News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A spectacular photo of ballistic missile launchers of the People's Liberation Army of China appeared on the network. Installations with raised and lowered missiles are placed on the plain, covering it all. The photo shows at least three hundred launchers.

Designed to protect personnel from mines and land mines, MRAP class armored vehicles can also successfully save them from other weapons of destruction. This is evidenced by the video posted on social networks.

The decision to dispose of the heavy nuclear cruiser "Admiral Lazarev" was made after assessing the technical condition of the ship, a source in the industry told Interfax on Thursday.

The US Air Force received the first AT-6E Wolverine aircraft. The delivery was carried out within the framework of the AERONet (Airborne Extensible Relay Over-Horizon Network) program, aimed at developing aviation science.

The rarefied atmosphere of Mars is one of the main challenges that the Ingenuity helicopter will face as part of the Perseverance rover mission. This was told to Izvestia by space expert, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics (RAK) Andrey Ionin on Thursday, February 18.

The Ministry of Defense will receive new food rations for the Airborne Forces, Marines and Special Forces

That changes in the organization of power of the fighter, the responsible editor of the "Independent military review" Dmitry LITOVKIN on the eve 321-anniversary food service, told the head of Department (food) Department of resource support of the Ministry of defense Colonel Sergei NICHELMAN.

The Atlas V launch vehicle with the rover launched in July 2020 from the Cape Canaveral space center

Specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believe that all the systems of the Perseverance spacecraft approaching Mars ("Perseverance") are working normally, the rover is ready for the landing scheduled for February 18. This was stated on Tuesday by Deputy project manager Jennifer Trosper at a press conference, which is broadcast on the agency's website.

Extreme landing of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) The USA was shown on the video. The corresponding video was posted on Instagram by former pilot-instructor Ross Francemont. The video drew the attention of The Drive.

The construction of four yet-to-be-launched multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M (885M) project is not behind schedule, and the submarines are currently on the slipways, Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of the Severodvinsk Sevmash plant, told RIA Novosti.

A Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet has completed test flights with functional mock-ups of a new hypersonic missile, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The crews of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and the Air Defense of the Western Military District used air weapons during tactical exercises. The launch of unguided aircraft missiles S-13 and S-8 can be watched on video.

The second pair of large amphibious assault ships (BDK) of Project 11711 will be transferred to the Russian Navy in 2023-2024, the ships will have 40% more displacement and, accordingly, landing capacity, Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Yantar Shipbuilding Plant (Kaliningrad), told RIA Novosti.

The Russian Armed Forces received tankers with a special bulletproof coating. They joined the logistics brigades of the operational-strategic commands and individual battalions of tank and motorized rifle divisions.

The development of military equipment in India, as a rule, is carried out for several decades, and very often the result is not so successful.

The example of the Arjun tank is illustrative. It began to be created in the 70s, it was planned that it would become the main combat vehicle of the ground forces. The volume of expected deliveries was estimated at more than 2000 pieces. However, in reality, the army has purchased only about 250 units and now expects a completely new generation of tracked vehicles from the industry.

The Indian army received the Arjun Mk 1A tank, which is a development of the not - so-successful Arjun Mk 1. The weight of the combat vehicle is 68 tons, which makes it one of the heaviest tanks in the world.

They solve the problems of obtaining and issuing data on missile launches and missile trajectories for warning about a strike at points of state and military control

All existing radar stations (radars) of the "Dnepr", "Daryal" and "Volga" types will be replaced with new radars of the "Voronezh"type. This was announced by the head of the Main Center for Warning about a Rocket Attack of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel Andrey Revenok.

The Ministry of Defense has launched a test program for a trial batch of tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator-2". The tests will take about a year, and the final decision on the purchase of these products will be made based on their results. Until the successful verification in Syria, the fate of this new type of armored vehicles remained uncertain. Now their first unit is undergoing intensive military tests. The military has yet to fully study these machines, both tactically and technically.

The Baltic Fleet has launched a competition in which the military personnel of the unmanned aviation units show their skills.

The United States has successfully tested a prototype of a deeply modernized F-15EX fighter. The event for the American defense industry is significant — the last "fifteenth" entered the army almost 20 years ago. The Pentagon is very much counting on the updated machine and assure that this program will not affect the purchase of fifth-generation aircraft. What is known about the F-15EX-in the material of RIA Novosti.

The US Navy has released rare footage of an F/A-18E Super Hornet carrier-based fighter chasing a Tomahawk cruise missile launched from a Ticonderoga-class cruiser. The time and location of the shooting, as well as the name of the shooting ship, are not reported.