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The Skif spacecraft are designed to provide broadband Internet access

The launch of the Skif spacecraft and the Marathon satellite constellation as part of the Sphere program, which allows creating a full-fledged broadband Internet system in Russia, will contribute to the prevention of man-made and environmental disasters, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, told reporters on Thursday.

The National Security Agency (NSA) was concerned about the ability of Russia and China, as well as to some extent Iran and the DPRK, to "land" American fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters without a single shot, writes Popular Mechanics.

Novosibirsk Instrument-making Plant has developed augmented reality glasses, they are integrated into the equipment of the infantryman "Ratnik". This was reported on October 15 by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the military-industrial complex.

General Dynamics Land Systems has presented a mock-up of the TRX ground robot, which will act as a carrier of kamikaze drones. In addition to them, he received a quadcopter.

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has approved the country's information security strategy, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.

NASA has delivered the James Webb telescope to the Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The cost of the equipment is estimated at $10 billion, the Izvestia TV channel reports.

Finnish woodworking company UPM announced the postponement of the launch into space of the world's first satellite made of wood WISA Woodsat for the first half of 2022. This was reported on Friday, October 15, on the company's website.

The LPD-801 radio-electronic rifle was presented in Russia. A device for jamming the control channels of drones was demonstrated at the International Exhibition of Weapons and Hunting Goods ORELEXPO-2021. This is reported by TASS.

The rocket will be launched from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana

The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with Galileo spacecraft from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana is scheduled for December 1, 2021. This was reported on Friday in Roscosmos.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, during a visit to the Omsk Cadet Military Corps, where a unique interactive airborne training complex has been created, ordered to provide all amphibious educational institutions of the Russian Defense Ministry with interactive virtual landing simulators by the end of the year.

Russia and Venezuela are jointly developing a secure messenger. This was announced by the deputy head of Rostec, Alexander Nazarov, whose words are quoted on Friday, October 15, on the website of the state corporation.

At the same time, the PRC does not exclude that such interaction between the two countries is theoretically quite feasible

The Chinese orbital station does not yet plan to exchange its telemetry data (flight parameters) with the Russian space communication centers. This was reported to the TASS correspondent on Friday by the deputy head of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China Lin Xiqiang.

The participants of the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems - ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress, held in Hamburg (Germany), got acquainted with the unique experience of Russia in ensuring transport security, the press service of GLONASS JSC reports.

OneWeb satellites launched from the territory of Russia were put into orbit. 36 vehicles were delivered by the Soyuz-2.1b rocket. This is reported by the Telegram channel Zvezdanews with reference to the state corporation "Roscosmos".

The aeroplatform is capable of climbing to a height of 20-40 km and moving along a given route for several months

Specialists of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR, Tomsk) have developed a new type of high-altitude balloon that can reduce the cost of scientific research in the stratosphere. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the university.

In order to increase the combat capabilities of the reconnaissance units of the Ground Forces, the delivery of the second-generation Sagittarius-M intelligence, control and communications systems (KRUS) is planned.

China has already defeated the United States in an arms race using cyber capabilities, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), The Drive reports a statement by former Pentagon software director Nicholas Chaillan.

Four-legged drones can push snipers on the battlefield. On October 13, Ghost Robotics and SWORD Defense Systems presented a joint development - a sniper fire system for the Vision-60 robot at the US Army Association (AUSA 2021) exhibition.

The US Air Force has completed a series of tests of the new GBU-72 concrete-piercing bomb weighing 2.3 tons, during which it was dropped from the F-15 Strike Eagle heavy fighter-bomber. The striking capability of the GBU-72 will be significantly higher than that of the comparable GBU-28, which the US military has been using for three decades.

The multiplicity of the sight is variable and ranges from 5 to 20

The sniper sight of large multiplicity with a wide range of corrections was developed in Russia at the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev (KMZ, part of the Shvabe holding of Rostec State Corporation). This was reported to TASS by the General director of KMZ Alexander Novikov.