News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

According to the source, by 2023, six submarines of the project 949A will be repaired according to the technical condition, and the submarine "Irkutsk" will be upgraded according to the project 949AM

The Main Command of the Russian Navy plans to have seven Antey nuclear submarines of projects 949A and 949AM in the submarine forces of the Northern and Pacific Fleets by the end of 2023. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Corvette "Persistent", which in the long March, successfully fulfilled the task of search, detection and elimination of submarines of the conditional opponent.

Together with "Persistent" in the March went average sea tanker "Cola" and sea tug "James Grebelsky".

Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant LLC (Shlisselburg; part of United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC) announced that it will build two research vessels of Project 17050 for the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO).

The Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS) has improved the photographic equipment for Russian weather satellites, which will allow to determine the temperature of clouds and the earth's surface with high accuracy, the press service of the holding reported on Tuesday.

The Russian Navy included the corvette "Gremyashchy" — the first ship of the project 20385. In the future, it is planned to arm it with hypersonic missiles.

The satellite weighing more than 3.5 tons was created by the European corporation Airbus Defense and Space

The Russian Soyuz-ST launch vehicle with the French CSO-2 reconnaissance satellite successfully launched on Tuesday from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana. The live broadcast is available on the website of the space launch operator Arianespace.

Fly further, hit harder, ignore the opposition-the Americans tested a new modification of the Tomahawk cruise missile-Block V. In the Pacific Ocean, near the Hawaiian Islands, the destroyer Chafee fired at a target at a naval training ground. The US Navy succinctly reported: everything went well. About what is known about Block V and how Russian "Calibers" look against its background - in the material of RIA Novosti.

The RRS continues to supply engineering weapons to improve the maneuverability and survivability of mobile – based combat missile systems, including the Listva remote mine clearance vehicle (MDR) and the Engineering support and camouflage vehicle (MIOM).

A flight of new Su-30SM multi-purpose fighters has arrived at the Karaganda Aviation Base named after Hero of the Soviet Union Nurken Abdirov.

The launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by a nuclear submarine of the Pacific Fleet on December 12 confirmed the characteristics of this missile, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

A decision on the future of the International Space Station (ISS) is planned to be made in the first quarter of 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

Soviet 14.5 mm KPV machine guns continue to be in service in many countries around the world. There are options for infantry units, anti-aircraft and for equipping armored vehicles. The latter, such as in North Korea, are installed on tanks of various modifications, including local clones of the T-62.

Russia's plans to develop hypersonic weapons have provoked panic in NATO countries over Moscow's " aggressive plans." In Europe, however, they are more afraid that it will be destroyed by American defenders, who are afraid of the Russian threat. Does the possession of "hypersound" really give Russia a decisive advantage? And how can the West respond to us if it achieves parity in such weapons?

While other countries are reeling with the introduction of fifth-generation cellular networks (5G), China is making unimaginable money on the new standard.

we are Talking about an experiment on the spectroscopic study of gas nebulae

The Russian-Indian experiment on spectroscopic study of gas nebulae, which will take place at the Chinese orbital station, will begin in 2023, and not in 2022, as previously announced. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy Director for scientific work of the Institute of astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the main scientific organization in the project) Mikhail Sachkov.

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.