News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

In the next four years, the army will receive more than 400 new and upgraded aircraft and helicopters

In 2020, several multibillion-dollar contracts for the serial production of combat aircraft and helicopters were completed. But the state's financial difficulties related to the pandemic have made adjustments to the defense department's plans and forced it to postpone some contracts.

Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel that the corporation is discussing with the Russian government the possibility of building new, in addition to the already contracted, most powerful nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project at the moment.

Almost the entire arsenal of the Russian military-weapons and equipment-is designed for temperatures from minus 50 to plus 50 degrees. If the heat is still more or less clear, then fighting in the extreme cold entails serious changes in tactics and strategy. About how this is taken into account by the statutes and the command, — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense has signed public-Private partnership (PPP) agreements with UAB Salvinta and UAB Partneryystės projektai keturi, which will build three new military camps. This is reported by the press service of the military department.

The construction of the first Chinese aircraft carrier Project 002 is being completed at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The ship has a displacement of 85 thousand tons, electromagnetic catapults and is comparable in capabilities to the latest American aircraft carriers of the Gerald Ford type.

Today [January 10, 2021] the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation gave birth to this message: 09.01.2021 (06: 00)...In 2020, the VKS entered service with four regimental sets of the S-400 "Triumph" anti-aircraft missile system and 24 anti-aircraft missile gun systems ZRPK "Pantsir-S", which were delivered to the air defense units stationed in the Sverdlovsk, Samara and South Sakhalin regions. Also in 2020, the first S-350 complex was delivered to the ZRV training center in the Leningrad Region to train specialists of the anti-aircraft missile forces.

MLRS BM-21 "Grad" is in service with the armies of more than 30 countries of the world and is the most massive combat system of this class. It is designed to destroy and suppress the enemy's manpower and military equipment in areas of concentration, artillery and mortar batteries, fortifications, strong points and nodes of enemy resistance.

According to a number of Western observers, today there is a real sign of a new arms race between the United States and Russia. Russia is developing new artillery and air defense systems. They are becoming export hits, attracting even NATO countries. In turn, the United States has all the necessary operational and political grounds to oppose this with anything equivalent. This choice was the" strategic " artillery of the United States.

During the exercise, the destruction of command posts of the "enemy"was worked out

The command posts of the conditional enemy were destroyed during the exercises in the Voronezh Region by the pilots of the bomber aviation regiment of the Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Wednesday.

On January 6, 2001, a Ka-50 attack helicopter took off from the Severny airfield for a combat mission in Grozny. The pilot needed to test the tactics and weapons of the Black Shark for the first time in a real situation.

In order to get into the combat zone, two Ka-50s and a Ka-29 guidance helicopter had to fly from Torzhok to Chechnya. In flight, the combat strike group was accompanied by a Mi-8 helicopter.

Combat tank support vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator" and a batch of upgraded T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks will be delivered to the First Tank Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) this year, said the commander of the association, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel.

Special exercises to check the readiness of ship crews for combat duty were held at the Caspian Flotilla (Cfl) in Dagestan, the Southern Military District (SE) said on Wednesday.

They have an increased launch range of unguided rockets

Heavy flamethrower systems TOS-2 "Tosochka" arrived in the mobile units of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the Central Military District (CVO) in the Saratov region. This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the CVO.

In 2021, state tests of the airmobile floating tank "Sprut-SDM1", intended for the Airborne Troops of Russia, will continue.

MBDA Corporation has received a contract for 550 million pounds, involving the equipment of carrier-based fighter-bombers F-35B, based on aircraft carriers such as Queen Elizabeth, a small cruise missile SPEAR3. It can hit targets located at a distance of more than 140 kilometers.

Hundreds of spacecraft fragments threaten big problems

A Japanese startup decided to clean up a little in space and launch a device for cleaning up space debris. Scientists have already delivered their device to Baikonur to send the device into space in March along with the Soyuz spacecraft.

Fighter jets of the Pacific Fleet in 2020 flew more than ten times to accompany Russian strategic and long-range aircraft, the press service of the fleet reported on Thursday.

Japanese investment specialist Yusuke Otsubo said that in Russia has developed serious advantages for the work of the IT industry, and called the country "an uncharted IT kingdom". In his article for JB Press, Otsubo used data from the British Analytical Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR).

In the coming year, the program of re-equipping the Strategic Missile Forces with new equipment should be completed

In the coming years, Russia's strategic nuclear forces will reach a fundamentally new level. Already in 2021, they will be equipped with only the most modern equipment.

The reconnaissance ship HMS Echo of the British Royal Navy entered the waters of the Baltic Sea, follows from the data of a webcam installed on the bridge over the Danish strait of the Great Belt.