News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome is being delayed, is being violated, in particular, by numerous corruption scandals, and is costing the Russian budget more and more, ArsTechnica writes in a publication devoted to the latest layoffs that occurred at Roscosmos.

Self-propelled anti-tank complexes "Chrysanthemum-S", which are in service with the Azerbaijani army, took part in the battle for Nagorno-Karabakh.

On November 30, 2020, an official ceremony was held at the naval base of the southern fleet of the PLA Navy in Sanya (Hainan island) for the introduction of a new project of the main hospital ship, called the southern medicine 13, into the PLA Navy. The new hospital ship is built at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group shipyard in Shanghai and has a displacement of 6000 tons.

As the press service of the Central military district reported on December 1, 2020, a batch of eight tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator" entered trial operation in the [90th guards] tank division of the Central military district, stationed in the Chelyabinsk region. This was announced by the commander of the Central military district (CVO), Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.

He made one and a half turns and found the enemy in orbit. The explosion - and instead of the spy satellite, 27 shapeless fragments flew. On December 3, 1971, the Soviet Union successfully tested the satellite Fighter program.

The Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle with Gonets-M communications satellites and the service platform of the ERA-1 nanoscale spacecraft developed for the Russian defense Ministry launched on December 3 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Video from the launch site was published by REN TV.

With the military detachment of the counter-subversive forces and means of the Baltic naval base conducted training on multifunctional training complex (MFUD) "Diver".

A large batch of new ADCPT-10-53501 tankers has been delivered to the logistics support unit (MTO) of the Western military district stationed in the Voronezh region.

the United States announced the creation of the Atlantic fleet to confront Russia

Washington decided to return the pre-2006 Atlantic fleet, which was replaced by the command of the US Navy forces. It is planned that the new American Navy will oppose the Russian Navy.

The development of additive technologies will make it possible to develop a highly efficient system for manufacturing rocket and space technology

Regolith and space debris can be used in the future as a material for 3D printing technology. This was announced by the first Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital group and promising projects Yuri Urlichich.

Military Watch Magazine presented a rating of the best warships. The Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is also in the top five.

As noted in the publication, the most powerful classes of surface ships are destroyers and cruisers, the latter are in service exclusively with Russia and the United States.

the Famous American AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank guided missile was successfully copied in Iran.

As you know, this ATGM is the standard armament of the AH-64 Apache, AH-1Z Viper, OH-58 Kiowa helicopters, as well as the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper attack drones.

The Dutch military released a video about the launch of a training MK48 torpedo from a submarine. The nature of submarine warfare is such that during the launch, no one sees the mechanism of the torpedo tube and the torpedo thrown out of it.

As reported, on December 1, 2020, a ceremony was held at the Ivanovo-Severny airfield on the occasion of the formation of the 81st military transport aviation regiment as part of the Military transport aviation of the Russian air force.

The black sea fleet of the Russian Navy entered the exercise in full force. This was reported on Thursday, December 3, on the website of the Ministry of defense.

The number of delivered units did not elaborate

"Military industrial company" has fulfilled the contract to supply the Ministry of defense of Russian armored cars "Tiger-M", BTR-82A and command-staff vehicles based on them in the framework of the state defense order in 2020. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by its General Director Alexander Krasovitsky.

Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh solve their main task - to monitor compliance with the ceasefire regime around the clock, including with the help of modern technical means.

For example, the official representative of the Russian defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that at 23 observation posts, our "blue helmets" use a mobile set of secure video conferencing - MK ZVKS.

The transfer was made by Yandex.A translator, and the image on the cover is drawn by a neural network. The translation from English to Russian was completed in just 40 seconds.

For the first time, China has become a leader in patents in the field of artificial intelligence. This was stated by the Deputy head of the Chinese Academy of cyberspace research Li Yuxiao at the WIC (World Internet Conference).

Uzbekistan has updated 27% of weapons and equipment in recent years, opened new ones and reconstructed old military ranges, the information service of the country's Senate reported on Thursday.