Cooperation news

Google has agreed with SpaceX to use the Starlink satellite Internet. This is reported by The Verge. Elon Musk's company will provide access to satellite Internet for corporate customers of the Google Cloud service.

German fighters will be able to "invade" the territory of Poland in case of danger, and vice versa. May 14, portal janes.com reported that Germany and Poland have agreed to allow combat aircraft to cross their national borders in the event of a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA).

The large sea tanker of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) "Boris Butoma" has entered the port of Cam Ranh (Vietnam), the navy said on Saturday.

On May 4, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems announced the official handover ceremony of the second (of the four ordered) URO corvette of the Saar-6 class, the Oz, to the Israeli Navy command.

Chinese jet engines have reached the level when they began to be installed on single-engine fighters. May 11 portal defensenews.com He reported that the first production Chengdu J-10 fighters with locally produced engines entered service with the PLA Air Force.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines has published a" Notice of Order "(NOA – Notice of Award) for the supply of 90 light trucks GAZ" Sadko NEXT " produced by the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ Group, Nizhny Novgorod).

Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft in December 2021. This was announced on Thursday, May 13, by the company Space Adventures.

As reported by the Ukrainian media, on May 12, 2021, on the territory of the enterprise of the Ukrainian LLC "Scientific and Production Company" VK Sistema " in Vasylkiv (Kiev region) the transfer of a batch of nine Oncilla 4X4 L2014-UD wheeled armored vehicles assembled by the NPK to the armed forces of Ukraine took place "VK Sistema " from machine kits made by the Polish company Mista Sp. zoo.

The M1128 combat vehicles in service with the US ground forces, created on the platform of the Stryker armored personnel carriers, are going to be completely written off by the end of next year.

Judging by the reports that appeared on the Network, despite many years of operation in specialized brigades, they did not manage to solve a number of design problems, for example, with an automated gun loading system. It not only has a relatively small ammunition supply (only 18 shells), but also constantly fails.

The commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, noted that the Northern Sea Route almost everywhere runs either in Russian territorial waters or in the economic zone of the country

Russia insists on using the Northern Sea Route to its advantage, as it runs through Russian territory. This was announced by the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, at a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists on the nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great".

The United States sees Norway as a major foothold in the Arctic. This was announced on Thursday, May 13, by the commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, Admiral Alexander Moiseev.

Georgia, which is strengthening its defensive capabilities after the failed invasion of South Ossetia in 2008, will receive an upgraded air defense system from the Israeli company Rafael by the end of the year, Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze said on Thursday, the correspondent of the newspaper VZGLYAD in Tbilisi reports.

On May 12, Germany and Poland signed a technical agreement on cooperation between the air forces of the two countries when crossing their air borders when performing NATO Air Policing missions.

Georgian and US military personnel conducted joint exercises within the framework of the Trojan Footprint-21 multinational Special Operations Forces (SDF) exercises that have been taking place on the territory of five countries since May 3, the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Defense reported on Thursday.

The first place is occupied by the United States, their market share is 62%, according to the Military Helicopters handbook, released by the British publishing group Shephard Media

Russia ranks second after the United States in the global list of manufacturers of combat helicopters. This is stated in the reference book Military Helicopters ("Military helicopters"), released by the British publishing group Shephard Media and available to TASS.

According to the French company Naval Group, on May 10 at the shipyard in Concarneau (Brittany), the ceremony of launching the third of the four ordered by the Argentine Navy patrol ship of the coastal zone OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel) – (53) "Storni" (Storni) took place.

Turkish company Baykar Defense has published the first concept image of the TB-3 Bayraktar drone on the deck of the aircraft carrier landing ship Anadolu.

The general leadership of the troops of the joint regional air defense system of Russia and Tajikistan will be carried out by the commander of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of Russia, follows from the text of the agreement between Russia and Tajikistan on the creation of a Joint regional air Defense system.

The ZSU-23-4 anti-aircraft self-propelled gun, despite its venerable age, is still in service with the armies of more than three dozen countries.

For example, they are armed with air defense units of the Angolan ground forces. There are about 50 pieces in total.

Major American technology companies have come up with a way to keep prices on their products low for consumers, The New York Times reports.