News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

KnAAZ has implemented a project for the digital identification of aircraft components. The work on the project was carried out in several stages. First, the specialists of the Quality management and Standardization department of KnAAZ tested barcoding as an element of automation in the production and storage of tools.

On January 22, Austal USA announced on its Twitter page about the keel laying ceremony of the EPF (Expeditional Fast Transport) class "Sperheed", intended for the US Navy, held at the enterprise in Mobile (Alabama).

More than 20 units of modern weapons and special military equipment will be received in 2021 by the units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, the press service of the CVO reports.

The crews of MiG-31BM fighter-interceptors and Su-24 tactical front-line bombers of the separate mixed aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet refueled in the air from the Il-78 tanker aircraft of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. The refueling took place in the Arctic sky.

Now the technical readiness of the facility is 80%

Specialists of the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) in Sevastopol plan to complete work on the Alrosa submarine in 2021, a representative of the company told TASS on Monday.

The updated berthing infrastructure in Baltiysk will be commissioned this year.

The upgraded berths with a length of about 3 kilometers will allow placing ships in the Baltic Naval Base, including ships of promising projects from the 3rd to the 1st rank-guard ships, corvettes, frigates, destroyers.

Starting this year, the Ground Forces ' rocket scientists will work closely with the Navy. The Iskander-M operational and tactical complexes (OTRK) will be able to support the Navy's operations at a range of up to 500 km and destroy the objects of a possible enemy with great accuracy. Such joint training has become a trend in combat training in recent years. The main target for the complexes may be priority coastal structures and equipment: air bases, radars and command centers, experts say.

Work on its modernization has been completed

The modernization of the transmitting and receiving parts of the Don-2N radar station has been completed. At the moment, the radar is undergoing final preparation for testing, said the commander of the anti-missile defense unit of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Major General Sergei Grabchuk.

The first batch of the latest artillery reconnaissance systems "Penicillin" has arrived in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the General director of the concern "Vega" (part of the Russian Electronics Corporation "Rostec") told RIA Novosti") Vyacheslav Mikheev.

Scouts of the Eastern Military District tested the Tiger-M armored vehicles that entered service at the training ground in the Amur region in conditions of severe frosts, the press service of the district reported on Friday.

Acting US Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, shortly before leaving office in January, held a press conference during which he called the fifth-generation F-35 fighter " a piece of...". A transcript of the event was posted on the Pentagon's website.

The Don-2N multi-functional radar, the central and most complex element of the Russian missile defense system, has been upgraded and is being prepared for testing. The performance of the computing system has increased by four orders of magnitude, and its size has decreased fourfold.

The Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School received a batch of small-sized satellite communication stations "Belozer".

A new crack has been discovered on the International Space Station (ISS). This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia-24" by the head of the flight of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Solovyov, TASS reports.

The shipbuilders of the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) brought the mine defense ship "Pyotr Ilyichev" of the project 12700 "Alexandrite"out of the workshop.

Five high-altitude supersonic fighter-interceptor MiG-31BM, after the repair and modernization will be available until the end of 2021 on the arms of the fighter wing Association air force and air defense CVO stationed in the Krasnoyarsk region.

The crew of the Baltic Fleet corvette "Stoyky", which went on a long voyage, conducted an exercise in the Mediterranean Sea to counter air strikes.

The Russian government has instructed the Treasury to check the contract for the construction of the launch complex for the Angara rockets at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The corresponding decree, signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Among the announced items: a rail booster, drones that can be launched into the air with a grenade launcher, electromagnetic cannons and combat lasers.

The Turkish defense company Lapis Havacılık has opened a factory in Ankara for the serial production of unmanned aerial vehicles.

According to the Anadolu agency, Lapis Havacılık has been developing unmanned aircraft since 2015.