Pilots of the Eastern Military District (VVO) intercepted reconnaissance aircraft of the "enemy" in the course of working out tasks in Primorye on Mig-31 interceptor fighters and Su-30SM multipurpose fighters, the press service of the VVO reports.

Air Force pilots in Primorye intercepted reconnaissance planes of their "enemy" on fighter jets

Russian pilots of the Eastern Military District (VVO) intercepted reconnaissance aircraft of their "enemy" during the testing of tasks in Primorye on Mig-31 interceptor fighters and Su-30SM multi-purpose fighters. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the VVO.

MIC: the Russian AWACS A-100 "Premier" aircraft will be brought to mind

The Russian A-100 Premier long-range radar detection and control aircraft is qualitatively superior to its Western counterparts, but it is inferior to them quantitatively. The problems with the aircraft being created on the basis of the IL-76MD-90A are described by the Military-Industrial Courier (MIC).

The US Air Force is checking its "new thing". February 1, portal defensenews.com He reported that the F-15EX Eagle II fighter had passed the first fire tests by launching an air-to-air missile.

Northrop Grumman Corporation supplied the US Navy with the first serial MQ-4C drone in the Integrated Functional Capability (IFC)-4 version. The basic version of the UAV was commissioned in 2018.

The American company Northrop Grumman has signed a contract with the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) to develop a prototype virtual assistant for Black Hawk helicopter pilots. It will be integrated into their augmented reality helmets.

Roscosmos said that the purpose of the maneuver is to form ballistic conditions before launching the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft into orbit (March 18) and landing Soyuz MS-19 (March 30).

Russian engineers will use an algorithm that will allow archiving information transmitted by spacecraft in orbit, significantly reducing the file size

The new data compression algorithm created by the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) will allow 10 times to increase data transmission from satellites. This was reported on Wednesday in Roscosmos.

a Memorandum of cooperation with the "Glavkosmos" and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. will be valid until the end of 2026

"Glavkosmos" (part of Roscosmos) and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. signed a Memorandum of cooperation, which involves the creation of satellite remote sensing (RS) "Bangabandhu-2" in the interests of the Republic. This is stated in the company's message, distributed on Wednesday.

The Washington-based company Radian Aerospace has announced the beginning of the development of a reusable spacecraft capable of taking off and landing like a conventional aircraft. The project budget is $27.5 million.

The exercise of calculations of the S-400 "Triumph" air defense systems of the Central Military District (CVO) to repel a massive missile strike of a conditional enemy took place in Siberia, the press service of the CVO reported on Wednesday.

Tactical exercises of combat crews of anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) S-400 "Triumph" have started in the Leningrad region, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported on Wednesday.

The Ptitselov air defense systems will begin to be delivered to airborne units in 2023

Mobile air defense systems (PVO) "Birdman" next year will begin to arrive in the units of the Airborne Troops (airborne). Russian paratroopers will receive vehicles based on the BMD-4M. This was reported in the February issue of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense of Russia "Army Collection".

Deliveries of Russian S-400 air defense systems are an internal matter of Turkey, they do not bear a negative attitude towards NATO. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Poland adopted a resolution on the transfer of Polish-made MANPADS "Perun" to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the Minister of National Defense of the Republic Mariusz Blaszczak.

The decision on the transfer of Piorun portable air defense missile systems by the Polish military department was enthusiastically welcomed in Ukraine. Various Ukrainian experts and analysts thank Warsaw for such a generous gift in the form of "the latest MANPADS", allegedly surpassing even the American FIM-92 Stinger.

At the same time, not everything is clear with these weapons: in 2018, a scandal broke out in Poland when the results of tests of these military air defense systems became known.

The United States is ready to consider giving Russia the opportunity to make sure that there are no Tomahawk cruise missiles at NATO bases in Romania and Poland, Bloomberg reports.

The United States has called on the UN Security Council to hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss North Korea's latest missile launch, the Associated Press reports, citing diplomats.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the launchers of the Yars mobile nuclear missile complex of the Teikov Division of the Strategic Missile Forces were brought to the combat patrol routes. As reported to the correspondent of "RG" in the Ministry of Defense, during the exercise, strategic rocket scientists, among other things, will work out the covert transfer of missile systems to field positions.

The Tagil Division of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) began exercises with the withdrawal of autonomous launchers of strategic complexes "Yars" on combat patrol routes, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.