Cooperation news

On September 16, a 25-year-old record for the number of people in space at the same time can be broken, cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov told RIA Novosti. According to him, after the launch of the SpaceX Inspiration4 charity mission, 14 people from the United States, China, Russia, France and Japan may be in low-Earth orbit at once.

The German promising diesel-electric submarines of the Type-212CD class will differ significantly from the submarines of the Type-212A class currently in service. The details of the project were shared in the developer company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

The Ukrainian state Enterprise Antonov plans to complete the import substitution of the An-178 aircraft by the end of the year. By this time, the aircraft will lose Russian-made components. This is reported by Defense Express with reference to an interview with the Deputy General Director of the State Enterprise Alexander Vitushko.

The Italian company Leonardo Helicopters has delivered the first of two AW-189 VIP helicopters ordered for the Presidential Air Fleet of the Nigerian Air Force.

The Czech army will be armed with new self-propelled guns. September 14, portal defbrief.com It was reported that the Czech government officially approved the purchase of Caesar self-propelled howitzers from the French company Nexter.

The closing ceremony was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region

The closing ceremony of the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021" was held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The United Engine Corporation has opened a service center on the territory of the training base of the Russian Aerospace Forces for the maintenance of AI-222-25 engines, which are installed on Yak-130 combat training aircraft.

Roscosmos plans to launch three rockets with OneWeb satellites from different cosmodromes by the end of 2021, the head of the press service of Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said.

A military expert, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin, on Wednesday, September 15, commented to Izvestia on the information that Ukraine can receive two tactical anti-missile defense systems (ABM) "Iron Dome"from the United States.

A mock-up of the Rosalind Franklin rover of the Russian-European ExoMars-2022 mission extracted soil from a depth of 1.7 meters during tests, Roscosmos reported, citing materials from the European Space Agency (ESA).

The White House did not confirm the reports of the American press that the United States could allegedly supply Ukraine with an Iron Dome missile defense system. This was stated on September 15 during a briefing by a representative of the US administration, Jennifer Psaki.

The Ministry of Defense noted that the crews of the VKS were approaching the area of responsibility of the air defense units of the ZVO from different directions, at different altitudes and speeds

More than 50 aircraft and helicopters of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) checked the work of the air defense forces on duty in the Western Military District (ZVO) at the joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus "West-2021". This was reported on Tuesday in the Russian Defense Ministry.

There is no political tension around the plans to create a Russian military base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, but there are some circumstances that delay the work, a senior source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

On September 12, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly confirmed on her Twitter page that an agreement had been reached with Greece on the additional supply of six Rafale multi-purpose fighters.

In 2021-22, Ukraine plans to purchase four more complexes of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones (24 unmanned aerial vehicles), the commander-in-Chief of the country's Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Valery Zaluzhny, said in an interview with the Eastern European bureau of Report.

Joint command and staff exercises "Unbreakable Stability" have begun in Odessa with NATO, the purpose of which is to "counter hybrid threats" to critical infrastructure in the Black Sea region.

Following the meeting with Vladimir Putin, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko spoke about 28 cooperation programs. Among them, Minsk has ordered weapons worth more than a billion dollars: planes, helicopters, Tor-M2 anti-aircraft systems, and other equipment.

On September 10, the US Defense Ministry announced the signing of an agreement for the supply of AGM-114 Hellfire ATGM and corresponding containers for the US military and foreign customers by the command for concluding contracts with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.

India is opening an "umbrella" against supersonic missiles. September 13, portal savunmasanayist.com He reported that the Indian Air Force has adopted the Barak-8 mobile anti-aircraft missile system (SAM), also known as MRSAM, developed jointly with Israel.

Comac Corporation has almost assembled the first C919 airliner that will be used for commercial flights. Soon it will be delivered to the customer-China Eastern Airlines.