The bureau reported that these platforms will become "a kind of center for providing the entire range of activities of Russia and partner countries in the Arctic"

Nevskoe design Bureau (PKB, is part of the United shipbuilding Corporation) is developing a floating aerodrome for aircraft of different purposes. This is stated in the materials of the PCB dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the enterprise and available to TASS.

"Contain and win" - the chief of Staff of the US Navy, Admiral Michael Gilday, presented a "Navigation Plan" for the next decade. The main thing in the document is that the American fleet should dominate the world's oceans. The goal of global control is a quiet and well-fed life for Americans at home. However, the text clearly shows undisguised aggression against other countries. What the admirals from Washington are up to-in the material of RIA Novosti.

In the next ten years, companies of growing military-industrial powers will increasingly compete with Russian and Western companies that previously contributed to their development, experts from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) write in an article for the American edition of Defense News.

In connection with the holding of the "West" exercises in Russia this fall, NATO will have to closely monitor the military activities of its eastern neighbor in the Baltic region, said General Tod Walters, Commander-in-Chief of the NATO Joint Armed Forces in Europe(SACEUR).

Turkey will hold large-scale military exercises in Kars from February 1 to 12, and the Azerbaijani military will also take part in them, the Turkish newspaper Haberturk reports.

A military parade in honor of the end of the VIII Congress of the Workers ' Party of Korea was held on the evening of January 14, 2021 in Pyongyang with the participation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. This was reported by the Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA).

New drones will be delivered to Ground Forces units.

From this year, mass delivery of drones-quadrocopters for the army will begin. Small and light vehicles will help troops in performing combat and everyday tasks.

Long-range fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM placed on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya for combat duty in the Arctic, the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF) on Saturday.

As reported on January 15, 2021, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, for the first time in the history of Russia, six AN-124-100 Ruslan military transport aircraft took to the sky at the same time. In the Bryansk region, the first joint training flights of the crews of the Seshchinsky [566th military transport] and Tver [196th Guards Military transport] aviation regiments were conducted this year with the participation of six strategic military transport aircraft AN-124-100 "Ruslan"at the same time.

Two of the three Chinese Il-78 refueling aircraft purchased earlier in Ukraine and transferred in 2014-2016 arrived in Russia for repairs.

The Malian Air Force received a Russian-made Mi-35M multi-purpose attack helicopter as part of a four-vehicle delivery order placed in 2016.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the US Department of Commerce has added the Chinese company Skyrizon, which invested in shares of the Ukrainian manufacturer of aircraft engines "Motor Sich", to the list of "military end users" (MEU), first formed at the end of last year and included 58 Chinese and 45 Russian companies.

The expert commented on the program report of the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force

The Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, General Charles Brown, published a report of a programmatic nature, the main content of which is reduced to how to prepare American aviation for the upcoming combat operations. Military observer " Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok analyzed the theses of the American military leader and tells us what kind of future the American aviation is striving for and what it is fraught with for Russia.

Drones from terrorist hunters can turn into rocket hunters

American winged "predators" - first reconnaissance and strike drones MQ-1 " Predeytor "(Predator, translated from English – "Predator"), and now MQ-9 " Reaper "(Reaper; translated – "Reaper", that is, "collector of souls") – gradually capture all new habitats in Eastern Europe, in the immediate vicinity of the borders of Russia.

In August 2020, the Air Force (Air Force) The US has been exploring possible ways to use low-profile strategic bombers, in particular the B-2 Spirit, to deliver a "deep strike on an enemy target" likely related to Russia or China. Details of the held and planned military exercises are revealed by The Drive.

Moscow decided to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty (DON) because of the imbalance caused by the termination of participation in the agreement of the United States - NATO countries could continue monitoring Russia, and the territory of the alliance leader was closed from observation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Soyuz-2.1 v quarrels with the creators of space engines

Despite the successful completion of the Soyuz-2.1 v flight and design tests, this light-class launch vehicle did not perform a single launch last year. The situation is aggravated by the struggle between UEC-Kuznetsov and PNO Energomash for orders of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the main engine of the first stage.

OneWeb has raised $ 400 million from SoftBank and Hughes Network Systems: this will allow the company to continue deploying the satellite constellation.

The Network has published a video showing for the first time the use of the Russian system "Illuminator" in Syria against militants of illegal armed groups.

A 2020 report from the Pentagon's Office of Testing and Evaluation claims that the AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), an air-to-ground missile likely used to assassinate Iranian General Qasem Suleimani, will be tested in the Arctic. This is reported by The Drive.