According to spotters, on June 10, 2021, flight tests of the IL-76MD-90A military transport aircraft with the factory number 0206 (registration number RF - 78661), built at the Ulyanovsk Aviastar-SP JSC (part of the Transport Aviation Division of the United Aircraft Corporation JSC-UAC), began at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny factory airfield complex.

Developed as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance Program (NGAD) for the Air Force (Air Force) The US sixth-generation fighter will receive an expensive " Chinese "and cheap" Russian " version, according to The Drive.

The largest airliner from the Boeing 737 Max family — the 737 Max 10-took to the air for the first time. According to Boeing, the aircraft is scheduled to enter service in 2023.

The Leonardo Group announced the official handover ceremony of the first TH-73A training helicopter to the US Navy command at the AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation facility in Philadelphia.

The ascent will be carried out using the engines of the Progress MS-16 transport cargo ship, Roscosmos reported

The height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be adjusted by 890 m on June 24. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

American and French astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Tom Pesquet on Sunday, June 20, finished installing a new solar panel on the International Space Station. The broadcast was conducted on the NASA website.

Russian specialists have developed a spacecraft for collecting nanoscale objects located in the vicinity of Lagrange points.

NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope stopped working a week ago, on the evening of June 13, due to a failure of the memory module of the onboard payload computer. Attempts to fix the problem have so far been unsuccessful, so the device can not yet conduct scientific research. This is reported by the publication Astronomy Now.

Minister of National Defense Soe Uk promised to work closely with the private sector to modernize the space industry

The Republic of Korea will strengthen its defense capabilities in the space sector and create a system to combat threats in space. This was stated on Monday by the Minister of National Defense So Uk, according to the KBS TV channel.

60 years ago, the S-125 short-range anti-aircraft system was adopted. It was a response to the changed tactics of the Air Force and is designed to deal with low-altitude high-speed targets.

After the war, the bombers received jet engines and climbed to heights inaccessible to anti-aircraft artillery. On the ground, long-range radars and interceptor missiles were urgently invented - so effective that by the mid-50s, the Air Force was forced to change tactics.

In the training building, which simulates a field position, military personnel learn to install reconnaissance and alarm devices, with the help of which conditional saboteurs will be detected in any weather conditions, regardless of the time of day.

The Military-Industrial Company is completing the assembly of a prototype of a new snowmobile within the framework of the MT-LB and MT-LB crawler tractor modernization program, the company's general director Alexander Krasovitsky told Interfax on Monday.

Self-driving cars will be able to become full-fledged road users in five to ten years, current communication technologies are vulnerable to hacking and do not allow this, Dmitry Peskov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of digital and technological development, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Inside, everything you need-comfortable seats, climate control, and, of course, a lot of armor.

At least for hunting, at least for a special operation. GAZ "Tiger" is the most popular armored car in the Russian law enforcement agencies. Some cars that have served their time end up on the secondary market. The most recent and trouble-free "Tiger" is sold for 8 million rubles.

Czechoslovakian weapons can be in demand even after four and a half decades after development. Excalibur Army has shown a new video about the Dana M2 self-propelled gun-an upgraded version of the Dana vz self-propelled gun. 77. Of particular interest is the fact that this self-propelled gun is purchased by the Ukrainian army.

Expected for more than six months, the deal to acquire a controlling share of the developer of the line of Russian processors "Baikal" is closed. The details of the transaction are not known, but it is obvious that the share of the arrested owner of "T-platforms" in this organization has been reduced to a minimum, and possibly to zero.

The Norwegian company Windcatching Systems (WCS), together with the oil and gas company Aibel, has developed a unique wind-catching system. It is a giant grid with a height of 325 meters with many small wind turbines (about 120), arranged in a staggered order. Similar to conventional land-based wind turbines, the Windcatcher is attached to the sea floor by metal piles.

The head of the company, Alexander Mikheev, said that the marine weapons segment includes contracts for the supply and joint construction of ships and submarines, the supply of various weapons for them, coastal support equipment, as well as infrastructure projects.

The icebreaker's capacity will be 120 MW

The Krylov Center has started developing an electric propulsion system for the Leader nuclear icebreaker with a shaft capacity of 120 MW. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Oleg Savchenko, Director General of the Krylov State Research Center (KGNC).

The Navy ships taking part in the X International Naval Salon (MVMS-2021) moored at the berths of the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.