The Federal Air Transport Agency stated that there are no sufficient funds for financial support of the material and technical base of educational institutions and for the training of commercial pilots for the industry, including the purchase of simulators. This is stated in a letter from the deputy head of the agency Natalia Andrianova to the heads of nine airlines (Izvestia has a copy).

The United States condemns the Houthi missile strike on Saudi Arabia, which injured two children, the State Department said.

The US authorities will be forced to increase cooperation with Russia, China and Pakistan in collecting intelligence data concerning what is happening in Afghanistan and possible terrorist threats.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths promised that the world organization will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, said the representative of the Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) Suheil Shaheen.

The United States tested the concept of the "ghost fleet" with the launch of the SM-6 rocket. In the future, the Navy wants to get a whole fleet of robotic ships.

The small combat radius of the F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters sharply reduced the effectiveness of American aircraft carriers. This was acceptable after the end of the cold War, but it is a wake-up call now, against the background of the growing capabilities of Russia and China, writes MilitaryWatch.

The newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov"arrived in Sevastopol after the transition from the Baltic to the Black Sea Fleet.

Severnaya Verf installed turbines and reducers of the main power plant on the project 22350 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov frigate under construction.

The third serial frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov" of project 22350, which is being built at the Northern Shipyard (part of the USC), has been loaded with turbines and reducers of a diesel-gas turbine unit (DGTA).

The Gorky Zelenodolsk Plant will launch a small Grad rocket ship of the project 21631 (Buyan-M), armed with Kalibr missiles, by the end of September, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov said.

The mine defense ship "Afanasy Ivannikov", which belongs to the project 12700" Alexandrite", will be laid in St. Petersburg on September 9. This was reported to journalists on September 6 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The crews of a detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea took part in an exercise to ensure the safety of objects of economic activity of the Russian Federation and to resolve crisis situations in case of their occurrence. The combat training event was held in the area of the frost-resistant ice stationary platform "Prirazlomnaya" in the Barents Sea.

Engineers of the US Navy have created an unusual portable device that interrupts human speech, which makes it impossible, for example, to speak at a rally.

The Russian equipment of the soldier of the future "Sotnik" is planned to be equipped with optical devices for blinding the enemy at a long range, relevant studies are being conducted, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the defense industry.

Scientists from Scotland have created robots based on the mechanics of the movement of tapeworms. The development of engineers from the University of Glasgow will be able to be used in prosthetics, rescue operations and industry, the Evening Standard newspaper reports.

The developers of the Printosens company of the Mordovia Nanocenter, which is part of the RUSNANO Group's FIOP investment network, have released the second version of the cyber glove and created new software for controlling robotics, for example, working under water and in laboratories with high risks for the safety of employees.

In Afghanistan, old Soviet-made tanks were used in the past battles in the area of the northern Panjshir province.

We have already written about the T-62M seen here, which clearly previously belonged to the 40th Army of a Limited contingent of Soviet Troops and was transferred to the troops of Mohammad Najibullah. For more than three decades, it has repeatedly changed owners.

According to the Czech Ministry of Defense, all three bidders for the supply of 210 tracked armored combat vehicles to the country's Armed Forces submitted proposals by the deadline set by the Ministry of Defense.

Chinese VT-4 tanks, which are in service with Pakistan, may become a threat to the Russian T-90 of the Indian armed forces. The ammunition of Chinese vehicles will be able to fight with Russian tanks. A similar opinion was expressed by the authors of the portal The Military Watch.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin are due to submit preliminary designs for a US-Australian hypersonic rocket with an air-jet engine in a year, according to a Pentagon report. The development of the munition is carried out within the framework of the SCIFiRE (Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment) project.