Cooperation news

On Tuesday, April 20, the heads of medical services of the CSTO member states determined the order of anti-epidemic measures for the arrival, participation and departure of contingents at joint exercises.

The company ZALA AERO (part of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies) has introduced three new unmanned aerial vehicles for civilian use. The presentation of the new products took place on Wednesday in Moscow as part of the ZALA EXPO exhibition.

In the waters of the Baltic Sea on Monday, the traditional spring exercises of NATO minesweepers Open Spirit will start. The exercise will involve 21 ships from 11 countries, including the ships of the First Permanent Mine Action Group of NATO. The Estonian Navy is leading the exercises, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported.

Earlier, the press service of Roscosmos reported that the decision to continue the operation of the International Space Station by Russia will be made after 2024, based on its technical condition

Russia will launch the Nauka module into orbit and will not reduce the program of experiments in orbit until the national space station appears. This was written by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in the comments on his Facebook page.

The ground forces of Saudi Arabia began to actively use heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A against supporters of the Ansar Allah movement.

In social networks, there were shots of night shooting of one of these combat vehicles. The installation was deployed in a desert area and fired five 220-mm rockets at the enemy.

"Orlan-10E" transmitted the coordinates of the target to the control machine, which calculated the settings for firing and sent them to the crew

Specialists of the Uralvagonzavod State Corporation Rostec demonstrated to the representatives of the foreign customer the interaction of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, upgraded to the NATO 155 mm caliber, and the Orlan-10E reconnaissance drone. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Rostec.

The Arianespace corporation stated that the mission will last 3 hours and 51 minutes

The launch of the next batch of OneWeb spacecraft using the Soyuz-2.1 b launch vehicle and the Fregat upper stage from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for April 26 at 01: 14 Moscow time. This was reported on Monday in the press service of the French corporation Arianespace.

After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

Roscosmos announced the delivery to the United States of the last batch of RD-180 engines from among the previously ordered ones. Recall that the Americans use them for the first stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle.

Northrop Grumman has announced the first flight of a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle built for the Japanese. In total, the Country of the Rising Sun should receive three such UAVs.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the work of the Republican army and police, which were equipped with Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" and Mi-35 helicopters, very effective, RIA Novosti reports.

The decision to continue work on the Russian segment of the International Space Station will be made after 2024. This was announced on Sunday, April 18, by the press service of Roscosmos.

The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that the United States will continue to provide assistance to Ukraine so that it is capable of self-defense. We are talking about the continuation of the supply of certain types of weapons and the sending of American military instructors to the country.

PJSC "State Transport Leasing Company" (STLC, owned by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation) plans to deliver 45 aircraft of domestic production to the United Far Eastern airline "Aurora" by 2025, said the General Director of STLC Evgeny Dietrich.

Poland's Foreign Ministry has signed an agreement with the US government for the supply of five BTA C-130H "Hercules" aircraft from the US Air Force under the "Surplus Military Equipment" (EDA) program.

The Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina reported on the ceremony of gratuitous transfer of 15 units of engineering vehicles and vehicles by the military department of the People's Republic of China to the armed forces of the country held at the Rylovac base in Sarajevo.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

Russian armored vehicles for airborne units began to be promoted on the world market. We are talking about the BMD-4M combat landing vehicle and the BTR-MDM armored personnel carrier.

Japanese startup ispace will deliver the first lunar rover of the Arab world to the moon, using its Hakuto-R lander. Thus, in 2022, the list of countries that managed to land their spacecraft on the Moon can be replenished with two at once, according to the website Space.com.

The administration of President Joe Biden told the US Congress that it will continue to sell weapons to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) worth more than $ 23 billion, including fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets, the deal for which was temporarily suspended after the arrival of a new team in the White House.