Cooperation news

Australia will receive the latest version of the American tank Abrams. December 19, portal armyrecognition.com He reported that the Australian government approved the purchase of 75 combat vehicles as part of the LAND 907 Phase 2 project.

Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton has announced plans to purchase up to 40 UH-60M Black Hawk multipurpose helicopters from Sikorsky to replace the fleet of existing MRH-90 Taipan produced by NH Industry.

The Border Service of the State National Security Committee of Kyrgyzstan has accepted the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles purchased from the Turkish company Baykar Defense.

Enterprises of the military-industrial complex should receive support in terms of production diversification. This was stated by the president at a meeting in the Kremlin with the head of Promsvyazbank, Pyotr Fradkov. Diversification will increase their technological capabilities, which means that it will improve the work on the main line.

Ukraine may purchase Harpoon anti-ship missiles from the United States. This was announced on Monday, December 20, in an interview with the UNIAN news agency by the commander of the country's Navy, Rear Admiral Alexei Neizhpapa.

Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace AS (Kongsberg) has announced the signing of a contract with the Defense Procurement and Technology Agency Armasuisse for the supply of additional remotely controlled RS4 armament modules of the Protector family for the Swiss Armed Forces.

It is not enough just to cooperate, you also need to know the peculiarity of the local mentality. This is the opinion of Romanian Defense Minister Vasile Dyncu, who explained the long-term theft of fuel at the American military base.

New Chinese-made VT-5 tanks were unable to take part in the military parade on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence. The first batch of these combat vehicles was manufactured at the end of November. But even if they managed to be transferred to the buyer's territory, the crews, apparently, did not have time to master the equipment enough to drive it in a parade formation.

According to Bob Dempsey, acting deputy head of the American research program on board the ISS, it often happens that American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts on board the station regularly "exchange equipment" for scientific experiments.

Roscosmos and NASA have reached preliminary agreements on the cross-flight program, the American side is awaiting approval from the Russian government, said Joel Montalbano, head of NASA's ISS program.

The Peruvian authorities have begun the process of imposing penalties for disrupting the delivery of the AN-178 transport aircraft by Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Infodefensa publication.

On December 14, a BTA C-130H Hercules aircraft, donated to the Romanian Air Force by the US government, landed at the Aurel Vlaicu Bucharest Banyasa International Airport.

On December 16, a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the XXI competition for the annual National award "Golden Idea" in the field of military-technical cooperation took place at the Patriot Exhibition Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

19FortyFive: Finland's purchase of the F-35 will deter Russia from invading Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Finland has decided to purchase fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters manufactured in the United States because of the danger emanating from Russia, explains the reasons for the deal between Helsinki and Washington, the American publication 19FortyFive.

Roscosmos and NASA have not yet come to a final agreement on the date of the resumption of flights of American astronauts on Soyuz within the framework of the cross program, Sergei Krikalev, executive director of the state Corporation for manned programs, told Interfax.

The decision to resume flights of European astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft within the framework of the cross-program will be made by the American side, the executive director of Roscosmos for manned programs Sergey Krikalev told Interfax.

Roscosmos and NASA have not yet approved Anna Kikina's candidacy as the first representative of Russia to the crew of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, Sergei Krikalev, executive director of the state Corporation for Manned Programs, told Interfax.

The share of Russian machines accounted for 4% of the global fleet of aircraft of this type

The Russian Il-78 took the sixth place in the ranking of the ten most popular tanker aircraft in the world, compiled by the leading profile magazine Flight Global. The top 10 is published in the directory World Air Forces 2022, available to TASS.

Moscow does not intend to sell weapons to the new Afghan authorities, all talk about such a possibility is nonsense. This was stated on Friday, December 17, in an interview with the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, Director of the Second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov.

Two non-professional participants of the flight are currently on board the ISS - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov did not rule out that he could become the next pilot to fly into orbit with space tourists.