News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A Chinese spacecraft with a rover on board has reached Mars

The Chinese mission "Tianwen-1" with a rover on board has reached the orbit of Mars. If all goes according to plan, the Chinese rover will land on the surface of the planet in the spring.

According to the data provided, the first deeply modernized Ka-52M helicopters may enter the army in 2022. Recently, the Aerospace Forces received the first Mi-28NM.

The Italian military-industrial complex is aimed at maintaining its share in the global arms market

In the 80s, the Italian military-industrial complex continued to develop, which allowed the country to reduce arms imports and increase exports. However, in France, several thousand ATGMs "Milan" were purchased, in Germany – aviation PKR "Cormoran".

In Kerch, the newest watchtower stood on the water

A solemn ceremony of launching the fourth of a series of patrol ships (PC) of the project 22160 "Sergey Kotov" took place at the shipyard "Bay". Its predecessors-PC "Vasily Bykov", "Dmitry Rogachev" and "Pavel Derzhavin" have already been tested and successfully solve the tasks.

Why the US Navy is going to double the size of the military fleet

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said it would take a much larger U.S. navy of 500 ships to contain China's "expansionist ambitions."

The military satellite, launched into orbit on February 2 by the Russian Armed Forces, is designed to detect and intercept foreign military communication lines, the specialized American website Spaceflight Now reported.

The Japanese Coast Guard has released a photo of the SS501 Soryu submarine, which was damaged after a collision with a bulk carrier off the coast of Kochi Prefecture.

In the southern military district began the teaching of the units of missile troops and artillery of great power. More than 13 thousand servicemen marched in a combined way to military training grounds in the Astrakhan, Rostov, Volgograd regions, as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories.

The first stage of the pilot operation of the Terminator tank support vehicle (BMPT) was completed at the training ground of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District in the Chelyabinsk Region.

The new ice - class patrol ship project 23550-cipher "Ermak" will be commissioned in 2024. The main task of the "Blizzard", as it will be called - the protection of state borders in the Arctic, the protection of Russia's economic resources and the delivery of goods to the unequipped coast of the Arctic. He will be able to overcome almost two meters of ice.

The Russian Armed Forces will rely on the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in modern weapons. This was announced on Tuesday, speaking at an operational mobilization meeting with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.

Two serial diesel-electric submarines of the fourth generation of the project 677 "Lada" — "Kronshtadt" and "Velikiye Luki" — will receive the Russian Navy in 2022, the general director of JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" Alexander Buzakov said on February 9.

Aviators and engine builders are working on increasing the combat capabilities of the Russian fighter of the fifth generation su-57, said in an interview to "Interfax" the head of Minpromtorg Denis Manturov.

This station is fully developed and assembled by specialists from the United Arab Emirates

The Arab interplanetary station "Al-Amal" entered the orbit of Mars. This was reported on Tuesday by Sky News Arabia. The TV channel calls this event " the first success of the Arabs in space."

American and British engineers have created a nozzle for laser cutters that allows them to create drones — the cutter cuts out the body, and the nozzle moves components onto it, applies contact tracks and sinters them. After that, the drone can take off directly from the cutter and get to work. The paper will be presented at the CHI 2021 conference.

The Russian 5G network interferes with NATO spy planes, the Vedomosti newspaper writes, citing reports from the International Telecommunication Union at the United Nations. Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, which is not a member of the alliance, objected to the use of the 4.8-4.99 GHz band by Russian operators.

The repair and evacuation vehicle (REM-KS) was delivered to a separate battalion of the combined arms army in the Kursk region. This is reported by the press service of the Western Military District.

Already developed, adopted or undergoing state tests, in particular, hypersonic systems "Dagger", "Zircon", cruise missiles "Caliber", reported in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Earlier, the head of the Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu said that the level of equipment of the Russian army and navy by the end of 2024 with modern weapons will increase to 75.9%

Almost 40 new formations, regiments and military units were formed in various types of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2020.

Russian military scientists have proposed a variant of the combat use of the Aerospace Forces( VKS), which will provide guaranteed protection against a possible multi-sphere operation of NATO, a new approach is presented in the journal "Aerospace Forces. Theory and Practice", published by the Military Training and Research Center of the Air Force (Air Force).