News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

After that, several more bodies were made to work out the technological process and comply with quality standards. Production of Auruses in Yelabuga will take place on a full cycle: here also prepare stamping production, assembly of engines and, of course, painting of bodies.

In 2021, the intensity of combat training in the Russian Armed Forces will increase

In 2020, the geography of challenges for Russia has expanded, the role of military force in solving international problems has increased, the Ministry of Defense notes. In this regard, it is of particular importance to maintain the combat capability and combat readiness of the army and navy at the required level. "Newspaper.Ru " analyzed what activities of combat and operational training will be carried out in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2021.

In the coming year, the Ground Forces will continue to be equipped with modern equipment and weapons, including special-purpose ones. For example, the press service of the Eastern Military District reported that the scouts of the combined-arms army in the Amur region are now mastering the 9-mm Yarygin "Grach" pistol of the latest modification.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced the opening of a new missile base in the Persian Gulf.

Thales Alenia Space and the European Space Agency have signed an agreement to create an ESPRIT module for the future Gateway space station. The contract amount is almost 300 million euros.

In 2021, the Russian Aerospace Forces will re-equip the first regiment with S-350 Vityaz anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as receive two new regimental sets of S-400 air defense systems and complexes. This was reported on January 9 in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In the coming year, regiments and divisions of the Strategic Missile Forces will continue to provide new special equipment, including modern anti-sabotage vehicles.

Crews of the Baltic Fleet detachment will conduct routine inspections of ships and vessels

A detachment of ships of the Baltic Fleet consisting of the corvette "Stoyky", the medium sea tanker" Kola "and the sea tug" Yakov Grebelsky", which is in a planned long-distance campaign, made a business call in the Syrian port of Tartus, the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.

The Eastern Military District received a batch of Mi-8mtpr-1 helicopters, which are designed to produce radio-electronic interference, the press service of the district reported.

In the next four years, the army will receive more than 400 new and upgraded aircraft and helicopters

In 2020, several multibillion-dollar contracts for the serial production of combat aircraft and helicopters were completed. But the state's financial difficulties related to the pandemic have made adjustments to the defense department's plans and forced it to postpone some contracts.

Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel that the corporation is discussing with the Russian government the possibility of building new, in addition to the already contracted, most powerful nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project at the moment.

Almost the entire arsenal of the Russian military-weapons and equipment-is designed for temperatures from minus 50 to plus 50 degrees. If the heat is still more or less clear, then fighting in the extreme cold entails serious changes in tactics and strategy. About how this is taken into account by the statutes and the command, — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense has signed public-Private partnership (PPP) agreements with UAB Salvinta and UAB Partneryystės projektai keturi, which will build three new military camps. This is reported by the press service of the military department.

The construction of the first Chinese aircraft carrier Project 002 is being completed at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The ship has a displacement of 85 thousand tons, electromagnetic catapults and is comparable in capabilities to the latest American aircraft carriers of the Gerald Ford type.

Today [January 10, 2021] the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation gave birth to this message: 09.01.2021 (06: 00)...In 2020, the VKS entered service with four regimental sets of the S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile system and 24 anti-aircraft missile gun systems ZRPK "Pantsir-S", which were delivered to the air defense units stationed in the Sverdlovsk, Samara and South Sakhalin regions. Also in 2020, the first S-350 complex was delivered to the ZRV training center in the Leningrad Region to train specialists of the anti-aircraft missile forces.

MLRS BM-21 "Grad" is in service with the armies of more than 30 countries of the world and is the most massive combat system of this class. It is designed to destroy and suppress the enemy's manpower and military equipment in areas of concentration, artillery and mortar batteries, fortifications, strong points and nodes of enemy resistance.

According to a number of Western observers, today there is a real sign of a new arms race between the United States and Russia. Russia is developing new artillery and air defense systems. They are becoming export hits, attracting even NATO countries. In turn, the United States has all the necessary operational and political grounds to oppose this with anything equivalent. This choice was the" strategic " artillery of the United States.

During the exercise, the destruction of command posts of the "enemy"was worked out

The command posts of the conditional enemy were destroyed during the exercises in the Voronezh Region by the pilots of the bomber aviation regiment of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Wednesday.

On January 6, 2001, a Ka-50 attack helicopter took off from the Severny airfield for a combat mission in Grozny. The pilot needed to test the tactics and weapons of the Black Shark for the first time in a real situation.

In order to get into the combat zone, two Ka-50s and a Ka-29 guidance helicopter had to fly from Torzhok to Chechnya. In flight, the combat strike group was accompanied by a Mi-8 helicopter.

Combat tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator" and a batch of upgraded T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks will be delivered to the First Tank Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) this year, said the commander of the association, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel.