The Sea Launch floating spaceport can't compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos expects sanctions pressure aimed at depriving the state corporation of a new contract with OneWeb, said the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Russia will continue to participate in the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2025 only if sanctions are lifted by the United States. This was announced on Monday, June 7, by the General director of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that during meetings with the head of the US State Department Anthony Blinken and US senators, they discussed increasing military assistance to Ukraine, as well as strengthening security in the Black and Azov Seas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the decision on Ukraine's accession to NATO cannot be postponed for the future, it must be decided immediately.

The Japanese authorities will continue to negotiate with Russia on the conclusion of a peace treaty, said the Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Katsunobu Kato.

On June 7, the sale of tickets and car passes for the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021"began. Tickets can be purchased on the official website of the event.

The Army-2021 Forum will be held from August 22 to 28, 2021 at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center, at the Alabino training ground and Kubinka airfield.

The company also participates in the international arms exhibition Shield Africa 2021, which takes place from June 8 to 10 in Abidjan

Rosoboronexport (part of the state corporation Rostec) signed contracts worth $1.7 billion with sub - Saharan Africa in 2020-early 2021. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the company.

Russia sold $15 billion worth of weapons abroad in 2020, and the order portfolio remained at $50 billion, said Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation.

The crew of the world's oldest ship "Commune" of the Black Sea Fleet (it traces its history back to the Imperial Russian Navy) successfully tested the underwater inhabited search and rescue vehicle AS-28 at sea.

The active phase of mooring tests began on the oceanographic research vessel "Eugene Goriglejan", which is being built at the Baltic shipyard" Yantar " in Kaliningrad.

A series of small marine tankers of project 03182 will be built for the Russian Navy, which will join the auxiliary fleet.

The first meeting on electronic warfare was held on June 4 in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Headquarters. The heads and representatives of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat, positively assessed the prospects for training specialists in electronic warfare from the CSTO member states in educational institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

It is expected that the production of 30-mm VOG shots for the AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher will be made from components of domestic production and individual materials produced by the chemical industry of one of the NATO member states.

Since 2019, Russia has received six applications for the supply of ground-based combat robots, said Dmitry Shugaev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation.

The head of the holding "Technodinamika" Igor Nasenkov said that according to the results of the tests, a decision will be made on putting it into service

The Tosochka heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 will complete state tests by the end of 2021. This was announced on Friday by the head of the holding company "Technodinamika" of the state Corporation "Rostec" Igor Nasenkov during the SPIEF-2021.

In Russia, a munition has been created that "blinds" the guidance systems of high-precision weapons of the enemy. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Alexey Leonkov spoke about the principle of operation and the features of the development.

In the future, the munition can be used as part of the defensive weapons of existing and new models

The Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (JSC "TSNIITOCHMASH" of the state Corporation "Rostec") has developed a new ammunition for protection against high-precision weapons, which will increase the survivability of armored vehicles on the battlefield. This was reported on Friday to journalists in the press service of Rostec.

Russia is conducting non-nuclear experiments at the test site on Novaya Zemlya, aimed at confirming the reliability of the domestic nuclear arsenal, said the head of the 12th Main (Nuclear Weapons) Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Kolesnikov.

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and the Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon be mass-delivered to the military units of the Russian army. This was stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.