With the arrival of Vladimir Lepin as general director of the Kalashnikov Concern, the export potential of the enterprise will be fully realized, Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

In the largest weapons concern Kalashnikov, the general director will be replaced, the name of the new head is Vladimir Lepin.

Now he is acting as CEO instead of Dmitry Tarasov, who left at his own request, who headed the concern since September 2019. A purely formal decision on the change of management will be made at a meeting of the board of directors on August 10.

The appointment of a new head of the Group of Companies will be considered at a meeting of the Board of Directors on August 10

The former head of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) Dmitry Tarasov left his post in connection with the transition to another job. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The long-suffering Ukrainian armored car "Dozor-B", attempts to establish the production of which were accompanied by numerous scandals, decided to use it in a new quality.

On its basis, the Kharkiv Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering has created a light self-propelled flamethrower system "Speca" ("Heat"), the Defense Express edition reports.

As promised in the Russian Defense Ministry, our ground units in Tajikistan are reinforced with modern armored vehicles. "A batch of 17 modernized BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles has entered service at the 201st Russian military base stationed in Tajikistan. The new combat vehicles are designed to replace outdated models of equipment of motorized rifle units," the press service of the Central Military District reported yesterday.

The newest armored car "Typhoon-airborne" has been accepted for the supply of the airborne forces, the first batch of vehicles will be delivered to the troops in the near future, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

For the first time, a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" can be launched in the fall. Earlier it became known that this year they want to conduct several tests of the product.

For the first time, the Russian Defense Ministry announced its plans to create a long-range hypersonic missile. It is planned to equip strategic aircraft with such powerful weapons.

The head of the Military Academy of the General Staff, Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, told about the plans for the development of a new hypersonic weapon.

The German Air Force is testing new air-to-air missiles. On August 3, the press service of the Bundeswehr reported that Eurofighter Typhoon fighters are testing Meteor missiles.

The US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Georgia. According to TASS, with reference to the Office of the US Department of Defense for Defense Cooperation and Security, the transaction amount will be $ 30 million.

The Russian S-500 anti-aircraft missile system is significantly superior to its Chinese counterparts, The Paper writes.

The latest anti-aircraft systems, reflecting the latest achievements of China in the field of anti-missile technologies, were not even close to the S-500. If an export version of Prometheus appears , you need to buy it! This, in short, is the essence of the publication in the Chinese edition of Paper, where the author does not skimp on flattering assessments of the new Russian technology. The translation of the article is provided by the InoSMI portal.

The launch was carried out using a CZ-6 rocket from the Taiyuan Cosmodrome

China on Wednesday successfully launched into orbit two small telecommunications satellites Beta, designed to provide multimedia services. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

The company Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, criticized the Starship spacecraft of Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It was to him that NASA gave preference when concluding a contract for the creation of a lunar module.

The Russian rocket industry is amazing, said the founder of SpaceX

The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that he highly appreciates the Russian rocket industry and is studying many designs of rocket engines invented in Russia to create his own power plants.

Ukraine intends to withdraw from the agreement of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on joint activities in the exploration and use of outer space. This is on Wednesday, August 4, follows from the draft decree of the President of the country Vladimir Zelensky.

The incident with the Nauka engines did not cause damage to the ISS, but the consequences may manifest themselves in the future, said Sergey Krikalev, executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs.

The head of the press service of the state corporation, Vladimir Ustimenko, said that there was bad weather at the cosmodrome, and "the ship and the rocket were returned back to the vertical assembly shop, which would not have been done if the transfer really happened because of "Science".

The US Navy conducted the first combat test of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) supersonic anti-radar missile, designed to destroy enemy missile defense systems, the American edition of The Drive reports.

The US Air Force has released the reasons for the mysterious fall of the F-22 fighter.

A year after the crash of an F-22 near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a possible cause of the disaster has been named. It crashed due to "a maintenance error made after washing the aircraft," the Airforce times quotes a representative of the US Air Force.