News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

30 years ago, the Soviet heavy military transport aircraft An-124 "Ruslan" completed its round-the-world flight across two poles. This flight was included in the Guinness Book of records as the longest and longest-in 72 hours and 16 minutes of flight time, the plane covered 50005 kilometers. In addition, 7 world and 10 all-Union records were set during the flight.

The Israeli army actively uses Caterpillar D9 bulldozers in its combat operations. These tracked vehicles are used for various engineering tasks: clearing paths for Merkava tanks, destroying various fortifications, and clearing mines.

The crew of the Baltic fleet's patrol ship Yaroslav the Wise conducted routine firing exercises at combat training ranges in the Baltic sea off the coast of the Kaliningrad region.

The sappers of the International mine action center of the Russian defense Ministry located in Nagorno-Karabakh have started using special equipment to clear the territory.

"for the First time, the Uran-6 multi-functional robotic complex was used to clear the area of unexploded ordnance and explosive objects, with the help of which about 8 hectares of land were surveyed in the area of the settlement of Khojaly," our military Department reported on Saturday.

The Karabakh war, its course and results are actively discussed, including in Russia. It is not uncommon to hear statements that the victory of Azerbaijan over Armenia is actually the victory of Turkish weapons over Russian ones. And it was not Armenia that lost the war, but Russia. Are such statements true? Is the Karabakh war really a Wake-up call to our "defense industry", which did not do everything for the Russian army? Why don't we still have strike drones? MK asked the analyst, Deputy Director Of the center for strategy and technology analysis (CFTC), to answer these questions) Konstantin Makiyenko.

in the Norwegian and Barents seas, the ship will conduct exercises to search for submarines

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Vice Admiral Kulakov" is returning to base from a long trip to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, the press service of the Northern fleet reported.

What threat to Russia is the modernization of the American MQ-1C Grey Eagle

The US army requires that the MQ-1C Grey Eagle drones, designed to participate in multi-domain operations, have a synthetic aperture radar, indicators of moving targets, and radio and radio intelligence tools. Having received such opportunities, as the authors of the idea believe, American UAVS will be able to" look " at the territory of US opponents, including Russia.

As reported on December 2, 2020, PJSC Sukhoi Company (part of PJSC United aircraft Corporation of rostec state Corporation), it has completed the implementation of another long-term contract for the supply of a batch of su-34 fighter-bombers to the Russian Ministry of defense.

Polema powder metallurgy plant (part of PMH) took part in the III International conference on the practical application of additive technologies in various fields of production.

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.