News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The designers of Sevmash improved the technology of installing platforms with equipment on the foundations of submarines and the design of their fasteners. Instead of traditional leveling pads made of steel, polymer composites will now be used. They are three times better at dampening vibrations, and are cheaper.

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), probably UGM-133A Trident II (Trident D5), was launched from a nuclear submarine in the Atlantic Ocean at night (Moscow time) on Wednesday, February 10, according to The Drive. The corresponding video of the flight of the weapon is available on Twitter (for example, here and here).

NASA has commissioned SpaceX to launch the first two modules of the future Gateway space station. The modules will go to the Moon on a Falcon Heavy rocket no earlier than May 2024.

The Chelyabinsk company, which produces electric vehicles, has improved the characteristics of its Hunter combat module with a new version of the machine gun. The efficiency of hitting the target has become higher by 20-30 percent. This was stated by the manufacturer of the combat system after the tests ended at the test site in Nizhny Tagil.

A Chinese spacecraft with a rover on board has reached Mars

The Chinese mission "Tianwen-1" with a rover on board has reached the orbit of Mars. If all goes according to plan, the Chinese rover will land on the surface of the planet in the spring.

According to the data provided, the first deeply modernized Ka-52M helicopters may enter the army in 2022. Recently, the Aerospace Forces received the first Mi-28NM.

The Italian military-industrial complex is aimed at maintaining its share in the global arms market

In the 80s, the Italian military-industrial complex continued to develop, which allowed the country to reduce arms imports and increase exports. However, in France, several thousand ATGMs "Milan" were purchased, in Germany – aviation PKR "Cormoran".

In Kerch, the newest watchtower stood on the water

A solemn ceremony of launching the fourth of a series of patrol ships (PC) of the project 22160 "Sergey Kotov" took place at the shipyard "Bay". Its predecessors-PC "Vasily Bykov", "Dmitry Rogachev" and "Pavel Derzhavin" have already been tested and successfully solve the tasks.

Why the US Navy is going to double the size of the military fleet

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said it would take a much larger U.S. navy of 500 ships to contain China's "expansionist ambitions."

The military satellite, launched into orbit on February 2 by the Russian Armed Forces, is designed to detect and intercept foreign military communication lines, the specialized American website Spaceflight Now reported.

The Japanese Coast Guard has released a photo of the SS501 Soryu submarine, which was damaged after a collision with a bulk carrier off the coast of Kochi Prefecture.

In the southern military district began the teaching of the units of missile troops and artillery of great power. More than 13 thousand servicemen marched in a combined way to military training grounds in the Astrakhan, Rostov, Volgograd regions, as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories.

The first stage of the pilot operation of the Terminator tank support vehicle (BMPT) was completed at the training ground of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District in the Chelyabinsk Region.

The new ice - class patrol ship project 23550-cipher "Ermak" will be commissioned in 2024. The main task of the "Blizzard", as it will be called - the protection of state borders in the Arctic, the protection of Russia's economic resources and the delivery of goods to the unequipped coast of the Arctic. He will be able to overcome almost two meters of ice.

The Russian Armed Forces will rely on the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in modern weapons. This was announced on Tuesday, speaking at an operational mobilization meeting with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.

Two serial diesel-electric submarines of the fourth generation of the project 677 "Lada" — "Kronshtadt" and "Velikiye Luki" — will receive the Russian Navy in 2022, the general director of JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" Alexander Buzakov said on February 9.

Aviators and engine builders are working on increasing the combat capabilities of the Russian fighter of the fifth generation su-57, said in an interview to "Interfax" the head of Minpromtorg Denis Manturov.

This station is fully developed and assembled by specialists from the United Arab Emirates

The Arab interplanetary station "Al-Amal" entered the orbit of Mars. This was reported on Tuesday by Sky News Arabia. The TV channel calls this event " the first success of the Arabs in space."

American and British engineers have created a nozzle for laser cutters that allows them to create drones — the cutter cuts out the body, and the nozzle moves components onto it, applies contact tracks and sinters them. After that, the drone can take off directly from the cutter and get to work. The paper will be presented at the CHI 2021 conference.

The Russian 5G network interferes with NATO spy planes, the Vedomosti newspaper writes, citing reports from the International Telecommunication Union at the United Nations. Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, which is not a member of the alliance, objected to the use of the 4.8-4.99 GHz band by Russian operators.