News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Don-2N multi-functional radar, the central and most complex element of the Russian missile defense system, has been upgraded and is being prepared for testing. The performance of the computing system has increased by four orders of magnitude, and its size has decreased fourfold.

The Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School received a batch of small-sized satellite communication stations "Belozer".

A new crack has been discovered on the International Space Station (ISS). This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia-24" by the head of the flight of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Solovyov, TASS reports.

The shipbuilders of the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) brought the mine defense ship "Pyotr Ilyichev" of the project 12700 "Alexandrite"out of the workshop.

Five high-altitude supersonic fighter-interceptor MiG-31BM, after the repair and modernization will be available until the end of 2021 on the arms of the fighter wing Association air force and air defense CVO stationed in the Krasnoyarsk region.

The crew of the Baltic Fleet corvette "Stoyky", which went on a long voyage, conducted an exercise in the Mediterranean Sea to counter air strikes.

The Russian government has instructed the Treasury to check the contract for the construction of the launch complex for the Angara rockets at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The corresponding decree, signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Among the announced items: a rail booster, drones that can be launched into the air with a grenade launcher, electromagnetic cannons and combat lasers.

The Turkish defense company Lapis Havacılık has opened a factory in Ankara for the serial production of unmanned aerial vehicles.

According to the Anadolu agency, Lapis Havacılık has been developing unmanned aircraft since 2015.

At present, if we focus not on the list of personnel, but "on what can really be thrown into battle, it is obvious that the Russian Navy has fallen to the level of approximately South Korea in terms of available serviceable and combat-ready surface ships, "the Military-Industrial Courier newspaper writes.

The US Navy stops the supply of Freedom-class coastal ships

The US Navy has suspended deliveries of the Lockheed Martin Corporation's Freedom-class coastal zone ship. The reason for the rejection of the vessel was a structural defect in the power transmission. This is not the first problem faced by American shipbuilders in recent years, which causes wariness in the expert community.

The large anti-submarine ship "Severomorsk" in the Barents Sea performed combat training tasks,including artillery firing.

According to some Russian publications, this year Roscosmos will launch five GLONASS satellites. The first device is scheduled to be sent in the spring, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Two models of new-generation satellites will be launched into orbit. "Glonass-K" and "Glonass-K2" emit a larger number of signals. The service life of these devices is about 10 years. At the moment, the group consists of 28 devices.

According to journalists, a subsidiary of SpaceX has acquired two drilling platforms: after the conversion, the complexes can be used for launching Starship spacecraft.

The command of the Navy has decided on the duty station of the newest corvette project 20380 "Aldar Tsydenzhapov". Initially, it was planned to send it to Kamchatka, but in the end, the ship's home port will be Vladivostok.

As reported by the web resource Sudоstrоenie.info In December 2020, the first Russian-made gas turbine engines and gearboxes were loaded into the hold of the aft engine room of the Admiral Golovko frigate Project 22350 (factory number 923), which is under construction for the Russian Navy, at the Severnaya Verf Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC) in St. Petersburg. This is stated in a story published on January 19, 2021 on the channel of the Northern Shipyard shipbuilding enterprise on the Youtube video service.

At the training ground near Voronezh, the military tested the first sapper robot "Uran-6"on the western border of Russia. The armored tracked vehicle, whose task is to destroy mines and other explosive objects without risking the lives and health of people, came to the engineer regiment as recently as December 2020. At its first practical application, the correspondent of "RG" was present - he mastered the basics of controlling a six-ton robot, understood why only strong men can do this, and found out why there is a big red button on the armor of "Uranus".

A nationalist military expert criticizes the decision to purchase ships for the Ukrainian Navy, which, in his opinion, will become "white elephants" and will spend time at the pier, and not at sea. Instead, he proposes to redirect budget funds for the modernization of the ground units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine... waging war in the Donbas.

In the Kaliningrad region, on the eve of the Day of the Engineering Troops, engineers of the Baltic Fleet conducted large-scale exercises. At the beginning of the maneuvers, a crossing was made using a pontoon-bridge park.

In 2021, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant will transfer five fifth-generation Su-57 multi-role fighters to the Russian armed forces. The first of them has already entered one of the air regiments of the Southern Military District.