In Syria, a militant oil refinery was destroyed with the help of a Russian barrage ammunition. The operation took place in the province of Hama.

The PD-35 engine, designed for the promising Russian-Chinese wide-body long-haul CR929 aircraft, will be tested in 2024. Earlier it became known that Beijing has started assembling the first sample of the new airliner.

Defense Express: AN-178-100R aircraft received a Russian-made engine

The Ukrainian state Enterprise (GP) Antonov announced the rollout of the AN-178-100R aircraft. The manufacturer stressed that the aircraft received equipment from Ukrainian and Western suppliers, but they could not completely replace the Russian units at the enterprise. The aircraft received a Russian-made engine, according to the Defense Express material.

The Command of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) has received the last three light twin-engine multi-purpose H-145M helicopters at the Airbus Helicopters company in Donauvert.

Roscosmos: the launch of the Nauka and Berth modules can be called the main achievement of 2021

Roscosmos, in a publication on its official website, named the main achievements of the state corporation in 2021.

Cosmonaut Novitsky: I would like to fly on Crew Dragon

Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who two months ago returned from his third space flight to the International Space Station (ISS), appreciated the benefits of cross-missions of Russians and Americans on their own spacecraft. He told about this in an interview published in the final issue of the Russian Cosmos magazine for 2021.

As previously reported by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad Anna Kikina will make the first flight into space in 2022

Roscosmos plans to carry out, together with NASA, one cross-flight per year in 2022-2024. The head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin said this in an interview with The New York Times.

Roscosmos: a new system for spacecraft rendezvous and docking is being developed

A fundamentally new system for rendezvous and docking of spacecraft is being developed at the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments (SRI TP), which allows to combat parasitic signals when ships dock to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos says.

A total of 36 satellites were launched on the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle

TASS, December 27. The first two groups (eight vehicles) of British OneWeb communications satellites, launched earlier on Monday from the Baikonur cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, separated from the Fregat upper stage. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos on Twitter.

A batch of 36 communications satellites of the British company OneWeb successfully separated from the Fregat upper stage after the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Roscosmos reported.

A new era has begun in space exploration. On December 26, the NASA press service announced the successful initial deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The Deputy Head of the Chinese National Space Administration noted that the new superheavy rocket will be able to deliver spacecraft weighing up to 30 tons to the moon

China is currently developing a heavy launch vehicle that will be capable of launching spacecraft weighing up to 150 tons into low Earth orbit. This was reported on Monday by the information resource "Penpai" with reference to the statement of the deputy head of the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) At Yanhua.

As the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry clarified, the successes of Chinese cosmonauts are "China's contribution to the peaceful exploration of outer space"

The Chinese authorities intend to develop the national space program on an open and equal basis, in accordance with the principle of joint development. This was stated on Monday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

In November, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on conducting tests during which an inactive Russian spacecraft was successfully hit

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, questioned the likelihood of repeated tests to destroy space satellites, similar to those conducted by Russia earlier in 2021. He expressed this opinion in an interview with The New York Times.

Bilateral exercises of the communications and electronic warfare units of the Black Sea Fleet took place on the Crimean Peninsula, involving more than 500 military personnel and 50 units of weapons and military equipment.

The units of the military air defense celebrated the 106th anniversary of its formation on December 26.

The forces of the military air defense (air defense) of the Western Military District conducted an exercise to repel a massive air strike by the "enemy" on strategic objects, the press service of the ZVO reported.

The US Army has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman for the production of a unified control system for air and missile defense systems IBCS. According to Breaking Defense, under this agreement, the company will develop 160 systems for the US military and their foreign partners by the end of 2026.

The Kremlin expects that the successful tests of the new hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will give additional credibility to Russian initiatives on security guarantees.

Rosatom has again fully fulfilled the state defense order in 2021, said Alexey Likhachev, Director General of the state corporation.