Acting US Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, shortly before leaving office in January, held a press conference during which he called the fifth-generation F-35 fighter " a piece of...". A transcript of the event was posted on the Pentagon's website.

According to sources of the Reuters news agency, the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement with the United States on the purchase of 50 F-35 "Lightning-2" fighters and up to 18 armed MQ-9B UAVs.

The Turkish defense company Lapis Havacılık has opened a factory in Ankara for the serial production of unmanned aerial vehicles.

According to the Anadolu agency, Lapis Havacılık has been developing unmanned aircraft since 2015.

The Russian government has instructed the Treasury to check the contract for the construction of the launch complex for the Angara rockets at the Vostochny cosmodrome. The corresponding decree, signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

A new crack has been discovered on the International Space Station (ISS). This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia-24" by the head of the flight of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Solovyov, TASS reports.

According to some Russian publications, this year Roscosmos will launch five GLONASS satellites. The first device is scheduled to be sent in the spring, the Izvestia TV channel reports. Two models of new-generation satellites will be launched into orbit. "Glonass-K" and "Glonass-K2" emit a larger number of signals. The service life of these devices is about 10 years. At the moment, the group consists of 28 devices.

NASA is undergoing personnel and administrative changes – the former head, Jim Bridenstine, has left his post, but a successor has not yet been appointed. This is one of the duties of the newly elected President Biden, but he still has too many other, more urgent things to do. Therefore, the space agency was temporarily headed by Steve Yurchik, who said that he would manage it, in fact, from the basement of his own house.

Work on its modernization has been completed

The modernization of the transmitting and receiving parts of the Don-2N radar station has been completed. At the moment, the radar is undergoing final preparation for testing, said the commander of the anti-missile defense unit of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Major General Sergei Grabchuk.

The Don-2N multi-functional radar, the central and most complex element of the Russian missile defense system, has been upgraded and is being prepared for testing. The performance of the computing system has increased by four orders of magnitude, and its size has decreased fourfold.

Starting this year, the Ground Forces ' rocket scientists will work closely with the Navy. The Iskander-M operational and tactical complexes (OTRK) will be able to support the Navy's operations at a range of up to 500 km and destroy the objects of a possible enemy with great accuracy. Such joint training has become a trend in combat training in recent years. The main target for the complexes may be priority coastal structures and equipment: air bases, radars and command centers, experts say.

At the end of last year, Putin announced that he intended to introduce the Avangard missile into the scope of the START-3 treaty. Immediately after that, they started talking about the fact that Russia allegedly recognized itself as defeated. But is it true that Russia "bowed its head"? As it is not so. With her statements, she only fools America's head, the user of "Sina" is sure.

Scouts of the Eastern Military District tested the Tiger-M armored vehicles that entered service at the training ground in the Amur region in conditions of severe frosts, the press service of the district reported on Friday.

In Russia, it is planned to test the latest guided 152-millimeter artillery shell for howitzers, according to materials posted on the state procurement website.

According to Greek resources, the United States and Greece have concluded an intergovernmental agreement (in the form of an exchange of Letters of Offer and Acceptance - LOA) on the transfer of 1,200 M1117 ASV Guardian (4x4) wheeled armored vehicles from the US Department of Defense to Greece through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales (FMS).

Government troops of Ethiopia during the fighting against the rebels of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (PFLT) managed to destroy the multiple rocket launcher AR2, considered a copy of the Russian MLRS 9K58 "Smerch".

The US Army is testing the new technology as part of the new Generation weapons project NGSW. Its task is to increase the combat capabilities of soldiers due to the "forced" stabilization of the rifle barrel when fired.

The first batch of the latest artillery reconnaissance systems "Penicillin" has arrived in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the General director of the concern "Vega" (part of the Russian Electronics Corporation "Rostec") told RIA Novosti") Vyacheslav Mikheev.

The Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School received a batch of small-sized satellite communication stations "Belozer".

In the United States, jealously watching the development of the Russian military-industrial complex, and therefore the message that the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" is being prepared to replace, aroused interest. But in the article, skepticism is mixed with interest: will Russia be able to implement interesting ideas? Will the Russian Federation repeat the success of its icebreaking shipbuilding?

At present, if we focus not on the list of personnel, but "on what can really be thrown into battle, it is obvious that the Russian Navy has fallen to the level of approximately South Korea in terms of available serviceable and combat-ready surface ships, "the Military-Industrial Courier newspaper writes.