News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The ground forces continue to be equipped with new and upgraded artillery systems. On Saturday, the press service of the Southern Military District reported that the 150th motorized rifle Division stationed in the Rostov region received 18 improved self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM".

Specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Defense Ministry continue to work on demining the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday, January 3.

Specialists of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in 2021 provided the launch of 21 Russian spacecraft into orbit, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

Ships and submarines, air defense systems, aircraft and intercontinental missiles — the Russian army will receive almost 3,500 units of new equipment in 2021. Two-thirds of the military budget will be spent on the purchase and modernization of weapons. About the most interesting samples - in the material of RIA Novosti.

Modern anti-tank missile systems (ATGMs) "Chrysanthemum-S" will enter service with the Taman Division of the Western Military District in 2021, the press service of the ZVO reported.

Small in number compared to the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese air force is going to oppose the powerful neighbor of a group of drones. Fighters with AI are planned to enter service in Japan in 15 years as unmanned wingmen, and subsequently create fully autonomous squadrons.

In Vladivostok, the tests of the modernized frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" are coming to an end. Built 35 years ago, the ship is now equipped with the latest weapons systems and has actually received a rebirth.

Deliveries to the Russian Armed Forces of the new S-500 Prometheus air defense system, capable of destroying targets in near space, are expected in 2021.

Military drones "Orlan-10" on New Year's holidays daily monitor from the air the fire-dangerous situation in the Leningrad region, the press service of the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, Russian developers have corrected the shortcomings previously identified in the Angara-A5 rocket. Now the carrier corresponds to the declared characteristics.

At the end of September 2020, the long – standing frozen conflict in Transcaucasia over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, the internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan, whose majority population is Armenians, sharply escalated. One of the main features of the Karabakh war in 2020 was the massive use by the Azerbaijani side of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of various types of Israeli and Turkish development.

The development of energy weapons in the United States and China is worth paying attention to

In leading foreign countries, along with the development of traditional means of armed struggle, weapons based on new physical principles, in particular energy weapons, are being actively developed. It is designed to destroy or disable weapons, military and special equipment by exposing them to powerful directed laser radiation.

Mil Design Bureau could create the world's first rotary-wing transformer, but lost the palm to Bell

Periodically, at various exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, mock-ups, and even prototypes of convertiplanes preparing for the first flight, appear. Both foreign and Russian, created on an initiative basis. And this provokes discussions on the topic " Whether the Russian Army needs these specific aircraft and what they can be useful."

According to a source in the shipbuilding industry, it will be able to carry 48 new Kalibr-PL, Onyx and Zircon missiles.]

The strike capabilities of the multi-purpose nuclear submarine "Irkutsk" of the project 949A "Antey" of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) after modernization will grow at least twice - it will be able to carry 48 new missiles "Kalibr-PL", "Onyx"and " Zircon". This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

Scouts infantry units of the CVO, stationed in the Altai region, were armed with new unmanned aerial vehicles "Tachyon".

New collimator sights were adopted by motorized rifle units of the combined arms Army of the Western Military District in the Bryansk region. Battalion tactical groups will use 1P63 and 1P29 sights for small arms already at the first field exit in the winter training period.

In 2020, the engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces continued to be equipped with special equipment. Wheeled road vehicles were delivered to missile formations located from the Tver to Irkutsk regions.

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).