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Russian President Vladimir Putin was surprised by the reaction of the United States to Russia's creation of hypersonic weapons, because, according to him, at first Washington said that it didn't care, and now it doesn't like it.

ROSCOSMOS continues a series of trouble-free rocket launches for the third year in a row, which is an absolute record in Russian history. During this time, 67 successful launches of space rockets manufactured at the enterprises of the state corporation were carried out from the Baikonur, Vostochny, Guiana Space Center and Plesetsk military cosmodrome.

European partners are considering a proposal from ROSCOSMOS to create the necessary infrastructure for manned launches of the Russian sOyuz-2 rocket from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana, negotiations are underway, Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director General of the ROSCOSMOS State Corporation for International Cooperation, told RIA Novosti.

As part of the NS-18 mission, Blue Origin conducted the second launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with people on board. The 90-year-old Canadian actor William Shatner takes part in the mission. The other three tourists are Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries.

The Azerbaijani army has adopted the Yugoslav triple-barreled 20-mm M55 Zastava cannons captured from the Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Calculations of the S-400 tRiumph anti-aircraft missile systems of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Western Military District (VVO) destroyed hypersonic targets during control classes for the 2021 academic year in the Leningrad Region, the press service of the VVO reports.

Coastal missile launchers of the Pacific Fleet have been alerted as part of exercises in Kamchatka, the press service of the Air Force for the Pacific Fleet reports.

Russia has completed testing of the latest hypersonic missile

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the implementation of the second test launch of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon". It was produced by the crew of the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Severodvinsk from the Barents Sea. The shooting took place in normal mode and, it would seem, was no different from many other similar missile launches. But in fact, it changes a lot.

The Russian navigation satellite system GLONASS will switch from using the "Soviet" time UTS (SU) to the world coordinate time (UTC). This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the presentation of the general designer of the system Sergey Karutin.

The exercise involving MiG-31BM interceptor fighters, Su-34 bombers and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft of the Central Military District (CVO) began in the Chelyabinsk Region, as well as in the Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories, the press service of the CVO reported on Tuesday.

Vostochnaya Shipyard in Vladivostok has built and sent to Kamchatka a floating berth for ships of the Pacific Fleet, the company reports.

A set of individual oxygen equipment will be installed for each passenger and flight attendant

The altitude of the Mi-171A2 helicopter in mountainous terrain will be increased to 5 thousand meters, tests of the improved machine are scheduled for 2022. This was reported to TASS by Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec.

The main tank of the US Armed Forces remains relevant 40 years after its adoption. The upgraded M1A2 Abrams could give the US military an advantage in a potential conflict. The features of the Abrams tank were named by the authors of the publication 19FortyFive.

The maneuver was performed using the engines of the ZVEZDA module of the Russian segment of the ISS

The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been adjusted in preparation for the launch of the sOyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft, on which two tourists from Japan will go into space in December. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

For the first time during the exercises, Russian sailors used reconnaissance drones from aboard the ship to control hitting the target with KALIBR cruise missiles, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) told reporters.

The Lazar III armored vehicle received the Russian DUBM 32B01 with a 30 mm automatic cannon, as well as an uninhabited module with a 57 mm cannon

The Serbian defense company yUgoimport for the first time presented the newest armored personnel carrier (APC) Lazar III A1, equipped with Russian combat modules, at the international arms exhibition "Partner-2021", held in Belgrade (Serbia) from October 11 to 14, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

Scouts of the mountain unit of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District in Karachay-Cherkessia received a batch of modernized Dragunov SVDM sniper rifles and army large-caliber sniper rifles ASVK-M "Cord-M" caliber 12.7 mm.

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has officially announced that, together with Hanwha Defense Corporation (HDC), it has been selected as a contractor for the production of 110 self-propelled pontoon fleets based on the M3 amphibious vehicle for the Republic of Korea.

Modern 7.62 and 5.45 mm Kalashnikov assault rifles continue to arrive in the units of the Ground Forces. Since the beginning of the year, new submachine guns have been delivered to combined arms formations and military units of the Eastern, Central, Southern and Western military districts.

Now the ships have begun to implement a set of pre-arrival measures, the source said

The frigates of the Black Sea Fleet of Project 11356 "Admiral Grigorovich" and "Admiral Essen", equipped with the Kalibr-NK missile system, are preparing to perform combat service tasks as part of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean. This was reported to TASS by a source in the naval sphere.