iran launched dozens of drones towards israel. an idf official said that the air force was tracking them and was preparing to intercept them, and warned of gps failures. iran launched drones from its territory towards the state of israel. we are tracking the threat in the airspace, they will reach israel in a few hours. the idf and the air force are following the plan that we prepared in advance.

israeli airspace is closed from 1 pm to 7 am for all flights, air force attack defense systems combat readiness is given, dozens of aircraft are in the sky. they will try to intercept iranian drones and missiles before they even enter israeli airspace. according to cbs, the us military in iraq also received orders to shoot it all down as early as possible. israeli citizens were warned that after the alarm they should immediately take shelter. in recent years, and even more so in recent weeks , israel has been preparing for the possibility of a direct attack from iran. our defense systems are deployed, we are ready for anything scenario as...

residents of border towns, as well as residents of iraq, saw drones flying towards the occupied lands. cyrus, in his statement , announced the response of the aerospace forces to the crime of the zionist regime, which attacked the consular section of the iranian embassy in damascus and killed a number of commanders and military advisers of the cyrus. from iran to israel it is about 2.0 km, with iraq and jordan between them. flights of russian airlines to israel, iraq and jordan have been suspended until all restrictions are lifted, as reported by rosviation. mead egypt said it maintains contacts with all countries of escalating tensions and seeks to contain the situation in order to prevent a new round of dangerous instability in the region. in the city of takmag, zaporozhye region, 11 people were killed, two are listed as missing. unknown, five were rescued from

the rubble. this is a consequence of an attack by ukrainian militants on a peaceful city. they fired from multiple rocket launchers. five houses were destroyed. local authorities provided temporary housing to all victims. rescuers continue to clear the rubble. russian army repelled 13 attacks in the ssu and liberated the village of pervomaiskoye from militants. zelensky’s formation lost almost a thousand more soldiers and mercenary officers. a tank and six were destroyed. other armored vehicles, as well as 13 self-propelled guns and howitzers. air defense forces shot down 222 combat drones. anton stepanenko will tell you how on the zaporizhzhya front the soldiers of the sudaplatov battalion are destroying the positions of the ukrainian armed forces. it takes about 45 minutes to drive from the point of permanent deployment to the unloading point. the pyatikhatkinsky direction of the zaporozhye front, despite the kiev attempts to break through the defenses, held out. positions the volunteer battalion bars-32, more, lives here together with its neighbors.

during the day we moved to positions here, now it’s impossible, a company stronghold, the distance to the enemy is from one and a half kilometers to 600-700 meters, depending on the trench. the first impression was as if i was blind, i couldn’t even see my outstretched arms, the night was so black, how in such darkness the soldiers unloaded a pickup truck, found the way to their dugouts, a mystery, the steps were short and it was as if they were trying the road with their feet, whether there was darkness or not, nevertheless, it was dark for the combatants. .. action is not a hindrance, operators without pilots go out hunting at night, we are trying to set up a rotation, night movements, where they go, why they go, from where, they regularly observe the ragged reconnaissance schedule so that the enemy cannot get used to it, the transport is clearly visible because it heats up, it is displayed well, people, it happens, you know,

it happens that you can confuse people with animals, with hares, because when you stick your head out of the trench and the hare runs around the planting. so it’s very similar, you have to fly to reconnaissance. storm, the operator is experienced, even on such a small screen looks at the target, observes, double-checks that there are no mistakes, finally gives out the coordinates, then the commander’s decision is what to destroy the dp drones are carrying, it’s like a sniper rifle, you can say, well, most of all the desire, that is, to win causes the most damage to the enemy, reconnaissance itself most of all, the big result is that without reconnaissance, neither artillery nor fbv will work, it’s getting light quickly. the howitzer crew is preparing the weapon, a feature of the position, the closer to the front line, the deeper in the enemy rear they can cover targets, the opposite side - high probability of retaliatory strike, shot! well, at present, a very large number of birds are flying in the air,

and their counter-battery warfare is also working at a high level, so we are trying to fire as few shots as possible, the second third shot is already hitting the target, the fewer, the better and faster. they worked and ran away. the peculiarity of batalna srudoplatov is its exceptionally high operational interaction with its neighbors. the command post is in constant communication with the commanders of neighboring units. drone video in allies also get online mode, so the decision to destroy targets is made quickly. if we can’t do something, we can’t get it, then our neighbors are already working. we have good neighbors, and the system is again designed so that they can work with ours.

as if he was going blind, because of this, when going out hunting, operators care about safety no less than searching for targets, there is a whole range of measures, right down to landing approach methods, so as not to be tracked, in addition, each crew has anti-drone radars, rap stations, so that warned in advance about the threat, we can assume that this will be acceptable, either it is an ftv flying, or it is a mavic working, that is , a reconnaissance uav, so we take measures accordingly, that is , firstly, take cover and look at... turned out to be, these are already incorrect actions of the crew who are in the forest regiment, the price of their work is extremely high, as is the degree of risk

to which the crews expose themselves, but besides , if this is not the case, then why are we here at all enemy targets that they find for artillery every day for them is there anything else boast, they are the only ones who have seen the skyscrapers of zaporozhye. no matter what, i don’t want to go to the position, assess the situation, so thank you, our irreplaceable superiors, according to your words, we should have been, it’s better to surrender than to die like that, it’s unclear why and

it’s unclear why, but the command is for us doesn’t think anything, well, like, to our destruction, they send us out like well, like waste material. and somewhere to the side, when we were being taken prisoner, ours started firing at us, it turns out that this means we are already losing. the stage that they don’t need us anymore, yes, i was taken prisoner, thanks to this, that i remained alive, that they didn’t shoot me, in a drought worse, yes, than in russian captivity. especially for those ukrainian military personnel who see no point in dying because of zelensky’s sick fantasies and want to save lives, the ministry of defense has organized a separate communication channel, this is radio frequency 149-200 with a special call sign volga, whoever wants to use it...

the vostochny cosmodrome is preparing to open a new page in its history. right here right now active preparations are underway for the first launch of the angara a5 heavy-duty launch vehicle. in april 2024, the new rocket will launch for the first time from a new launch pad at a new cosmodrome. all previous angara launches were carried out from plesetsk. an exciting moment for all involved, how the new rocket and the new

arion upper stage will work out, will be shown by the seventh test flight of the angara family of carriers. perhaps none of the domestic missiles has caused so much heated debate. some experts called the angara the future of the russian astronautics and the killer falcon 9 elon musk. others - the most important long-term space construction project in the world and an obsolete rocket. before he was born. which one is right? the answer to this question requires a balanced approach, because any launch vehicle is a reflection of the time in which it was created, and the angara project started in a very difficult period that followed the collapse of the ussr. on september 15, 1992

, a state competition was announced on the theme of fayton, this is the working name given to the future rocket, according to the plan of the interdepartmental expert commission it was supposed to replace the heavy prodon carrier, which runs on toxic fuel components, heptyls and amils, that is, the new rocket was initially conceived as environmentally friendly, environmentally friendly - this means a rocket that runs on...

it is impossible to launch a proton from the launch pad, on the contrary, a proton will not take off from the union’s launch pad, but the hangar is designed differently: any rocket of the family is assembled from ready-made universal rocket modules or rocket launchers, each 25 long and weighing 130 tons. they represent finished. design, consisting of an engine compartment, tanks, oxidizer and fuel, in the first and second stages of the hangar, a type one urm is used, the upper urm is two: the number of universal modules in the first stage determines the load capacity of the hangar, as from the parts of a giant designer in the assembly shop from the urm, carriers can be produced different classes, you need a two-hundred-ton rocket, you take it, add it to the universal module, put it on top... a universal module of the second stage, you need to make a zenit class rocket, then you add it to the universal

on the side of the module there are two more universal modules, you get what is called hangar a3. for its time, this was an advanced design idea; for example, now the modular principle of building rockets is actively used by spacex. here it’s good to compare everyone with musk; if you look at his falcons, this is exactly the same approach, yes. that is, a modular approach with the construction of the media according to the so-called batch scheme, well, when the stages are not... above another, yes, but next to each other, this approach saves development time, allows for more make the media reliable. if angara had been built in early 2000, as originally planned, it would have become the most advanced rocket in the world, but the karma of this project was spoiled by a financial issue. in the nineties , the russian economy was going through difficult times and

almost no money was allocated for the angara, so for 8 years the project was essentially marking time. in reality, the rocket began to be developed somewhere in 2003-2004, when the funding actually began, it flew in 2014, that is, 10 years is an absolutely normal process, and those periods were just periods paperwork, obtaining at least some funding from the state. as time passed, plans changed; initially, it was planned to assemble four types of angarachka missiles from universal modules at the khrunichev center. 2 light classes with a lifting capacity of up to 3.8 tons. this is the youngest rocket in the family, consisting of only one module; they wanted to create the angara a3 out of three rockets; this is already a middle- class rocket with a payload capacity of 14.6 tons. as you might guess, the heavy angara a5 was supposed to consist of five modules and be launched at reference orbit 24.5 tons of payload.

well, finally, the eldest in the family was supposed to be the a7, a super-heavy rocket with a payload capacity. however, in the end they decided to abandon the rocket and seven modules at the khrunichevo center. this is a specific class of media. super-heavy rockets could, for example, take astronauts to the moon, but russia had no such plans in the nineties. subsequently , the middle-class angara was also abandoned due to the start of work on the soyuz-5 carrier. they and angara a3 compete in the same weight category. therefore, in roscosmos considered that internal competition between launch vehicles was not necessary. today, there are only two missiles left from the entire family, this is the light hangar a1.2 - for loads of about 3 tons, and the heavy hangar (a5), that is, these two missiles have been brought to flight tests, now they are being launched in order to in order to pass flight tests, certify the rocket for launching

some commercial payloads there or on some government topic. first. test launches, both light and and the heavy version of the angara, were carried out from the plesetsk cosmodrome, owned by the russian ministry of defense. for this northernmost cosmodrome in the world , an unusual launch complex was built, its main distinguishing feature being unification. the modular construction principle allows for the production of light, medium and heavy class missiles, and this led to the idea that... the launch complex should be unified, and it is called usk, a unified launch complex, from the same launch site the complex can launch a light-class rocket, angara-1, and a heavy- class rocket, angara 5, and this has already happened;

the first launch of the light version of angara 1.2p took place on july 9, 2000. the wreckage crashed in the impenetrable taiga of the tomsk region, and the third stage departed after 735 seconds crashed in a non-navigable area of ​​the philippine sea. at 18:00 moscow time, the angara a5 upper stage delivered

the satellite prototype exactly to the planned orbit. six test launches of angara-type missiles, three light missiles and three heavy, all of them were considered successful, this is not a typical story for world astronautics, even modern rockets often fail their first launches, so two launches of elon musk’s new starship spacecraft ended in a crash even at the take-off stage, similar failures also plagued angare a5’s classmate, a french heavy rocket ariane-5. the french's first missile there missed by 200 miles. orian's second missile exploded there in front of the astonished eyes. world, and then, yes, a wonderful rocket, ariane-5 turned out, but they had it like this, and we have six successful launches - this is a good

result. and during the tests of angara a5, so far only one incident has occurred, and that was not the fault of the developers of the rocket itself, during the launch on december 27, 2021, the new perseus upper stage, created at rsc energia, was unable to enter the desired orbit. rocket. well, any rocket, including the angara, is a heavy rocket, it first launches the space warhead, the space head is a spacecraft, a transition system, an upper stage, into a reference orbit - this is a circular orbit, approximately closed 200 km an orbital block goes around the earth, this is already a spacecraft, a transition system and an upper stage, which the device will... launch into the target orbit, this problem is solved by the upper stage. rocket designers are superstitious people, they claim that it is too early to talk about the high reliability

of the launch vehicle, for this you need to collect statistics, conduct at least several dozen angara launches, but its anatomy, that is, the internal structure, makes it possible to judge the qualities which the new rocket has. now you see fire tests of rd-191. this is the most reliable rocket engine in the world. the temperature in the combustion chamber reaches 3,500°, even higher than in a furnace for processing refractory metals. it is very important to ensure quality in a rocket engine, because it is colossal power in a relatively small mass.

the first stage, and the central block is the second stage, the rocket flies first on the sides, the engine of the central block is throttled, that is, up to 30% of the rated thrust, up to 27% of the rated thrust, save fuel, then when the sides fall off, it is forced to the nominal mode and the rocket continues its flight, to ensure such a wide range of regulation from 27% to... 105%, according to the technical specifications, this unique task was set for us. at that time ,

there were no ready-made solutions to this problem for high-power propulsion engines. the designers had to rack their brains a lot over the new engine control system for the angara. because when we throttle deeply, this is the effect, this is drive a car with a manual transmission in third gear from a standstill or in fourth. that is, everything shakes, everything trembles, all the torque is transmitted to the transmission, which is not designed for starting gears. here we have the same thing, when we go into deep throttling, the differences in the injectors decrease, the temperature in the gas generator decreases, and the engine begins to operate unstable, so to ensure its stability in this deep throttling mode, and it is quite long in time, during flight, for this it was necessary... to come up with a new control and regulation system, to include special commands in the cyclogram to ensure stability of operation in this mode. and as a result, specialists from npo energo

mash managed to create a motor that, in its technical capabilities, surpasses all existing liquid rocket engines of a similar class. rd-191 is the heir to the oxygen-kerosene engines of the rd-170 family, created for the legendary ones. space energy system buran, its height is 4 m, weight 2,200 kg, thrust 212 tons. big the heart of the new rocket is being created at the khimavtomatika design bureau. the entire procedure is almost completely automated. on a rolling mill, a workpiece, a nozzle shell, and a combustion chamber are obtained from a sheet of metal, without stamping or welding. blank from a sheet using this rolling mill with additional rollers,

roll out with two additional rollers. according to the frames that you see here, in this way we get blanks 6 mm thick from a sheet 12 mm thick. this treatment allows you to avoid even minor deformations. accuracy absolute. in addition, combustion chambers made in this way are lighter than those made using traditional technologies, which means the engine itself weighs less, which directly affects the cost of the entire launch. one rd-191 engine is installed in each universal rocket module of the first stage of the angara, but the upper stages of the carrier of this family have their own flame motor (rd-0124a), the latest and in many ways unique development. at the moment this is the most highly efficient oxygen-kerosene liquid rocket engine in the world. for upper -stage engines , the efficiency characteristic becomes significant, that is, the specific impulse, that is, the speed at

which. gas flies out of the nozzles, the higher, well , one with greater efficiency, spending less fuel, the other, correspondingly with less efficiency, spending more fuel, ours are like cars, some cars have 15 liters per 100 km consumption, others six, that is, in in principle, it means that both turned out to be at the required distance from the destination, but it just means friends from kbh, which means brilliantly completed the task assigned to the developers of rd01. 2.4 managed to squeeze out of it the maximum efficiency that is generally possible for oxygen-kerosene engines. the thrust in the void is 30 tons of force, the current thrust impulse is 3.522 m/s. experts say that the world's best rocket engine manufacturers, even spacex specialists, will envy such figures. by the way, in your rocket.

to further lighten the angara's head fairing, i'm telling you about this for the first time today, which means that on our own initiative in the center of krunichev we developed our own a lightweight head fairing of a new generation, this is a young group of young scientists, young scientists have not only developed the design, but we are also manufacturing this head fairing, then we will see at what stage we will carry it out... natural tests. the latest achievements of science and technology are actively used in the production of hangare. to verify this, just look under the skin of the new carrier. several powerful computers are installed there at once. electronic brains control absolutely all rocket systems. the most the main thing about the control system is the accuracy of launching the rocket and launching the space warhead to the right point. in order to minimize the further use

of energy. characteristics of the acceleration unit of the spacecraft themselves, if we do not reach the point exactly, then the spacecraft will consume its fuel, thereby reducing its life cycle in orbit. modern control systems have much higher accuracy and lower accident rates. by the way, there is also a modular principle here, that is, a unified control system if necessary, you can connect ready-made universal rocket modules, as happens in... during the assembly of the heavy angara a5. now it is being carried out in omsk, at the polet production association. this is a branch of the khrunichevsky center. this is a new workshop built specifically for the assembly of our promising launch vehicles of the angara family. work is underway on the installation of the propulsion system, then we have a pneumatic testing area, where final pneumatic tests are being carried out, then there are universal rocket modules in front.