Military Industry

At present, taking into account the high-tech nature of the latest wars and conflicts, global developers pay considerable attention to the development and production of targeting and guidance systems for the weapon systems. Within this trend, recently Ukraine has presented a line of new “thermal” targeting/guidance systems for guided missiles and an optical aiming station for various types of weapons.

Given the active use of artillery fire by the enemy, modern armies of the world, in particular Ukraine, pay special attention to the development, manufacture and combat use of acoustic and radar reconnaissance means.

August 2020 Ukrainian State company “Antonov” presented the newest multirole transport aircraft An-178, which is to be delivered to Peru in 2021. The delivery is planned within the contract to produce an unspecified quantity of the newest Antonov An-178 military transport aircraft for the Interior Ministry of Peru.

Ukraine, which already has a wide range of reconnaissance UAVs of its own production, is taking active steps to create its own strike capabilities for air-to-ground missions namely: Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs), new types of weapons – loitering ammunition (or kamikaze drones), as well as special ammunition for UAVs.

Ukrainian State Enterprise “Specialized Foreign Trade Firm “PROGRESS” (SE SFTF “PROGRESS”) promotes the latest mobile radar systems for reconnaissance, surveillance and information collection” Tayra “and” Harza “. The alternative designation of the systems is – mobile  Perimeter Security Surveillance Radar (PSSR).

JSC Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec State Corporation) has started marketing work to bring on the world market of armaments the 59N6-TE mobile three-dimensional radar, developed and produced by the JSC “Federal Research and Production Center “Nizhniy Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering” (NNIIRT).

The information was given by our colleagues from the Jeune Independent on April 27, Russia provided technical and medical aid to Algeria to fight the epidemic of COVID-19.

We met them at the Milipol show in Paris late November, the Russian company TSNK proposes a handheld detector for explosives, narcotics and radioactive materials that gives results after seconds.