News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

the Helicopters have passed all necessary ground and flight tests

Russian Helicopters holding (part of rostec) has completed the transfer of Ka-52 helicopters as part of the state defense order for 2020. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the holding.

The South of Russia will be protected by wheeled thermobaric flamethrowers. The southern military district (SE) will be the first to be re-equipped with the latest heavy flamethrower systems TOS-2 or Tosochka, sources in the Ministry of defense told Izvestia. Now the new cars are completing state tests.

outdated "Hurricane" systems will also be replaced, the defense Ministry said

Tornado-S large-caliber multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) will completely replace the existing Smerch MLRS and outdated Uragan systems by the end of 2027. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Red Star" chief of the missile forces and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Mikhail Matveevsky.

The people's liberation army of China should soon receive its own tanker aircraft, which Xian developed on the basis of the first Chinese heavy military transport aircraft Xian Y-20.

After the lifting of wartime restrictions on the dissemination of information in Azerbaijan, videos and photographs taken during the fighting began to appear.

According to Kyodo, the satellite will be put into orbit by the Russian Soyuz

Japanese startup Astroscale Holdings in March next year will send into orbit a special satellite for cleaning up space debris. This was reported on Wednesday by the Kyodo news Agency.

The covert Shores blog published satellite images "distorted" by Russian radars. "The Sentinel-1 satellite uses C-band radar aperture synthesis. This is 5.4 gigahertz, with a bandwidth of 100 megahertz.

In the sky over the Kaliningrad region, the crews of the su-30SM and su-24 aircraft of the Baltic fleet began to practice refueling from the Il-78 tanker.

The Hungarian army received the first Leopard 2 tanks - they will replace the Soviet T-72 in the ground forces. According to the military, the transition to a new type of tank caused a lot of problems-starting with the fact that the Leopard does not fit into the hangars built for the T-72.

Chinese television has published a report from the land training complex NITKA carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy.

the First launch of oneweb communications satellites from the spaceport is scheduled for December 2020

TASS, November 18. Communications satellites of the British company OneWeb were sent from Florida to the Vostochny cosmodrome in preparation for their launch into orbit. This was reported on the company's Twitter.

The Norwegian Ministry of defense announced its intention to purchase new tanks and the selection of two potential suppliers for the project.

The growth rate of new technology companies in Russia is one of the lowest in the markets of developing countries, according to the BCG report, which was reviewed by Kommersant. According to him, the Russian Federation accounts for about 3% of the total number of such companies (more than 10 thousand) based in emerging markets since 2014.

According to recent data, Samsung has prepared a long-term investment plan in which it plans to invest $116 billion in chip production to surpass TSMC. Bloomberg reports that the company plans to start mass production of 3-nm chips by 2022.

The recently ended war in Nagorno-Karabakh has sparked new speculation about the end of the age of tanks. This was written about in both Russian and foreign publications.

The North of Russia and the Arctic will be covered with an impenetrable radar belt. The latest Nebo-M long-range radars will be placed under Naryan-Mar, sources in the defense Ministry told Izvestia. This will bring to completion the formation of a single air defense contour over the Northern sea route and the Arctic. Experts note that due to the increased competition of world powers in the Arctic, the restoration of a continuous zone of control over the airspace there is necessary to protect the country's economic interests.

The chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov approved the acceptance report certifying the successful completion of state tests of the first Navy surface ship equipped with anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex "Armor-M", small missile ship project 22800 "Odintsovo".

If a ballistic missile is fired from a cannon, it will still remain a missile

On the eve of serious geopolitical upheavals, the world's leading countries are seeking to acquire breakthrough weapons systems that should provide them with military and technical superiority on the fields and seas of future battles.

the theory of electromagnetic weapons is well known, but the practice is not given in hand

In the current century, scientists and engineers working for the defense industry are working with increasing energy to create "anti-electronic" weapons that involve non-contact energy effects.

the Outcome of combat operations in modern warfare is determined by missiles and drones

The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh seems to have subsided, but the experience of this conflict will be studied by military experts from all countries.