Cooperation news

According to the MBDA group, the UK Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the purchase of Sea Ceptor air defense systems, which will provide air defense for the new Type-31 class frigates of the country's Navy.

Upgraded small-sized automatic CP.The 3M is designed to hit targets protected by personal armor protection equipment, as well as unarmored equipment, the Rostec press service reported.

The joint communique adopted following the meeting of the Defense Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in Siauliai (Lithuania) on May 21, 2021, among other things, contained a provision on studying the possibility of joint acquisition of multiple Launch Rocket Systems by the three countries in the period after 2025.

The Chinese side three times refused to accept a phone call from the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, who, in violation of protocol, requested a conversation not with the Minister of Defense, but with a higher-ranking official. This was reported on May 26 by the South China Morning Post, citing military sources.

Airbus has announced the delivery of the 100th BTA A-400M Atlas aircraft to the customer. The aircraft, designated MSN111, was transferred to the Spanish Air Force Command. It was the tenth A400M delivered by Airbus to this country.

The American company Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first military transport aircraft C-130J "Super Hercules", intended for the Algerian Air Force.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratified the agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan on military cooperation, which was signed in Nur-Sultan on October 16, 2020.

The 4th International Conference on Humanitarian Demining and Countering Improvised Explosive Devices has opened in the Moscow region on the basis of the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center.

Earlier, the draft document proposed to take into account the opinion of the Federation Council

The director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia and his deputies will be appointed by the president on the recommendation of the Minister of Defense, not the Prime Minister.

The number of spacecraft serviced by the enterprise will increase from 45 to 482 from 2024 to 2035

The head scientific institute of Roscosmos-TsNIIMash assumes that the company's revenue from near-Earth space monitoring and satellite protection services on the international market by 2035 may amount to 1.2 billion rubles. This is stated in the materials of the institute, available to TASS.

Lockheed Martin Corporation announced the delivery of the first batch of PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement) interceptor missiles to Sweden as part of a contract signed in 2018 for the supply of Patriot air defense systems.

Five joint exercises will be held this fall by the military contingents of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the CSTO Joint Staff (OSH) said on Tuesday.

They plan to involve about 250 military personnel of the Indian Armed Forces and about 250 military personnel of the Southern Military District

International joint Russian-Indian tactical exercises "Indra-2021" will be held from August 1 to 15, 2021 at the Prudboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

The 16th round of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security issues was held in Moscow.

They were conducted by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the head of the office of the CPC Central Committee Commission on Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi.

The Russian government intends to make it more difficult for state customers to purchase foreign software and equipment, writes Kommersant with reference to the director of the "Center of Competence for Import Substitution in the field of ICT" Ilya Massukh.

The State Duma has introduced a bill on the "landing" of foreign IT companies in Russia, obliging large foreign Internet companies to open official representative offices in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Servicemen of the engineering troops of the Russian Armed Forces arrived in Serbia to participate in joint exercises. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, during the training, the Russian and Serbian military will work out issues of interaction when performing engineering support tasks.

The state corporation noted that an interesting direction is the use of remote sensing data in a virtual reality helmet

Russian tour operators are interested in the VR complexes created in Roscosmos for the development of virtual tourism. This was announced by the director of the Digital development Department of the state corporation Konstantin Shadrin.

As reported by the Jutarnji list publication, citing informed anonymous sources, the Croatian government has decided to purchase 12 Rafale F3R multi-purpose fighters from the French Air Force.

Russia intends to strengthen its presence in Africa's lucrative and fast-growing arms market. This is written by The National Interest columnist Mark Episkopos, referring to news reports about the preparation of a new amphibious armored personnel carrier "Strela" for the exhibition ShieldAfrica 2021.