Two Express communication satellites, Express-AMU3 and Express - AMU7, are planned to be sent into orbit on Proton-M

The train that transported the Proton-M carrier rocket arrived at the Tyuratam station (a station near the Baikonur cosmodrome). This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Roscosmos first published the composition of the future Russian orbital station on the public procurement website on Thursday, September 23. According to the document, the state corporation has allocated funding for the development of requirements for it and its seven modules in the amount of 1.735 billion rubles.

The Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has built a prototype of the CH-6 armed reconnaissance drone. According to Janes, the aircraft will be shown at the Zhuhai Air Show. The CH-6 is a medium-altitude vehicle capable of flying long distances at subsonic speeds.

A large number of different premieres are expected at the international aviation and space salon Airshow China 2021, which will open tomorrow. For example, experts and forum visitors will be able to study in more detail the design of an unmanned rocket plane, known as the WZ8.

According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, this high-speed vehicle was first shown on October 1, 2019 during a military parade in Beijing dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. There was practically no information about it, it was only known that the H-6N aircraft was used as a launch platform.

The assembly of the first multi-purpose tanker KC-390 "Millennium", ordered by the Portuguese Air Force, has been completed at the Embraer production facility in Gavian Peixot (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

Iraq may arm itself with Chinese-Pakistani-made fighter jets. September 26, portal nation.com.pk He said that Iraq and Pakistan have agreed on the purchase of 12 aircraft, and a contract is scheduled to be signed in October this year.

About 50 flight and engineering personnel and two Mi-8MTV5 helicopters were involved in the exercises

Crews of modernized Mi-8 helicopters of a separate helicopter squadron of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in Kazakhstan, launched unguided missiles at tactical flight exercises that ended on Monday at the Edelweiss aviation range in the Tien Shan Mountains in the Issyk-Kul region (Kyrgyzstan). This is stated in the press service of the district.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine received most of the fleet of Soviet Tu-160 strategic bombers. More than half of the vehicles of the Ukrainian Air Force (VVS) were disposed of in the late 1990s. The United States explained the reasons for the destruction of the Ukrainian Tu-160: it prevented the transfer of technology of Soviet bombers to China, The Military Watch magazine writes.

Retired US Army officer Brent Eastwood explained why Russian Su-35 fighters are dangerous in combat. His article was published by the portal 19Fortyfive.

Military Watch evaluated the new combat capabilities of the MiG-31.

The publication Military Watch asked the question, why did the Russian military start installing new short-range R-74M missiles on MiG-31BM/BSM interceptors?

The aggravation of the situation around Kosovo may escalate into an armed conflict between Belgrade and Pristina, according to the former head of the main department of international military cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry, retired Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov.

The command of the NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) has increased the number of patrols and the duration of their operation against the background of escalating tensions with Serbia, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing Serbian media.

The Serbian army has deployed its best T-72MS "White Eagle" main battle tanks on the administrative border with Kosovo. Over the weekend, videos appeared on the Network showing the transfer of these combat vehicles on heavy-duty trawls.

A military parade in honor of the 30th anniversary of the country's independence was held in Turkmenistan on Monday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports,

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, after meeting with Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilitsa and Foreign Minister Nicolai Popescu in Brussels on Monday, said that they had agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation.

It was officially reported about Russia's plans to send air defense forces to Serbia for exercises

The aggravation of the situation around Kosovo is unlikely to develop into an armed conflict between Belgrade and Pristina, Russia will not cancel the air defense exercises planned for October in Serbia, according to Russian expert Alexey Malashenko.

The Russian-Algerian anti-terrorist exercise will start on September 30 at the Tarskoye training ground in North Ossetia, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The military of Russia and Mongolia conducted the first joint training within the framework of the Selenga-2021 exercise at the Doityn Am Mongolian training ground, the press service of the Eastern Military District reports.

Up to 2 thousand military personnel and more than 100 units of combat and special equipment are involved in the regimental tactical exercise Large

-scale exercises of amphibious troops have begun in the Crimea, they involve about 2 thousand military personnel and more than 100 units of combat and special equipment, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

Large-scale exercises of amphibious troops have begun in the Crimea, they will involve about 2 thousand servicemen and more than 100 units of combat and special equipment, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reports.