Russia puts drone production on stream. On December 22, the press service of the Kronstadt company announced the opening in Dubno of the first specialized serial factory of large-sized unmanned aerial vehicles in the Russian Federation.

The Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building named after P.I. Baranov (CIAM, part of the Research Center "Institute named after N.E. Zhukovsky") has successfully completed the development stage of the technical design of the aviation rotary piston engine RPD-150T in the class of 150 hp.

19FortyFive: the F-35 fighter will take a dominant position in world combat aviation

The fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter of Lockheed Martin (USA) has survived in the fight against other Western competitors and will occupy a dominant position in the world of combat aviation in the future, 19FortyFive says.

The UK and Japan will create an engine for the next generation fighter

The United Kingdom and Japan, having signed a joint memorandum, united to create a new engine for combat aircraft, writes The Drive.

Tokyo and London will begin work on an engine demonstrator for a new generation of fighters. These machines can be adopted by about 2040.

Chief of Staff (Commander) The Indonesian Air Force, Air Marshal Fajar Prasetyo, confirmed plans to purchase Rafale fighters from the French company Dassault or F-15EX from the American Boeing.

In particular, the mission of the Progress M-UM spacecraft has ended

The program of dynamic operations that were planned for the Russian segment of the ISS in 2021 has been completed. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.

Roscosmos: fragments of the Progress M-UM module ship fell into the Pacific Ocean

The instrument and aggregate compartment of the Progress M-UM cargo module has been undocked from the Berth module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and flooded in the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos reports.

The platform of the nanoclass spacecraft is made in the form of a hexagonal prism and consists of a set of unified scalable modules

JSC "Russian Space Systems" has patented a multi-purpose platform of the nanoclass spacecraft. This is stated in the patent for the invention distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

Kosmos-2519, from which another spacecraft had previously separated, burned up in the atmosphere. The satellite had remote sensing equipment, as well as equipment for shooting objects in space.

Five more people will choose for the flight, which will take place in 2022

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron entertainment content platform, won the auction and paid $28 million for the opportunity to make a suborbital flight on the New Shepard ship of the American company Blue Origin. He announced this on Thursday on his Twitter page. Previously, the identity of the winner of the auction held in June 2021 was not disclosed.

China is preparing to set a new national record for the number of launches in 2021

China on Thursday successfully launched two experimental Shiyan-12 satellites into orbit for space exploration. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Engineering units of missile formations being re-equipped at the Yars PGRC are equipped with SKO-10 integrated water purification stations.

The share of modern models of VIV in the security and intelligence units of the Strategic Missile Forces increased significantly in 2021, which made it possible to increase the security of military facilities, as well as the possibility of timely detection of DRG on the routes of combat patrol of missile systems.

We continue to write about the myths that have arisen around some samples of Soviet weapons. We have already talked about the T-62 tanks, now let's remember about another hero of the events at Damansky - BM-21 "Grad". This multiple rocket launcher system is also called secret in many publications, they say, nothing was known about it before these battles.

The network published a photo showing the body of a railway locomotive, which was put on a car chassis or car wheels.

This project in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was conceived in 1999. At the same time, the work concerning such "crossing" was carried out in 2002-2003. The project with drawings was developed by scientists and engineers of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The anti-aircraft artillery complex (ZAK) "Derivation-Air defense", armed with a 57 mm caliber cannon, will be able to hit the enemy with special guided shells, hiding from a direct shot in a trench, trench or behind a parapet, appropriate tests are being conducted, a source in the defense industry complex told RIA Novosti.

They are designed to evacuate emergency tanks, including from the enemy fire zone

Uralvagonzavod (UVZ, part of Rostec State Corporation) I sent a batch of upgraded armored repair and evacuation vehicles BRAM-1M under the state defense order to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the plant.

During the exercises in Iran, a Karrar tank based on the Soviet T-72M was noticed

The Iranian armed forces used the new Karrar tank in the exercises. During the maneuvers of the formations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Payambar-e Azam-17, an upgraded tank was noticed, which is based on the design of the Soviet T-72M. This is reported by the Tasnim agency.

The Philippine Army will arm itself with "almost real" tanks. December 22, portal inquirer.net He announced that 20 armored vehicles from Israel will arrive in the country by the end of the month.