The expert called the US demand to remove Iskanders from Europe ridiculous
The demand of the special representative of the US president to remove Russian missiles from Europe, which are allegedly placed there, is not justified by anything, said Konstantin Sivkov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences. He stated this in an interview with NSN.
Spending on the Russian nuclear weapons complex will grow by 14% by 2024 relative to 2022 - Head of the Duma Defense Committee
This, according to him, will allow the creation of new types of weapons
The draft federal budget for the "three-year period" provides for a significant increase in financing of the Russian nuclear complex, which will allow to continue the purchase of weapons and conduct scientific development of new types of weapons, said the head of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov.
Defense Express (Ukraine): The Tochka-U shopping mall has again worked out strikes near the Crimea
In Ukraine, they continue to rattle weapons, clearly not realizing that the militaristic threats against Russia only once again demonstrate Kiev's refusal to implement the Minsk agreements. Conducting maneuvers involving missile systems on the border with Crimea looks like an obvious threat to security on the European continent.
In Russia, they told about the superiority over the hypersonic weapons of the United States
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the superiority of Russian developments over hypersonic weapons of the United States. He stated this during a speech at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum, Interfax reports.
The United States is going to launch another high-precision tactical missile PrSM
The US Army is preparing to conduct another test of a promising high-precision operational-tactical missile PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) in the coming days, it follows from the data of the developer Lockheed Martin.
GBU-72: "prick" bunkers in a new way
The Americans are preparing to get their enemies out of the ground. On October 13, the press service of the US Air Force reported that the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator bomb passed the first test by air drop.
The Polish Armed Forces will receive the first Patriot air defense systems by the end of 2022
According to the head of the Polish military department Mariusz Blaszczak at a meeting with Polish servicemen undergoing training in the United States, the delivery of the ordered Patriot air defense systems to the country's armed Forces will be implemented as planned - by the end of next year.
The Russian-Serbian air defense group "repelled" an air raid on the Slavic Shield exercise
The air defense forces of Russia and Serbia conducted a training to repel an enemy air raid during a joint exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Russian Pantsir complexes provided air defense of Belgrade during an exercise in Serbia
The Russian military put the Pantsir-S air defense systems on duty near Belgrade, which were transferred by planes to Serbia for joint exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Calculations of the Buk-M3 air defense system were shot at the Kapustin Yar training ground
Calculations of the latest Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems conducted firing at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. They successfully hit ten targets.
S-500 covered the sky of Moscow
Moscow and the Central Industrial Region of Russia are now covered by the latest anti-aircraft missile system (SAM). On October 13, the TASS news agency reported that the first brigade set of the S-500 Prometheus air defense system entered service with the 15th Special Forces Army of the Russian Federation.
Rogozin announced the completion of the assembly of the apparatus for the Luna-25 mission
Roscosmos is working on determining a new date for the launch
The spacecraft for the Luna-25 mission has been assembled and is being prepared for launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. Roscosmos is working on determining a new date, which has been postponed from May to July, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Thursday.
Physicists have calculated the flow of lunar neutrinos
Thanks to this, it will be possible to learn more data about cosmic processes and the surface of the Moon
Russian physicists have studied the spectra of lunar neutrinos - ultralight fundamental particles that arise due to the interaction of cosmic rays with the surface of the Moon. Thanks to this, new methods of studying this satellite may appear. The results of the work were published by the scientific journal Physical Review D, the press service of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) briefly writes about it.
Russia has delivered OneWeb satellites into orbit
OneWeb satellites launched from the territory of Russia were put into orbit. 36 vehicles were delivered by the Soyuz-2.1b rocket. This is reported by the Telegram channel Zvezdanews with reference to the state corporation "Roscosmos".
A space tourist from Japan called a hot workout in a Russian spacesuit
Yusaku Maezawa added that the training in weightlessness made the strongest impression on him
Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa said that he admired the spacesuit produced by NPP Zvezda, but admitted that it was very hot to train in it.
Progress will be in autonomous flight for more than a day, waiting for conditions for docking to Nauka
Roscosmos reported that it will move away from the ISS at a distance of up to 185 km
The Progress MS-17 cargo ship will be reconnected from the Search module to the Science module. He will spend 29 hours in an autonomous flight, Roscosmos said in a statement released on Thursday.
Launches of Russian missiles from Baikonur, Plesetsk and Kuru are expected by the end of the year
Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021 are no longer expected
Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome are no longer expected this year. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.
Rogozin said that no fewer launches are planned from Vostochny in 2022 than in 2021
Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the cosmodrome
In 2022, Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome, their number will be the same as in 2021 - about five. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
At the Vostochny cosmodrome, work begins on the transition from kerosene to naphthyl
According to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, this will give additional energy and other operational advantages
Work on the transition of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to the new naphthyl fuel will begin on Friday. This decision was made during a meeting of the State Commission on Thursday, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters.
The American promising helicopter has reached the speed limit
A promising US helicopter, presented by Lockheed Martin, was able to reach a speed of almost 460 kilometers per hour. In the video that the company published on its website, you can watch this.