The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Tuesday, July 27, a successful test of the S-520 meteorological rocket with a new engine of its own design.

The private aerospace company SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) enterprise will participate in the competition for the launch of 150 military satellites under the program of the Space Development Agency (AKR, a structural division of the US Department of Defense) at the end of 2024, according to the agency's website.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in an open letter addressed the leadership of NASA with a proposal to allocate $2 billion to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in exchange for the participation of his space company Blue Origin in the preparation of missions to the Moon.

The Syrian army continues to operate the Kvadrat anti-aircraft missile systems (NATO designation SA-6 Gainful), which are an export version of the Kub systems. The army of a friendly country began to receive them from the Soviet Union in the early 70s, almost immediately after the appearance of this modification.

In China, an anti - tank missile was photographed at the exercises-an analog of the American Javelin anti-tank missile. HJ-12 has already been adopted by the People's Liberation Army of China.

During the exercises, the units of the Irkutsk Missile connection took up field positions and began to carry out combat duty. The servicemen on the launchers of the Yars PGRK went on combat patrol routes.

Omsk Plant of Transport Engineering has sent the customer the first batch of T-80BVM tanks this year. The combat vehicles were manufactured as part of the execution of the state defense order.

The BRDM-2M and two versions of the T-62 tanks were demonstrated at a recent military parade in Tajikistan. Due to the serious aggravation of the situation in neighboring Afghanistan, an inspection of the armed forces of the republic was carried out, which ended with a solemn march of the units involved in the large-scale event.

About a dozen combat and special vehicles have been created on the basis of the T-80. Among them stands out a unique, truly unparalleled, highly protected vehicle "Ladoga", nicknamed"The Tank of the nuclear Apocalypse".

In Iraq, the existing BMP-1 fleet continues to be improved. Some of the armored vehicles in the troops received paired ZU-23-2s instead of a combat compartment with a 73-mm 2A28 "Thunder" smoothbore gun and a 7.62-mm PKT machine gun.

The engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to develop weapons that meet modern requirements.

In total, more than 8 thousand military personnel take part in the exercises Large

-scale exercises of engineering troops with the use of military robots will be held at 12 training grounds of the Western Military District (ZVO). This was reported on Tuesday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

A series of unique special exercises of engineering units has started at the military training grounds of Russia and the Republic of Belarus. They will be held at ten training grounds of the two countries, as well as on the Oka River section. The exercises were organized in preparation for the joint strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise "West-2021".

Compatibility of VideoMost software with Astra Linux Special Edition OS has been confirmed

Compatibility tests of the domestic videoconferencing product VideoMost with the special-purpose operating system Astra Linux Special Edition have been completed, the press service of the Astra Linux group of companies reports.

Rostec has developed a device that allows aircraft to navigate in conditions of poor visibility, the press service of the state corporation reported.

Users of the Chinese website "Guangcha" appreciated the parade in honor of the Day of the Russian Navy, which was held on July 25 in St. Petersburg.

On July 26, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, met in St. Petersburg with 20 delegations of foreign navies who attended the Main Naval Parade held on July 25 in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt.

On Friday, July 30, the Krasnoyarsk multi - purpose nuclear submarine-the fourth Yasen and the third built according to the modernized project 855 Yasen-M-will be launched from the Sevmash slipway shop.

The new Russian submarine "Krasnoyarsk" will be launched on July 30, the Ministry of Defense reported. On the air of Sputnik radio, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov explained why the submarines of this project have more extensive capabilities.

The American magazine The National Interest has recognized the new Russian submarine K-329 Belgorod, equipped with Poseidon unmanned vehicles, as the most advanced submarine of the Russian Navy.