News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

Against the background of the just concluded agreement on the extension of the START-3 treaty, experts in the field of arms control, as well as the creators of strategic systems themselves, react very painfully to the stuffing of information and the publication of dubious, anonymous sources, information about what programs are being built in Russia, prepared for adoption or already put into combat.

Moscow is concerned about the prospect of an echelon of the US missile defense system in space. The implementation of Washington's plans will destabilize the existing system of international security, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov is sure. The diplomat stressed that if this idea is successful, the Americans will be able to strike directly from orbit at the positional areas of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Without waiting for them to start.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create two or three squadrons of fifth-generation Su-57 fighters with their wingmen-heavy strike and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) S-70 "Hunter". This is reported by Izvestia, citing sources in the military department.

The Ministry of Defense of Japan has published an annual request within the framework of the defense budget for 2021-2022 (April 2021 – March 2022) for the purchase of weapons and military equipment.

The carrier rocket "Angara-A5" in the course of December, starting on the accuracy settings of removing cargo and load capacity exceeded the requirements specified defense Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti the General designer of the design Bureau "salute" (included in the Center Khrunichev, the developer of "Angara") Sergey Kuznetsov.

A spectacular photo of ballistic missile launchers of the People's Liberation Army of China appeared on the network. Installations with raised and lowered missiles are placed on the plain, covering it all. The photo shows at least three hundred launchers.

Designed to protect personnel from mines and land mines, MRAP class armored vehicles can also successfully save them from other weapons of destruction. This is evidenced by the video posted on social networks.

The decision to dispose of the heavy nuclear cruiser "Admiral Lazarev" was made after assessing the technical condition of the ship, a source in the industry told Interfax on Thursday.

The US Air Force received the first AT-6E Wolverine aircraft. The delivery was carried out within the framework of the AERONet (Airborne Extensible Relay Over-Horizon Network) program, aimed at developing aviation science.

The rarefied atmosphere of Mars is one of the main challenges that the Ingenuity helicopter will face as part of the Perseverance rover mission. This was told to Izvestia by space expert, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics (RAK) Andrey Ionin on Thursday, February 18.

The Ministry of Defense will receive new food rations for the Airborne Forces, Marines and Special Forces

That changes in the organization of power of the fighter, the responsible editor of the "Independent military review" Dmitry LITOVKIN on the eve 321-anniversary food service, told the head of Department (food) Department of resource support of the Ministry of defense Colonel Sergei NICHELMAN.

The Atlas V launch vehicle with the rover launched in July 2020 from the Cape Canaveral space center

Specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believe that all the systems of the Perseverance spacecraft approaching Mars ("Perseverance") are working normally, the rover is ready for the landing scheduled for February 18. This was stated on Tuesday by Deputy project manager Jennifer Trosper at a press conference, which is broadcast on the agency's website.

Extreme landing of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) The USA was shown on the video. The corresponding video was posted on Instagram by former pilot-instructor Ross Francemont. The video drew the attention of The Drive.

The construction of four yet-to-be-launched multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M (885M) project is not behind schedule, and the submarines are currently on the slipways, Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of the Severodvinsk Sevmash plant, told RIA Novosti.

A Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet has completed test flights with functional mock-ups of a new hypersonic missile, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

The crews of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and the Air Defense of the Western Military District used air weapons during tactical exercises. The launch of unguided aircraft missiles S-13 and S-8 can be watched on video.

The second pair of large amphibious assault ships (BDK) of Project 11711 will be transferred to the Russian Navy in 2023-2024, the ships will have 40% more displacement and, accordingly, landing capacity, Ilya Samarin, General Director of the Yantar Shipbuilding Plant (Kaliningrad), told RIA Novosti.

The Russian Armed Forces received tankers with a special bulletproof coating. They joined the logistics brigades of the operational-strategic commands and individual battalions of tank and motorized rifle divisions.

The development of military equipment in India, as a rule, is carried out for several decades, and very often the result is not so successful.

The example of the Arjun tank is illustrative. It began to be created in the 70s, it was planned that it would become the main combat vehicle of the ground forces. The volume of expected deliveries was estimated at more than 2000 pieces. However, in reality, the army has purchased only about 250 units and now expects a completely new generation of tracked vehicles from the industry.

The Indian army received the Arjun Mk 1A tank, which is a development of the not - so-successful Arjun Mk 1. The weight of the combat vehicle is 68 tons, which makes it one of the heaviest tanks in the world.