Cooperation news

The F-35 Program Office has signed a new contract with Lockheed Martin for servicing fifth-generation F-35 Lighting II fighter-bombers. Under the terms of the agreement, the cost of flights of aircraft in service with the US Armed Forces will be reduced by the fiscal year 2023. This is reported by the FlightGlobal portal.

The head of the European Commission said that the European Union needs its own armed forces after the defeat of NATO in Afghanistan. According to Ursula von der Leyen, it is important to build cooperation with neighboring countries and regional forces today. Turkey — a NATO member, but not an EU member, fits perfectly into this strategy, the author believes.

Europe has announced a reduction in dependence on microelectronics suppliers from the United States and Southeast Asia, Reuters reported on Wednesday-the European Commission intends to create its own ecosystem of chip production.

As noted in Roscosmos, all devices are accepted for communication by the customer

More than 30 British OneWeb communication satellites have been successfully launched into orbit. This is stated in the message of Roscosmos, distributed on Wednesday.

The military delegation of Kazakhstan has arrived in Dushanbe to participate in a joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Councils, the press service of the Kazakh Defense Ministry reported.

The barrel artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus destroyed the strongholds and critical objects of the conditional enemy on the territory of the Obuz-Lesnovsky combined arms range during the active phase of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the two countries "West-2021", the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.

On September 13, the Czech government approved the purchase of 52 units of 155-mm CAESAR self-propelled howitzers from the French company Nexter Systems, placed on the Tatra chassis.

As US Vice President Kamala Harris stated during a recent visit to Hanoi, the Biden administration approved the request of the Vietnamese Coast Guard for the transfer of the third Hamilton-class patrol boat.

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.