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Earlier, the draft document proposed to take into account the opinion of the Federation Council

The director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia and his deputies will be appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Minister of Defense, not the Prime Minister.

The number of spacecraft serviced by the enterprise will increase from 45 to 482 from 2024 to 2035

The head scientific institute of Roscosmos-TsNIIMash assumes that the company's revenue from near-Earth space monitoring and satellite protection services on the international market by 2035 may amount to 1.2 billion rubles. This is stated in the materials of the institute, available to TASS.

Lockheed Martin Corporation announced the delivery of the first batch of PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) interceptor missiles to Sweden as part of a contract signed in 2018 for the supply of Patriot air defense systems.

Five joint exercises will be held this fall by the military contingents of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the CSTO Joint Staff (OSH) said on Tuesday.

They plan to involve about 250 military personnel of the Indian Armed Forces and about 250 military personnel of the Southern Military District

International joint Russian-Indian tactical exercises "Indra-2021" will be held from August 1 to 15, 2021 at the Prudboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

The 16th round of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security issues was held in Moscow.

They were conducted by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the head of the office of the CPC Central Committee Commission on Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi.

The Russian government intends to make it more difficult for state customers to purchase foreign software and equipment, writes Kommersant with reference to the director of the "Center of Competence for Import Substitution in the field of ICT" Ilya Massukh.

The State Duma has introduced a bill on the "landing" of foreign IT companies in Russia, obliging large foreign Internet companies to open official representative offices in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Servicemen of the engineering troops of the Russian Armed Forces arrived in Serbia to participate in joint exercises. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, during the training, the Russian and Serbian military will work out issues of interaction when performing engineering support tasks.

The state corporation noted that an interesting direction is the use of remote sensing data in a virtual reality helmet

Russian tour operators are interested in the VR complexes created in Roscosmos for the development of virtual tourism. This was announced by the director of the Digital development Department of the state corporation Konstantin Shadrin.

As reported by the Jutarnji list publication, citing informed anonymous sources, the Croatian government has decided to purchase 12 Rafale F3R multi-purpose fighters from the French Air Force.

Russia intends to strengthen its presence in Africa's lucrative and fast-growing arms market. This is written by The National Interest columnist Mark Episkopos, referring to news reports about the preparation of a new amphibious armored personnel carrier "Strela" for the exhibition ShieldAfrica 2021.

Russia will support Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the long-term settlement of the border conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Roscosmos and the Chinese Space Agency have reached an oral agreement on the mutual integration of their manned spacecraft to the superheavy launch vehicles of the two countries, Roscosmos Executive Director for Science Alexander Bloshenko told Interfax.

Poland will become the fifth country to arm itself with Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. On May 23, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak confirmed the signing of a contract with Turkey in an interview with Polish Radio.

The authorities of countries around the world have entered a new "arms race", in the role of which now act as semiconductors, writes CNBC. The publication calls semiconductors "the blood of today's global economy", pointing to their demand in many industries, primarily in microelectronics and the defense industry.

Within the framework of the international helicopter industry exhibition HeliRussia 2021, Russian Helicopters Holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) and KrasAvia Airlines signed an agreement of intent for the supply of 10 Mi-8AMT, Mi-8MTV-1 and Ka-62 helicopters.

The destruction of the targets by the Algerian "Pantsir-S1" and "Cornet-EM" was shown on video. The network published a video from the recent exercises of the 2nd military district of the National People's Army of Algeria.

The logical continuation of the International Space Station (ISS) project will be the creation of international bases on the Moon and on Mars, according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

In a statement to national media, recently appointed Colombian Finance Minister Jose Manuel Restrepo said that the country's government will definitely not allocate funds for the purchase of new fighter jets.