Cooperation news

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.

The launch of the MS-21 aircraft on the market is "slowing down" due to sanctions, the work on import substitution has not yet been completed, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

Turkey has successfully tested air — to-air missiles, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his Twitter page on April 14.

The consortium Belgium Naval and Robotics, created by the Naval Group and the ECA Group, has chosen the SCANTER 6000 radar of the Danish Terma group to equip 12 new-generation minesweeping ships of the Belgian and Dutch navies.

Navigation along the Northern Sea Route may become year-round in the coming years, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Polish Minister of National Defense Marisz Blaszczak said that on April 12, 2021, Poland signed an intergovernmental agreement with the United States on the acquisition of five Lockheed C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft from the US Air Force through the US program of intergovernmental foreign military sales (FMS).

A meeting of the CSTO Military Committee was held in Moscow under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov. Despite the difficult epidemiological situation, all the chiefs of the General Staffs of the countries participating in the Treaty took part in this event. By the way, last year, the coronavirus pandemic did not allow the members of the Military Committee to meet, so two meetings were held via videoconference.

The Slovenian company Pipistrel, commissioned by the largest Chinese courier company SF Express, will finalize its electric cargo drone Nuuva. According to eVTOL, as a result of further development, the device will be able to perform stable flights at an altitude of 6 thousand meters in airplane mode and 2.5 thousand meters in vertical take-off and landing modes.

Canada has canceled permits for the export of military products and technologies to Turkey because they were used by Azerbaijan in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Canadian Foreign Minister Mark Garneau said.

Foreign countries are constantly interested in the Russian S-400 Triumph long-and medium-range anti-aircraft missile system. And the Russian Federation receives new requests for its supply.

China intends to increase cooperation with Russia in space and will contribute to ensuring the security of outer space. This was announced on April 13 by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian.

From time to time, ad sites, car sites, and specialized resources post messages about the sale of armored cars and other decommissioned military equipment - up to tanks. "Popular Mechanics" has prepared an overview of what can be freely purchased and used without fear of prosecution by the law.

The Rubin Design Bureau has developed the first Russian export-oriented submerged patrol ship, the Sentinel. It can be used as a guard ship, as well as as a rescue or research vessel. The ship will be exported under the BOSS brand.

As a result, Russia will receive a backup launcher, and Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates will be able to launch spacecraft into orbit

Kazakhstan, Russia and the United Arab Emirates plan to conduct at least four commercial launches from the first launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome ("Gagarin Launch") annually. This was reported to TASS on Monday by the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan.

More than 120 new projects were presented at the exhibition "Innovation Day of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation" held on April 7-9 in the Military Innovation Technopolis "ERA".

As cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky noted, in order to understand whether Russia needs its own space station in the event of the closure of the ISS, it is necessary to understand its ultimate task

Private space companies can create a new space station. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Russian cosmonaut and scientist Sergei Ryazansky.

Sales of RD-180/RD-181 engines in the United States bring NPO Energomash about a third of the total revenue, Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director of Roscosmos for Economics and Finance, said in an interview with Interfax.

Britain has confirmed that it plans to establish a joint unit with Qatar to operate BAE Systems ' advanced Hawk AJT training aircraft as part of an expanded military cooperation agreement signed by the two countries on April 1.

New applications for the S-400 are received from foreign customers

The timing of the start of deliveries of S-400 air defense systems to India will soon be announced, the contract is being implemented according to plan, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia said.

Russia continues to receive new applications from other countries for the supply of S-400 "Triumph" air defense systems, said on Monday, April 12, the press secretary of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of the Russian Federation Valeria Reshetnikova.