The solemn ceremony of seeing off the Russian pilots took place at the Antalya airport

Representatives of the Antalya province administration thanked the pilots of the Russian Defense Ministry for their help in extinguishing forest fires in the country. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On September 1, Airbus Defense and Space announced the signing of a contract with the Republic of Kazakhstan for the supply of two BTA A-400M Atlas aircraft.

The decision on the future of the rocket will be made by Roscosmos

The Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC) sent a report on the Soyuz-6 launch vehicle to the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation in the summer. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the RCC.

The deployment of the new Russian orbital station is planned to begin in five to six years, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said.

Speaking at the marathon "New Knowledge", the head of Roscosmos noted that his age no longer allows him and "life has turned out differently"

The general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that he could not fly into space because of his age and how his life turned out.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said earlier that the state of the ISS leaves much to be desired, so Russia can focus on creating its own orbital station

The United States is seeking to continue the work of the International Space Station (ISS). This was stated on Thursday by the head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Bill Nelson during a communication session with the crew of the station.

This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during the marathon "New Knowledge"

The next launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for mid-October. This was announced by the general Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday during the marathon "New Knowledge".

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) The United States is investigating an incident with a deviation from the course of the Virgin Galactic Unity-22 spacecraft, which threatened it with an emergency landing, The New Yorker magazine reported on Wednesday, September 1.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST) has allocated funds for the development of promising projects in the field of space exploration. One of them is the creation of a gigantic ship with a length of about several kilometers. And although such initiatives look like outright adventures, they may make sense.

China is working on a helicopter similar to the American Ingenuity. It may become part of one of the Chinese missions to explore the Red Planet.

The Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Committee on Air Defense Issues under the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries, Colonel-General Yuri Grekhov, noted that the goals were quite complex

The S-400, S-300 and Pantsir-S missile systems destroyed more than 20 targets simulating low-altitude drones and ballistic missiles during the exercises of the air defense forces of the CIS countries "Combat Commonwealth-2021" at the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region.

The Chinese military has begun to receive the latest third-generation anti-tank missile system. Such weapons were received, in particular, by units of one of the combined arms brigades of the 78th Army Group (army) Northern Combat Command of the PLA. Photos from the training ground, where the development of this advanced weapon is underway, appeared on the Network.

The new Sarmat intercontinental missile, which is being prepared for flight tests, will become the basis of the Russian nuclear shield for 30-40 years. This was announced on Thursday, September 2, by the head of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

The family of equipment based on the armored car K-4386 "Typhoon-airborne" (4X4), created in JSC "Remdiesel", continues to increase. So, at the seventh International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", a version of the AMN-D, made in the form of a multi-purpose truck, was demonstrated for the first time.

Calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) of the artillery unit of the Eastern Military District (VVO), stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory, performed live firing at the interspecific training ground "Tsugol".

There is no foreign analogue of this heavy flamethrower system yet, said Omsktransmash CEO Igor Lobov

The Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering (Omsktransmash, part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec State Corporation) is working on the inclusion of the TOS-1A "Solntsepek" heavy flamethrower system in the automated control circuit of troops. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Igor Lobov.

The Algerian military is going to turn the T-62 into tank support combat vehicles. The material about this is posted on the portal menadefense.net. To implement this project, the turret with the 115-mm smoothbore 2A20 gun will be dismantled from the medium tank, and the Berezhok combat compartment will be installed instead.

After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited tank-building enterprises, but failed to fully use them. And now there is a very high probability that the country will turn to foreign tanks instead of the T-84 "Oplot", which at one time had certain hopes.

The combat vehicle is created according to the Optional-Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program. The basis of its weapons is the 50-millimeter XM913 gun.

Finnish Patria and Slovak engineering company CSM Industry have signed a memorandum of understanding on joint participation in a tender for the supply of 8x8 armored combat vehicles to the Slovak Armed Forces.