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The program for creating a Russian-Chinese station on an Earth satellite involves three main stages. The implementation of the first of them should begin this year.

The first navigation spacecraft of the new generation, Glonass-K2, will be launched into orbit at the end of 2021. This is reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the company "Information Satellite Systems named after M. F. Reshetnev" Nikolai Testoedov.

Recently, it has become fashionable for many weapons manufacturers to show footage of the destruction of Soviet or Russian-made weapons.

The exhibition of radar weapons systems, organized by the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA), China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) and China Electronics Corporation (CEC), opened in Nanjing.

The control check of combat readiness of more than 15 thousand servicemen of the Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District for the winter training period was successfully completed. The exercises were held on the territory of the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, and Ivanovo regions.

FAR EAST-Two naval anti-submarine strike groups of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) attacked a submarine of a simulated enemy in the Sea of Japan during an exercise, the press service of the fleet reported.

To create the station, China plans to carry out 11 launches in the next two years

The heavy launch vehicle "Changzheng 5B" (CZ-5B) for the launch of the main module of the Chinese space station on Friday was sent to the launch pad of the Wenchang cosmodrome, located on the northeast coast of Hainan Island. This was reported by the newspaper "Chinese Cosmonautics".

The logistics support units of the Central Military District (CVO) will deliver more than two and a half thousand tons of cargo for various purposes to remote garrisons of the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov on Friday sums up the results of the interspecific command and staff exercises (KShU) with the participation of the Northern Fleet, which were held since April 19, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

A video of a "hurricane" take-off of a US Air Force CV-22B Osprey tiltrotor from the helipad of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, has appeared online.

The aircraft missile "Armored truck" will be delivered to the troops after 2023. This is due to the time of formation of the plans of the Russian Ministry of Defense for procurement and the technological cycle of missile production.

The Falcon 9 heavy rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from the site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The broadcast on Twitter is conducted by SpaceX.

The head of Roscosmos previously reported that RSC Energia set the task of ensuring the readiness of the first base module for the new Russian space station in 2025

The new manned spacecraft with the crew "Eagle" can fly in 2025 not to the International Space Station (ISS), but to the Russian station, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Friday.

[b]Russia will use it simultaneously with the ISS, Roscosmos Executive Director for Advanced Programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko said.]

Russia will simultaneously use the International Space Station (ISS) and the new space station for several years. This was reported to journalists on Friday by the executive director of Roscosmos for advanced programs and Science Alexander Bloshenko.

The design of the Baiterek complex is on schedule, and material work will begin in the near future, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos.

In the 1990s and later, the United States and its allies depended on Russia for practical technologies of modular space stations, manned space exploration and cargo delivery to near-Earth space, which is no longer observed at the present time, says the British newspaper Financial Times.

Frigates of the project 22350 will become the first full-time carriers of hypersonic weapons, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Friday, April 23.

To search for forest fires, units of the Central Military District will use unmanned aerial vehicles. Calculations of the Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones conducted exercises on such use of special equipment, and at the same time monitored the situation in the fire-hazardous areas of the Kemerovo region.

This will allow us to fully and very specifically assess both the actions of the fleet commands and the actions of the forces of each of the fleets and the Caspian Flotilla in their operational area of responsibility, Nikolai Evmenov said.

For the first time, Roscosmos refused to launch a satellite to a customer due to the maximum load of production facilities. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the organization Dmitry Rogozin.