There were three Russians, two Americans and one representative of the UAE

Three citizens of the Russian Federation, two Americans and one representative of the UAE joined the crew of the SIRIUS-21 international isolation experiment, during which six volunteers will spend 240 days in isolation. This was reported to TASS on Monday in the press service of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the basis of which the experiment will be conducted.

Is there a private cosmonautics in Russia and how soon will a Russian commercial rocket fly?

The correspondent of the magazine "Aerospace Sphere" talked about this with the CEO and founder of Success Rockets Oleg Mansurov. 

The parties also discussed cooperation in the field of remote sensing of the Earth from space and training of personnel for the space industry

Roscosmos and Zimbabwe's National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA) have signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation on space. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

As specified in Roscosmos, design and estimate documentation is currently being developed

Survey and measurement work will soon begin on the site of the Zenit-M complex, which will be upgraded into Baiterek. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

A prototype of Greece's first hybrid aircraft-type UAV with vertical takeoff and landing, called "Archytas", was presented to Deputy Defense Minister Nikolaos Hardalias.

A new secret unmanned aerial vehicle RQ-180, being developed in the United States, was spotted in the sky over the American military base "Zone 51" in Nevada. The picture taken by eyewitnesses was published by The Drive.

The British-American company ZeroAvia, together with the Alaska Air Group aviation holding, will develop a hydrogen power plant for a 76-seat regional airliner and equip the De Havilland Q400 aircraft with it. The power of the installation will be from two to five thousand kilowatts, it will provide the aircraft with a range of about 805 kilometers.

The new picture may have captured one of the main defense innovations of the PRC - a prototype of a sixth-generation fighter. Externally, it is similar to the American X-44 MANTA concept, as well as to the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD).

In Peru, the South Korean KF-21 fighter was presented at the SITDEF 2021 arms exhibition. It is called an analogue of the newest Russian aircraft Checkmate.

Images of the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group airfield in Chengdu obtained in October from Planet Labs spacecraft indicate that work is underway in China on a mysterious new aircraft made according to a tailless aerodynamic scheme, writes The Drive.

The US Navy has shown the concept of a new generation fighter-bomber F/A-XX, which will replace the F/A-18E / F Super Hornet in the 2030s. The military expects him to coordinate groups of drones carrying equipment, electronic warfare equipment or serving as communication hubs.

A solemn ceremony of naming the Mi-8 and Mi-26 helicopters took place at the military airfield in Zernograd.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned at a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that Washington's policy towards Taiwan is fraught with deterioration of Sino-American relations and aggravation of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese media reported.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ukraine should stop calling Bayraktar "Turkish".

According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, the drones, although manufactured in Turkey, belong to completely different countries.

NATO is not interested in developing cooperation and bilateral relations with Moscow, this opinion was voiced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He was answering a question from journalists about whether there are signals from the alliance indicating readiness to restore dialogue with Russia. Representatives of the alliance only offered to discuss the situation in Ukraine during the Council meeting.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the level of equipment of the Russian Navy with modern weapons by 2027 should exceed 70%.

A new video has appeared on social networks, apparently made at the earliest stage of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. In a short video, you can see a combat vehicle turned into a pile of twisted metal. According to the individual elements of the design, it can be understood that we have a T-90S main battle tank in front of us.

The conclusions about the origin of the coronavirus contained in the declassified report of the American intelligence community are unreliable and unscientific, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

The mortality rate from coronavirus in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has halved in 2021 compared to 2020, the incidence has decreased approximately the same way, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

According to Deputy Vasily Piskarev, the extension of this norm to the FSB "will serve to strengthen its personnel and expand the sources of replenishment of security agencies with young promising specialists."