According to a TASS source, the Topol ICBM that has served its service life is being changed to the Yars ICBM with a splitting head

Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) In 2024, Russia will completely stop operating the RS-12M Topol solid-fuel monoblock intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The US Department of Defense announced that the US State Department approved the sale of 40 units of 155-mm M109A6 self-propelled howitzer artillery systems to Taiwan at a cost of $750 million.

The ship's strike group (KUG) from the formation of ships protecting the water area of the troops and forces in the North-east of Russia returned to its home base after performing combat service tasks in the Pacific Ocean, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Thursday.

The UK will transfer two decommissioned ships of the Ukrainian Navy to Ukraine. This is stated on the website of the Royal Navy.

Israeli fighter jets attacked targets in southern Lebanon early on Thursday morning, The Jerusalem Post reports.

A lockdown in Russia in the spring of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic threatened to disrupt the supply of weapons and military equipment under the state defense order and for export in the amount of several trillion rubles, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.

The opening ceremony of the international exercise "Indra-2021" was held at the Prudoboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the head of the press service of the Southern Military District Vadim Astafyev told reporters.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from the first days of the creation of the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus infection took part in its development, said the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu, in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

Data on the loss of another T-90S tank of the Azerbaijani ground forces appeared on social networks. Judging by the comments, a moving column was hit by an artillery raid carried out by Armenian troops in the Jabrayil area. As a result, the T-90S tank and the tanker on the MAZ chassis were destroyed.

According to the results of working out several scenarios of war games in order to check the combat readiness of the US army units by the Pentagon in October last year, the latter suffered a crushing defeat.

The Russian Su-35S fighter jet crashed under very "curious" circumstances, the bmpd channel writes in Telegram, citing unofficial network sources.

The US Air Force has released the reasons for the mysterious fall of the F-22 fighter.

A year after the crash of an F-22 near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a possible cause of the disaster has been named. It crashed due to "a maintenance error made after washing the aircraft," the Airforce times quotes a representative of the US Air Force.

The US Navy conducted the first combat test of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) supersonic anti-radar missile, designed to destroy enemy missile defense systems, the American edition of The Drive reports.

The head of the press service of the state corporation, Vladimir Ustimenko, said that there was bad weather at the cosmodrome, and "the ship and the rocket were returned back to the vertical assembly shop, which would not have been done if the transfer really happened because of "Science".

The incident with the Nauka engines did not cause damage to the ISS, but the consequences may manifest themselves in the future, said Sergey Krikalev, executive director of Roscosmos for manned space programs.

Ukraine intends to withdraw from the agreement of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on joint activities in the exploration and use of outer space. This is on Wednesday, August 4, follows from the draft decree of the President of the country Vladimir Zelensky.

The Russian rocket industry is amazing, said the founder of SpaceX

The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that he highly appreciates the Russian rocket industry and is studying many designs of rocket engines invented in Russia to create his own power plants.

SpaceX has installed 29 Raptor methane engines on the Super Heavy-the first stage of the Starship space system. Now it is assembled and can soon be used for the first orbital test.

The company Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, criticized the Starship spacecraft of Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It was to him that NASA gave preference when concluding a contract for the creation of a lunar module.

The launch was carried out using a CZ-6 rocket from the Taiyuan Cosmodrome

China on Wednesday successfully launched into orbit two small telecommunications satellites Beta, designed to provide multimedia services. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).