On Thursday, a new anti-aircraft missile was tested at a test site in North Korea. In the development of the DPRK, they saw similarities with the Israeli missile defense system "David's Sling". This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

North Korea has tested a new anti-aircraft missile, the state news Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) reported on October 1. It is noted that the tests took place on September 30.

The Joe Biden administration is in an extremely difficult position due to the fact that the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, is determined to purchase weapons from Russia.

More than 30 sets of MANPADS "wIllow" entered service with a motorized rifle unit of the ZVO, stationed in the Leningrad region.

The Russian military will receive a portable anti-aircraft missile system of the new generation "METKA". As the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, told the kRasnaya Zvezda newspaper, the MANPADS has a missile with a homing head resistant to all types of optical interference.

The variant of the Pantsir complex for military air defense (air defense) and the fighter of drones "Derivation-air defense" will soon be put into service, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov.

In 2021, tests of the Prometheus perimeter security system, including remotely controlled combat modules with a large-caliber machine gun, will be completed at the facilities of the Ministry of Defense, Igor Afanasyev, Director General of the research and production association eLektromashina, told TASS.

The reasons for this decision are not reported

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) postponed the launch of the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft, scheduled for Friday. This is stated in the JAXA message.

The US authorities are checking Blue Origin for safety. The US Federal Aviation Administration received complaints about the quality of the missiles produced by the company. Some Blue Origin employees said that the management paid more attention to flight safety to the speed of development and assembly of missiles, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

After many years of attempts to create new spacesuits to go beyond the International Space Station (ISS) and work on the lunar surface as part of the Artemis program, NASA has started looking for developers of space equipment among private companies, writes ArsTechnica.

NASA and SpaceX have announced the date of sending the Crew Dragon spacecraft with several astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS), according to the website of the European Space Research Administration (ESA).

The probes of the BepiColombo mission, flying to Mercury, successfully performed the first gravitational maneuver near their target, flying at a minimum distance of 199 kilometers from the planet. During the flyby, the spacecraft received a number of images of the surface of Mercury and other scientific data, according to the ESA website.

Masten Space Systems company presented the results of work on the project for the rapid creation of landing sites on the Moon using the exhaust of a rocket engine and aluminum oxide particles. Specialists have developed a two-level system for introducing particles into the engine nozzle and experimentally confirmed the viability of the idea in practice using a bench engine, according to the company's website.

The launch of the sOyuz MS-19 spacecraft is scheduled for October 5

Roscosmos has not received an official response to the invitation to attend the launch of the sOyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the sOyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, which is scheduled for October 5, from entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. This was reported to TASS in the state corporation.

Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, revealed the future operation of the Proton-M heavy launch vehicle after 2025. His words are transmitted by RIA Novosti.

The Japanese company Honda will develop a hybrid vertical take-off and landing aircraft for flights between cities. According to TechCrunch, it plans flight tests of its demonstration model in 2025, after which it will decide about mass production.

The American company Stratolaunch has defended the Talon-A hypersonic glider project and completed the initial assembly of its prototype glider. Next year, she plans to test it with a hypersonic flight.

According to Israeli and Indian media, amid growing tensions between India and China due to the aggravation of the situation in Ladakh, the Indian Defense Ministry decided to purchase four Heron Mk.2 UAVs from IAI and place them in the area for reconnaissance.

Italy has announced its intention to arm the rEaper UAVs available in the country's Air Force (six years after receiving permission to do so from the US administration).

The Celestial Empire showed the appearance of a sixth-generation fighter. The aircraft is somewhat different from the concepts demonstrated earlier. At the same time, the novelty echoes Western developments, if we talk about the concept.