News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Mig-31K fighters armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers made training flights accompanied by Su-35 and Su-34 fighters during exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday.

On June 27, the Project 636.3 "Magadan" sailed from St. Petersburg to the Baltic Sea for factory sea trials (ZHI).

The Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK) is capable of destroying the latest means of air attack, the Rostec State Corporation's High-Precision Complexes holding reported during the International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021).

The largest exercise "Lightning Strike 2021" took place in the mountains in the south-west of Serbia with the key participation of military equipment purchased in the Russian Federation, or received under the agreement on military cooperation between Moscow and Belgrade, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia has successfully launched the latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was developed at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering (MIT, part of Roscosmos). The launch took place from the 1st State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, TASS reported on June 28, citing a source in the military-industrial complex.

Back in the XX century, Soviet and Russian-made helicopters mastered the airspace in dozens of countries around the world. The advantages of domestic machines are a successful combination of price and quality, as well as unique tactical and technical data. According to the Iranian publication Hamshahri, it is the helicopters of the design bureaus "Mile" and "Kamova" that are the best in the history of aircraft technology.

The crews of five ships of the Russian Navy, including the missile cruiser "Moscow", the frigates "Admiral Essen" and "Admiral Makarov", repelled the attack of a conditional enemy and conducted training of air defense forces at exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

The Russian T-72B3 tank with an active protection complex (KAZ) was shown in the TV military information program "Sentry" on the First Channel of Russian television. Most of the issue was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the 38th Research and Testing Institute of Armored Weapons and Equipment.

10 new self-propelled PST-1 pontoons have been put into service with the railway connections of the Southern Military District (SE).

It is designed for towing ferries or individual sections of floating railway bridges, provides transportation of elements of hydraulic structures on water bodies with a wave height of up to 1.2 m.

The use of an uninhabited 57-mm AU-220M combat module on the BMP-3 significantly increases the safety of the crew and landing troops, and also makes it more comfortable for people to stay behind the armor.

The internal layout of such a modernized infantry fighting vehicle is demonstrated in a video dedicated to the anniversary of the Nizhny Novgorod Central Research Institute "Burevestnik".

A new Russian submarine with nuclear drones that can destroy an aircraft carrier and cause a tsunami has gone on its first voyage. Experts believe that it is perfectly equipped for sabotage and covert operations and will report directly to the country's leadership, bypassing the structure of the naval command.

Hypersonic weapons have already been put on combat duty – the Avangard and Dagger complexes, other unique weapons systems are on the way, among them the Sarmat ICBM, the Zircon shipboard hypersonic missile, the S – 500 Prometheus air defense system and other complexes.

The latest armored vehicles "Ural Tornado-U" were delivered to the mountain compound of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Republic of Tyva.

China plans to extract gigawatts of energy from space

Chinese scientists want to receive megawatts and gigawatts of energy from space. To do this, they plan to put a huge power plant into geostationary orbit.

Last Saturday, a parade of militia Forces was held at a military base in Diyala province in Iraq in honor of the seventh anniversary of their formation.

The solemn event involved samples of towed artillery - 152-mm D-20 howitzers, 130-mm M-46 guns, as well as numerous multiple launch rocket systems: both homemade and delivered by Iran 122-mm Raad-24.

Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant (VOMZ) will fulfill the contract by the end of 2021 and provide the Kalashnikov concern with a batch of updated collimator sights, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

Development in It will take at least ten years for the Russian instrument-making industry to create 5G networks. However, the first implementation of domestic infrastructure components may take place before 2023. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Competence Center of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) for Wireless Communication Technologies and the Internet of Things at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Dmitry Lakontsev at the conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" (CIPR). His quotes are quoted by TASS.

At a meeting in the Kremlin with graduates of military universities, Vladimir Putin said that among the new weapons systems are the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the Zircon hypersonic ship missile, and the S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft systems.

The notorious American ARES aircraft received a "dome" similar to the famous droid from "Star Wars". Probably, we are talking about a satellite communication system.

About 30 years ago, a missile tank could appear in Russia, capable even now of destroying the latest versions of Abrams, Leopards, Challengers and Merkav without any problems.