News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Sergey Kornev, head of the Rosoboronexport delegation, said that the Russian side is ready to offer India a modern modernization package.]

The project of modernization of multi-purpose combat aircraft Su-30MKI, which are in service with the Indian Air Force (Air Force), is under discussion. This was announced at the Aero India 2021 exhibition by the head of the delegation of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of the Rostec State Corporation") Sergey Kornev.

The first batch of SV-98 sniper rifles entered service at the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School, stationed in Blagoveshchensk in the Amur Region.

The army aviation regiment of the Southern Military District, based in the Rostov region, received 7 new Ka-52 Alligator combat helicopters. In the near future, the first scheduled flights of the Alligators will take place under the combat training program.

Combat readiness exercises were conducted with the calculations of the operational and tactical missile systems of the Baltic Fleet.

At the alarm signal, the rocket men secretly moved to the designated position area in the Kaliningrad region.

The US missile defense system (ABM) will ultimately prove to be a colander and will not be able to protect the country from all Russian ballistic missiles. This was stated on the air of the Zvezda TV channel by the head of the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation for the Study of the United States at Moscow State University, Yuri Rogulev.

The acoustic non-contact target complex, which increases the effectiveness of shooting training and the accuracy of fire correction, was created by the Techmash concern. It has no analogues in Russia.

Self-propelled artillery installations 2S1 "Carnation" at the moment are one of the most common self-propelled guns in the world. They are in service with almost four dozen armies.

These self-propelled guns continue to be operated by the Russian military. They are also present in the states of the former Soviet Union, and in the armed forces of other countries, including those that are members of NATO.

The Israeli company Rafael has upgraded the active protection system of the Trophy armored vehicles. According to Jane's, the upgraded version of the Trophy received an electron-optical all-round view system, which is designed to improve the protection of tanks from certain types of shells and missiles.

A possible defender of future NASA bases on the moon could be the Pentagon. The agencies are increasing cooperation between civil and military projects against the background of external threats, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

It is not necessary to break the "defense industry" through the knee, setting it unrealistic tasks

Recently, the topic of the need for a new conversion of the military industry has been increasingly discussed in the media. Moreover, the term "conversion", which discredited itself decades earlier, is not used in this context, but they argue that this process must inevitably be started. We need to understand how acute this problem really is, perhaps it is created artificially.

The Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg will be reliably protected from cruise missiles and drones. The 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army has created a unique mobile air defense regiment. The new military unit is fully armed with anti-aircraft missile and gun systems "Pantsir-S".

The GAZ-3344-20 "Aleut" two-link tracked floating snowmobiles of high cross-country capability were put into service with the tank formation of the Eastern Military District. This is reported by the press service of the VVO.

Deliveries of the ordered 737 MAX are suspended due to certification, which is hampered by the pandemic

Russian airlines this year risk being left without previously ordered 27 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, whose operation around the world was suspended due to two disasters. This "Izvestia" said sources in the sector.

Dassault Aviation announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of 12 Rafale fighters of the latest F3R standard for the French Armed Forces. The document was signed by Eric Trappier, the company's Chief Executive Officer, and Florence Parly, the French Minister of the Armed Forces.

[b]The Director General of Roscosmos added that Russia will not participate in any race to the Moon until it understands "the meaning of the prize fund".]

The Russian lunar program is several times cheaper than the American one, but it will bring no less results to science, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin is convinced.

A major military-political scandal is being discussed in Poland. The Winter 2020 staff exercise, in which several thousand officers took part, ended in spectacular disgrace. The simulation showed that in just five days, the war on the eastern flank of the country (the border with Russia and Belarus) was lost, and the Polish army ceased to exist.

The supersonic Su-34 fighter-bomber performed loops with a right-angle turn, "barrels", "cubes" and slides at altitudes of 200 meters. The corresponding video on YouTube was published by "Zvezda".

The Urals and Siberia will close the field of electronic interference. The latest Polye-21 systems are deployed in the Urals and Siberia. They will become a barrier to satellite navigation systems, and will also prevent drone flights, cruise missile strikes and other high-precision weapons.

The development of the infrastructure of remote landfills is one of the most important tasks set by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.

The frigate of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia "Admiral Makarov" together with the calculations of the coastal anti-ship complexes "Bastion" conducted an exercise to destroy the enemy ship, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.