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The eighth flight took place on June 21, the helicopter covered a distance of 160 meters in 77.4 seconds

The Ingenuity helicopter located on Mars flew a total of almost a kilometer during eight flights, which began on April 19. This was reported on Thursday by the American specialized portal SpaceNews, citing a representative of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Teddy Tzanetos.

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Russian MiG-31K fighters, relocated to Syria for exercises, performed flights over the Mediterranean Sea with hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal complex.

This tactic was used for the first time in the Kaliningrad region by the Baltic Fleet mortars.

The tactics of "nomadic" mortars are used during the combat training of gunners of the Western Military District, the Military-Industrial Courier was told in the information support department of the press service of the ZVO for the BF.

The Ukrainian transport plane An-225 "Mriya" during landing at the British Brize-Norton air base in the Cotswolds demolished the fence set up along the perimeter of the runway with air currents. The incident was reported on Friday, June 25, by the publication GloucestershireLive.

The passive vehicle will be in orbit, the movement of the active one must be synchronized with it

Roscosmos has patented a method for approaching spacecraft in orbit for servicing satellites. This is stated in the materials distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

The holding company "High-precision Complexes" noted that the complex can be equipped with both new-built ships and ships undergoing modernization

The Pantsir-M anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK) is capable of destroying the latest means of air attack and fully provides the solution of the ship's air defense tasks.

A new-generation Russian military satellite launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

In the Mediterranean Sea, the ships of the permanent connection of the Russian Navy will conduct missile firing 30 kilometers from the aircraft carrier strike group of Great Britain, led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. This follows from the international notification system for air staff NOTAM.

A joint exercise of the forces of the Navy (Navy) and the aviation of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia is taking place in the Mediterranean Sea.

The American analogue of the Russian over-the-horizon radar station "Sunflower" is a system of three Surface Wave Radar (SWR) radars from Raytheon, the designer of the Research Institute of Long-range Radio Communications (NIIDAR) Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS.

At the 13th Ship Repair Plant of the Black Sea Fleet, it was previously reported that Alrosa is planned to return to the combat fleet after November 2021

TASS, June 26. The oldest submarine of the Black Sea Fleet, Alrosa, can be sent to the Baltic Fleet after repair, a military source told TASS.

In terms of the depth of impact on the enemy, an aircraft carrier with long-range radar detection and control aircraft and carrier-based fighters will lose to surface ships equipped with Kalibr-NK missiles, Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, predicts in the Military-Industrial Courier.

The experimental satellite Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX)of the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force (Air Force), which is comparable in size to a football field, has completed its work, reports C4ISRNet.

The Russian Defense Ministry has presented a video of the launch of a Soyuz-2 class launch vehicle with a spacecraft. The launch took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region.

Three months have passed since Norway announced that after lengthy negotiations, they have finally agreed on an agreement with the German shipyard ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) on the acquisition of new submarines.

As reported, on June 25, 2021, a special - purpose nuclear submarine Belgorod of project 09852 (factory number 91664), completed by the construction of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (SMP, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation-USC), went to sea for the first time from Severodvinsk for factory sea trials.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday launched the construction of the Istanbul Canal, which will connect the Marmara and Black Seas and will become a stand-in for the Bosphorus Strait.

As reported, on June 25, 2021, a large diesel-electric submarine B-602 "Magadan" (factory number 01616) of project 06363, built for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), entered the Baltic Sea for the first time for factory sea trials. This is the third of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.

The MiG-41 interceptor fighters currently being developed could be based on such aircraft carrier platforms, said one of their creators, Valentin Belanenko

The technical problem of creating offshore platforms for deck aviation of the Russian Navy can be solved with the help of "floating berths" - non-nuclear aircraft carriers with a flight deck of about 500 meters.