The Laguna combat fire control complex was created and handed over to the customer, the State Military-Industrial Committee (GVPC) of Belarus reported.

North Korea is raising the stakes amid rumors of a possible continuation of negotiations with the United States and its allies. On January 6, the Yonhap news agency reported that North Korea had launched a new ballistic missile at the Sea of Japan.

This year, for the first time, platoon sets of the Gibka-S ultra-short-range mobile anti-aircraft missile system will begin to arrive in the troops. This was reported in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Chinese used the manipulator arm of the new Tiangong orbital station to move the Tianzhou-2 spacecraft. The operation was the first test of the manipulator by transferring a large spacecraft.

After the cargo ship "Tianzhou-2" undocked from the base module of the station, the manipulator arm moved it to the side, and then returned the ship to its former place

China on Thursday conducted a successful test of moving a cargo spacecraft using a manipulator arm installed on the national space station. This is stated in the statement of the Manned Space Flight Program of the PRC in the social network WeChat.

The Chinese National Space Administration showed new selfies of the orbital probe "Tianwen-1", obtained by a detachable camera. In addition to the device itself, the northern polar region of Mars got into the frame, according to the website Space.com .

Russia will transfer the Ekran-M satellite and three systems at Baikonur to Kazakhstan in 2022

Russia may transfer the Ekran-M telecommunications satellite to Kazakhstan, which has not been used before, as well as three technological systems at the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source.

The Russian upper stage "Perseus" with a mock-up of the satellite entered the atmosphere over the central Pacific Ocean on January 6 at 01:08 Moscow time, according to the website of the American space forces Space-track.org . The upper stage could not bring the payload simulator into geostationary orbit — the first flight of the device created at RSC Energia ended in failure.

All the heads of the Baikonur city administration, as well as branches of Roscosmos enterprises, returned to the city. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the state corporation.

Boeing Corporation showed a hypersonic aircraft model based on the Valkyrie concept demonstrated in 2018. It is assumed that it can be used to solve military or civilian tasks.

On January 6, 2001, two Ka-50 helicopters, better known as the Black Shark, took off from the Severny airfield in Grozny for the first combat mission.

The story of the commissioning of this rotorcraft has been greatly delayed. After all, its prototype began flying back in 1982. But the changes that began in the USSR, and then the collapse of the country, postponed bringing the helicopter to a reliable working model. The first serial samples were received by the Air Force after the Ka-50 was put into service, which happened only in August 1995.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) plan to further equip the regiments with unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane and copter type, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Thursday.

The US Secretary of State and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi discussed issues related to Ukraine's sovereignty and the DPRK's latest missile launch during a telephone conversation, the US State Department said.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said that his position on the country's membership in NATO has not changed. He noted that many interpretations of the New Year's speech were voiced both inside and outside the country, in which he spoke about the possibility of Finland to apply for membership in the alliance.

The German and French authorities have confirmed that there is no alternative to the "Minsk agreements", said Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation.

U.S. Defense Ministers Lloyd Austin and British Ben Wallace confirmed during a telephone conversation that they support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the Pentagon said.

The security talks to be held next week will be crucial for Europe and the world, according to Liz Truss, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and UK Development.

The United States next week, as part of negotiations with Russia in Geneva, intends to discuss the malicious actions of the Russian Federation, in particular, the violation of the arms control regime, the White House reported on Wednesday.

First Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to Geneva later in January for talks with the Russian delegation, along with Deputy Secretary of State for Arms Control Bonnie Jenkins and a number of representatives of the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the US military command, the State Department said on Thursday.

Washington has not yet specified which Russian proposals are unacceptable to it, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation noted

Russia is counting on a fairly quick result at the January talks with Washington and NATO on security guarantees, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.