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Russian Pantsir complexes provided air defense of Belgrade during an exercise in Serbia
The Russian military put the Pantsir-S air defense systems on duty near Belgrade, which were transferred by planes to Serbia for joint exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Motorized shootings on pickups demonstrated new ways of conducting combat at exercises near Samara
More than 1.2 thousand servicemen took part in the exercises
Units of the 2nd combined Arms Army on Patriot pickups showed new ways of conducting combat at exercises at the Roshchinsky training ground near Samara, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Thursday.
Ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet have completed the tasks of the tenth Arctic campaign
The ceremony of greeting and awarding the participants of the hike will take place on Friday, October 15
The ships and vessels of the Arctic grouping of the Northern Fleet have completed all the tasks of the tenth campaign on the seas of the Arctic Ocean and are returning to the main base of the fleet Severomorsk. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the fleet.
Scientists in Russia have developed an aeroplatform for stratospheric research
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.
Launches of Russian missiles from Baikonur, Plesetsk and Kuru are expected by the end of the year
Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021 are no longer expected
Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome are no longer expected this year. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.
The technical characteristics of the PRP-5 armored reconnaissance aircraft became known
Some technical characteristics of the Russian mobile reconnaissance point PRP-5, made on the basis of the serial domestic armored personnel carrier BTR-82A, have become known.
This car was demonstrated at the beginning of October this year at an exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Ground Forces held in the Patriot Park near Moscow.
GBU-72: "prick" bunkers in a new way
The Americans are preparing to get their enemies out of the ground. On October 13, the press service of the US Air Force reported that the GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator bomb passed the first test by air drop.
The first modern military enlistment office will appear in Russia by next spring
The deadline for the readiness of the country's first military commissariat, modernized as part of a large-scale project of the Russian Defense Ministry, has become known.
It is planned to open in the Tver region by the beginning of the spring draft-2022. This was announced by the governor of the region Igor Rudenya. "The new digital military enlistment office should become a flagship, exemplary facility as part of the further development of the network of military enlistment offices of the Russian Federation," he said after a meeting in Moscow with Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov.
Physicists have calculated the flow of lunar neutrinos
Thanks to this, it will be possible to learn more data about cosmic processes and the surface of the Moon
Russian physicists have studied the spectra of lunar neutrinos - ultralight fundamental particles that arise due to the interaction of cosmic rays with the surface of the Moon. Thanks to this, new methods of studying this satellite may appear. The results of the work were published by the scientific journal Physical Review D, the press service of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) briefly writes about it.
More than 70 Su-57 aircraft will be delivered to the Russian Armed Forces by 2027
The Su-57 is designed to destroy all types of air, ground and surface targets
More than 70 Su-57 aircraft will be delivered to the Russian army by 2027, including several in 2021, Rostec said, commenting on an article by National Interest, which claims that the fifth-generation Russian Su-57 fighter is unlikely to enter service until 2027.
Bombers will be sent to Voronezh
The 47th Bomber Aviation Regiment will be relocated to Voronezh by the end of 2021 on Su-34 aircraft, which is currently based in Buturlinovka, Voronezh Region. This was reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his working trip, Interfax reports on Thursday, October 14.
Russia has delivered OneWeb satellites into orbit
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".
A space tourist from Japan called a hot workout in a Russian spacesuit
Yusaku Maezawa added that the training in weightlessness made the strongest impression on him
Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa said that he admired the spacesuit produced by NPP Zvezda, but admitted that it was very hot to train in it.
Rostec appreciated the article by American observers about the Su-57
Russian fifth-generation aircraft do not give rest to the West, so the Su-57 and the Checkmate regularly become the target of information stuffing. This was reported to Izvestia on Thursday, October 14, at Rostec.
Defense Express (Ukraine): The Tochka-U shopping mall has again worked out strikes near the Crimea
In Ukraine, they continue to rattle weapons, clearly not realizing that the militaristic threats against Russia only once again demonstrate Kiev's refusal to implement the Minsk agreements. Conducting maneuvers involving missile systems on the border with Crimea looks like an obvious threat to security on the European continent.
At the Vostochny cosmodrome, work begins on the transition from kerosene to naphthyl
According to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, this will give additional energy and other operational advantages
Work on the transition of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to the new naphthyl fuel will begin on Friday. This decision was made during a meeting of the State Commission on Thursday, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters.
Rogozin announced the completion of the assembly of the apparatus for the Luna-25 mission
Roscosmos is working on determining a new date for the launch
The spacecraft for the Luna-25 mission has been assembled and is being prepared for launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. Roscosmos is working on determining a new date, which has been postponed from May to July, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Thursday.
Rogozin said that no fewer launches are planned from Vostochny in 2022 than in 2021
Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the cosmodrome
In 2022, Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome, their number will be the same as in 2021 - about five. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
In the USA, they told about "changes in the bottom" in the area of the submarine collision
The topography of the bottom of the South China Sea, in the depths of which the American Seawolf-type nuclear submarine Connecticut recently collided with an unknown object, is subject to frequent changes due to tectonic activity, Aaron Amik, a veteran submariner of the US Navy, told The Drive.
Large-scale exercises with the participation of about 8 thousand military personnel will start at the landfills of the Southern Military District
The event will also be attended by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla, which will work out tasks in the waters of both seas
Command and staff exercises (KShU) with the involvement of about 8 thousand military personnel will start at the training grounds of the Southern Military District (SE), the press service of the district reports. One of the tasks of the exercise will be to check the readiness of troops in the South-Western strategic direction.