Russian military received new fire support helicopters
New Mi-8AMTSh-VN fire support helicopters have been delivered to the Russian armed forces. Deliveries of the machines will take place in 2021 and 2022. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the military-industrial complex.
France has signed a contract with the UAE for the supply of aircraft worth about $ 18 billion.
France will supply the UAE Air Force and air defense with Rafale F4 fighters, H-225M Karakal helicopters and ammunition worth about 16 billion. euro ($18 billion).
Finland, apparently, will acquire American F-35A fighters
As the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported on December 5, 2021, with reference to "several sources in the field of foreign policy and security," the Finnish Defense Forces selected an American fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighter in a tender under the HX program for a promising fighter to replace Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet fighters in the Finnish Air Force. The Finnish Ministry of Defense supports the choice of the F-35A.
Norway has sold F-16 fighter jets to a private company
By the end of the year, Norway will write off the last F-16 and completely switch to 5th generation fighters. The first buyer of the decommissioned aircraft was the American company Draken International.
The evacuation of an emergency stealth drone by a Mi-17 helicopter was filmed on video
An inconspicuous Shahed-191 jet strike unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the aerospace forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps made an emergency landing in the provinces of Cheharmehal and Bakhtiariya.
The Taliban are slowly assembling their Air Force
The radical Taliban movement (banned in the OF), which seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August, was able to return several planes and helicopters hijacked by Afghan pilots to neighboring countries.
Putin signed the law on the powers of Roscosmos in the field of infrastructure construction
According to the previous regulation, Roscosmos was not entitled to issue these permits for space infrastructure facilities that are outside the jurisdiction of the state corporation and its subordinate organizations.
The epidemic of "covid" affects the Russian rocket industry
Roscosmos: the transfer of oxygen to hospitals may disrupt the timing of testing rocket engines.
The state corporation stressed that they will have to be shifted due to the redirection of supplies to medical organizations fighting the coronavirus.
CVO will ensure the safety of the launch of the Soyuz with a TASS correspondent and Japanese tourists
More than 150 military rescue specialists and medics have been relocated from the Chelyabinsk region, as well as crews of Mi-8 helicopters, An-26 and An-12 aircraft and more than 20 units of ground vehicles, including upgraded search and evacuation vehicles PEM-1 and PEM-2 "Blue Bird".
Europe's first female commander of the ISS has started preparing for a flight in Russia
Before the flight, all astronauts study the Russian segment of the station, and the cosmonauts of Roscosmos study the American one
Italian Samantha Cristoforetti, who will become Europe's first female commander on the International Space Station (ISS), has already begun preparations for the flight in Russia, said Denis Manturov, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, at a meeting of the Russian-Italian cooperation Council.
The Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan notes a decrease in the load on Baikonur
Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan Baubek Oralmagambetov said that the Kazakh side is analyzing the prospects for the development of the complex.
China has chosen a route and five targets for the Zhuzhong rover
After landing the rover, the mission's scientific team analyzed the first images taken and prepared a list of the most interesting terrain details
TASS, December 6. The scientific team of the Zhuzhong rover has published a detailed map of the rover's landing zone on the Utopia Plain and selected five points on its surface that will be studied by the Chinese rover in the coming months during its movements on the surface of Mars. The scientists' plans were revealed in an article in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Japan has handed over samples of the Ryugu asteroid to NASA for study
Specialists received fragments weighing about 0.5 grams for further study
Japan handed over to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) samples of the Ryugu asteroid, which were brought to Earth using the Hayabusa-2 probe (Sokol-2) a year ago. This was reported on Monday by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
They wanted to deprive Elon Musk of the right to set his own rules in space
The Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper, warned that the companies of American billionaire Elon Musk could take a dominant position in the developing space economy, since de facto they already dictate their own rules in it.
France to develop lightweight reusable rocket to compete with SpaceX
The Minister of Economy, Finance and Reconstruction of France, Bruno Le Maire, pointed to large public investments in an American company that allowed them to make a breakthrough in the development of technology.
Taikonauts will transmit the first video tutorial from orbit
Lectures on space topics will be broadcast by China Central Television
The first broadcast of the scientific and educational program "Tiangong Class" from the Chinese space station "Tiangong" (translated from Chinese as "Heavenly Palace") will be held on Thursday, December 9. This was announced on Monday by the Administration of the Manned Space Flight Program of the People's Republic of China.
Calculations of the Russian S-300 air defense system repelled an enemy air strike at an exercise in Tajikistan
Calculations of the Russian S-300 air defense system repelled an air strike by a simulated enemy at an exercise in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.
In Japan, the upgraded "Pantsir-S1M" was evaluated
The upgraded anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1M" can hit small-sized and low-speed drones. The Russian ZRPC was evaluated by military expert Masai Saito in a material for Yahoo News Japan.
The Russian "Flex-C" was called an analogue of the Polish complex
Rostec State Corporation has prepared the Gibka-S anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) for serial production. In the publication of the information and consulting agency Defense Express, the complex was compared with the Polish Poprad air defense system.
The head of Rosoboronexport said that Russia hopes for new supplies of S-400 to India
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier that the implementation of the deal on the supply of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems is going according to plan
Russia continues to fulfill the contract for the supply of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to India and hopes for new deliveries under the option. This was stated on Monday by Alexander Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport JSC, in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
