Through the smoke: the possibilities of a thermal imaging sight were shown on video
A serviceman of the Ukrainian army demonstrated the effectiveness of the tank's thermal imaging sight on his YouTube channel.
The thermal smoke equipment exposed a fairly dense smoke screen, and if nothing but the cloud itself was visible in the optical device, then during observation through the thermal imager, all nearby objects were guessed without much difficulty.
The MTO CVO compound in Siberia received 10 new tankers under the state defense order
According to the state defense order, 10 new tankers based on KamAZ-63501 and KamAZ-5350 vehicles were delivered to the MTO CVO compound stationed in the Kemerovo region.
Shoigu: The United States has begun the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in Europe
According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, "the involvement of pilots of non-nuclear member states of the bloc in exercises to work out the use of tactical nuclear weapons is of particular concern"
The US military has begun active work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in European countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.
Shoigu announced the beginning of US work on the modernization of nuclear weapons
The US military has begun active work on the modernization of tactical nuclear weapons and their storage bases in European countries. This was stated on Wednesday, October 20, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
The US predicted defeat in the hypersonic war with Russia
At the current level of development of hypersonic weapons, the United States has every chance to lose in a possible fight with Russia and China. After years of warnings from military experts, the Pentagon is now spending over a billion dollars annually to catch up.
North Korea confirms launch of new ballistic missile from submarine
The DPRK confirmed that on October 19 it successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Yonhap news agency reports, citing the Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA).
North Korea showed footage of the launch of a new ballistic missile from a submarine
North Korea has successfully tested a new ballistic missile by launching it from a submarine under water. On the presented frames, you can examine the tests in detail.
US weapons causing Russia a "headache" are named
The United States is capable of sending up to six thousand high-precision subsonic Tomahawk cruise missiles with conventional and nuclear warheads to the target in just one salvo, writes TASS military columnist Dmitry Litovkin. The author called this circumstance causing an impenetrable headache for Russia.
The US will complete the creation of a missile defense base in Poland in the coming months
The United States will commission a second missile defense (ABM) base in Europe, the creation of which is being completed in northern Poland near the village of Redzikovo, 165 km from the Russian border, in the coming months, according to data from the US Defense Defense Agency.
The Pantsir-S air defense systems returned to Russia after the exercises in Serbia
The delivery of equipment was carried out by military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces
The units of the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) involved in the joint exercises "Slavic Shield - 2021" in Serbia have been returned to Russian territory. This was reported on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Rostec has completed testing of the acoustic reconnaissance module "Attack-Rustle"
The acoustic reconnaissance module "Ataka-Rustle", created by specialists of the subsidiary holding "Roselectronics" (part of Rostec) to detect drones by sound, has successfully passed factory acceptance tests, the state corporation told reporters on Wednesday.
NATO said there were no plans to deploy weapons in space
The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) has no plans to deploy weapons in space. This was announced on Wednesday, October 20, by the Secretary General of the organization Jens Stoltenberg.
NASA approves the COSI gamma-ray space telescope project
NASA has chosen the winner among the finalists of the next Explorers program competition in the category of small research vehicles. It was the COSI space gamma-ray telescope, which will be launched into near-Earth orbit in 2025 and will study galactic gamma-ray sources, according to the NASA website.
The first manned test flight of the Starliner spacecraft to the ISS may take place at the end of 2022 - Boeing
The first manned test flight of the CST-100 Starliner Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) spacecraft to the International Space Station may take place at the end of 2022, said John Vollmer, head of the Boeing Corporation Commercial manned flight program.
The second test flight of the Starliner may take place in the first half of 2022 - Boeing
Boeing Corporation's promising CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, if technical problems are eliminated, can be launched into the second test flight (Orbital Flight Test-2 - OFT-2) in unmanned mode in the first half of 2022, John Vollmer, vice president and manager of the company's manned flight program, said on Tuesday during a NASA teleconference.
South Korea has installed its first Nuri rocket on the launch pad
The carrier should launch on October 21
The Republic of Korea is completing preparations for the launch of the first Nuri launch vehicle of its own design and production. According to the plan, it should launch on October 21 from the Naro cosmodrome in Kohin-gun County of Jeolla-Namdo Province, the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies reported on Wednesday.
Boeing and SpaceX will seek to increase the number of flights to the ISS
American private aerospace companies Boeing and SpaceX will seek to increase the number of flights to the ISS under contracts with NASA, said John Vollmer, head of Boeing's commercial manned flight program.
The launch of the joint NASA and Space X mission to the ISS has been postponed
The joint NASA and Space X mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which was scheduled to launch on October 30, has been postponed to October 31. This is stated on the website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 19.
Luna-27 will be launched on an Angara carrier rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome
The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin recalled that the Luna-26 orbiter will be launched on a Soyuz-2 rocket
The Russian automatic station Luna-27 will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on an Angara carrier rocket. This was stated by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the next issue of the General Line program.
Source: Roscosmos initiated a case in which the deputy director of the Central Research Institute was detained
The detention of Marat Arustamov is the result of an audit by the internal audit service of the corporation, the interlocutor of TASS noted
The criminal case in which the Deputy Director General of the Center for the Operation of Ground-based Space Infrastructure Facilities (CENKI, part of Roscosmos) was detained Marat Arustamov, initiated, among other things, as a result of an audit of the Roscosmos internal audit service. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.