Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. has started flight tests of the first AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter designed for the Bahrain Air Force.

On September 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the fulfillment of instructions for the long-term development of the space industry. So, in April, the Government was instructed to prepare a set of appropriate measures, but this was not fully done. According to the Russian leader, delays in the implementation of the program can lead to risks.

Russian specialists are developing the idea of creating a service orbital station, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

In 2022, Russia plans to launch five ships to the International Space Station, two manned SOYUZ and three cargo PROGRESS. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the ISS flight program.

In addition, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between the Russia-Mexico Business Committee and the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology

Mexico and Russia have signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in space exploration. This was announced on Wednesday on Facebook by the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation in the Latin American country.

According to the chairman of the expert council of the center, the spacecraft will make it possible to survey the Earth's surface to monitor the ice situation, natural and man-made disasters, and determine the movement of ships on the territory of the NSR.

The sOyuz rocket will send the Euclid telescope to search for dark matter at the end of 2022. This was announced on September 29 by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The National Space Administration of the People's Republic of China will publish the data obtained during the mission

The Chinese interplanetary automatic station Chang'E-4 and the lunar rover Yutu-2 have so far spent 1 thousand Earth days on the far side of the Moon. This was reported on Wednesday by the Xinhua news Agency with reference to the Center for Lunar Research and Space Programs of the People's Republic of China, which is part of the structure of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA).

NASA experts postponed the fourteenth flight of the Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" for an indefinite period - this is due to both the impending connection of the Sun and Mars, and unresolved problems in the operation of the skew machine, according to the agency's website.

NASA plans to launch a research vehicle to the most distant planet of the Solar System, Neptune. The launch is scheduled for 2031, according to a document published by the space agency.

The European Space Agency has confirmed that the first launch of such a rocket will take place in the second quarter of 2022

The commissioning ceremony of the launch complex for the Ariane 6 rockets under construction took place on Tuesday at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou (French Guiana). This was reported by the European Space Agency (ESA).

More than 2 thousand servicemen were involved in the exercises

Combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems of formations and military units of the air defense of the Central Military District hit more than 50 air targets during joint exercises of the air defense forces, which ended in the Astrakhan region. This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the Central Military District.

Combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems of formations and air defense units destroyed more than five dozen air targets during an exercise in the Astrakhan region.

North Korea has created a new hWasong-8 missile capable of effectively overcoming American missile defense. Its successful launch, which took place last Tuesday, was reported by the KCNA news agency.

Russia is tracking information about North Korea's missile launches. The situation around the launches affects the prospects for a dialogue on nuclear disarmament of the peninsula. This was announced to journalists on September 29 by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

Flight design tests of the Zircon hypersonic missile from a surface carrier have been completed, TASS reports, citing a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The large-scale Strategic Missile Forces exercises that began in the Urals differ from previous maneuvers in that all attention is focused on YARS ballistic missiles. Earlier, different types of missiles were used during the maneuvers. Thanks to mobile launchers, "yArsa" is more difficult to detect, track and aim missiles at them, writes The National Interest.

The overwhelming majority of Russians (86%) are confident that an armed conflict with the use of nuclear weapons should not be expected in the near future, according to a VTsIOM survey released on Wednesday.

On Friday, the command and staff exercises ended in Russia. Among the equipment of the parachute regiment, which took part in maneuvers at the Pesochnoye training ground in the Yaroslavl region, an armored personnel carrier BTR-MDM with a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun was noticed. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The Saiga program, which assumed the replacement of Soviet UAZ-469 SUVs in the Ukrainian army, may be canceled because of the price. Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Nosov wrote about the disruption of the program on his Facebook page.