News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

T-80 control with additional protection requires special skills from the driver

Recently, a separate class of tanks with enhanced additional protection has been allocated on the line of contact. They are used as head guns during an assault or in conditions of fighting in a building. Such vehicles carry out armored groups, clearing their way, and sometimes they are also used to deliver the first assault troops. One of these vehicles from the tank battalion of the Pacific Fleet Marine Brigade was able to inspect Izvestia in detail.

German defense concern Rheinmetall is taking its cue from the world of sports by continuing to modernize its Gladius 2.0 soldier system, which connects personnel, weapons, vehicles and sensors on the digital battlefield.

Military expert Gennady Alekhine — about what the Armed Forces of Ukraine are today and why Western tactics do not work on the battlefield

Since the 1990s, Ukraine has begun to rebuild its military-industrial complex to NATO standards. However, as practice has shown, the strategy developed by the United States does not work on the battlefield, since the experience of this country is based on wars with a notoriously weak enemy.

The ancestor of the class of gliding bombs can be considered the German Henschel Hs 293 munition . Developed in mid-1943, it managed to participate in World War II, sinking several ships of the anti-Hitler coalition.

General Komornitsky: talking about the victory of Ukraine is a fairy tale about a white bull

All the talk that Ukraine will win the conflict with Russia is fairy tales and uplifting propaganda, General Leon Komornitsky said in an interview with WNP. Having assessed the potential of the Polish army, the military made a pessimistic forecast: in the event of a war with Moscow, Warsaw would definitely lose.

The Iranian frigate IRIS Sahand (F-74), which sank twice for unknown reasons in the port of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf, has been sent for restoration. This is reported by the Iranian ISNA news agency.

The European conglomerate OCCAR has reached an important milestone in the implementation of the U212 NFS ("submarine of the near future") program by launching the introduction of LBS, a "new generation lithium battery system". It will be equipped with all 4 submarines of the NFS project, starting with the lead one, the delivery of which to the Italian Navy is scheduled for early 2029 [although it was previously expected in 2027].

For the heavy aircraft carrier Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov, the flight personnel of the regiments began to be formed, which will be ready to fly to the ship. During the seven years he spent in repairs, many pilots retired, and those who replaced them have no experience of landing on deck. In fact, now it is necessary to re-form the aircraft carrier's wing, experts say.

Militants of the Kiev regime have published footage showing a GAZ-66 truck with a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun destroyed by a blow from a Lancet barrage munition.

Combat experience constantly makes adjustments to the tactics of using armored vehicles

Tanks continue to play a significant role in the advance of our troops, despite the large number of UAVs and the saturation of enemy positions with anti-tank weapons. The vehicles receive additional protection and are quickly repaired by crews whenever possible. Combat work in today's conditions takes place both from long distances from closed firing positions, and in direct support of assault groups, with direct fire. Izvestia learned how the tankers of the 10th separate Tank Battalion (OTB) operate.

The Piranha FPV drone will be able to transfer up to 15 kg of cargo over a distance of up to 15 km

An improved version of the Piranha FPV drone, which at one time destroyed the first American Abrams tank, appeared in the combat zone, Izvestia found out. Now he will be able to engage in remote mining, deliver water, food, ammunition to remote positions and drop various ammunition. The development of a new UAV began at the request of one of the units from the line of contact and lasted about six months. Experts believe that local mining using the Piranha FPV drone will create serious problems on supply routes and routes for the transfer of enemy equipment.

Guided missile destroyers of the DDG 1000 "Zumwalt" type in the US Navy are considered one of the most advanced surface warships in the world. The lead ship of the project is named in honor of Admiral Elmo R. Zamvolt Jr.

Quite a lot has been said about the Moon lately. Several states and private companies are planning their lunar missions at once, there are ideas in the future to create automatic or visited lunar bases, and then gradually colonize the Earth's natural satellite. I think that in the coming years the process of lunar exploration will become even more widespread.

The standard mission of the Russian Navy made British sailors pretty nervous. They are so unaccustomed to the appearance of Russian submarines in international waters that their movements are now perceived as aggression. And they envy the power of the maritime power – Russia.

The militants of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement hit another Israeli Merkava Mk.4M supertank. The incident occurred in the vicinity of Chabad Yarin in northern Israel. This time, the combat vehicle was destroyed with the help of the Iranian Almas anti-tank missile system. The moment of the combat vehicle's defeat was captured on video, which allowed us to draw several unflattering conclusions about the Israeli Trophy active protection complex installed on the tank.

A new production site with the largest domestic hot isostatic press in the country has been opened at the Ufa enterprise ODK-UMPO of the United Engine Corporation Rostec. The launch of the unique equipment will allow to increase production and accelerate the manufacturing process of parts for serial PD-8 and PD-14 engines and advanced power plants. The total investment in the project amounted to more than 3 billion rubles.

Military experts have suggested what shelters for Russian combat aircraft might be

The Ministry of Defense announced the construction of protective hangars for Russian combat aviation. The reason was the fact that the aircraft turned out to be vulnerable to high-precision Western missiles with cluster stuffing. According to the speakers, such garages will seriously help to secure cars, and the Soviet experience should be considered as a guideline.

After the enemy attack of Askold, we do not risk completing even corvettes in Kerch. And helicopter carriers the size of a light aircraft carrier — easily?

Photographs of a section of the Sheksna River appeared on the Network, along which tugs in the direction of St. Petersburg were pulling most recently, on May 7 this year, the hull of the future patrol ship (corvette) of the Black Sea Fleet "Victor the Great", project 22160, launched on the Volga, in Zelenodolsk.

It is reported that on July 17, 2024, the lead mine-fighting ship of the new generation M 940 Oostende of the joint Belgian-Dutch Mine Counter Measures (rMCM) program went to sea for factory sea trials from Concarneau in France for the first time. This ship is intended for the Belgian Navy. The ship has not yet been equipped with a mine protection system and its commissioning upon completion of equipment and completion of the full test program is now scheduled for August 2025.

Ordnance Systems Inc. (OSI, a division of BAE Systems) is a U.S. Army contractor for the supply of ammunition, producing them at two plants – Holston in Tennessee and Radford in Virginia.