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The Trilateral Defense Partnership of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) is designed to guarantee its participants the possession of the most modern means of responding to rapidly developing threats.

In mid-2022, the company intends to launch its StriX-1 radar satellite from the Russian cosmodrome to create a grouping of devices in orbit to monitor natural disaster zones.

The launch of the Atlas V launch vehicle with a satellite was postponed to September 27

The launch of the next - already the ninth - Earth remote sensing satellite from the Landsat series has been postponed from September 23 to 27. This was announced on Wednesday on its website by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The fighter has a unique on-board radar station N035 "Irbis", which experts call the most powerful of the existing ones, notes the magazine Ultimate Defense

TASS, September 16. The maneuverability of the Russian Su-35 multi-purpose fighter, as well as the characteristics of its on-board equipment, exceed the performance of the French Rafale aircraft, which will allow the Su-35 to win in the event of an air battle.

The Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense has launched the Space-BACN program to create cheap optical communication terminals that can adapt to most standards of optical communication lines between satellites. So the military wants to combine various groups of small satellites in low Earth orbit, which cannot yet exchange data, into a "space layer".

Gone are the days when the electronic filling of an assault rifle or submachine gun was limited to a pair of sights (optical and night vision) that allow a soldier to make an accurate shot.

Milrem Robotics and Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace will create a robotic machine that can meet many requirements. Earlier, it became known about the test of a demonstrator of a tracked drone.

Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.

As noted in Roscosmos, all devices are accepted for communication by the customer

More than 30 British OneWeb communication satellites have been successfully launched into orbit. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.

The UK is joining the race of combat lasers and "microwaves". September 14, portal defensenews.com He reported that the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom ordered the companies Thales and Raytheon to develop energy weapons.

Israeli anti-submarine warfare systems have found a customer in the East. Yesterday, on September 13, the press service of Elbit Systems announced the signing of a major contract "with the country's naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region".

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle successfully launched a batch of 51 mini-satellites into polar orbit on Tuesday, Moscow time, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The Turkish company Roketsan has developed a new 122-mm rocket ammunition with a laser guidance system. The munition was first presented in August at the IDEF-2021 exhibition under the designation TRLG-122.

Specialists of the NASA research Center in Langley, Virginia have completed tests of the external Vision system XVS (eXternal Vision System) with a 4K video screen, which will replace the front glass of the cockpit of an experimental supersonic aircraft built using the so – called "quiet supersonic technology"-X-59 QueSST.

The strike drones have received a sight that allows them to hit ground targets with unguided ammunition from a high altitude with ultra-precision.

Russian developers have tested sighting and navigation systems on drones that allow the effective use of unguided ammunition.

Kuiper Systems, a subsidiary Amazon.com, in an appeal to the US Federal Communications Commission, sharply commented on the actions of SpaceX, accusing it of violating and ignoring general rules. This is written by Bloomberg.

All the companies that develop the Smart Voting application and website are associated with the Pentagon, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday, September 11.

In the United States, pictures of an aircraft with an unusual appearance have appeared. The designers crossed the nose of the F-16 fighter with the Bombardier CRJ-700 business jet to test the new radar. This is reported by The Drive.

According to a source in the rocket and space industry, a design that could work in operating rooms is currently being developed

JSC "Information Satellite Systems" named after Academician M. F. Reshetnev " (part of Roscosmos) with partners is developing a medical complex of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer patients. The first samples will be ready in two years, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS.

It will be used on the route of ships along the Northern Sea Route

Specialists of JSC " Northern Press "(part of the corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons", KTRV) have created a radar station (radar) to track the ice situation in the Arctic. This was reported to TASS by the engineer of the enterprise Vadim Ralnikov.