Nigeria intends to revive the combat capabilities of its Air Force. Yesterday, March 24, the portal defenseworld.net He announced that the first of the three JF-17 Thunder fighters ordered had arrived in Nigeria.

Airbus Helicopters has announced the transfer of the last of the seven ordered H-145 LUH SAR light search and rescue helicopters to the German Federal Armament, Information Technology and Maintenance Agency (BAAINBw).

[b]Moreover, the number of launches may increase due to the fact that commercial customers are increasing the production of devices and additional applications may appear, the head of Roscosmos said.]

At least six launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome are planned to be made in 2021. When new orders appear, this number can be increased, Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of the state corporation Roscosmos, told reporters on Thursday.

Recently, it became known that Russia may launch a new spaceplane in the foreseeable future. According to a source in the rocket and space industry, it will be unmanned.

The spacecraft is designed for the organization of digital television and radio broadcasting, high-speed Internet access and the provision of communication services on air and sea vessels in Russia and abroad.

The development of an ultralight rocket in Russia is dictated by the need to launch multi-satellite groups into Earth orbit and maintain them, said Sergey Zhukov, co-head of the working group of the National Technology Initiative Aeronet.

The Soyuz-2.1 b rocket launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome at 05: 47 Moscow time. The launch of the vehicles by the upper stage took almost 4 hours

All 36 British OneWeb satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1 b rocket have been successfully launched into their calculated orbits using the Fregat upper stage. This was reported to TASS by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.

As reported in the company Arianespace, by the end of 2022, they expect to complete the deployment of a group of satellites in orbit

The next launch of the Soyuz rocket with OneWeb satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome will take place on April 25. This was announced on Thursday by the CEO of the French company Arianespace, Stefan Israel.

The United States once again called on Turkey to abandon the advanced Russian S-400 system, which Washington considers a threat to its own security.

Supporters of the movement "Ansar Allah" (Houthis) released a video showing the destruction of another drone belonging to Saudi Arabia in the sky over the province of Marib.

According to the commander of the Philippine Navy, Vice Admiral Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, the BrahMos medium-range missile system equipped with a supersonic missile system is an ideal solution as a coastal defense system for the country's Navy.

The differences between the EU, NATO and Russia should not become an obstacle to joint work on the elimination of chemical weapons submerged at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, according to Vadim Paka, Chief researcher of the Atlantic Department of the P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Eight upgraded BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles entered service with motorized rifle units of the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District, stationed in the Chelyabinsk region.

The two-link tracked floating snow-and-mud vehicles of high cross-country capability GAZ-3344-20 "Aleut" were put into service with the motorized rifle unit of the VVO, stationed in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

In Syria, along with the "Tigers", "Typhoons-K", "Lynxes", the operation of the "Shot"armored vehicles continues. A new photo of such a combat vehicle in desert camouflage, armed with a 12.7-mm NSV-12.7 "Utes" machine gun, has appeared on the Network.

The United States and Western countries have launched a "mental" war against Russia, the purpose of which is the destruction of self-consciousness, said the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the actual state adviser of the third class Andrey Ilnitsky.

The United States of America has donated $ 3.3 million worth of radio equipment to the Estonian Defense Forces to support the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) system.

Director of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops – Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, Army General Viktor Zolotov, held an extended meeting of the final board of the Rosgvardiya with the leadership of the department, district commanders, heads of territorial bodies, commanders of military units and formations of the National Guard troops of the Russian Federation, during which the results of the service and combat activities of the Rosgvardiya in 2020 were summed up, as well as the tasks for the current 2021 were clarified.

"United Shipbuilding Corporation" began to face systematic refusals of foreign companies to service already delivered equipment, said the head of the USC Alexey Rakhmanov.

According to the source, state tests will begin in the near future

Flight design tests (LKI) of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the surface carrier-the frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Northern Fleet-have been successfully completed, and state tests will begin in the near future. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.