Cooperation news

On December 5, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin showed a "two-way" Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket in his Telegram channel.

The POLARIS 21 exercises of six NATO member countries ended in the Mediterranean Sea area, becoming one of the largest naval maneuvers in history, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

The refusal of the United States, Great Britain and Australia to provide detailed information about the AUKUS union is not normal, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.

Ukraine intends to take part in an international project to return a man to the moon. This was stated by the head of the country's State Space Agency, Vladimir Taftai, in an interview with the Ukrinform agency, RIA Novosti reports.

The opening ceremony of the first joint naval exercises of Russia and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ARNEX-2021 was held at the naval base in the port of Belavan (Indonesia), the Pacific Fleet reported on Thursday.

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Panteleev has arrived in Indonesia to participate in the first joint naval exercise of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Russian Navy ARNEX-2021, the Information Support Department of the Pacific Fleet reported on December 2.

Presented this year at the defense industry exhibition "Army-2021" in Moscow, the guided missile "product 305E", originally developed for FSB helicopters, is capable of hitting targets at a distance of about 15 kilometers, which will make it attractive to foreign buyers, writes Defence24.

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

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) will take part in the Russian-Egyptian naval exercises "Friendship Bridge - 2021", for which Russian ships will enter the port of Alexandria on December 3, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Thursday.

The Ukrainian satellite of remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30" has been tested. Specialists of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (KB) have prepared the device for shipment to Cape Canaveral in the USA, where the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle will take place. This is reported by the information and consulting agency Defense Express.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) is completing the transition to the Egyptian port of Alexandria to participate in the joint Russian-Egyptian naval exercises "Friendship Bridge-2021", the press service of the fleet told reporters on Thursday.

The Command of the Burkina Faso Air Force has accepted the C-295W military transport aircraft ordered from Airbus Defense and Space in 2019.

Belarus needs Russian S-400 or S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems for effective protection against a missile attack, President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Indian media, India and the Philippines are negotiating the possibility of supplying at least seven advanced light helicopters (ALH) "Dhruv" and eight Do-228 aircraft of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).

The Australian Navy has completed the procedure for transferring two Adelaide-class air defense frigates to the Chilean Navy, FFG-11 Captain Prat (formerly named FFG-06 Newcastle) and FFG-14 Almirante Latorre (formerly FFG-05 Melbourne) under the contract from 2019.

Russia is making a serious contribution to strengthening Serbia's defense capability, and bilateral military and military-technical cooperation is expanding, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

Serbia is buying new Pantsir air defense systems from Russia. This was announced on Thursday, December 2, during talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.

Russia is ready to mass-produce anti-aircraft Tigers. On December 1, the TASS news agency reported that the Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering (KBM) has prepared for serial production the first Russian air defense system (air defense) of short/ultra-short range type VSHORAD (Very Short-Range Air Defense) "Flexible-S".

Last Wednesday, the 120th Separate Guards mechanized brigade of the Belarusian army hosted the presentation of armored personnel carriers BTR-82A. This is reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

The equipment was received by the personnel of the 339th separate motorized rifle battalion. The event was held in a solemn atmosphere, under the combat banner of the unit and during the general formation of personnel.

On December 2, Alexander Mikheev, General Director of Rosoboronexport JSC, a member of Rostec State Corporation, Deputy Chairman of SOYUZMASH of Russia, held a meeting of the Committee for the Development of Foreign Trade Activities in relation to military Products of SOYUZMASH of Russia headed by him.

On November 29, the US Department of Defense announced the signing of an additional contract by the US Air Force Command with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) as part of the delivery of the MQ-9 Reaper UAV version Block.5 for the Netherlands Air Force.