When Prince Albert II of Monaco visited Antarctica in 2009, he was unpleasantly surprised that people move around one of the cleanest corners of the world by transport with "dirty" internal combustion engines. He turned to the Venturi company with an order for the development of an environmentally friendly all-terrain vehicle with electric traction. Since then, two trial models have been released, and the final third is now being prepared for shipment to Antarctica.

Two years ago, it became known about the creation of the KF-1 tank in Iraq, known as Al-Kafeel and also had the unofficial nickname "Super T-55".

However, judging by the released video footage, the Chinese Type 69, acquired back in the 80s, during the war with neighboring Iran, was taken as the basis for it. This car had a lot in common with the "fifty-fifth", but was not a complete clone of it. For example, it had a new sighting system with a laser rangefinder.

Usually, when they talk about modern Russian self-propelled anti-tank complexes, they usually recall the ATGM "Chrysanthemum". However, there is another combat vehicle in the Russian army, unfortunately, less well-known, also made on the basis of the BMP-3, and it is also designed to destroy armored vehicles.

Russian combat vehicles supporting Terminator tanks seem to be becoming one of the most popular models of military equipment in Algeria. Photos and videos with them have recently been published in large quantities on the Web.

Within the framework of the state defense order, 25 special vehicles were delivered to the units of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the SAGR mine clearance groups. The vehicles were delivered to the engineering units of the military districts, the Northern Fleet and the units of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Verkhneturinsky Machine-Building Plant (VTMZ) of the Techmash concern has opened a new mechanical workshop for the production of shell casings for field and tank artillery.

Specialists of the German defense concern Rheinmetall have developed a compact pocket flash-bang grenade Spectac the size of a business card box. For the first time, this type of weapon was equipped with soldiers of the elite British special forces SAS in the 70s.

Raphael ,one of the three largest Israeli defense companies, demonstrated its new Sea Breaker cruise missile. But here's the oddity – in the animated video, a guided missile hits a ship launched back in 1983. We are talking about a Soviet missile boat with the tail number 962. Judging by the open data, this is the boat R-71 "Shuya", which is still part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. So, the rocket is new, and the target is old.

The Israeli company Rafael demonstrated an autonomous high-precision long-range missile system of the fifth generation Sea Breaker - the "Sea Destroyer". It can destroy objects at a distance of up to 300 kilometers.

The director of Orbital Space, Bassam al-Feili, stressed that the launch of the satellite should inspire many young people to connect their future with outer space

Kuwait has launched its own satellite into space for the first time in history. This was announced on Wednesday evening by the founder and CEO of the Kuwaiti company Orbital Space, Bassam al-Feili.

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle on Wednesday successfully put 88 satellites into orbit, including four vehicles in the interests of the US military department, the developer company SpaceX said.

This is necessary so that the telescope can resume observations

TASS, July 1. NASA engineers are preparing to turn on the backup units of the on-board computer of the Hubble orbital observatory, some of the components of which failed in mid-June. The NASA Space Flight Center writes about this on its website. Goddard.

According to the scientist, Russia will be able to launch the Millimetron space observatory only in the mid-2030s. Among the tasks of the device is the study of the global structure of the Universe.

The removal of the devices by the upper stage will take about four hours

The Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and 36 British OneWeb communication satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome.

As the company clarified, such indicators are associated with the start of regular operation of Crew Dragon

The share of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, which produces manned Soyuz spacecraft, for the delivery and return to orbit of the crews of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2020 fell to 66%. This is stated in the company's annual report.

The station's location in orbit from 60 to 80 degrees north latitude will provide increased opportunities for viewing the entire territory of Russia

The Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has considered four different options for creating a Russian orbital service station (ROSS). This is stated in the company's annual report for 2020.

Bayraktar TB2 attack UAVs also took part in the large-scale NATO military exercises "Sea Breeze-2021", held jointly with Ukraine. The Star newspaper emphasizes that Turkish drones are being used for the first time in the exercises of the North Atlantic Alliance.

The Skyborg artificial intelligence system for unmanned wingmen has taken to the sky for the second time — this time on the Avenger jet unmanned aerial vehicle. According to the US Air Force Research Laboratory, the flight lasted two and a half hours.

The British-American company ZeroAvia has started developing a 19-seat hydrogen aircraft. According to the company's website, it uses two Dornier 228 twin-engine aircraft for this purpose. Their engines will be replaced with power plants with a capacity of 600 kilowatts.

The California-based private company Virgin Orbit has successfully launched seven medium-sized satellites into orbit using a LauncherOne rocket, according to the company's broadcast.