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Officer Andrei Bednarsky: Drone operators risk their lives no less than infantrymen

"This has never happened before, so that one calculation could single-handedly destroy dozens of pieces of equipment or hundreds of enemy personnel. Their work for the enemy is very sensitive, and drone operators become the primary target," said Andrei Bednarsky, an expert in the field of UAVs and an officer, in an interview with VZGLYAD newspaper. He also believes that female drone operators perform no worse than men and deservedly receive the highest military awards during their military operations.

As noted by scientists, this discovery confirms the theory about the process of moon formation

The lunar rover of the Chandrayan-3 mission studied the chemical composition of rocks at the south pole of the Moon and found evidence that a significant part of the southern circumpolar regions of the Earth's satellite arose as a result of the solidification of a giant "magma ocean" in the early epochs of the Solar System. This discovery confirms the theory about the process of moon formation, the researchers write in an article published in the journal Nature.

The burning of the first stage of the rocket of the German startup RFA ended in failure. During the tests, which involved all nine Helix powertrains, failed, as a result of which the company's plans were violated, which envisioned the implementation of the first orbital launch of the RFA One rocket in the coming autumn. In this case, RFA would become the first European startup to launch a rocket into space.

The modern battlefield is increasingly becoming an arena of precision strikes, where every second and every meter is crucial. One of the brightest representatives of this class of weapons is the American AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile, capable of hitting both stationary and mobile targets at a great distance. This is an extremely dangerous type of weapon.

Experts: Western pilots will use JASSM missiles in Ukraine

Washington and Kiev are working on the technical details of the possible dispatch of high-precision JASSM cruise missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The range of the JASSM will make their carriers – F-16 aircraft – difficult to reach for Russian air defense. According to experts, in theory, new Russian regions and even Moscow could be hit by these missiles. How can Russia respond to this?

Russian experts emphasize that the ISS is not so bad. The station's structures themselves are still strong, Western experts agree. But everything is bad inside. There are more and more breakdowns, the further astronauts go, the more time they spend not on research, but on repairs. And, of course, using part of the ISS nodes for future construction is the right decision. But no.

Boeing Corporation has been sharply criticized by the NASA supervisory authority. The American agency's questions are not caused by the long—suffering Starliner ship stuck in orbit, but by the development of a more powerful version of the Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket - Block 1B.

This year, the event takes place for only three days — from August 12 to 14, although earlier the organizers reported that the forum would last, as usual, a week. The first day was closed, on the second and third visitors could get on business tickets. In addition, dynamic displays of weapons, military and special equipment were not held at the Alabino training ground, and the aviation part of the forum at the Kubinka airfield was canceled.

On the final day of the Army-2024 forum, the head of the Main Department of Innovative Development of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Alexander Osadchuk, summed up the results of the second day of the forum and announced the events for August 14.

How to shoot down a target in space? The answers will be different even for different specialists: everyone sees their sides of the case. Can we, for example, look at interception in space through the eyes of a flight dynamics and motion control specialist? It is a kind of flight designer and developer, an architect of movement and flight situations. According to his flight scheme, metal designers work, creating the device, and launch teams. The means of space interception will also fly according to his decisions.

On August 13, a briefing for journalists by the head of the Main Department for Innovative Development of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Alexander Osadchuk, took place at the press center of the MVTF "Army-2024".

The editorial board of the National Defense magazine for the Army-2024 forum has published a series of materials on advanced developments in the Russian defense industry. Below is the material dedicated to the developments of JSC VNIIR-Progress.

The X International Military-Technical Forum "Army" begins its work at the Patriot Exhibition Center. The events of the Army 2024 forum will be held for three days from August 12 to 14.

According to the Ministry of Defense, 110 official military delegations and enterprises of foreign countries are planning to take part in the event

The International military-Technical Forum "Army-2024" opened at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center. About 1.5 thousand leading Russian enterprises of the military-industrial complex will present their products. The events will be held from 12 to 14 August.

The Army-2024 forum opens in the Patriot Park near Moscow

The Army 2024 Forum opens at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center and will be held from August 12 to 14, 2024, with a total area of more than 340 thousand square meters.

In more than 23 years, at least 270 people from 23 countries have visited the ISS. This is a perfect example of creating mini-communities in a minimal space. Scientists decided to find out how people adapt to the conditions of space, especially microgravity. To this end, from January to March 2022, an unusual experiment resembling archaeological excavations was conducted at the station.

The success of the Starlink satellite system is undeniable, and the Celestial Empire is striving to catch up with the American company SpaceX by all means. A few years ago, two similar projects were launched in China at once. One of them, which received the poetic name "A Thousand Sails", finally entered the deployment stage.

The new series of SpaceX satellite constellation devices, which has the ability to communicate directly with most mass smartphones, turned out to be much brighter than the rest. The exact reasons for this have not yet been established — maybe it's because of lower orbits, a different landing gear configuration, or a different orientation of the satellites in space. In any case, Starlink will again have to take additional measures to reduce the level of light pollution in the night sky.

A new interview with the First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos contains a number of rather unusual theses. Among them is an assessment of the implementation of the Amur—LNG rocket as a prospect for the entire domestic space industry until 2054. In terms of its parameters, this rocket is close to the Falcon 9, which SpaceX itself already considers obsolete.

What caused the excitement around the Moon and its South Pole, which poles are better for Russian spacecraft to land on, what tasks are facing Luna-26 and Luna-27 and what place robots can take in these missions — about this and much more, Pro Cosmos asked the academician, scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Lev Zeleny, a member of the Roscosmos Public Council.