Cooperation news

France will supply the UAE Air Force and air defense with Rafale F4 fighters, H-225M Karakal helicopters and ammunition worth about 16 billion. euro ($18 billion).

Ankara is counting on cooperation with the Russian Federation on the national fighter development program. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the head of the Directorate of the Defense Industry of Turkey, Ismail Demir.

"I am glad that a number of agreements, contracts, protocols on small arms and military cooperation have been signed," Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh commented on Twitter on the results of a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in New Delhi on Monday.

The new Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov called on Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to jointly and quickly provide military support to Ukraine.

Egypt is negotiating with the Republic of Korea within the framework of the licensed production project of the K-2 Black Panther MBT and the K-9 Thunder ACS. As reported by Defensa.com Speaking to the Egyptian media at the EDEX 2021 exhibition, Jeff Sing, Director of Public Relations at the South Korean company Hanwha Techwin, stressed that the company is ready to provide the Egyptian side with all the specifications of the proposed weapons.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov proposed to send 500 military instructors from Canada to the country. The head of the Defense Ministry said this on December 5 in an interview with the Canadian edition of The Globe and Mail.

The Minister added at the same time that Russian-Indian relations have a special character of a privileged strategic partnership

The implementation of the deal on the supply of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to India is going according to plan, despite US attempts to undermine cooperation between Moscow and New Delhi in this area. This was stated to journalists on Monday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following talks with Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar and Russian-Indian consultations in the "2+2" format between the defense and foreign ministers of the two countries.

The detachment of ships of the Russian Navy includes the frigate Admiral Grigorovich with a Ka-27PS helicopter on board, the patrol ship Dmitry Rogachev and the rescue tug SB-742

The crews of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia and the Egyptian Navy have started the three-day maritime phase of the joint exercises "Friendship Bridge - 2021" in the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Monday.

By the end of the year, Norway will write off the last F-16 and completely switch to 5th generation fighters. The first buyer of the decommissioned aircraft was the American company Draken International.

The leadership of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) refuted the conclusions of experts from the SIPRI Institute about the decline in Russian arms exports.

The data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on the decline in Russian arms sales are not true. On Monday, December 6, military expert Andrei Frolov told Izvestia.

The US Department of Defense announced the signing by the command for the conclusion of contracts of the US Army with General Dynamics Land Systems of an agreement for logistical support under the program "Foreign Military Sales" of the M1A1 MBT and M88A1/A2 BRAM fleet of the Iraqi Armed Forces.

Ukraine should act cautiously and diplomatically, and an increase in the number of troops on the territory of the country will irritate Russia. This opinion was expressed on Monday, December 6, by the Chief of the Canadian Defense Staff Wayne Airy.

Specialists received fragments weighing about 0.5 grams for further study

Japan handed over to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) samples of the Ryugu asteroid, which were brought to Earth using the Hayabusa-2 probe (Sokol-2) a year ago. This was reported on Monday by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan Baubek Oralmagambetov said that the Kazakh side is analyzing the prospects for the development of the complex.

The Minister of Economy, Finance and Reconstruction of France, Bruno Le Maire, pointed to large public investments in an American company that allowed them to make a breakthrough in the development of technology.

On December 8, a meeting of the Military Committee on the Development of Military Cooperation of the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held. This was reported in the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The state corporation explained that all calculations are given in dollars, but the main volume of domestic defense industry products is the state defense order, where calculations are made in rubles

Conclusions of experts from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) The decline in sales of Russian weapons on the world market cannot serve as an objective source of information.

According to Dmitry Shugaev, the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research uses only open data that is not complete

The methodology of the analysis of the global arms market used by the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI) does not reflect the real situation. Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), told reporters about this, commenting on the SIPRI report released on Monday, according to which sales volumes of Russian arms manufacturers are falling.

Russia and India have signed an agreement on a program of military-technical cooperation from 2021 to 2031. This was announced on Monday, December 6, by the Kremlin's press service.