How many weapons has Germany already provided to Ukraine

Russia admits that Germany will cross the "red line" and decide to send long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. This was reported to Izvestia by the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev.

Olaf Scholz noted that so far nothing has changed in this matter

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz commented on the discussions on the supply of Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, noting that nothing has changed in this matter so far. He expressed his point of view in an interview with the newspaper Thueringer Allgemeine .

According to the magazine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, through technical modifications of the Taurus, wants to exclude the possibility of Kiev striking Russia with long-range weapons.

Tactical Missile Armament Corporation (KTRV, a member of the MORO Soyuzmash of Russia) will take part in the IX International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023". The delegation will be headed by CEO Boris Obnosov.

Colonel Khodarenok: Ukraine attacked the Crimean Bridge with easily hit missiles

Ukraine tried to attack the Crimean Bridge with S-200 missiles converted into a shock version. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, there were two attacks.

Russian air defense systems are the best in the world, and the S-400 and S-500 have no analogues at all – and foreign analysts recognize this, writes MWM. However, compact low-speed drones pose a new challenge, and Moscow is already developing new radars to combat them.

Johannes Willbold, a doctoral student at the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany), spoke at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas and shared the results of studying three types of orbital equipment. As it turned out, many satellites lack adequate means of protection against remote hacking — they lack even basic security measures.

The Turkish company Roketsan made the first test launch of a launch vehicle from a new launch pad, recently built together with the entire test center in the town of Igneada on the Black Sea coast in the European part of the country. From here, it is planned to launch its own satellites into space from 2024.

Will the flight organized by Virgin Galactic open a new era of extraterrestrial travel

The first suborbital flight made by private commercial tourists took place. It was held as part of the Galactic 02 mission of Virgin Galactic. The reusable ship VSS Unity went to the edge of space, on board of which there were six people — three crew members and three passengers.

At the same time, the newspaper believes that the United States and its allies are still leading in the lunar race

The successful launch of the Russian Luna-25 automatic station to the Moon has heated up the space race to reach the valuable resources of the Earth's natural satellite, which is being waged by Russia and China against the United States and NATO. This opinion was expressed by the European edition of the newspaper Politico, commenting on the launch.

For the first time in almost 50 years, Russia sent a ship to an Earth satellite

In Russia, for the first time in the modern history of the country, an interplanetary station, called Luna-25, went to the moon. This event opens a new chapter in the exploration of space and the Earth's satellite. For more information about what the station is and how the expedition will take place, see the Izvestia material.

What is the peculiarity of the automatic station "Luna-25" and what opportunities will open up to scientists

On the night of August 11, the Luna-25 automatic station successfully went to the Earth satellite. This is the first such flight in the history of modern Russia.

On Friday, August 11, at 02:11 Moscow time, the Soyuz-2.1b medium rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station (AMS) — the first scientific mission to a natural satellite of the Earth in the history of modern Russia - was launched from the 1C complex of the Vostochny cosmodrome.

Dreams of conquering space appeared long before the first rocket was invented. Already in 1865, the French writer Jules Verne wrote the novel "From the Earth to the Moon", in which the traveler Michel Ardan flew to the satellite of our planet in a hollow metal cylinder pointed at the end. Almost a century later, the first real spaceships took off into the sky, and the Soviet Union played a significant role in this event. Read about how the USSR space program originated and what successes it achieved in the Izvestia material.

According to Reuters sources in government agencies and defense enterprises of India, in recent months, the country's authorities have banned national manufacturers of military UAVs from using components manufactured in China due to the potential presence of vulnerabilities in security systems.

Barrage ammunition from the Middle East

Today, barrage ammunition has become one of the dynamically developing areas in unmanned vehicles, which has already formed a separate class of corresponding systems.

The Turkish company TUSAŞ, working in the aerospace industry, has achieved a new export success by supplying Chad with both HÜRKUŞ aircraft and ANKA attack drones.

According to the French company Dassault Aviation, as part of the general contract signed by Indonesia in February 2022 for the acquisition of 42 Dassault Rafale multipurpose fighters, a firm contract for the second tranche of 18 Rafale aircraft entered into force on August 10, 2023, in addition to the six fighters ordered in the first tranche. Thus, Indonesia has so far contracted 24 Rafale aircraft out of 42 agreed.

Alexander Kovalev — about the prospects of the F-16 in the conflict in Ukraine

The American multifunctional fighter F-16 was first put into operation in 1978. A year before that, I graduated from the Armavir Higher Military Aviation School.

The first group of Ukrainian pilots will complete training on the F-16 only by next summer, writes WP. Six military personnel will be trained, two more are in reserve.