As reported on June 16, 2021, the Ukrainian state concern "Ukroboronprom", a part of its state company "Ukrspetsexport", within the framework of the exhibition" Zbroya ta Bezpeka - 2021 " held in Kiev, signed a contract for the modernization and repair of another IL-78MP tanker aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force.

The United Engine Corporation of Rostec has successfully completed the first stage of testing the PD-8 gas generator for SSJ-NEW aircraft, the press service of Rostec reported.

The new de-icing system sensors can be used on both military fighters and civilian aircraft

Advanced military aviation systems will be equipped with sensors of the de-icing system with elements of artificial intelligence (AI). Serial production of the new sensors has already begun, the press service of the Technomash concern (part of the control circuit of the Rostec Technodinamika holding) told TASS on Thursday.

Production of the T-7A Red Hawk training aircraft was delayed for at least a year due to technical problems during testing. According to Airforce Magazine, the aircraft was found to be unstable during roll when flying at high angles of attack.

General Director of the company Dmitry Loskutov noted that the current contracts of Glavkosmos for commercial launches do not imply a change in the design of the Soyuz rocket

The current contracts of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) for commercial launches do not imply a change in the design of the Soyuz rocket, but such a service can be available to the customer for a fee.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, noted that to monitor CO2 emissions on the topic of so-called carbon units, it will be necessary to create special equipment for spectral analysis

Roscosmos is considering two options for monitoring CO2 emissions from space: creating a separate group or equipping spacecraft already included in the Sphere program with special equipment.

Roscosmos is studying the proposal of the People's Republic of China to send Russian cosmonauts to the Chinese space station, specific negotiations have not yet begun, Sergei Krikalev, an adviser to the head of the state corporation, told Interfax.

The next attempt will take place in suitable weather, ESA reported

High-altitude tests of the parachutes of the Exomars-2022 lander, which consists of the Russian Kazachok landing platform and the European Rosalind Franklin rover, have not yet been successful, the next attempt will take place in suitable weather.

Threats of a global catastrophe due to which the founder of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, wants to start colonizing Mars, are exaggerated. This was stated by the leading researcher of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Vyacheslav Turyshev.

[b]The Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China reported that this is "the first time in history that the Chinese have entered their own space station".]

Three Chinese cosmonauts entered the base module of the Tianhe space station of the PRC on Thursday. This was announced on Thursday by the Office of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.

The chief designer of the CZ-2F rocket, Rong Yi, recalled that the CZ-2F launch vehicle was created in the 90s and is refueled according to the technologies of that time

China plans to continuously improve the environmental friendliness of the fuel for its launch vehicles. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Thursday by the chief designer of the CZ-2F rocket, Rong Yi.

A tactical exercise with the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Southern Military District, equipped with a unique S-300V4 anti-aircraft missile system, took place in the Krasnodar Territory, the press service of the Southern Military District reported on Thursday.

Poland will deploy FGM-148F Javelin anti-tank missile systems in the east of the country. This, as reported by "RIA Novosti", told reporters the Minister of National Defense of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak.

The new equipment increases the target detection range and the accuracy of the defeat

The new torpedo homing equipment, which increases the target detection range and accuracy of destruction, has passed qualification tests in Russia. This was reported on Thursday by TASS in the press service of the concern "Techmash "(part of the management circuit of the holding "Technodinamika" Rostec).

"Partner" is based on the armored vehicle "Typhoon-airborne"

The first batch of 11 of the latest armored escort vehicles "Partner" will be delivered to the Russian troops in 2021, the head of the military mission Vladimir Kuimov told reporters during a working trip to the Remdiesel plant of the Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko.

The troops in the east of the country will be among the first to receive man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) "Verba" in combination with specially designed to protect the fighters of the armored vehicles "Typhoon-AIR DEFENSE".

Armored ambulances "Lens" were delivered to the motorized rifle division of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) in North Ossetia.

The Venezuelan army is completing a program to modernize 78 light armored reconnaissance vehicles "Scorpion-90". At the moment, 75 armored vehicles have been restored.

The Slovenian army has received new American armored vehicles. June 16, portal defenseworld.net he reported that the first JLTV SUVs were transferred to the armed forces and are ready for operation.

In the Network there were photos of another unusual gantrak - this time from Venezuela. There, the military installed a Soviet 23-mm Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft gun in the back of an American GMC M35 truck.