News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Modern armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and BTR-82AM with improved combat and driving characteristics are entering service with the Ground Forces. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

It is known that the new armored vehicles are intended for the transport of units, their fire support in battle, the destruction of manpower, anti-tank weapons and light armored vehicles of the enemy.

The Nagurskoye Arctic airfield on Franz Josef Land, after the construction of a new runway, can accommodate any class of aircraft, including strategic bombers. As the chief of staff of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, Major General Igor Churkin, told reporters, the airfield was put into operation last year. The length of its runway is 3.5 thousand meters. "This allows the airfield to accept all classes of aircraft," Churkin said.​

[b]According to the China Daily newspaper, the factory in Wuhan is capable of producing up to 240 spacecraft per year.]

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has launched the first production line in China using smart technologies for the construction of small orbiting satellites. This was reported on Friday by the China Daily newspaper.

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet completed a visit to Singapore, where it arrived on May 11, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reports.

Exercises to repel hacker attacks will be held at five cyberpoligons of Rostelecom in 2021, they will allow coordinating the work of various structures, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The Northern Fleet will receive 345 units of weapons this year, the share of modern equipment will be more than 62 percent, the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, said at a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists on the nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".

Russian protected armored vehicles of special purpose K-43269 "Shot" continue to improve. At the parade in Nizhny Novgorod dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, among the new products from the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" you could see the latest version.

Earlier, a TASS source reported that the transition from automatic to manual docking of the Progress MS-16 was required due to a damaged antenna installed on the cargo ship

The commission, which is investigating the reason for the transition of the docking of the Progress MS-16 cargo ship with the ISS from automatic to manual mode in February 2021, will continue to work. This was told to journalists on Friday by the General director of the Rocket and Space Center (RCC) "Progress" Dmitry Baranov.

Calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10" of the Krasnoselsky motorized rifle brigade of the combined-arms army of the Western Military District have started performing tasks to monitor the foci of wildfires since the beginning of the week.

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system consists of a radar, a control center, and an installation for hitting enemy missiles. It recognizes incoming missiles and can calculate their trajectory and estimated target in a few seconds. The principle of operation of the system was revealed by Deutsche Welle.

Google has agreed with SpaceX to use the Starlink satellite Internet. This is reported by The Verge. Elon Musk's company will provide access to satellite Internet for corporate customers of the Google Cloud service.

On May 13, 2021, JSC "Ural Plant of Transport Engineering" (JSC "Uraltransmash", part of JSC "Research and Production Corporation "Uralvagonzavod") reported that as part of the state defense order, it delivered the first batch of 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 2S3M "Acacia" to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after major repairs.

The latest anti-aircraft artillery complex ZAK-57 "Derivation-AIR DEFENSE", armed with an automatic gun of 57-mm caliber, successfully hit unmanned aerial vehicles of various types during tests, the press service of the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (UVZ, part of Rostec) told RIA Novosti.

The weight of the fairing was reduced by almost two tons, Rostec reported

The weight of the head fairing of the upgraded Proton-M launch vehicle decreased by almost two tons due to the use of innovative developments of the Romashin ONPP Technologiya (part of the Rostec State Corporation). This was told to TASS in the press service of Rostec.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter congratulated China on the first successful soft landing on Mars in the history of this country.

Military personnel of the combined arms association of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Republic of Buryatia, perform control shooting exercises on a unique interactive laser shooting range "Rubin-110". This shooting range is installed in the headquarters of the combined arms association.

The large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Panteleev" performed artillery firing in the waters of the Peter the Great Bay, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported on Saturday.

The Russian military conducted a training exercise of the anti-sabotage forces and Means Unit (PDSS) in the Crimean naval base, the Black Sea Fleet said on Saturday.

China has landed the Tianwen-1 spacecraft on the Red Planet. This is the first time a Chinese spacecraft has landed on another planet.

The new Chinese ballistic missile JL-3 Type 094 submarines can have a range of 10 to 14 thousand kilometers and surpass the existing American and Russian counterparts, writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin, commenting on the report of the newspaper The South China Morning Post.