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The Republic of Korea showed a tank based on the K21 BMP, which will be offered to India

Hanhwa Defense Company showed a light K21-105 car. A tank based on the K21 infantry fighting Vehicle (BMP) will be offered to India. The development from South Korea will become a competitor to the Russian tank "Octopus-SDM1". This is reported by Janes.

Foreign Minister of the Republic Peter Szijjarto said that the topic of "joint space exploration project" will be discussed during the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Russia on February 1

Hungary expects to send an astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) by the middle of the decade as part of cooperation with Russia. This was stated in an interview with TASS by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Peter Szijjarto.

The new Russian ambassador to the CAR, Alexander Bikantov, speaking about possible deliveries of small arms to the country, said that they would depend on bilateral agreements.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi on January 19 at talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to agree on a plan for strategic cooperation.

The United States may approve Turkey's request for the purchase of F-16 fighter jets in order to strengthen a NATO ally on the Black Sea. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was reported by CNN-Turk with reference to its sources in the United States.

According to information published on January 17 by the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post, the Israeli government may soon sign a contract for the purchase of an additional three Dolphin-class submarines in Germany.

The Agency for the Sale of Military Equipment (DESA) of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom offers interested customers to purchase AWACS E-3D "Sentry" AEW.Mk1 aircraft, decommissioned by the country's Air Force in September 2021.

In the future, a detachment of Russian ships will move to the Mediterranean Sea, where, together with the forces of the Northern and Baltic fleets, they will take part in the exercise

The most distinguished employees of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec Group) were awarded by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation for their great contribution to the development of military-technical cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign countries and many years of conscientious work.

Roscosmos: NASA astronaut Rubio may fly to Soyuz MS in September 2022

Francisco Rubio may become the only American astronaut who will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft in 2022. The name of the NASA astronaut was called "Roscosmos".

On Thursday, January 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov signed the Convention on the International Organization for Maritime Navigation Equipment on behalf of the Russian Federation. The ceremony was held at the residence and in the presence of the French Ambassador to our country Pierre Levy.

According to preliminary estimates by J'son & Partners Consulting, the volume of the Russian Internet of Things market in 2021 reached 93.5 billion rubles. Compared to 2020, the number of connected devices increased by 16%, to 29.6 million units. Russia accounts for only 1.2-1.5% of the installed global base of IoT devices. 

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet went on a long voyage from Vladivostok a few days before the onset of 2022

Warships of Russia, Iran and China will take part in joint naval exercises. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) for the Pacific Fleet.

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina stated the importance of further dialogue between Ukraine and NATO during a meeting with the appointed head of the representative office Karen McTeer, the press service of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister reported.

Canada has heard Ukraine's request for the supply of military equipment and will make a decision on time, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.

In early February, the Ukrainian Air Force will receive from the United States the first three Mi-17V-5 helicopters, previously owned by the Afghan Air Force. It is reported that these rotorcraft are currently on board a civilian cargo ship traveling from the Mexican port of Veracruz to the Ukrainian Odessa.

The US command does not intend to send additional forces to Ukraine, where at the moment the functions of instructors are performed by employees of the Florida National Guard, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.

He called the ships that Russia sent to Iran "serious"

The naval exercises that Russia, Iran and China are planning to hold may be a response to the complex geopolitical situation in the world, retired Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, former chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, told Interfax on Tuesday.

A senior representative of the US State Department told reporters that the US considers the relocation of Russian military to Belarus as a possible preparation for the invasion of Ukraine.

Issues of development of Tajik-Turkish cooperation in the field of defense were discussed in Ankara at a meeting of the Ambassador of Tajikistan to Turkey Ashrafjon Gulov with the Minister of National Defense of the host country Hulusi Akram, the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan reported on Wednesday.