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The Yak-130 and Su-25 aircraft provided aviation support to the units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus involved in the inspection

The Defense Ministers of Russia and Belarus, Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Khrenin, observed the stage of working out combat training tasks as part of the verification of the reaction forces of the Union State.

Russia highly appreciates Belarus' determination to resist the destructive line of the West and readiness to form a single defense space within the borders of the Union State, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Thursday. "You can always count on our firm support in this," he added.

Aircraft of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia and the Belarusian Air Force, during joint exercises, launched a missile attack on a conditional enemy whose forces were stationed at the Brest training ground. This was reported in the Russian military department.

Belarus can count on Russia's firm support in striving to form a unified defense space within the borders of the Union State.

A total of seven OneWeb satellite launches are planned for 2022

The launch of the Russian Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with 34 OneWeb satellites from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana will take place on the evening of February 10. The corresponding information was published on Thursday by the space launch operator Arianespace.

The Kazakh authorities plan to open a permanent representative office of the republic to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Moscow.

According to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) of the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea, on February 1, 2022, with its participation, the South Korean company Hanwha Defense (the defense division of the Hanwha Group) signed a contract in Cairo with the Egyptian Ministry of Defense for the supply and joint production in Egypt of South Korean 155-mm/52 self-propelled howitzers K9 Thunder. The contract value is more than 2 trillion won ($1.65 billion).

The troops of the Eastern Military District and the Armed Forces of Belarus have begun combat coordination at Belarusian training grounds as part of the first stage of testing the reaction forces of the Union State. This was announced on Wednesday, February 2, by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Deliveries of Russian S-400 air defense systems are an internal matter of Turkey, they do not bear a negative attitude towards NATO. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Poland adopted a resolution on the transfer of Polish-made MANPADS "Perun" to Ukraine. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the Minister of National Defense of the Republic Mariusz Blaszczak.

India has announced a defense budget for 2022/23 fiscal year in the amount of 5.252 trillion. Indian rupees (about $70.0 billion), which in nominal terms is 9.8% more than the approved budget of 2021/22 f.g. and 4.4% more than the revised budget of 2021/22 f.g.

Four dozen special armored vehicles SBM VPK-233136 "Tiger", painted in sand camouflage, are ready for shipment to a foreign customer.

As reported on the page of LLC "Military Industrial Company" on Instagram, these versions of the special vehicle are made with the right handlebar and do not belong to military products.

a Memorandum of cooperation with the "Glavkosmos" and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. will be valid until the end of 2026

"Glavkosmos" (part of Roscosmos) and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. signed a Memorandum of cooperation, which involves the creation of satellite remote sensing (RS) "Bangabandhu-2" in the interests of the Republic. This is stated in the company's message, distributed on Wednesday.

The development of industry, science and the education system are the key to the defense capability of the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said.

In the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates, heavy infantry fighting vehicles could appear, created on the chassis of the main battle tank OF-40 using a turret from the Russian BMP-3.

The decision on the transfer of Piorun portable air defense missile systems by the Polish military department was enthusiastically welcomed in Ukraine. Various Ukrainian experts and analysts thank Warsaw for such a generous gift in the form of "the latest MANPADS", allegedly surpassing even the American FIM-92 Stinger.

At the same time, not everything is clear with these weapons: in 2018, a scandal broke out in Poland when the results of tests of these military air defense systems became known.

The Military Industrial Complex has prepared a right-hand drive version of the Tiger armored car for a foreign customer

In Russia, a special version of the SBM MIC-233136 Tiger armored car with right-hand drive was shown. A batch of right-hand drive cars was prepared for shipment to a foreign customer. This was reported on the Instagram account of the "Military Industrial Company" (MIC).

In the second half of 2022, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold joint exercises in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

The American Falcon 9 heavy rocket on Tuesday, Moscow time, launched into orbit with the Italian COSMO-SkyMed radar surveillance satellite (CSG-2), the carrier developer SpaceX announced.

US President Joe Biden sent a letter to Congress in which he notified of his intention to assign Qatar the status of a "major non-NATO ally."