Cooperation news

Virgin Orbit launched the LauncherOne rocket. Seven spacecraft were put into orbit for different operators.

At the military-technical forum "Army-2021", which will be held in August this year at the Vostochny airfield in Ulan-Ude, residents and guests of the city will be shown new mine detectors "Korshun" and protective suits "Sokol".

The Turkish company BMC has signed a contract for the supply of 46 new armored vehicles with reinforced mine protection "Bricks" with a 4x4 wheel formula to Tunisia, Anadolu agency reports.

Rosoboronexport, part of Rostec, will demonstrate the latest Il-112B and Il-114-300 transport aircraft at the International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS-2021). This was reported on Tuesday, June 29, in the press service of the company.

On Tuesday, two-day exercises of the air forces of NATO countries and their partners Ramstein Alloy started in the airspace of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the main purpose of which is to test the security of the Baltic airspace.

Leonardo Group reported on the ceremony of the adoption of the new HH-139B helicopter by the Italian Air Force, held at the enterprise in Vergata (Italy) in the presence of Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini and Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force General Alberto Rosso.

Self-propelled artillery installations 2S3M "Acacia" of the Belarusian army will undergo major repairs at the Ural plant of transport engineering of the Uralvagonzavod concern.

According to Rostec, this information was announced at the 10th International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021, which was recently held in Minsk.

Russia is making up for lost time in the market of combat unmanned aircraft. On June 28, the Izvestia newspaper reported that Rosoboronexport began promoting its first export attack drone Orion-E to the world weapons market.

The General Directorate of Armaments (Direction Générale de l'Armement - DGA) of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of France announced in messages on June 24 and 25, 2021, that on June 1 it issued a contract to the French Nexter group for the repair and serial modernization of the first 50 Leclerc tanks of the French army according to the Leclerc XLR variant (out of 200 planned).

A major US-Ukrainian naval exercise Sea Breeze 2021 will start in the Black Sea on Monday, according to the US Navy.

At the beginning of the noughties, Ukrainian gunsmiths offered foreign customers a combat vehicle that looks very much like the Russian T-90S of the first releases.

Russia has begun to promote its first export attack drone "Orion-E" to the world weapons market, the first applications for the drone have been received from customers, a source in the defense industry complex told RIA Novosti.

On June 24, Northrop Grumman Corporation announced the start of flight tests of the second high-altitude UAV of long duration flight RQ-4B "Global Hawk", intended for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

JSC "Concern of East Kazakhstan Region" Almaz-Antey " and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus at the exhibition "MILEX-2021" approved a cooperation scheme for the repair of combat vehicles from the "Tor-M2K" air defense system in the interests of the Belarusian military department.

As reported by TSAMTO, commenting on the conclusion of the contract for the supply of the third BTA C-295 aircraft from Thailand, representatives of Airbus Defense and Space reported that it follows the recently signed agreement for the supply of three aircraft of this type to an unnamed customer in the Asia-Pacific region.

On Monday, a joint tactical exercise with live firing "Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - 2021"began in Azerbaijan together with Turkish servicemen.

The US State Department has approved the potential supply of AGM-84L-1 "Harpoon" Block anti-ship missiles to the Philippines as part of the "Foreign Military Sales" program.2 and related equipment.

Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant (VOMZ) will fulfill the contract by the end of 2021 and provide the Kalashnikov concern with a batch of updated collimator sights, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

Kazakhstan will purchase modern short-range anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor-M2K". This was announced on Monday, June 28, by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic.

The US Defense Ministry promised to "adhere to full transparency" regarding operations in the Black Sea

The multinational military exercises Sea Breeze-2021, which will be held on the territory of Ukraine and in the Black Sea from June 28 to July 10, will comply with international law. This statement was made on Thursday at a regular briefing by the press secretary of the US Department of Defense, John Kirby.