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In order to increase the combat capabilities of the reconnaissance units of the Ground Forces, the delivery of the second-generation Sagittarius-M intelligence, control and communications systems (KRUS) is planned.

At the end of October, the basic minesweeper "German Ugryumov" will return to the crew of the ships of the Caspian Flotilla (CFL), which has undergone technical repairs and modernization on the basis of the Severodvinsk branch of JSC "Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center" in Astrakhan.

Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) launched the second Taigei — Hakugei type submarine. The launch ceremony of the lead boat was held in 2020.

Calculations of the latest Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems conducted firing at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region. They successfully hit ten targets.

The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.

The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.

Roscosmos reported that it will move away from the ISS at a distance of up to 185 km

The Progress MS-17 cargo ship will be reconnected from the Search module to the Science module. He will spend 29 hours in an autonomous flight, Roscosmos said in a statement released on Thursday.

The armored long-lived PT-76 continues its service in the land forces and Marines of Indonesia. The first batch of Soviet light tanks was delivered to the armed forces of the state in 1962. According to various sources, less than a hundred such machines have been received in total.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.