NASA and SpaceX have announced the date of sending the Crew Dragon spacecraft with several astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS), according to the website of the European Space Research Administration (ESA).

He delivered about 2.9 tons of cargo to Earth from the ISS

The Dragon cargo ship of the American company SpaceX landed on water in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida on Thursday evening. This was reported on Twitter by SpaceX.

After many years of attempts to create new spacesuits to go beyond the International Space Station (ISS) and work on the lunar surface as part of the Artemis program, NASA has started looking for developers of space equipment among private companies, writes ArsTechnica.

The US authorities are checking Blue Origin for safety. The US Federal Aviation Administration received complaints about the quality of the missiles produced by the company. Some Blue Origin employees said that the management paid more attention to flight safety to the speed of development and assembly of missiles, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

The reasons for this decision are not reported

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) postponed the launch of the Epsilon-5 launch vehicle with nine satellites, including the Vietnamese NanoDragon spacecraft, scheduled for Friday. This is stated in the JAXA message.

In 2021, tests of the Prometheus perimeter security system, including remotely controlled combat modules with a large-caliber machine gun, will be completed at the facilities of the Ministry of Defense, Igor Afanasyev, Director General of the research and production association eLektromashina, told TASS.

The variant of the Pantsir complex for military air defense (air defense) and the fighter of drones "Derivation-air defense" will soon be put into service, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov.

The Russian military will receive a portable anti-aircraft missile system of the new generation "METKA". As the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, told the kRasnaya Zvezda newspaper, the MANPADS has a missile with a homing head resistant to all types of optical interference.

More than 30 sets of MANPADS "wIllow" entered service with a motorized rifle unit of the ZVO, stationed in the Leningrad region.

The Joe Biden administration is in an extremely difficult position due to the fact that the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, is determined to purchase weapons from Russia.

North Korea has tested a new anti-aircraft missile, the state news Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA) reported on October 1. It is noted that the tests took place on September 30.

On Thursday, a new anti-aircraft missile was tested at a test site in North Korea. In the development of the DPRK, they saw similarities with the Israeli missile defense system "David's Sling". This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Former Chief of the General Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Retired Russian Colonel-General Viktor Yesin doubted the presence of hypersonic missiles in the DPRK. In his opinion, such developments do not correspond to the industrial level of North Korea. This is reported by Interfax.

Russia, in response to the tests of American hypersonic weapons, promptly reported on the completion of flight design tests of the "blind" Zircon missile, according to the Ukrainian information and consulting company Defense Express.

Calculations of Iskander-M missile systems have worked out the destruction of objects of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Kaliningrad region, the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Saturday.

The Russian proposal of the United States to freeze nuclear arsenals is no longer relevant, it was of a one-time nature, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

The American publication 19FortyFive did not believe that the Russian military was talking about the T-14 Armata. "It is doubtful that the new vehicle was deployed in Syria in 2020. If she entered the Middle East theater of operations, she probably did not participate in the fighting.

An expert of the American publication 19FortyFive, former US Army infantry officer Brent Eastwood, in a material published on September 30, questioned the real number of T-14 ARMATA tanks produced and their participation in military operations in Syria.

The Australian company GaardTech showed on Twitter a static target of the Russian T-14 Armata tank, designed to be destroyed during training battles. The ChDambiev channel in Telegram drew attention to the picture.

At the ZAPAD-2021 exercises, Russia tested a new BMP B-19 with an EPOCH combat module. The vehicle received two types of missiles and a modern fire control system (FMS). Military expert Alexey Khlopotov called Izvestia the features of the new car that will help save the crew.