News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Military Watch was impressed by the idea of creating a hypersonic strike squadron from MiG-31K.]

The publication Military Watch reacted to media reports about the decision to arm a squadron of MiG-31 fighters with hypersonic "Daggers", which is based in the north of the Kola Peninsula near the border with Finland.

As reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on December 18, 2020, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko visited the Ulyanovsk aircraft manufacturing enterprise JSC Aviastar-SP, where he solemnly signed a state contract for the manufacture and supply of ten promising Il-78M-90A tanker aircraft for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The telescope has found several dozen previously unknown objects both in the Milky Way and beyond.]

The ART-XC telescope of the Spektr-RG Space Observatory has completed a second survey of the entire sky. This is written by the Institute for Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences on its website.

The corvette "Gremyashchy" will be transferred to the Navy before the end of the year

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko during a working trip to St. Petersburg checked the progress of the state defense order at the Severnaya Verf shipyard.

on december 16, 2020, the fifth universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (lk-60ya), named "chukotka" (construction number 05712), was laid in st. petersburg at jsc "baltic plant" (part of jsc "united shipbuilding corporation" - usc).

This year, four launches were also planned, but they were postponed due to the pandemic, the head of the state corporation noted.]

Roscosmos plans to launch approximately six British OneWeb communications satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021. This was stated on Friday by the General Director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Tests of the latest system of automatic illumination of the surface situation developed by the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR), began on the Black Sea. about it on thursday, december 17, reported in a press-service of the company.

The ship completes state tests in the Sea of Japan

Built for the Pacific Fleet, the project 20380 corvette "Aldar Tsydenzhapov" will be part of it on December 25, the press service of the fleet said on Thursday.

As part of the completion of state tests, the corvette "Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov" in the Sea of Japan shot down a cruise missile with the fire of the A-190 artillery installation.

The Drive appreciated the video of the shooting of the torpedo tube of the Russian submarine.

the drive portal drew attention to a spectacular video of a "water shot" of a russian submarine posted on the network.

ni believes that the "old" russian weapons are capable of "destroying the world" [/b]

The four-engine Tu-95MS propeller bomber was created in the USSR in the middle of the last century, but it is still capable of" destroying the world", according to the material of The National Interest magazine. This aircraft was compared to the American B-52, while noting that most of the Tu-95 was developed in the 1980s, so the Soviet aircraft are relatively young.

The agency plans to continue purchasing such machines

the first 10 mi-8amtsh-vn attack transport helicopters for special forces will enter service with the russian army in 2021, deputy defense minister alexey krivoruchko said.

On December 15, 2020, the US Air Force conducted tests of the artux neural network algorithm on the U-2 Dragon Lady strategic reconnaissance aircraft. according to flightglobal, in flight, the algorithm controlled the radar station of the radar and was responsible for detecting missile launchers.

It is planned that this will happen before the end of this year

Shipyard " Severnaya Verf "(St. Petersburg) has started the final stage of construction of the lead corvette "Gremyashchy" project 20385 before the transfer to the customer-revision of the ship.

The team of designers and enthusiasts of CDB "Rubin" (part of USC) awarded the First prize in the nomination "For successes in manufacturing military products, the introduction of advanced technologies and innovative solutions" annual National prize "Golden idea" in the sphere of military-technical cooperation.

Soviet anti-aircraft self-propelled gun ZSU-57-2, nicknamed "hell thresher", tried in the early 80 - ies to copy in China. For this purpose, several such combat vehicles were purchased abroad.

The Type 69-II medium tank was chosen as the chassis. small improvements were made, for example, the combat compartment became airtight, as it received a roof.

The American edition of National Interest evaluated the characteristics of the Russian Su-35 "4++" generation fighter and called it a "universal war bird".

In the Rostov region, the newest three-coordinate radar station of medium and high altitudes "Nebo-UM"has entered combat duty. According to the press service of the Southern Military District, this radar will significantly increase the ability of air defense units to detect various air targets, including low-flying and having a small reflective surface objects.

as reported by spotters, at the airport in zhukovsky in the fall, another il-76md-m military transport aircraft of the russian aerospace forces with the registration number rf-76545 (factory number 0033443266, built in 1983), which became the fourth il-76md that was upgraded to the level of the il-76md-m appearance of "full configuration", is undergoing flight tests. The work was carried out on the technical base of JSC "Aviation complex named after S. V. Ilyushin" in Zhukovsky.

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will take up combat duty of the Strategic Missile Forces in 2022, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday, December 16.