News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The airline "Russia" intends to start operating a new generation of MS-21 aircraft in the summer of 2022. This was reported on July 15 in the press service of the carrier.

The priority direction will be the assembly of small spacecraft

The private space corporation Success Rockets has registered a subsidiary company SR Satellites LLC in Rostov-on-Don, which will be engaged in the production of satellites. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the company.

Russian submarines of the Varshavyanka project 636 are characterized by low noise, but they are not able to stay under water for more than two days, which makes it easier to detect them, the Polish portal Defence24 said.

Ukrspetsexport has not yet received the Oplot-T tank, which should be shipped no later than June 30. The amount of the contract concluded with the state" Malyshev Plant " at the beginning of the year is almost 4.6 million US dollars.

An outbreak of coronavirus has been recorded on the flagship of the Royal Navy of Great Britain. On July 14, the BBC news service reported that about 100 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is on its first long-distance trip.

The Israeli company Rafael offered to equip Indian T-90 main battle tanks with active protection complexes (KAZ) Trophy.

A model of a combat vehicle upgraded in this way was presented in April 2018 in Chennai at the 10th international defense exhibition Defexpo.

Orders for the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter in the future "will be measured in hundreds", now there is an order for 76 aircraft, the head of the United Aircraft Corporation Yuri Slyusar told President Vladimir Putin.

Yuri Slyusar noted that the development of several versions of this machine is expected to begin this year

The order for the latest fifth-generation Su-57 fighters will probably be measured in hundreds of pieces. This was announced by Yuri Slyusar, General Director of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The development of a new generation strategic bomber is on schedule, he said

Work on the construction of new Tu-160M strategic bombers and the modernization of the existing fleet of aircraft will ensure the loading of enterprises

The delivery team of the Baltic Plant (part of JSC "USC") conducted tests of an auxiliary boiler installation with service systems on the first serial icebreaker of the project 22220 "Siberia".

The Russian Space Systems Holding company will demonstrate the industrial symbiosis of a robot and a human at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon, the press service of the RKS reports.

A solemn ritual of the first raising of the Russian Naval Flag on the newest high-speed landing boats took place in the city of Primorsk, Kaliningrad Region.

Starting from 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry will receive 12 fifth-generation fighters per year. The first serial Su-57 was handed over to the Aerospace Forces in the winter.

The Northern Fleet conducted exercises in the White Sea. Small anti-submarine ships "Onega" and "Naryan-Mar" searched for and destroyed a submarine of a conditional enemy.

The US Army has begun the final assembly of the first four upgraded M109A7 self-propelled howitzers with increased range. According to Janes, the military plans to use at least one of them during the Convergence project exercises in November.

According to their capabilities, Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can catch up with American and Turkish ones, writes the American magazine The National Interest.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket from Baikonur with the British OneWeb communication satellites, scheduled for August 5, was postponed for at least a week due to the unavailability of the devices. This was announced on Wednesday, July 14, RIA Novosti reports, citing three sources in the rocket and space industry.

A batch of the latest night sights "Malysh" has entered service in the motorized rifle unit of the Amur Combined Arms Association of the Eastern Military District (VVO).

The Infauna complex of electronic warfare (EW) of the combined-arms army of the Eastern Military District (VVO) in Primorye, which has no analogues in the world, will be presented by EW specialists to residents and guests of the city of Ussuriysk. The event will be held at the main demonstration site "Baranovsky" as part of the military-technical forum "Army-2021".

Military signalmen of the combined arms association of the Central Military District stationed in Siberia, as part of the combat readiness check, with the help of the latest communication systems, provided covert control of troops at a distance of more than 500 km between the formations located in the Novosibirsk region and the Altai Territory.