News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The US Coast Guard Command announced the launch ceremony of the Sentinel – class FRC (Fast Response Cutter) (WPC 1141) "Charles Moulthrope" (Charles Moulthrope), which took place at the Portsmouth base.

State tests of "Zircons" will be completed in 2021

On Friday, the Ministry of Defense held a Single day of acceptance of military equipment. About what weapons, military and special equipment entered the troops in 2020 and what weapons the army and navy expect in the near future, says "Газета.Ru".

The S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system has entered combat duty in the Samara region, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Friday.

According to the entrepreneur, the existing rules of the US Federal Aviation Administration can become a serious obstacle to the development of the Red Planet by humans. Recall that the next tests of the prototype of the Starship space system are due to take place soon.

The ships are supposed to be equipped with Kalibr-NK complexes

Three more ships of the Buyan-M project, which are supposed to be equipped with Kalibr-NK complexes, are under construction, Renat Mistakhov, General Director of Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation, said on Saturday during the flag-raising ceremony on the new Grayvoron Black Sea Fleet ship in Sevastopol.

The Black Sea Fleet (BSF) will be provided with six warships and four auxiliary vessels by the end of the year. This was announced on Saturday, January 30, by the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Igor Osipov.

The new ship will mainly operate in the seas of the Arctic Ocean as part of the Arctic group of the Northern Fleet

The large landing ship (BDK) "Peter Morgunov", built at the Baltic Shipyard "Yantar" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), completed the interbase transition from the Baltic and arrived at the main base point in the Northern Fleet - Severomorsk. This was reported on Friday by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The NASIC report reflects either chaos in the US intelligence community, or ignorance of the situation

The US Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) earlier this year published a report on threats to the United States from ballistic and cruise missiles from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. Military observer " of the Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok dealt with the details of the document, which allows us to assess the potential of the world's largest nuclear powers.

Russian shipbuilders held a ceremony of launching a new patrol ship of the project 22160. He became the fourth representative of the series.

The now revived motorized rifle regiment will be part of the new motorized rifle division of the 11th Army Corps, formed on December 1, 2020.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the military will work out the reflection of an air strike of a simulated enemy using the S-400 Triumph air defense systems on February 4-5 near St. Petersburg.

The Drive rated the first electric torpedo created in Russia since the Cold War

The attention of The Drive portal was attracted by the news that an electric torpedo successfully passed state tests in Russia. This was recently announced by the General Director of the corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons" Boris Obnosov.

In Arab social networks, a video of the flight at an extremely low altitude of the Mi-35M helicopter appeared. The air incident occurred over one of the highways in Iraq.

One of the satellites of the Chinese gamma-ray monitor of the whole sky GECAM registered its first gamma-ray burst. It is assumed that it may be associated with a magnetar in our galaxy or be the result of the merger of two compact objects. A circular about the discovery of the burst is published on the website of the Gamma-ray Burst Coordinate Network.

According to Sergey Savelyev, the company's deputy director for international cooperation, four of them will be held from the Baikonur cosmodrome and three each from Vostochny and Kourou

Roscosmos plans to launch 10 Soyuz-2 and Soyuz-ST launch vehicles this year in the interests of foreign partners. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for international Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

In total, the British company intends to deploy about 600 satellites in low-Earth orbit

Roscosmos plans to carry out eight launches under the OneWeb program from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kourou cosmodromes. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for international Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

The Russian remote mine clearance vehicle "Foliage", created for the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), will be equipped with a more powerful microwave gun during the modernization, which will increase the range of mine detonation, the state corporation"Rostec" told RIA Novosti.

The next stage of the joint maneuvers will involve one of the Russian frigates

The mobile coastal anti-ship missile system (BPKRK) "Bastion" as part of the exercise made a march to the positional area on the territory of Crimea, the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) said on Thursday.

The US Army has announced the preparation of an upgraded M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tank for artillery tests at the Fort Hood test site in Texas. The new version is heavier than the previous ones, which casts doubt on its use-especially in Europe.

The unfinished missile cruiser "Ukraine" of the Atlant project became a "suitcase without a handle"for Ukraine itself.

Throughout independence, all governments alternately passed this "passing pennant" to each other, promising to sell it abroad, since this burden is too heavy for the budget and the cruiser does not fit into the structure of the fleet.