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Defense News: Turkish TF-X fighter jet will receive F110 engine and technology from Russia

The Turkish Fighter X (TF-X) will receive an American F110 turbofan engine and Russian technologies, Defense News reports. The publication of the publication drew the attention of the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Annalenna Berbock discussed measures that both countries will take if Russia takes hostile actions against Ukraine, the State Department reported on Saturday.

There were six tourists on board

The New Shepard spacecraft of Blue Origin with six tourists on board made a surorbital flight on Saturday. The journey, broadcast on the company's website, lasted a total of more than ten minutes, after which the capsule with passengers descended to Earth.

The department noted that this information is official and is not subject to disclosure.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has classified information about the use of Turkish Bayraktar attack drones and American Javelin missile systems in the Donbass.

Ukraine's ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk believes that Kiev should not expect arms supplies from Berlin under the new Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Melnik was asked whether it was worth waiting for the new government of Germany to cancel the blocking of supplies of anti-drone rifles to Ukraine.

Australia will replace European MRH 90 Taipan helicopters with American Black Hawk

Australia will abandon the operation of European MRH 90 Taipan helicopters developed by Eurocopter. Canberra will replace the MRH 90 with American Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. This is reported by Defense News.

The Ukrainian-Turkish plant, which is being built in Vasylkiv (Kiev region), will produce ANKA-type jet drones - the next generation of UAVs after Bayraktar, the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the situation in Donbass, Alexey Arestovich, said on Saturday during an interview with Radio Liberty (recognized in the Russian media as a foreign agent).

In the Kiev region, a Ukrainian-Turkish plant under construction will begin production of a new generation of jet unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of countering other aerial objects.

The Association of Russian Software Manufacturers RUSSOFT on Thursday presented the document "Export of the Russian software development industry. The eighteenth annual study", which provides a variety of information about the state of the domestic software industry, including "the volume of foreign sales".

The Polish army will soon receive 300 used wheeled armored vehicles from the United States with enhanced mine protection. This was stated on Twitter by the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.

The launch was postponed to December 11

TASS, December 8. The American company Blue Origin postponed the launch of the New Shepard spacecraft with space tourists from December 9 to December 11 due to adverse weather conditions. The company announced this on its Twitter page on Wednesday.

The cost of registration of services for visiting the Vostochny cosmodrome is less than 10 thousand rubles for adult citizens of the Russian Federation, for a child - less than 5 thousand, Roscosmos reported.

The United States will send small arms and ammunition to Ukraine this week. This will be the last batch of military aid that is planned for the current year, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on December 8.

US President Joe Biden advocates a long-term American military presence in Europe. This was stated on Wednesday, December 8, assistant to the head of the White House for National Security Jake Sullivan.

The United Kingdom and Denmark have agreed to strengthen cooperation in case Russia needs to be contained.

Nigeria offers Russia to create a working group whose task will be to work out issues on possible arms supplies, this issue is being discussed.

According to the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, on December 7, the Kuwaiti Air Force received the first batch of two Typhoon fighters produced by the Italian Leonardo group.

The Russian Federation cannot supply the Be-200 amphibious aircraft to the United States because of the issue of engine certification, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

Germany is contributing over €400 million to the NATO joint budget this year for the first time in more than a decade.

This is stated in the response of the German Defense Ministry to the corresponding request of the Bundestag deputy from the Left Party Sevim Dagdelen, which is available to the DPA agency.

This creates prerequisites for the spread of nuclear technologies by creating a nuclear submarine fleet in Australia, Valery Gerasimov noted

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov called the creation of the AUKUS unit a destabilizing factor in the Asia-Pacific region (APR), as it creates prerequisites for the proliferation of nuclear technologies through the creation of a nuclear submarine fleet in Australia.