Russian engineers have started ground testing of a flying laboratory based on the Yak-40, equipped with a superconducting electric motor. It is installed in the nose of the aircraft.

A production aircraft with an all-electric powerplant may appear by 2030, according to Andrey Dutov, General Director of the N.E. Zhuklovsky Institute Research Center.

As reported on February 5, 2021, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan, test flights of the new reconnaissance unmanned aircraft complex "Shagala"took place. The UAV was developed by military scientists of the National Defense University of Kazakhstan named after the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy (NUO).

A line of piston engines for unmanned aerial vehicles will be created in Russia within five years. They will also receive attack drones.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus in October 2022 may receive the second batch of Su-30SM aircraft produced by the Russian corporation "Irkut", consisting of four pieces of equipment, the press service of the military department of the republic reported.

Russia in the next two years does not plan to create a fifth-generation fighter-interceptor MiG-41, such information is reported by military expert Peter Butovsky in the American magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology.

The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, will review the deployment of American troops abroad and suspend the withdrawal of army units from Germany. This was announced by US President Joe Biden on February 4, in a keynote speech at the State Department. The speech was broadcast on the official page of the President of the United States on Twitter.

The complete defeat of the army and the surrender of the capital on the fourth day of the war-the Polish generals tried to simulate an attack on Poland from the east. The exercises ended in a complete failure — even the latest American military equipment did not help the defenders. Why the Polish Army forgot how to fight — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Over the past two days, it has become clear that with the coming to power of the Joe Biden administration in the United States, American foreign policy has radically changed. The previous principles of the relative isolationism of the previous American leader, Donald Trump, are thrown aside.

Japan is in hysterics: Russia has allowed itself another military exercise on the Russian Kunashir with artillery firing. The Japanese Foreign Ministry protests: "You can't!". In the comments of some Japanese, too, there are hysterical and even militant notes. But many say that the islands of Japan can not be returned. And they blame the Japanese authorities for everything.

The fact that there are currently no engines for attack drones in Russia is one of the reasons for the country's lack of its own serial attack drones. This is reported by RIA Novosti, referring to an interview with the General Director of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building Mikhail Gordin.

Washington is developing a common position with the "Eurotroika" (Germany, Great Britain, France) on the nuclear deal with Iran, and appropriate consultations are being held, said Assistant to the US President for National Security Jake Sullivan.

Almost all of the oil produced in eastern Syria is being stolen by US troops in the region and their allies in the face of Kurdish paramilitary groups. This was stated by the Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources of Syria Bassam Tuome, speaking at a meeting of the People's Council (Parliament) of the Arab Republic.

Modernization of JSC "Sevmash" should be accelerated to prepare for the construction of submarines of the fifth generation, said the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.

The British multi-purpose nuclear submarine HMS Talent of the Trafalgar type was equipped with new sensors. Presumably, we are talking about an analog of the Russian wake trace detection system, or SOKS.

The tender has not yet been announced

Rosoboronexport (part of the state corporation Rostec) is ready to participate in the Indian tender for the supply of submarines under the P75i program. This was reported to TASS by Rosoboronexport during the international aviation salon Aero India 2021.

The heavy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov are planned to be handed over to the Russian Navy after repairs and modernization in 2022, Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), said in an interview with Interfax on Thursday.

The ship of the Baltic Fleet performed mine laying and repelled an air strike in the sea ranges. And at the coastal training ground "Khmelevka" the Marines staged a cannonade.

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and colleagues from the Moscow State Pedagogical University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz radiation detector based on the tunnel effect in graphene.

Engineers of the Shvabe holding company of the Rostec State Corporation have updated the software of the thermal imagers produced, as a result of which the temperature measurement algorithm has become significantly more efficient.