News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The British rocket artillery will hit further and more accurately. April 3, portal defence-blog.com He reported that the British Ministry of Defense has begun to modernize its MLRS.

At the Baikonur cosmodrome, the space head part was transported with the Soyuz MS-18 transport manned spacecraft for the general assembly of a space rocket, the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia reported on Sunday.

The carrier-based aircraft of the American aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower ("Dwight Eisenhower"), which entered the Eastern Mediterranean, began combat sorties in support of Operation Unwavering Resolve, the US 6th Operational Fleet said.

According to the Turkish magazine "Türk Havacılık Haberleri ve Diğer Canavarlar", published by the Turkish Aviation Industry Association (Türk Havacılık Sanayicileri Derneği), the Russian company "New Unmanned Systems" LLC from Nizhny Novgorod in 2020 signed an agreement with the Turkish company Baykar Defense (part of the Baykar group) on the organization of joint production of the widely known Turkish reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles Bayraktar TB2 for their promotion in the Russian market.

Previously, it was assumed that this would happen in May-June

The lead nuclear submarine of the project 885M cipher "Ash-M ""Kazan" will be handed over to the fleet for the Day of the Russian Navy, which this year is celebrated on July 25. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The competition for the Russian Su-35 generation 4++ fighter in the international arms market from foreign combat aircraft today can only be made up of fifth – generation fighters produced by the United States-the F-22 and F-35, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti, commenting on media publications about the superiority of the Russian aircraft over the F-22.

The amphibious boat of the A25PS project, built by order of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, entered service with the Crimean unit and will guard the shallow bays of Sivash, Karkinitsky and Perekopsky. This was reported by the press service of the Federal Security Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Sevastopol.

The crews of the newest corvettes "Sharp " and" Zealous " arrived for training at the Navy training center in St. Petersburg. The training cycle will take two months.

In the Barnaul compound (Altai Territory), the latest remote mine clearance vehicle (MDR) "Foliage" was used to accompany the mobile ground missile system "Yars"on the combat patrol routes.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the pilots of the bomber aviation unit of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Eastern Military District made training flights on Su-34 fighter-bombers to the maximum altitude.

The Hungarian Air Force has rejected the Russian Mi-8T helicopter. A few days ago, the last flight of the car of this model took place from the Solnok air base.

A video has appeared on the Internet showing the BTR-80 of the Venezuelan army after being blown up by an anti-personnel mine. Apparently, the armored vehicle survived the incident without much damage.

Enterprises of the space industry are suffering losses due to the restriction of access to critical technologies, which is caused by sanctions, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy General Director of Roscosmos for Finance.

Armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, the Project 22350 frigate Admiral Kasatonov left Gibraltar on Thursday for the Atlantic Ocean, where it will conduct a series of ship exercises, the press service of the Northern Fleet told reporters.

The crews of two diesel-electric submarines of the Baltic Fleet played a duel situation off the coast of the Kaliningrad region. The submariners trained in attacks and counterattacks of the submarine of a simulated enemy with the two-way use of weapons and sonar equipment, the information support department of the press service of the Baltic Fleet of the Far Eastern Military District reported.

The reconnaissance ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet "Ivan Khurs" on Tuesday, after passing the Bosphorus, entered the Mediterranean Sea, Istanbul observers reported in social networks, publishing photos of its passage through the Strait.

The Borisoglebsk and Zhitel electronic warfare systems proved their effectiveness against drone attacks during the exercises. They completely disabled the combat drones, and also suppressed the command posts of the imaginary enemy.

Continuing the theme of the main strike aircraft of the German Air Force (and a number of other countries of the world) "Eurofighter Typhoon" (Eurofighter Typhoon), let us turn to the features of its radio equipment. Without going into the subtleties of this topic, which requires special knowledge, we will give a general idea of the complexity of the avionics of a modern combat aircraft and the combat capabilities provided by this category of avionics.

The crews of the newest PMO ships of the project 12700 "Pyotr Ilyichev" and "Georgy Kurbatov", as well as the patrol ship of the project 22160 "Sergey Kotov" completed a full cycle of training at the Joint Naval Training Center in St. Petersburg.

The launch of two Condor-FKA radar Earth observation satellites has been postponed for 2022 and 2023, according to Roscosmos materials published on the state procurement website.