air. The maximum target range is two thousand meters.

In the waters of the Sea of Japan, on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, large-scale military exercises with the participation of 10 thousand military personnel started on Wednesday, the press service of the Eastern Military District reports.

According to a source in the shipbuilding industry, "if the launches are successful, the transfer of the nuclear-powered vessel to the customer is expected at the end of 2021"

The first serial strategic missile submarine of the project 955A (code "Borey-A") "Prince Oleg" will perform at least six trips to the sea during factory and state tests. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry on the sidelines of the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

A unit of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian military base of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in South Ossetia has received modern domestic Tachyon complexes.

As the press service of the Central Military District reported on June 22, 2021, by the end of this year, eight modernized Su-34M fighter-bombers of the "4++"generation will be put into service with the mixed aviation regiment of the Central Military District (CVO) in the Chelyabinsk Region.

The Russian wheeled infantry fighting vehicle VPK-7829 on the "Boomerang" platform, shown at the MILEX 2021 military exhibition in Belarus, attracted the closest attention of military experts from the United States.

The contract for its construction was signed in April 2018

JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" will hand over the ice-resistant self-propelled platform "North Pole" to the customer in 2022. This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by the general director of the enterprise Alexander Buzakov.

It is planned to enter the factory sea trials in the third quarter of 2023

JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" will begin mooring tests of the ice-class patrol ship "Ivan Papanin" of project 23550 at the end of 2022. This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by the general director of the enterprise Alexander Buzakov.

These amphibious hovercraft are among the largest platforms of this class in the world

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of Rostec) has developed a domestic gas turbine engine (GTD) for the landing craft on the air cushion "Zubr" and "Murena". This was announced to TASS during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) by Deputy General Director-General Designer of the UEC Yuri Shmotin.

It monitors the surface and air situation and provides information about it to the command posts of the coastal surveillance system and the national Coast Guard forces

The over-the-horizon radar station (ZG radar) "Sunflower-E" was presented at the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) in St. Petersburg.

The widespread use of unmanned vehicles: flying, surface and underwater, is an important part of the modernization of the Russian Navy. Drones will rid the ships of some intelligence tools, providing in return more advanced and powerful tools for monitoring the situation, and will allow the fleet to successfully resist new threats - for example, hypersonic weapons.

According to Vladimir Korolev, vice president for military shipbuilding of the USC, the aircraft carrier will go to sea in June-July 2023 after the repair is completed for tests that will last about a year

The repair and modernization of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will be completed in 2023, and at the end of the same year it will be transferred to the Russian Navy. Vladimir Korolev, Vice-President for Military Shipbuilding of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told TASS on the sidelines of the International Naval Salon.

In addition, contracts are being prepared for the creation of coastal infrastructure for the maintenance of electronic weapons installed on ships of a foreign customer

Concern "Granit-Electron" (part of the corporation "Tactical missile weapons") in the near future will upgrade all ship-based automated control systems (CASU) 3R-60UE on ships of a foreign customer.