News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The Russian military began to receive the engineering system of remote mining (isdm) "Agriculture", intended for installation by means of programmable ammunition of minefields, reports "rostec".

Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon", which this year was conducted by the Northern fleet, confirmed the characteristics of this new weapon, the press service of the fleet said on Friday.

In the outgoing year 2020, Russian infantry fighting vehicles have increased their firepower. During the rehearsals of the Victory day parade, the kurganets-25 advanced BMP with the latest uninhabited Epoch module was demonstrated for the first time. As weapons, it uses a 57-mm gun, a 7.62-mm machine gun and two types of guided missiles.

Development is conducted by the Corporation "Tactical missile weapons", said a source in the military-industrial complex

The first production su-57 fighter will be used at the state flight test center (glic) in Akhtubinsk for testing hypersonic aircraft weapons. This was reported on Friday by a source in the military-industrial complex.

KORABEL web resource.RU published an interesting interview with the acting General Director of PJSC "Amur shipbuilding plant" (ASZ, part of JSC " United shipbuilding Corporation") Mikhail Borovsky.

In the "Independent military review" published an interview with the General Director of JSC "Central design Bureau of marine technology "Rubin" (part of JSC "United shipbuilding Corporation") Igor Vilnit.

Crews of su-27 fighters of the Baltic fleet destroyed a simulated enemy in the sky over Kaliningrad, the press service of the Western military district (ZVO) reports.

On December 25, 2020, the Department of information and mass communications of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation reported that, as the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, announced, "in Severodvinsk, the Zvezdochka ship repair Center has completed the slipway stage of repair and modernization of the Project 971 leopard nuclear submarine. I received a report on the successful operation to remove the leopard submarine from the boathouse."

The Pentagon decided to replace the outdated M109 Palladin tracked howitzers with wheeled ones, but it turned out that there was nothing. The us military announced a competition for a promising self-propelled gun, however, which happens infrequently, they will have to buy weapons abroad. About how one of the strongest defenses in the world signed in their own helplessness - in the material RIA Novosti.

Until 2027, 14 nuclear submarines (NPS) of the Borey-A and Yasen-M projects will be built for the Russian Navy (Navy), Deputy defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said in A statement.

In the Rostov region, combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems "tor-M2" of the 150th motorized rifle division conducted tactical and special exercises. The targets were simulators of cruise missiles.

The first serial fighter of the fifth generation su-57, received by the Aerospace forces (VKS) of Russia, was shown on video. The corresponding video on YouTube was published by the user wizarden1.

The black sea fleet of Russia held an exercise on the organization of emergency preparation of ships for battle and campaign, the press service of the fleet reported on Saturday.

The US army during the tests held on December 19 at the Yuma test site in Arizona, on the third attempt, destroyed the target-the Soviet-made KUB anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). The corresponding video is published by DVIDS.

Vladimir Putin proposed declaring 2021 the Year of science and technology. This initiative is not accidental-despite Western sanctions and the pandemic, the innovative economy is increasingly coming to the forefront in Russia. What are the main scientific and technological successes achieved by domestic scientists and industry in the past year?

As reported by the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, on December 26, 2020, a ceremony was held in Vladivostok to introduce the Yakov Balyaev base minesweeper (factory number 525) of project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") into the Navy of the Russian Federation.

The Russian defense Ministry plans to dramatically increase the order for strategic cruise missiles. "At the beginning of next year, we will conclude long-term contracts for the additional purchase of high-precision long-range missiles, which will double their number," defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to the President last Monday.

Combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 "Triumph" for the first time will take up duty to protect the airspace in the Sverdlovsk region, the press service of the Central military district (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The transfer of two submarines of the Yasen-M project "Kazan" and "Novosibirsk" has also been postponed to 2021

The transfer of the Poseidon nuclear submarine carrier of the Belgorod submarine and two Yasen-M project submarines Kazan and Novosibirsk to the Russian Navy has been postponed to 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The fire was conducted from the universal ship's artillery installation A-190

The modernized frigate of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) "Marshal Shaposhnikov" for the first time conducted a complex of artillery firing on air and sea targets in the Sea of Japan, the press service of the fleet reported on Thursday.