Structure and personnel news

SpaceX has fired employees who participated in the compilation and distribution of an open letter of complaint criticizing the behavior of the founder and owner of the company, Elon Musk. This was reported by the American newspaper The New York Times.

Russia is introducing criminal penalties for military personnel defecting to the enemy – and this will directly concern, among other things, current events in Ukraine. Why was there no concept of "going over to the enemy's side" in the Criminal Code before, what tricks are used to justify treason, and how will the new changes concern the Russian non-systemic opposition opposing the special operation?

Publications in the Western media that the Russian authorities may allegedly announce an additional conscription for the SPIEF are unreliable information stuffing. This was announced on Thursday, June 16, by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The first group of officers who will operate the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has completed training at the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, the head of the Academy Igor Afonin said.

The US National Defense Center spoke about the risks of reducing the US military budget

June 14 is celebrated annually in the US as the "Birthday of the army". On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress decided to create a regular army based on militia units. For the "birthday", the US National Defense Center at the Heritage Foundation has prepared a report on the current state of the American armed forces. "Newspaper.Ru" studied it together with Russian military experts.

The 11th Airborne Division of the United States underwent a reformation procedure, after which it received the name "Arctic Angels" and will henceforth be based in Alaska. Its number will be up to 16 thousand people.

The German Foundation for Science and Politics (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in March 2022 published an interesting report by Florian Schöne "Zur Notwendigkeit der Zentralisierung von Hubschraubern in der Bundeswehr" ("On the need to centralize helicopter control in the German Armed Forces") on the prospects of creating a unified helicopter command in the German armed forces.

The team victory in the competition was won by representatives of the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School

The All-Army field training competition among the units of the Marine Corps of the Russian Navy "Marine Landing - 2022" ended on Thursday near Kaliningrad.

Roscosmos told which universities train students in space specialties

Roscosmos has identified a list of 18 reference universities and united them into a consortium that will produce specialists for the Russian rocket and space industry. Where in Russia do they train engine engineers, where do they train specialists in aircraft control, and from which university most graduates come to the industry, "Gazeta.Ru" said Vladimir Matveychuk, Director of the Department of Personnel and Social Policy of Roscosmos.

Israeli mountain shooters study the experience of colleagues around the world

"Mountain peaks Sleep in the darkness of the night ..." – the first lines of Lermontov's brilliant translation of Goethe's famous poem. "Only mountains can be better than mountains..." sang Vladimir Vysotsky. And the beautiful Israeli poet Israel Rubinstein (a native of Moscow) calls the highest mountain of the Hermon Highlands "steep".

The latest Russian military equipment is being rolled out in Ukraine

The Federation Council has approved a law on the abolition of the upper age limit for Russians and foreigners to conclude the first contract for military service. Earlier, on Wednesday, the State Duma adopted the relevant bill in the first reading and immediately as a whole.

Recent developments in the military-political sphere, apparently, will lead to an unprecedented boom in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, including in Russia. The Russian UAV development and production industry is already in a state of rapid recovery and is preparing for even more large-scale expansion of activities.

The process of joining the development companies of MiG and Sukhoi combat aircraft to the United Aircraft Corporation as part of Rostec has been completed, the press service of the UAC reported on Wednesday.

The Russian manufacturer of service robots "Promobot" has announced the launch of a center for the development of robotic solutions. The Center, in partnership with market leaders, carries out activities in the field of creating scalable solutions in the direction of mechatronics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other areas of robotics.

Specialists in military-technical cooperation remain in service and retired

20 years ago, a non-profit organization of veterans of foreign economic organizations for military-technical cooperation was formed in Moscow, on June 28, 2002, its constituent documents were registered by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice of Russia in Moscow.

At a hearing before the US Senate Armed Services Committee on May 5, 2022, US Army Secretary Christine Wormut announced that in the summer of 2022, the United States Army Alaska - USARAK, stationed at the Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Military Base, would be reorganized into the management of the new 11th Airborne Division (11th Airborne Division), which will include two brigades currently in Alaska (1st and 4th) of the 25th Infantry Division, which is controlled in Hawaii. Thus, the second (after the famous 82nd) airborne division will be created as part of the American army.

Putin signed a law on the abolition of the age limit for the first military contract

The law signed on May 28 by the President of the Russian Federation excludes the age limit for citizens of working age, at which they are granted the right to conclude the first contract for military service. Thus, now people over 40 will be able to sign it.

The Czech command decided to create a full-fledged airborne forces as a "third maneuverable force" and has been building the 43rd regiment for several months on the basis of the former airborne battalion "Hrudim".

On May 26, the Nalchik garrison Military Court dismissed the claim of 120 former employees of the Rosgvardiya who challenged early dismissal from service due to non-compliance with the terms of the contract.

Russian high-precision missiles destroyed the workshops of the plant, which is of interest to several great powers at once. We are talking about the Zaporozhye "Motor Sich" – an enterprise with a huge potential in the aviation engine building. What exactly is the value of this plant and why in the future Russia will definitely take it under control and modernize it?