According to experts, the launch of one Falcon 9 launch vehicle costs SpaceX about $50 million

Delivery of 150 tons of cargo to low Earth orbit with the commissioning and full use of the Starship spacecraft of the American company SpaceX in three years may become cheaper than $ 10 million.

The American company Astra unsuccessfully launched a light rocket with five student cubesats. After turning off the engine of the first stage, the head fairing did not have time to open and the second stage crashed into it, and then, when it did open, it spun. The launch was broadcast on the NASASpaceflight YouTube channel.

The EU is also considering expanding the commonwealth to repel so-called hybrid attacks and attacks in cyberspace

The European Union (EU) plans to develop a new crisis response system to protect against threats in space. This was reported on Thursday by Bloomberg with reference to the draft document of the European Commission (EC).

The stations are significantly superior to their analogues in terms of their tactical and technical characteristics

Calculations of the newest radar complexes "Sky-T" of the air defense division of the Central Military District (CVO) have taken up combat duty to protect the airspace over the regions of the Volga region and the Urals, the press service of the CVO reported.

Nebo-T complexes went on combat duty in the regions of the Volga region and the Urals

Calculations of the Nebo-T radar complexes have taken up combat duty. The complexes of the air Defense Division of the Central Military District (CVO) will ensure the protection of airspace over the regions of the Volga region and the Urals. "Sky-T" was checked with the help of fighters. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Central Military District.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine received from Lithuania a batch of Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as defense ammunition.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled a new missile called the Heybar Shekan with a range of 1,450 kilometers.

The presentation ceremony of the Heybar-Shekan rocket took place in the presence of the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri and the Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.

Military exercises in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory have worked out the deployment of coastal anti-ship complexes "Bastion" with conditional (electronic) launches of cruise missiles, the Black Sea Fleet said on Friday.

Military expert Yuri Knutov commented on the exercises in Crimea with the use of Bastion coastal missile systems on Sputnik radio.

The Avangard combat unit is capable of flying in dense layers of the atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of up to Mach 27, maneuvering along the course and altitude and overcoming any missile defense

The second regiment of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) UR-100N UTTH with hypersonic combat equipment "Avangard" will take up combat duty as part of the Yasnensky compound of Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) until the end of 2022. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

North Korea has condemned the criticism of the European Union in connection with a series of missile launches carried out by the DPRK last month.

Sergey Kotelevsky, Head of the Kurganmashzavod R&D Department, said that the new version of the Octopus amphibious vehicle is radically different from its first generation

The updated version of the airborne self-propelled anti-tank gun "Octopus" based on the latest BMD-4 has a unique fire control system. This was announced on Sunday on the air of the program "Military Acceptance" on the Zvezda TV channel by Sergey Kotelevsky, head of the Kurganmashzavod R&D Department.

Defense Ministry: gunners launched missile strikes on the "enemy" at the exercises "Allied Determination"

The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that consolidated divisions of gunners from Russia and Belarus within the framework of the exercises "Allied Determination-2022" struck the positions of a conditional enemy. This is what Izvestia writes about.

Launched in 1957, the Soviet armored reconnaissance patrol vehicle BRDM-1 had several modifications. For example, in the very original version, it was made without an armored hull roof.

During the fighting in Yemen, President Hadi's T-55AM2 tanks, modernized in Czechoslovakia, were again seen as part of the military formations opposing the Shiite Ansar Allah movement (Houthis).

As a rule, early versions of T-55s are used in battles, which formed the basis of the armored power of the land forces of this country before the civil war began in 2014.

The Ukrainian military used the upgraded T-64BM2 tanks for the first time in the exercises

The Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted exercises at a training ground in the Kharkiv region. During the maneuvers, the military used for the first time an upgraded version of the Soviet T-64 tank. This is reported by Defense Express.

Australia chooses a new BMP — the South Korean Redback ("Black Widow") and the German Lynx ("Lynx") in the KF-41 modification compete in the final of the competition. A new video published by Hanwha Defense shows the highlights of the Black Widow tests, and also indicates that this BMP has successfully passed tests within the framework of the LAND 400 Phase 3 tender. The Australian Defense Ministry will announce the winner soon.

The Israel Defense Forces are currently armed with modern Merkava Mk tanks.4, equipped, among other things, with active protection complexes.

Machines of earlier versions are no longer in use. According to reference publications, more than six hundred Merkava Mk.3 are in storage, the rest can be seen only in museums, at sites of decommissioned equipment and at landfills where various training tasks are being worked out on them.

The Russian robotic complex "Marker" has been successfully tested as a near-hand air defense system, which will be able to effectively destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including kamikaze drones, Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of the Marker developer enterprise - NGO Android Technology, told RIA Novosti.

This is not a sample of computer modeling, but a real video recording, and made during the installation of a 25-year record! The British laboratory Joint European Torus (JET) was able to achieve energy generation of 59 megajoules on its experimental thermonuclear reactor. The process lasted 5 seconds, which the camera captured.