The carrier, the first stage of which is equipped with a Russian RD-180 engine, launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome

The American company United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V launch vehicle with two satellites on Tuesday by order of the Space Forces of the US Armed Forces. The broadcast is conducted on the ULA website.

The launch of the rocket in modification Y2 took place from the Jiuquan cosmodrome

The Ceres-1 launch vehicle of the private Chinese company Galactic Energy successfully launched five satellite vehicles into a sun-synchronous orbit on Tuesday. This is stated in a statement issued by the company.

The Sky Sabre air defense systems began to enter service with the 16th Regiment of the Royal Artillery. According to the British Ministry of Defense, Sky Sabre consists of an all-round radar, a data transmission system and anti-aircraft guided missiles.

The US Missile Defense Agency has completed the construction of the LRDR (Long Range Discrimination Radar) ballistic target selection radar and has begun testing it. According to Defense News, next year the military will integrate LRDR into the GMD missile defense system and the C2BMC combat information and control system.

The British Army has announced that it has adopted a new Sky Sabre air defense system to repel threats that allegedly come from Russian fighters. This is reported by the Times newspaper, citing sources in the UK Ministry of Defense.

The successful launch of the Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missile from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate forced US military analysts to take a fresh look at the combat effectiveness of the Russian Navy. Experts predicted a limitation of strike capabilities for the US navy and NATO warships.

The new head of the academy will be presented on December 7, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The new head of the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, Lieutenant General Igor Afonin, will be presented on December 7 on the Day of the Military Academy. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

Indonesia's rapid response units, designed to operate in conditions of various natural disasters, operate tracked GAZ-34039 "Irbis". Photos of two such cars are published on the portal indomiliter.com .

Rosoboronexport will offer to transfer the production technology of the Octopus-SDM1 light floating tank to India as part of the tender, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev told reporters.

In Russia, they once again started talking about the beginning of state tests of the self-propelled gun "Coalition-SV". On December 6, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Defense Ministry has already approved a plan for testing a promising self-propelled artillery installation.

The Uraltransmash plant has handed over the first batch of upgraded 2S7M Malka self-propelled guns to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The military received vehicles with new communication equipment and surveillance devices. This is reported by the Uralvagonzavod concern.

Russian troops in Tajikistan have been operating far from the most modern tanks for a long time. For example, the old versions of the "seventy-second" served there for a relatively long time without dynamic protection.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the training of T-34 tank crews. The maneuvers of Russian tankers were appreciated in Poland. The exercises allow us to consider T-34 tanks as standard military equipment, writes Defence24.

Russian heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1 "Pinocchio" and TOS-1A "Solntsepek" can hit targets that are in shelters. The advantages of Russian-made heavy flamethrower systems were called by 19FortyFive columnist Brent Eastwood.

The Armed Forces of Mali announced the adoption of several dozen new armored vehicles on December 3, designed, as noted, to continue the fight against Islamic terrorism in the country.

The Egyptian ground forces can currently be called the largest operator of Abrams main battle tanks after the United States. In total, according to various sources, there are more than 1,100 units of this equipment in the troops.

The robot from the Russian resident of Skolkovo successfully passed a probationary period in the Abu Dhabi police, after which it was decided to officially include it in the work. Also, similar robots will appear in other regions of the UAE in the near future, Oleg Kivokurtsev, Development Director of Promobot, told TASS.

Russia and India have signed a contract for the production of AK-203 submachine guns in the Indian city of Korva. What are the features of this weapon, military columnist Viktor Litovkin explained on Sputnik radio.

Many years of efforts in the development of Indian automata have gone to waste. On December 6, the TASS news agency reported that Russia and India signed a contract for the supply of more than 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles.

According to Alexander Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport, the first part of the machines will be produced in the country with varying degrees of localization, and then a full-scale production will begin

Russia is ready to provide full-scale production of 7.62 mm AK-203 submachine guns in India in two to three years. This was announced to journalists on Tuesday by the General Director of Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation) Alexander Mikheev.