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The test launch of the promising GBSD strategic ballistic missile will take place at the end of 2023. It is being developed to replace the aging Minuteman III. According to Airforce Magazine, GBSD will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Chinese television for the first time showed the automatic landing of cargo from the board of the Feihong 98 drone - a remote-controlled version of the Y-5B light multi-purpose aircraft, which, in turn, is a licensed copy of the Soviet An-2.

Specialists of the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet conducted a reconnaissance of the area from an altitude of more than four kilometers.

A unit of unmanned aerial vehicles was involved in the exercise: 80 soldiers of a separate reconnaissance battalion and 5 Orlan UAV complexes.

Created by the American military-industrial corporation Northrop Grumman in the interests of the Air Force (Air Force) The US strategic stealth bomber B-21 Raider, called the" coolest "aircraft in the world, will be invulnerable to Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-500 "Prometheus", writes The National Interest.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited a test site in the Nizhny Novgorod region during a working trip, where he got acquainted with the Ka-52M attack helicopter, which received a new set of weapons. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense.

The Pentagon is discussing possible actions if the capital of Afghanistan or other parts of the country fall into the hands of the Taliban (banned in Russia - IF), senior administration officials told The New York Times.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko visited the Smolino test site in the Nizhny Novgorod Region during a working trip, where he checked the progress of the state defense order.

In the central Pacific, an operational exercise of heterogeneous fleet forces in the far sea zone is being conducted. This was announced on June 10 by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Swiss Resource Lematin.ch On June 7, he reported that the command of the Swiss Armed Forces is inclined in favor of choosing the French Rafale fighter as a new-generation combat aircraft for the country's Air Force.

The Russian Helicopters Holding Company has successfully tested the additional fuel tank of the Ansat helicopter for resistance to destruction during an emergency landing.

A video of the first ever" personal date " of the F-35A stealth fighter and the Russian Su-30SM has appeared on the Internet. The video footage shows the rapid approach of the "drying".

Air Force (Air Force) The United States has completed the first phase of demonstration tests of the semi-autonomous precision weapons system Golden Horde ("Golden Horde"), for the first time hitting six bombs at once Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb (CSDB), reports Defense News.

Irkut Corporation plans to deliver 1099 domestic MC-21, Superjet and IL-114-300 aircraft by 2035. To do this, the aircraft manufacturer will need funding in the amount of 4.15 trillion rubles. This was announced on June 10 by Kirill Budaev, Vice President, Head of Marketing and Sales of Civil Aircraft of the corporation, at the international conference "Aviation Finance and Leasing in Russia and the CIS".

MC-130J Commando II aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) The US dropped a cargo simulating a pallet with AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise stealth missiles, The Drive reports.

A Russian Su-35 fighter jet detected and escorted a US Air Force RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean. This was reported on Thursday, June 10, by the press service of the Eastern Military District.

The United States is preparing to take to the skies the first bombers of a new generation. June 10, portal thedrive.com he announced that Northrop Grumman has completed the assembly of the first two samples of the B-21 Raider aircraft.

The ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet on Thursday repelled a massive air attack as part of a bilateral tactical exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's Arctic borders from threats from sea directions. They hit eight cruise missiles.

SpaceX plans to provide Wi-Fi during flights in airplanes. The company is negotiating with several air carriers, the Izvestia TV channel reports. For its project, SpaceX will use Starlink satellites. The network of devices will provide high-speed Internet around the world. The satellites will be connected using a laser communication line — they will not depend on ground stations. Since 2018, SpaceX has launched about 1.8 thousand Starlink vehicles — there will be 12 thousand of them in total.

Russian warships will be able to enter the Congo, and planes will be able to land on the territory of this country. This provides for an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation.

The Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" has successfully completed its seventh flight on Mars, which was the first after a serious change in the navigation system. The drone successfully flew to a new work site, covering a distance of 106 meters, according to NASA's Twitter account.