Defseca: Bangladesh to buy Russian Mi-28NE instead of Boeing AH-64 Apache

The Bangladesh Air Force has decided to purchase Russian Mi-28NE attack helicopters. They plan to spend $ 478 million on the purchase of eight helicopters, according to the Defseca portal.

The German company Grob Aircraft has begun to supply the Bangladesh Air Force Command with G-120TP basic training aircraft ordered in June 2021.

The Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan has announced its intention to sign a letter of offer and acceptance of an offer for the supply of American-made MQ-9B "Skygardian" UAVs in March next year.

A video recording of the launch of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome was published by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, December 28.

The space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted on Monday the third test launch of a heavy carrier rocket "Angara-A5" with a large-scale model of the payload from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

It significantly increases the potential capabilities of the rocket in comparison with earlier Angara models. As in the last three test launches of missiles of this family, the payload was represented by a mock-up.

In terms of the number of launches of space rockets, Roscosmos in 2021 equaled 2019, according to TASS calculations

Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, congratulated the state corporation and all space enthusiasts on the accident-free completion of the launch campaign this year.

Glavkosmos: 11 launches of foreign spacecraft are planned in 2022

In 2022, Roscosmos has planned to conduct 11 spacecraft launches in the interests of foreign customers, Dmitry Loskutov, CEO of Glavkosmos, told TASS.

The only woman in the Roscosmos cosmonaut squad reported that the preparation for the flight on the ship will take place in the USA

The flight of the only woman in the Roscosmos cosmonaut detachment, Anna Kikina, may take place in September - October next year as part of cross-flights with the United States on the American Crew Dragon ship. She said this in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Monday.

In particular, one of the launches is expected from the Vostochny cosmodrome, three from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana

Glavkosmos JSC (part of Roscosmos) plans 11 spacecraft launches next year. This was reported to TASS by the company's CEO Dmitry Loskutov.

Roscosmos congratulated Oleg Kononenko, Oleg Artemyev and Alexey Ovchinin on the presentation of state awards and wished them "new space achievements for the good of Russia"

Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, who survived the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle accident in 2018, was awarded the Order of Courage in the Kremlin. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Tuesday.

It is planned to use it during the flights of the promising ship "Eagle"

A universal system for docking spacecraft in near-Earth and near-moon orbits is being developed by the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments (SRI TP), the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS) reported.

China has approved the fourth stage of the lunar surface exploration program to prepare for the construction of a joint Russian-Chinese scientific station on the Moon, during which three missions will go to it, the deputy head of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) said At Yanhua.

The moon landing is planned as part of a broader program of activities in the area and on the surface of the Earth's satellite, which will be carried out in cooperation with the United States

The Japanese government intends to land its astronauts on the moon in the second half of the 2020s. This was stated by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a meeting held in Tokyo on Tuesday on the strategy of space exploration, the Kyodo news agency reported.

Beijing is developing a rocket that will be able to put 150 tons of cargo into a low reference orbit. Earlier it became known that the first launch of the Chinese "lunar" carrier should take place in 2026.

Reuters: China announced the threat of Starlink

In early December, China presented a document to the UN in which it spoke about the threat of the global satellite system of high-speed broadband Internet access Starlink, Reuters reports.

The ministry said that Washington missile launches pose a threat to the lives of Chinese astronauts

China expresses dissatisfaction with the actions of the United States in near-Earth space and demands that the United States be held responsible for the activities of American companies that threaten the lives of Chinese astronauts with their rocket launches. This was stated on Tuesday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

The universal integrated simulator "Cone" of anti-aircraft gunners of the Igla MANPADS entered service with the motorized rifle unit of the combined arms army of the Air Defense Forces stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

A number of foreign customers are interested in the Russian echeloned air defense system, which involves the supply of a group of anti-aircraft missile systems of different ranges, a spokeswoman for the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) told RIA Novosti in an interview Valeria Reshetnikova.

The Russian Federation plans to increase the export of anti-aircraft missile and cannon complexes (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" in the near future, the press secretary of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) of Russia Valeria Reshetnikova said in an interview with RIA Novosti.