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The Ministry of Defense of Morocco plans to purchase two new maritime patrol aircraft after completing an appropriate assessment of the equipment available on the international market in the coming months.

The project developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which introduces a point system for evaluating equipment for inclusion in the register of Russian radio-electronic products and a delay until 2024 for the mandatory use of domestic processors, contradicts the Doctrine of Information security, as well as the Strategy for the development of the electronic industry until 2030, said in a letter from the General director of the ICST Alexander Kim, writes RBC.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state Yair Lapid explained that NASA had offered Israel "to sign an international treaty on the study of the Moon and Mars, as well as comets and asteroids"

The Israeli government and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA are preparing to sign the so-called "Artemis Agreements" on joint space exploration, in particular the Moon and Mars, as well as asteroids and comets. This was announced on Sunday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state Yair Lapid.

The North Atlantic Alliance will not respond to calls in the Russian Federation to withdraw its troops from countries that have joined NATO since 1997, since there cannot be "second-class" members, said the organization's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

One of the contenders for a promising rifle of the American army went on free sale. On January 16, SIG Sauer announced the start of sales of the MCX-SPEAR carbine, a civilian version of the rifle participating in the NGSW tender.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has approved the idea of a joint exercise of the Belarusian and Russian armed forces, it will be called "Allied Resolve-2022", the Telegram channel "Pool of the First", close to the press service of the head of state, reported.

For a long time, the basis of the armored fleet of the Pakistani army was made up of American and Chinese-made tanks. For example, in the 90s, the troops had more than three and a half hundred M48A5 Patton III and 1200 Chinese clones of the Soviet T-54A - Tour 59 and 250 more advanced Type 69-II.

On January 6, the French company Dassault Aviation published preliminary results for 2021. As noted, 55 aircraft were delivered to customers in 2021, compared with 47 units a year earlier.

The purpose of checking the reaction forces of the Union State is to assess readiness to neutralize threats at the borders, the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The launch of the Soyuz-ST-B launch vehicle is scheduled for February 10

More than 30 British OneWeb communications satellites have been delivered to the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana as part of their preparations for launch on the Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket on February 10. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Monday.

Specialists of the analytical company IC Insights claim that in 2021, the share of semiconductor products in the cost of electronic systems last year reached 33.2%. This is a record value. The previous record was set in 2018.

NATO intends to integrate outer space into the Alliance's collective security and defense system together with cyberspace, as well as the sea, air and land environment

NATO has decided to extend the principles of collective defense to outer space, including the application of the fifth article of the Washington Treaty, including a collective military response to an attack on one of the alliance countries.

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Ukrainian satellite Sich-2-30

The SpaceX company of entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday, January 13, launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral (Florida) with 105 satellites from 20 countries, including the Ukrainian Sich-2-30. The broadcast was carried out on the company's Twitter account.

On board the spacecraft were the Pentagon communications technology verification satellites, two nanosatellites of the Polish company SatRevolution and the apparatus of the American company Spire

The American company Virgin Orbit on Thursday, using its LauncherOne air launch vehicle, launched a number of military and civilian satellites into near-Earth orbit. This was announced on Thursday by the company's press service.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation summed up the preliminary results of its activities in 2021. As noted, the corporation's enterprises handed over almost two dozen ships and vessels to customers.

NATO is artificially luring Ukraine and Scandinavian countries into its ranks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Lavrov called NATO's one-sided interpretation of its non-expansion political commitments "unacceptable and flawed."

In 2022, 67 events are planned to be held on the basis of the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center, of which more than 50 will take place within the framework of the state task.

In 2022, the Polish armed forces, despite the expectation of the start of deliveries of American M1A2 SEP v3 Abrams tanks, will continue to modernize the old T-72M/M1. This technique was produced in the country under a Soviet license back in the days of the Warsaw Pact.

The Lithuanian Government has decided to accelerate the planned purchase of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). Explaining this decision, the Cabinet referred, as it has already become a practice, to the "mythical" build-up of Russia's military power on the border with Ukraine.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization will conduct three stages of the operation to combat drug trafficking near the border with Afghanistan this year, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said.