The Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg will be reliably protected from cruise missiles and drones. The 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army has created a unique mobile air defense regiment. The new military unit is fully armed with anti-aircraft missile and gun systems "Pantsir-S".

Iran has conducted a test launch of a new carrier rocket "Zuljanah" (Zol-Jannah). This is reported by the local news agency Irib News.

A possible defender of future NASA bases on the moon could be the Pentagon. The agencies are increasing cooperation between civil and military projects against the background of external threats, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

[b]The Director General of Roscosmos added that Russia will not participate in any race to the Moon until it understands "the meaning of the prize fund".]

The Russian lunar program is several times cheaper than the American one, but it will bring no less results to science, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin is convinced.

According to the Deputy Director General of Roscosmos, the placement of the station and its commissioning can be discussed as soon as the intergovernmental agreement with Mexico is signed and ratified.

Roscosmos noted that there is no body in the republic with the relevant government powers to implement the provisions of the intergovernmental agreement on outer space.

Deliveries of the ordered 737 MAX are suspended due to certification, which is hampered by the pandemic

Russian airlines this year risk being left without previously ordered 27 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, whose operation around the world was suspended due to two disasters. This "Izvestia" said sources in the sector.

Dassault Aviation announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of 12 Rafale fighters of the latest F3R standard for the French Armed Forces. The document was signed by Eric Trappier, the company's Chief Executive Officer, and Florence Parly, the French Minister of the Armed Forces.

Specialists of the Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute near Moscow have developed and manufactured a wing caisson demonstrator for a promising light passenger aircraft. According to the report of the institute, received by the editorial office of N + 1, the wing caisson is made of Russian composite materials. Strength tests of the element are planned to be carried out during 2021.

The supersonic Su-34 fighter-bomber performed loops with a right-angle turn, "barrels", "cubes" and slides at altitudes of 200 meters. The corresponding video on YouTube was published by "Zvezda".

As you know, the Ukrainian leadership, after a long torment, resolved the issue with the Chinese investors of Motor-Sich JSC (Zaporozhye), which were objectionable to the United States, simply robbing the Chinese by imposing direct sanctions against them.

A major military-political scandal is being discussed in Poland. The Winter 2020 staff exercise, in which several thousand officers took part, ended in spectacular disgrace. The simulation showed that in just five days, the war on the eastern flank of the country (the border with Russia and Belarus) was lost, and the Polish army ceased to exist.

It is not necessary to break the "defense industry" through the knee, setting it unrealistic tasks

Recently, the topic of the need for a new conversion of the military industry has been increasingly discussed in the media. Moreover, the term "conversion", which discredited itself decades earlier, is not used in this context, but they argue that this process must inevitably be started. We need to understand how acute this problem really is, perhaps it is created artificially.

Kiev announced the readiness of the United States to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that a new day is beginning in relations between Kiev and Washington. So he commented on the readiness of the United States to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons. Moscow took Kiev's enthusiasm with skepticism, recalling that earlier the United States exported decommissioned equipment to Ukraine, which is cheaper to export than to dispose of.

The network posted a photo showing the tail section of a promising Chinese submarine. It can be a multi-purpose submarine Type-095 or a carrier of strategic ballistic missiles Type-096.

The American company Metal Shark was commissioned by the US Marine Corps to develop a long-range robot boat LRUSV. According to Jane's, the agreement with the military also provides for the supply of robocat maintenance vessels, which will be created on the meringue of the Project 40 Defiant patrol ships.

The corvette "Stoyky" and the medium sea tanker "Kola", which are on a long trip, pass through the Suez Canal and make the transition through the Red Sea.

The detachment of ships left the main base of the Baltic Fleet in Baltiysk on December 16 to perform tasks as part of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.

The frigate of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia "Admiral Makarov" together with the calculations of the coastal anti-ship complexes "Bastion" conducted an exercise to destroy the enemy ship, the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet reported.

Disconnecting Russia from the global network is likely, but if such a scenario is implemented, the authorities have a plan of action ready, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Russian media.

The Russian-made T-80U continues to be actively used in the land forces of South Korea. In a recently released video, armored vehicles conducted training duels with K1E1 manufactured by the military industry of this state.