Cooperation news

The Council of the European Union reaffirmed its determination to move forward with the establishment of its own security and defence system.

The Bulgarian Defense Ministry reported that the military units passing through the transit will be escorted by the military police

More than 400 high-readiness NATO Joint Forces personnel, along with the necessary combat and support equipment, will be deployed from Turkey and Albania to Romania via Bulgaria during Monday and Tuesday to participate in the Steadfast Defender - 21 exercise.

Earlier, Moscow and Beijing signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in this area

The US authorities intend to closely monitor the plans of the Russian Federation and China to create an International Scientific lunar station. This was announced on Wednesday by the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Hill.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced his intention to talk with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken about the supply of American-made weapons to Kiev, including air defense systems and anti-sniper technologies. He said this in an interview with CNN, published on Wednesday, May 5.

The state Corporation Roscosmos has postponed the development of a draft design of the Soyuz-6 launch vehicle with the RD-180 engine, which is supplied to the United States, until 2022. This was announced on Thursday, May 6, according to RIA Novosti.

The Defender Europe exercise began on Wednesday evening at the Central Training Ground of the Estonian Defense Forces, with live firing of multiple launch rocket systems, and the landing of American paratroopers at the Nurmsi airfield on Thursday evening, the press service of the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces told BNS.

According to the results of January-April 2021, Azerbaijan has reached the second position in the procurement of Turkish weapons, the Turkish Anadolu agency reports.

The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters has been activated in order to monitor floods in the Irkutsk Region, Roscosmos reported.

The US exercise in Europe "Swift Response" (Swift Response) will begin on Wednesday evening in Estonia with live firing at the Central Range of the Defense Forces.

Blue Origin will start selling tickets for the New Shepard cruise ship on Wednesday, May 5. The price of the ticket is estimated at 200-250 thousand dollars.

The airspace of the Baltic states will now be guarded by Italian Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighters. At the Emari air base near Tallinn, the German Air Force, which was engaged in this earlier, transferred authority to the Italian Air Force.

The US Coast Guard cutter "USCGC HAMILTON" (WMSL 753) entered the Georgian port of Batumi on Tuesday. According to the ministry, joint exercises with the Georgian Coast Guard boats were held during the visit.

The failures with the Altay tank only encourage Turkey to reduce its dependence on imported military technologies. Yesterday, May 3, portal defenceturk.net he reported that the company Aselsan has started testing a new tank fire control system VOLKAN-M.

The President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, against the background of the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops from the country, stated the need in the current circumstances to fully finance the National Security and Defense Forces of the Republic (ANDSF).

On April 30, 2021, four Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters of the Italian Air Force arrived at Emari Air Base in Estonia to participate on an eight-month rotation basis in the NATO mission to patrol the airspace of the Baltic States (Baltic Air Policing - VAR). This is the first deployment of fifth-generation fighter jets in the NATO Baltic mission, and the first relatively long-term deployment of the F-35A in close proximity to the Russian borders in the West.

Two strongholds of the 102nd Russian military base have been established in the Syunik region bordering Azerbaijan and Iran in the south of Armenia, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

Since December last year, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has decided to use a modified Spot robot to perform explosive disposal missions so as not to endanger police officers. It was used several times to check the interior of a home that had been burglarized before police officers entered.

Both subsequent launches will be commercial. They will be produced in May and July.

The work with the two Fregat upper stages is carried out by specialists at the Amur Vostochny cosmodrome. One of them is filled with fuel components and compressed gases at the filling and neutralization station.

Senator Josh Hawley proposed requiring contractors to tell the Pentagon whether they had embedded printed circuit boards made in Russia, China, Iran or North Korea. This follows from the bill published on April 28 on the website of the Congress.

The introduction of anti-Russian sanctions and "similar demarches" by the United States narrows the possibilities for establishing a dialogue between Moscow and Washington, said Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.