Cooperation news

A group of ten ships of the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy made a joint patrol in the Pacific Ocean, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Turkey has started the procedure for purchasing F-16 aircraft from the United States. This was announced on Saturday, October 23, by the Minister of National Defense of the country Hulusi Akar.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that the past exercises demonstrated a high level of interaction between the military contingents of the CSTO member states.

Norway will write off all its F-16s by the end of this year. On combat duty, they will be replaced by F-35 fighters, of which there are already 31 units in the Norwegian Air Force. Thus, Norway will become the first country in the world whose Air Force will completely switch to a new generation of fighters.

Kyrgyzstan will not deploy an American airbase on its territory, President of the Republic Sadyr Zhaparov said, RIA Novosti reports.

As the Kyrgyz media reported on October 21, 2021, the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan Kamchybek Tashiyev said that a contract for the purchase of Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles by Kyrgyzstan in Turkey (as can be understood, Bayraktar TB2 is meant)) is already under implementation, and that Russian light unmanned systems Orlan-10E will also be purchased.

The Ariane-5 heavy launch vehicle of the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched two communications satellites into orbit on Sunday, the French operator Arianespace reported.

The manufacturer of memory chips Micron Technology has announced an investment of $ 150 billion in the construction of new factories and the expansion of existing factories for the production of chips. Due to these investments, calculated for the next 10 years, the American company intends to meet the growing demand for semiconductor products and eliminate its deficit.

As the Ministry of Defense of Finland reported on October 21, 2021, the country's Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen approved the purchase of five additional 155 mm/52 K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers in South Korea in 2021 and authorized the Department of Logistics of the Finnish Defense Forces to make an additional purchase of the next five such systems in 2022.

The State Corporation will also present a mock-up of the Zeus orbital complex and the transport and energy module

Roscosmos will present its exposition at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai (UAE), where for the first time abroad it will show a new model of the multifunctional laboratory module "Science", as well as a model of the Zeus orbital complex and the transport and energy module (TEM). This was reported on Sunday in the press service of Roscosmos.

Turkey managed to negotiate with South Korea on the supply of tank engines. October 23, portal armyrecognition.com He announced that Altay tanks will receive Doosan Infracore DV27K powerplants with a capacity of 1500 hp.

The memorandum provides for the expansion of cooperation between the two countries in scientific research, exchange of experience and development of educational programs in space exploration

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAE) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Israeli Space Agency in order to expand bilateral cooperation.

Russia is considering the possibility of resuming the work of the Consulate General in Mazar-I-Sharif in Afghanistan, the special representative of the President for Afghanistan, Director of the second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

The system includes radar detection, radio frequency detection and visual identification using a neural network

Kaspersky Lab, a well-known domestic manufacturer of computer protection systems, has created a system for detecting and combating Kaspersky Antidrone drones. This was told to TASS by the system developer Vladimir Turov at the international exhibition of state security tools "Interpolitech-2021".

Paratroopers from Russia and Egypt, as part of the joint exercise "Defenders of Friendship-2021", conducted fire training classes using elements of tactical shooting at the paratrooper training ground near Cairo, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

The Russian military conducted a master class for Syrian servicemen and showed how to handle a domestic Bumblebee flamethrower. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Thursday, October 21.

As reported by the US Embassy in the Philippines, at Clark Air Base in Mabalacat City (prov. Pampanga) the official ceremony of the transfer of four Scanigl UAVs to the Philippine Air Force took place.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain has put up for sale an auxiliary vessel Argus - the only one of its kind.

Until 1981, the ship built in Italy was a peaceful container ship MV Contender Bezant. On the eve of the Falklands War, it was mobilized and converted into a floating hospital. Then Bezant was returned to the owners, but due to the decline in shipping, the container ship turned out to be not the lot and in 1984 the British Admiralty finally acquired the 190-meter ship.

The Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the South Korean Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) signed a memorandum of understanding on October 20 within the framework of the program for the development and production of barrage ammunition.

Arms supplies to Ukraine from the West will not contribute to the settlement, but they may encourage Kiev to carry out new provocations in the Donbass. This was announced on October 21 by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko.