More than 400 cadets of the district training center for the training of junior specialists of motorized rifle and tank troops of the Eastern Military District (VVO) have mastered underwater driving of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) at the Peschanka training ground in the Trans-Baikal Territory, the press service of the district reports.

US intelligence chiefs are discussing efforts to rearm their agencies to counter China. They believe that the Russian nuclear triad is convincing and effective, so the Chinese are largely guided by it and would like to have the same one.

The United States condemns the new missile launches of the DPRK. Washington calls on Pyongyang to engage in dialogue. This was announced on September 15 by a representative of the State Department of the United States.

The DPRK is not engaged in provocations, testing missiles, but fulfills the key tasks of the defense plan. This was stated by the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Yo Jung, the KCNA news agency reported on September 15.

North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan, the Yonhap news agency reports. According to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday.

The Japanese Defense Ministry announced that the DPRK allegedly launched a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan on Wednesday. This was reported on September 15 by the Japanese TV and radio company NHK.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the latest Russian weapons systems fully comply with global trends

Russia plans to maintain its leadership in the field of hypersonic and innovative weapons systems. This was stated on Wednesday to journalists at the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum (TNF 2021) by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.

The UK is joining the race of combat lasers and "microwaves". September 14, portal defensenews.com He reported that the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom ordered the companies Thales and Raytheon to develop energy weapons.

Boeing and the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully presented a new interceptor missile for the ground-based medium defense System (GMD), designed to destroy ICBMs in space at the initial stage of flight.

A military expert, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, on Wednesday, September 15, commented to Izvestia on the information that Ukraine can receive two tactical anti-missile defense systems (ABM) "Iron Dome"from the United States.

The White House did not confirm the reports of the American press that the United States could allegedly supply Ukraine with an Iron Dome missile defense system. This was stated on September 15 during a briefing by a representative of the US administration, Jennifer Psaki.

Various air defense systems were used at the Mulino training ground (Nizhny Novgorod Region) during the main stage of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus "West-2021".

The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

Wozniak announced the creation of the space company Privateer Space. It is stated that it will work to ensure that space is safe and accessible to humanity.

A mock-up of the Rosalind Franklin rover of the Russian-European ExoMars-2022 mission extracted soil from a depth of 1.7 meters during tests, Roscosmos reported, citing materials from the European Space Agency (ESA).

The companies included Blue Origin, SpaceX, Dynetics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States has selected five companies that should assist in carrying out developments related to the future use of the lunar lander. The contract amount will be $146 million, according to a statement published on the agency's website on Tuesday.

Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.

As noted in Roscosmos, all devices are accepted for communication by the customer

More than 30 British OneWeb communication satellites have been successfully launched into orbit. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.

Candidates for cosmonauts of the set of 2021 are beginning one of the most difficult stages of general space training (OKP).

Each of the test participants will have to spend three days in a sign language chamber, while 64 hours-without sleep. The first was cosmonaut candidate Alexander Kolyabin.

Either to Vostochny or to Baikonur, the head of Roscosmos said

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, invited the winners and prize-winners of the VI National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia) employees of NPO Automatics to one of the rocket launches from the Vostochny or Baikonur cosmodromes.