Experts of the 48th Central research Institute of NBC protection troops help the colleagues of the National research center named after N. F. Gamalei to create a vaccine against coronavirus. Before June 1 must be completed preclinical studies of an experimental sample, said defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a video conference with Vladimir Putin. Clinical trials of the vaccine are planning to hold until the end of July.
However, the epidemic of the coronavirus COVID-19 did not affect the combat readiness of the Armed forces. Army training goes according to plan, the troops supplied modern weapons. So, for example, beginning in 2020, the military received 705 units of new and upgraded equipment, including 58 planes and helicopters, 40 armored cars, 500 cars, 72 of the unmanned complex.
Separately, Sergei Shoigu stopped at the distant bombers Tu-22M3. Now there is a massive modernization of these aircraft at the Kazan aviation plant. Shop work is actually a new fighting machine.
In General, the country’s defence industry is running at 72%. Of 1013 companies in line 990, Shoigu added.
