In total, the British company intends to deploy about 600 satellites in low-Earth orbit

Roscosmos plans to carry out eight launches under the OneWeb program from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kourou cosmodromes. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for international Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

According to Sergey Savelyev, the company's deputy director for international cooperation, four of them will be held from the Baikonur cosmodrome and three each from Vostochny and Kourou

Roscosmos plans to launch 10 Soyuz-2 and Soyuz-ST launch vehicles this year in the interests of foreign partners. This was reported to TASS by the Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for international Cooperation Sergey Savelyev.

The research and testing complex of NPO Energomash reported that the tests that took place in January were completed in full and passed in the normal mode

The RD-171MV and RD-191 rocket engines for the Soyuz and Angara carriers have successfully passed fire tests. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the NGO "Energomash".

Experts of the US Army during tests of the upgraded version of the CH-47F Chinook Block II heavy transport helicopter found increased vibration of the rotor blades. According to Defense News, with reference to the test report, the vibrations were detected in several modes: parking on the ground with the engines running and the propellers rotating, hovering and flying in a straight line.

The now well-known Turkish company Baykar Defense (part of the Baykar group) announced the creation of a light reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle Bayraktar DIHA (Dikey Iniş Kalkışlı Insansız Hava Aracı) with vertical takeoff and landing. In a video distributed on January 18, 2021 by the company's head Seljuk Bayraktar, two samples of the Bayraktar DIHA device were visible in the company's workshop, but it is unclear whether their flight tests have begun.

As announced by the Ministry of Defense of Australia, the capabilities of the maritime patrol of the country's Air Force will be strengthened by the acquisition of two additional aircraft BPA P-8A "Poseidon" produced by Boeing.

Some American media still continue to present the 5th-generation F-35 strike fighter as the embodiment of the most advanced technologies that guarantee it victories over any enemy – which, however, is increasingly in doubt.

For the first time, the Northern Fleet held a comprehensive training to repel an enemy drone attack on a protected object.

In December 2020, new US sanctions came into force. The United States has tightened export controls. The sanctions list includes 45 Russian companies. Among them was the manufacturer of titanium and JSC VSMPO-AVISMA.

The Chinese fighter-bomber of the new generation may be similar to the Russian Su-34. Images of the alleged appearance of a promising winged machine from the Middle Kingdom appeared on the Network.

It is still difficult to say how much the published concept corresponds to what will happen in reality. However, China has long mastered the production of its own clones of Russian Su-27 and Su-33 fighters, so it is possible that a combat aircraft will be created on their basis with the placement of the crew as on the "thirty-fourth".

T-55 and ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" of the Peruvian army were deployed to cover the border with Ecuador. The relocation of equipment is explained by the increase in the number of migrants from Venezuela.

Judging by the published photos, medium tanks are transported on trawls, while lighter self-propelled units move independently.

Pushkov responded to Stoltenberg's call to resist Russian aggression

NATO should understand that the world will no longer live by the rules developed in "three or four Western capitals," said Senator Alexei Pushkov. So he commented on the words of the Secretary General of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg about the need to prepare for "Russian aggression" and increase military budgets.

In Tyumen, in 2021, the first graduation of lieutenants in a rare specialty in the army - engineering special forces will take place. Such unique specialists are trained in the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School.

Sergei Sobyanin launched the construction of the Moscow State University's Vorobyovy Gory innovation cluster, the Moscow Mayor's Office reported. Previously, investments in this project were estimated at 20 billion rubles.

As part of the 24th "animal" division of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet of Russia, there are nuclear submarines (submarines) "Panther", "Boar" and "Cheetah" of the project 971, capable of discreetly monitoring the actions of the US Navy (Navy), says TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

Reports of a fire on board the Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" do not correspond to reality. This was announced on Wednesday, January 27, by the head of the press service of the ship repair center "Zvezdochka" Yevgeny Gladyshev.

JSC "UEC-Gas Turbines" completes the order for the supply of four gas pumping units GTN-16R to Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, LLC, the press service of the United Engine Corporation, which includes the company, reports.

In the Russian Arctic and the Far East, thermal power plants will be built that run on waste from the woodworking industry.

At Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), with the support of the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs (FIOP), the RUSNANO Group has completed the development of a professional development program for specialists engaged in the design and production of the element base of radiophotonics with nanoscale components. In February 2021, the training of a pilot group of employees of JSC OKB-Planeta (Veliky Novgorod), which acted as the customer and industrial partner of the educational project, will begin. The new program became the seventh joint project RUN and the University.

The Aspid sports pistol will be handed over to the Russian law enforcement agencies for testing, Rostec reported. Alexander Kudryashov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Kalibr", an expert on weapons, spoke on Sputnik radio about some of the features of the new pistol.