Civilian participants of the special operation will receive the status of combat veterans

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the third and final reading a law on granting the status of "Combat Veteran" to civilians participating in Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. The initiator of the preparation and submission of the law for consideration in mid-June was the United Russia party.

On July 13, 2022, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense announced that the first successful flight test of a missile developed under the auspices of DARPA of a promising ground-based hypersonic medium-range missile system Operational Fires (OpFires) was conducted at the White Sands missile range (New Mexico).

On July 15, 2022, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) of the US Department of Defense sent a notification to the US Congress about the planned upcoming sale to Estonia through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS) at the request of the Estonian government of the HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) land-based missile systems manufactured by Lockheed Corporation Martin.

Ukraine received the first M270 multiple launch rocket systems from the UK

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the receipt of the first M270 multiple launch rocket systems from the UK. The head of the department, Alexey Reznikov, clarified that three M270 MLRS have already been delivered to the country and more will arrive.

What are the real capabilities of American MLRS and why are the rumors about their invulnerability false

The receipt by the armed formations of Ukraine of twelve American HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and the beginning of their use did not go unnoticed.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Mr. Reznikov, announced that a batch of multiple rocket launchers from Britain had arrived in the country. We are talking about the M270 MLRS, which were produced in the USA and sold at one time to the British army.

The Russian army has at its disposal the American multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems). This is reported by the Telegram channel "Military Commanders of the Russian Spring" with reference to its own sources.

In the near future, two NASAMS SAM batteries will be transferred to Ukraine. This was stated by the representative of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat.

Colonel Khodarenok told about the features of anti-aircraft weapons that the West transfers to the APU

The United States and NATO countries are increasing the supply of anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine. In particular, these are NASAMS and Skyguard Aspide complexes. Why in the future it is impossible to exclude the supply of other types of equipment - in the author's material of the military observer "Gazeta.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Lieutenant General Anatoly Khrulev told how the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will use the Magister-SV system

The Russian army will soon be armed with new complexes of automated control of fire means of military air defense "Magister-SV". "Newspaper.Ru" together with military experts, I understood the specifics of the operation of this complex.

Seven amazing conclusions that can be drawn based on the first image of the "deep field" from the James Webb telescope

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched another batch of 53 mini-satellites into orbit on Sunday to replenish the orbital grouping of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

Georgia turned out to be the last country on the planet that allowed the operation of the Starlink satellite Internet from the American company SpaceX on its territory. SpaceNews writes about this.

As planned, Anna Kikina will become the first cosmonaut in the crew of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. Her place in the crew of the Soyuz MS-22 will be taken by US astronaut Francisco Rubio

The new CEO of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, met with the leadership of the state corporation. He was appointed to the position of head of the corporation on Friday. This is reported by TASS.

On Friday, July 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Dmitry Rogozin from the post of Director General of Roscosmos. The new head of the state corporation was Yuri Borisov, who previously held the post of deputy prime minister in the Russian government, who was responsible for the military-industrial complex.

Yuri Borisov, who replaced Dmitry Rogozin in this post, became the new CEO of Roscosmos from mid-July. Naked Science understands what inheritance (and in what condition) he got it.

Dmitry Rogozin spent a little more than four years as the head of Roscosmos. Looking back now, it is clear that he managed to do a lot. In 2018, when he came to the position of head of the state corporation, the situation in the industry was not the best.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) belonging to the United States was spotted near the Russian borders in the Black Sea. About this "Tape.<url>" became known from the data of the air travel tracking portal Flightradar.

Events in Ukraine threaten to disrupt the mass production of Turkish unmanned vehicles

The large investments made by Turkey in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) programs threaten not to pay off if ways to replace critically important foreign components are not found in the near future, as well as ways to disavow the low effectiveness of the use of Turkish drones against Russian troops and Donbass militias.