News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The first IL-76MD-90A heavy transport aircraft, assembled at the new assembly line at Aviastar-SP JSC (part of the UAC Transport Aviation Division within Rostec Group), was transferred to the aircraft factory's flight test station for ground and flight tests.

The speed of the Starlink satellite Internet has reached a record high. This is reported by the publication Wccftech. In the first test, the data download speed reached 542 megabits per second, the download speed stopped at 38.8 megabits per second with a delay of nine milliseconds.

The Northern Fleet has formed a group to participate in the next complex expedition to Novaya Zemlya. Together with the military sailors, specialists of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and representatives of the Murmansk regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society will travel around the Southern Island of the archipelago on the icebreaker Ilya Muromets, the military department said.

A military plane of the Lida Yak-130 assault air Base crashed in the Belarusian city of Baranovichi, BelTA reported on Wednesday, May 19.

The Chinese airborne 120 mm self-propelled artillery system was first demonstrated at the 12th International Aerospace Show AIRSHOW CHINA 2018.

The first Chinese rover "Zhuzhong" sent images from the surface of Mars. The photos confirmed that the rover's solar panels and antenna opened successfully, and will help experts build a plan for the rover's movements, CNSA reports.

The race of the Russian BMD-4M and BMD-2 was shown on video. The corresponding video on YouTube was published by the Russian Defense Ministry.

In the Kaliningrad Region, training of naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet has begun, in which three home-based airfields are involved at once.

The flight of unmanned aircraft of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in South Ossetia during the winter training period amounted to more than 3 thousand hours.

The crews of the vessels of the Hydrographic Service of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) have completed pilotage work on the revision and replacement of floating warning signs in the sea areas of the fleet's bases in the Crimea and on the Caucasus coast.

"Arctic shamrock" - the second unique residential complex of a closed cycle, built in the interests of the Northern Fleet in the high-latitude areas of the Arctic

Thirty journalists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, China, the United States, France and Japan were able to see for the first time the base "Arctic Shamrock" and a demonstration training of calculations of coastal missile systems "Bastion" on Franz Josef Land, reports TASS correspondent.

The Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, when preparing a new state armament program for 2024-2033, will assess the feasibility of including plans for the construction of a new aircraft carrier, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, a member of the Naval Board under the government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, congratulated the Baltic sailors on the Baltic Fleet Day.

In his congratulatory message, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov noted that " The Baltic Fleet remains the most important tool for ensuring Russia's security in the western direction.

The flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the Guards missile cruiser " Moscow "and the frigate" Admiral Grigorovich " at a joint exercise in the Black Sea, fired torpedoes and rocket bombs at a submarine of a simulated enemy. This was announced today by the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet Alexey Rulev.

Russian shipbuilders use all modern technologies to reduce radar visibility, Vladimir Pospelov, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, a member of the Marine Board under the government, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Details of the US Air Force operation Cannikin, which took place 50 years ago, have emerged. In the bowels of the island of Amchitka near Alaska, a five-megaton nuclear charge designed for use in space was detonated.

The newest battalion complex of electronic warfare (EW), which is in service with a unit of the combined arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO), will be presented at the main site of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

Raytheon Missiles and Defense (a division of Raytheon Technologies) has announced the successful launch of the first AMRAAM-ER surface-to-air warhead equipped with an equipped warhead, together with Norway's Kongsberg.

The machine is capable of destroying enemy objects while being outside the air defense strike zone, said Vitaly Shcherbina, chief designer of the Combat Helicopters program at the Mil and Kamov National Helicopter Center.

Chinese experts have tested the main module of a promising space station. This brings the long-awaited moment of its commissioning closer.