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Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of USC, said that the corporation is solving this problem together with technologists

Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) is solving the task of reducing the delivery time of serial nuclear submarines (submarines) by 9-14 months. This was announced on Friday by the general director of USC Alexey Rakhmanov.

Readiness for strategic maneuvers "West-2021" is being checked

Special exercises of military police units "Sentinel-2021" are being held on the territory of the Western Military District, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Friday.

At the stage of the rendezvous of the Nauka module with the ISS, minor fluctuations were noticed, the docking system coped with them, said the flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Solovyov.

Pilot-cosmonaut and Hero of Russia Mikhail Kornienko explained the activation of the engines of the Russian multipurpose laboratory module (MLM) "Science" on the International Space Station (ISS) by a computer control malfunction. In an interview with " Lenta.<url> " he noted that this incident does not pose any danger.

The crews of Chinese ZTZ-99A tanks demonstrated the use of guided missile weapons.

These combat vehicles, also known as Type 99A, are equipped with 125-mm modifications of the Russian 2A46 smoothbore guns (D-81TM). They can launch cumulative ammunition guided by a laser beam through the barrels of guns, which are analogs of the 9M119M complex "Reflex-M".

Together with her, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and director Klim Shipenko will go to the ISS on board the Soyuz MS-19

Preparations for the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, on which cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko are to go to the ISS, began at Baikonur. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Friday.

The reason for the unauthorized activation of the engines of the Nauka module docked to the ISS could be a human factor, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The upcoming launch, scheduled for August, will be the ninth under the OneWeb program and the third performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome

A batch of spacecraft of the OneWeb global satellite Internet system has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in preparation for their launch. This was reported on the website of Roscosmos on Friday.

The third carrier rocket "Angara A-5" will undergo flight tests

Roscosmos is sending the third Angara A-5 carrier rocket from the Khrunichev Center for flight tests. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

The Main Control Department rejected the protest that NASA acted incorrectly when it chose only SpaceX to build the lunar module

The Main Control Department of the United States (GAO, the control and audit body of Congress) did not find a mistake in the actions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), when it chose only one company, SpaceX, for the construction of the lunar module, not agreeing with the open letter of the founder of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on Friday.

The state Corporation Roscosmos has reduced the preparation time for conducting experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) to one and a half years. This was announced on July 30 by the head of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

The Ariane 5 heavy launch vehicle has successfully placed the European Eutelsat Quantum satellite and the Brazilian Star One D2 satellite into a geostationary transition orbit, the French operator Arianespace reported.

Russia has a unique innovative amphibious weapon that does not lose its effectiveness in underwater conditions. This information was shared by the author of several military books, a writer from Michigan, Peter Suchiu, in his article published in The National Interest.

The Atlas 5 launch vehicle with the CST-100 Starliner of the Boeing Corporation, which was supposed to go to the International Space Station (ISS), was taken away from the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in Florida due to adverse weather conditions. This was announced on July 30 by the carrier developer company United Launch Alliance (ULA).

The laying is planned immediately after the commissioning of the new boathouse, the source said

The lead frigate of the ocean zone of the 22350M project with increased strike power will be laid at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg in 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

During the exercises in Siberia, the military personnel of the radiation, chemical and biological Protection (RCB) protection unit of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Altai Territory, concealed the movement of BUK-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM).

The Bonhomme Richard fire may become one of the most expensive sabotages in the history of the American armed forces. On July 30, the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy reported that the US Navy has brought official charges against one of the crew members of the landing ship.

The rocket reached a maximum altitude of 92 km, after which it fell into the Pacific Ocean

The private Japanese company Interstellar Technologies on Saturday successfully launched a rocket of its own development MOMO. She announced this on Twitter.

The atmosphere was cleaned in the Nauka module, it is integrated into the Russian segment of the ISS, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

The Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos has instructed the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia to take additional measures to maintain the operability of the Russian segment of the ISS and make a decision on the future completion of the station's operation, the state corporation reported.