Structure and personnel news

The Russian Defense Ministry will annually recruit an additional 15 thousand contract soldiers and officers. According to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, the additional sets will be held in the period from 2021 to 2024 inclusive.

This is a very high indicator, the Russian Defense Minister stressed

There are about 170 battalion-tactical groups in the Russian army today. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, this is a good indicator.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has registered a claim of the Russian Ministry of Defense demanding to recover more than 2.4 billion rubles from the Samara JSC "Progress Rocket and Space Center", the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles, follows from the information in the file of arbitration cases.

Unarmia has prepared its own program for the guests of DAX: competitions in air rally, demonstration performances in sports aerobatics, demonstration of seaplane models and a master class in aircraft modeling.

The American company SpaceX, owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has bought a satellite startup. The company became the owner of Swarm Technologies. The company specializes in satellite data, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The company manages the SpaceBEE network — these are the smallest satellites in space.

According to the agency interlocutor, the previously planned transfer of the enterprise to the United Shipbuilding Corporation will not take place

The ship repair plant (SRZ) of the Black Sea Fleet remains in the structure of the military department of the Russian Federation, the previously planned transfer of the enterprise to the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will not take place. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

[b]The United Shipbuilding

Corporation (USC) has almost completed the relocation of its main office from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the head of USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, told Interfax on Monday.

Yuri Smirnov, head of the Laboratory for the development and Implementation of biomedical programs of the IMBP RAS, is convinced that the presence of specialized specialists in the cosmonaut squad (Roscosmos or the Academy of Sciences) would be very useful.

Researchers from Samara State University (SamSU) have developed a test to assess the psychological qualities of an applicant using a virtual reality helmet. Such an idea will help employers to assess a person's personality when recruiting staff, Izvestia writes.

This measure was introduced in the summer of 2020

Candidates for significant positions in Roscosmos and at enterprises belonging to the state corporation have been undergoing a polygraph test since last year. This was announced by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, part of Rostec) will create a service center for the repair of aviation and industrial engines in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad Region by 2025, the press service of the Rostec state Corporation reported.

The Pentagon reported that by 2030, units of combat robots resembling the "Ghost Army" of the Second World War, commanded by General George Patton, will be formed in the American army. The "ghost Army" consisted of fake equipment and soldiers disguised as foreign troops and was intended to mislead the enemy.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu will instruct the creation of a scientific and production company (NPR) on the basis of the Makeev State Missile Center (GRC), which will allow young employees to perform military service on the job.

Russians are also trained in such organizations, the minister stressed

Propaganda centers, which train Russians, among others, to conduct subversive information work in Russia, have been established in Riga, Tallinn and Warsaw. This was announced on Friday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise.

It is necessary to focus on securing people in the army by creating conditions for life, recreation, and raising children, since the number of contract soldiers in the Russian Armed Forces is consistently increasing. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise in Krasnoyarsk on Friday.

Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern JSC will receive more than 11% of the shares of Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Plant JSC from federal ownership, according to the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NASA has announced the recruitment of volunteers to participate in an experiment to simulate life on Mars. This was announced on August 7 by the Abc13 TV channel.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, on the air of Solovyov Live, called for the restoration of the death penalty for corruption in the military-industrial complex (MIC).

In Poland, opponents of vaccination against coronavirus infection will be banned from wearing military uniforms. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak on Twitter on Friday, August 6.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that under the leadership of Vladimir Lepin, the heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 and the remote mining engineering system "Agriculture"were started and brought to state tests.