Violations of the state border of Russia are not allowed

A MiG-31 fighter jet flew to escort a US strategic reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean, and no violations of the Russian state border were allowed. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the information support department of the Pacific Fleet of the press service of the Eastern Military District.

Two long-range anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 made a 10-hour flight over the Pacific Ocean, in some places they were accompanied by F-18 fighters of the US Navy, the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) reported.

To search for forest fires, units of the Central Military District will use unmanned aerial vehicles. Calculations of the Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones conducted exercises on such use of special equipment, and at the same time monitored the situation in the fire-hazardous areas of the Kemerovo region.

Influential representatives of the US Democratic Party will not support an increase in funding for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation fighter program in the budget of the upcoming fiscal year 2022, if it does not move forward in solving an extensive list of problems, writes Defense News.

Testing of new unmanned aerial vehicles continues in Turkey. On April 22, the third prototype (RT-3) of the Bayraktar Akıncı (TIHA) drone, developed by the Turkish company Baykar, successfully completed its first fire tests. According to the press service of Baykar, "smart" ammunition MAM-C, MAM-L and MAM-T, created by the Turkish company Roketsan, accurately hit all designated targets.

As reported by the Bloomberg news agency, the United Kingdom has concluded an intergovernmental agreement with the US Department of Defense on the acquisition of 14 Boeing CH-47F Chinook transport helicopters for the British Air Force.

The US Department of Defense announced the signing of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command with Lockheed Martin Corp. contract for the supply of 12 MH-60R helicopters for the Republic of Korea Navy under the Foreign Military Sales Program (FMS).

A video of a "hurricane" take-off of a US Air Force CV-22B Osprey tiltrotor from the helipad of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, has appeared online.

The design of the Baiterek complex is on schedule, and material work will begin in the near future, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos.

In the 1990s and later, the United States and its allies depended on Russia for practical technologies of modular space stations, manned space exploration and cargo delivery to near-Earth space, which is no longer observed at the present time, says the British newspaper Financial Times.

[b]Russia will use it simultaneously with the ISS, Roscosmos Executive Director for Advanced Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko said.]

Russia will simultaneously use the International Space Station (ISS) and the new space station for several years. This was reported to journalists on Friday by the executive director of Roscosmos for advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

The head of Roscosmos previously reported that RSC Energia set the task of ensuring the readiness of the first base module for the new Russian space station in 2025

The new manned spacecraft with the crew "Eagle" can fly in 2025 not to the International Space Station (ISS), but to the Russian station, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Friday.

The head of the American company SpaceX, Elon Musk, called it a matter of honor to deliver Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti reports, referring to the statement of the businessman and engineer made during the live broadcast of the launch of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft.

The acting head of NASA, Steve Yurchik, in an interview with Spaceflight Now, called the possible dates of flights of Russian cosmonauts on the American spacecraft Crew Dragon and Starliner.

Roscosmos is not negotiating flights of Russian cosmonauts to the ISS on Crew Dragon ships developed by SpaceX, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday.

For the first time, Roscosmos refused to launch a satellite to a customer due to the maximum load of production facilities. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the organization Dmitry Rogozin.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has received data from a 1.8 million square km satellite survey taken from April 15 to 24 in emergency situations, Roscosmos said on Saturday.

To create the station, China plans to carry out 11 launches in the next two years

The heavy launch vehicle "Changzheng 5B" (CZ-5B) for the launch of the main module of the Chinese space station on Friday was sent to the launch pad of the Wenchang cosmodrome, located on the northeast coast of Hainan Island. This was reported by the newspaper "Chinese Cosmonautics".

This is the third flight of a SpaceX spacecraft to the ISS with a crew on board

SpaceX's Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with four astronauts on board docked on Saturday to the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast is conducted on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The Falcon 9 heavy rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from the site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast on Twitter is conducted by SpaceX.