News about the state and prospects of the defense industry
Mold spores were able to survive a flight to Mars
Spores of black mold and some bacteria can survive the takeoff of a spacecraft and a trip to Mars, astrobiologists have found. As a result, such spores become dangerous for astronauts, according to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.
Everyone needs light machine guns
The Kalashnikov Concern expects to start mass production of the new RPL-20 belt machine gun after its adoption and testing in the military, said the general director of the concern Dmitry Tarasov.
The Russian army will receive more than 800 tanks and other armored vehicles this year
A batch of new T-90M "Proryv"tanks is expected to arrive
The Russian army this year will be reinforced with more than 800 units of new and modernized armored vehicles - tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armored personnel carriers (APCs), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
Chinese automaker Geely to launch commercial satellites in 2021
Chinese automaker Geely Holdings Group will launch commercial satellites this year, the company said.
The American Cygnus delivered to the ISS, among other things, fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as several varieties of cheese
The US cargo spacecraft Cygnus, which successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, brought fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as cheese, to the crew members, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said.
Hypersonic remaking: How new systems are changing the global arms market
Buyers are already making demands about the ability to resist them
The hypersonic revolution has begun in the world. According to Izvestia sources familiar with the situation on the arms market, foreign buyers are already demanding that many Russian systems be able to resist hypersonic weapons (GZO).
Heavy Killer
The US Air Force buys an analog of the Su-57. It will become the most armed fighter in the world
In February, the fourth-generation American fighter jet, the Boeing F-15EX Advanced Eagle, took off for the first time. The plane was in the sky over Lambert International Airport in St. Louis (Missouri) for an hour and a half.
Serial deliveries of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of new T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks have begun"
The Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, Rostec) has started serial deliveries of new T-90M Proryv tanks to the Russian Defense Ministry, the UVZ press service told Interfax.
What prevents Russia from creating a large military fleet for Iran
Iran, according to its representatives, for the first time in its history began to build "large warships". Is this ambitious country preparing a full-fledged navy to confront the United States? Is she able to do it on her own? Maybe Russia should help Iran in this?
The US military bought a lot of ancient, but domestic chips
GlobalFoundries has signed a contract with the Pentagon to supply several batches of chips for the US Army. Their purpose is unknown, and the first shipment is scheduled for 2023. All chips will be 45-nanometer, although by 2023 the main chip suppliers are going to master the 3-nanometer process.
Remdiesel will develop the first protected tank tractor "Tornado-K"."
Chief designer of the company Igor Zarakhovich said that Remdiesel is testing more than 10 modifications of the Typhoon-K armored car.]
JSC "Remdiesel" is testing more than 10 modifications of the armored car "Typhoon-K". This was stated in an interview with TASS on the eve of the international arms exhibition IDEX 2021, which will be held from February 21 to 25 in Abu Dhabi, said the chief designer of the enterprise Igor Zarakhovich.
The maneuver of two Su-57s was captured on video from a drone
The super-maneuverability of the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters attracted the attention of Internet users, who appreciated the video of flights at the Aviadarts competition in 2018.
In Zelenodolsk, the 13th serial special purpose boat of the project 21980 "Grachonok" was laid down"
On February 19, JSC" Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky "held a solemn ceremony of laying the hull of the serial anti-sabotage boat project 21980" Grachonok "(developer of JSC "KB" Vimpel " (Nizhny Novgorod)).
The bombs and missiles hit home
In the Kaliningrad Region, pilots of the Baltic Fleet naval aviation performed bombing and rocket firing as part of a planned combat training.
American rover worked as a photographer
Specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) received images taken at the time of landing of the Perseverance rover ("Perseverance») to the Red Planet. They were demonstrated on Friday at a briefing broadcast on the NASA website.
Small anti-submarine ship "Brest" repelled a training attack from the air
The small anti-submarine ship "Brest" of the Northern Fleet during exercises at the training ground in the Barents Sea repelled a training air attack. This was reported in the press service of the Northern Fleet.
The Russian military will put a new S-400 division on combat duty on Sakhalin
The S-400 air defense systems division will take up combat duty on Sakhalin in the middle of next week, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
At UVZ, they told about the tests of the active protection system of the Arena-E tanks"
Test active protection system (KAZ) tanks "arena-e", is able to reflect all the tank hazardous munitions, including the U.S. Javelin anti-tank missiles will be completed soon, said on Sunday, RIA Novosti General Director - chief designer of the Ural design Bureau of transport machine-building (UKBTM, part of the concern "Uralvagonzavod") Andrey Terlikov.
A workshop for the assembly of light-engine aircraft was opened on the basis of JSC "Concern KEMZ" in Dagestan
JSC "Concern KEMZ" (Kizlyar, Dagestan) has opened a new workshop for the assembly of light-engine aircraft at its base.
"Russia has its own line of kamikaze drones»
Industrial Director of the Rostec weapons complex Bekhan Ozdoev-about the future of combat drones, the prospects of Armata and the latest Kalashnikov assault rifles
The past year 2020 has also been a difficult one for the Russian military-industrial complex. Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the armament complex of the Rostec State Corporation, told Izvestia about how the coronavirus epidemic affected the implementation of international contracts and state defense orders, whether Armata will become unmanned and when domestic kamikaze attack drones will appear.
