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The command of the Colombian Navy is taking measures to put into operation the Coast Guard fleet of three new high-speed multi-purpose interceptor boats developed by Safe Boats International.

Roscosmos, according to various reports, either excluded, or he himself left the expert group to discuss the prospects for creating an international circumlunar station Gateway. The United States, Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency (ESA) remain in the project. What really happened and what are Russia's interests in terms of expansion to the moon?

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Sunday successfully launched a record batch of 143 mini-satellites, including 10 spacecraft, to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX said.

Japan's Nikkei Asian Review believes that Russia is beginning to yield to China in the development of new weapons and military technologies. Gradually, this lag may become irreversible. China is becoming the world's number two arms exporter. Russia is the third. Beijing is targeting traditional Russian arms markets.

Mass media: Russia was removed from the discussion of the lunar station

Russian experts no longer participate in the discussion of the project of the American lunar station Gateway. It became known that they were excluded from the mailing list of letters and deprived of access to the materials.

On January 22, Austal USA announced on its Twitter page about the keel laying ceremony of the EPF (Expeditional Fast Transport) class "Sperheed", intended for the US Navy, held at the enterprise in Mobile (Alabama).

In Turkey, for the first time, a radically modernized Leopard 2A4 was openly demonstrated, which now comes close to the new generation of cars in a number of characteristics.

Last week, high-ranking military officials led by the country's Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, visited enterprises engaged in the production of armored vehicles.

Alphabet Holding (Owned by Google) has announced the closure of Loon-a project to develop Internet access using balloons flying in the stratosphere. The company considered the company's business model unstable. This is reported by CNET.

According to sources of the Reuters news agency, the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement with the United States on the purchase of 50 F-35 "Lightning-2" fighters and up to 18 armed MQ-9B UAVs.

Russia will present a model of the fifth-generation Su-57E fighter at the Aero India 2021 exhibition, the Rostec State Corporation told Interfax on Friday.

On January 23, 2021, in Istanbul, at the Turkish naval shipyard Istanbul Tersane Komutanlığı (Istanbul Naval Shipyard), the launch ceremony of the lead frigate F 515 Istanbul of the national project TF-100 of the MILGEM program (Millî Gemi-national ship) was held. At the ceremony of launching was attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

According to Greek resources, the United States and Greece have concluded an intergovernmental agreement (in the form of an exchange of Letters of Offer and Acceptance - LOA) on the transfer of 1,200 M1117 ASV Guardian (4x4) wheeled armored vehicles from the US Department of Defense to Greece through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales (FMS).

As reported by the Interfax news agency, the US authorities have received broader powers to request documents from foreign banks that have correspondent accounts in American credit organizations. The corresponding changes were made to the national anti-laundering legislation by the law on the defense budget, which came into force in January.

A nationalist military expert criticizes the decision to purchase ships for the Ukrainian Navy, which, in his opinion, will become "white elephants" and will spend time at the pier, and not at sea. Instead, he proposes to redirect budget funds for the modernization of the ground units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine... waging war in the Donbas.

NASA may reduce its staff working in Russia. Some of the employees who work in the office in Moscow will be dismissed. Also, the division in Star City is waiting for the reduction. Perhaps the agency will refuse to rent the houses where the astronauts and their families lived, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The work of the department at the Institute of Medical Problems will change.

Rocket engines produced by NPO Energomash provided 23 of the 114 space launches conducted in 2020, Roscosmos reported.

The Royal Navy will search for sea mines with the help of robots. January 20, portal navyrecognition.com He reported that the UK Ministry of Defense has ordered three robotic SWEEP minesweepers from Atlas Elektronik.

As The Economic Times points out, the fighter could replenish the aircraft fleet of the Indian armed forces, as the parties were negotiating its production

The new Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet may take part in the Aero India 2021 airshow in Bangalore in early February. This was reported on Thursday by The Economic Times newspaper, citing sources among the organizers of the event.

The crisis year 2020 for the whole country paradoxically turned out to be very successful for the production of domestic tractors and combines. Sales of agricultural machinery within the country and export of agricultural machinery have also increased sharply. What is the reason for such achievements of the whole industry and whether it will be possible to repeat this success in 2021?

The candidate for the post of US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, supported the idea of providing Ukraine with American weapons. He said this on January 19 at the Senate confirmation hearing for his candidacy.