The Lebanese Armed Forces received 60 B80VJ SUVs with a 4x4 wheel formula from BAIC and 40 Sinotruk Howo trucks as part of the military assistance provided by China.

The Brazilian Leopards will remain in service until at least the middle of the next decade. June 16, portal janes.com He reported that the Brazilian Defense Ministry announced a tender for the modernization of 116 Leopard 1A5BR tanks.

The first tactical exercise of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District (CVO) with the use of combat vehicles supporting tanks of the BMPT "Terminator" began at the interspecific training ground in the Chelyabinsk region and will last until June 17, the press service of the CVO reported on Wednesday.

The Americans may launch a promising Ground-based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile in 2023. In the arsenal of the Air Force, it will replace the famous Minuteman III.

Two of the three tests of the combined US missile defense system ended in failure, according to a report by the US government Accountability Office.

NASA has approved the start of development of the preliminary design of the NEO Surveyor infrared space telescope, which will go into space in 2026. It is expected that in 12 years of operation, the telescope will help bring the number of known potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids with a diameter of more than 140 meters from 40 to 90 percent of their total number in this size range, according to the NASA website.

China plans to send a crew of three astronauts to the space station under construction on June 17, Ji Qiming, a representative of the Chinese Manned Flight Program, told reporters.

The international scientific lunar station of Russia and China will be deployed until 2035, then its operation will begin. This is reported in the presentation that the parties presented on June 16 at the International Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021, the video concept of the station was published on the YouTube channel of Roscosmos.

US sanctions restricting the supply of microelectronics have affected dozens of Russian spacecraft, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said.

Beijing "is exploring opportunities to make an even greater contribution to the development of cosmonautics together with the Russian side"

China is confident in the prospects for expanding cooperation with Russia in space in many areas. This was stated on Wednesday by the assistant head of the Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China Ji Qiming.

Cosmonauts can be launched from the spaceport to fly to the Chinese space station

To launch manned spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, a significant modernization of the infrastructure will be required, it may take several years, the adviser to the General director of Roscosmos, Sergey Krikalev, told Interfax.

For manned programs, the corporation plans to use the Soyuz-2 launch complex, which is located in Guiana

Roscosmos is negotiating the possible future use of the Kourou cosmodrome for manned launches. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin at the press conference of the Global Conference on Space Exploration GLEX-2021.

Washington should closely monitor the joint activities of Moscow and Beijing in outer space. This opinion was expressed by the director of the American space Agency NASA Bill Nelson on Tuesday, June 15, during the press conference GLEX-2021.

Cooperation between the countries continues, said the head of the organization, Bill Nelson

The cooperation between Russia and the United States in space, despite all the existing contradictions between Moscow and Washington, demonstrates what positive results the two countries can achieve if they go beyond political differences.

Members of the cosmonaut squad will join the new department of expertise, which will control the creation of spacecraft for manned cosmonautics, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the second document that will be sent to the government will be a version of the lunar program using a four-launch flight scheme on the Angara launch vehicle.

The American company XTI Aircraft plans to obtain a type certificate and start production of the TriFan 600 three-fan aircraft by the end of 2024. According to New Atlas, a full-scale prototype of the TriFan 600 will be built in 2022.

According to French media, on June 7, 2021, during the visit of the Minister of the Armed Forces of France Florence Parly to Indonesia, the military departments of the two countries signed an agreement of intent (Letter of Intent - LoI) regarding the purchase by Indonesia of 36 French Dassault Rafale fighters of new construction. At the same time, this agreement is not a firm contract, the conclusion of which is expected only by the end of 2022.

Specialists of the TSNTU "Dynamics" of the holding "Technodinamika" of the State Corporation Rostec have installed technical training facilities of a new generation in the Syzran branch of the VUNC of the Air Force "Air Force Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin "(VUNC of the Air Force"VVA").

The project of the MS-21-400 aircraft, capable of carrying up to 260 passengers, is expected to be launched in 2024-2025. This was announced on Wednesday, June 16, by Ravil Khakimov, General Director of Irkut Corporation.