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Defense News: Turkish TF-X fighter jet will receive F110 engine and technology from Russia

The Turkish Fighter X (TF-X) will receive an American F110 turbofan engine and Russian technologies, Defense News reports. The publication of the publication drew the attention of the bmpd blog in LiveJournal.

The US Navy received $98 million to continue research and development work on the creation of a new generation nuclear submarine with the conditional name SSN(X), follows from the report of the Congressional Research Service.

Anadolu: Eren unmanned aerial vehicle with laser weapons successfully tested in Turkey

The world's first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Eren with laser weapons has been tested in Turkey. According to the Anadolu agency, the drone successfully fired shots from a distance of 500, 300 and 100 meters.

The Progress Rocket and Space Center planned to do this in the second-third quarter of this year

The locator for the Obzor-R radar spacecraft being created in Russia will be delivered in early 2022. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Progress Rocket and Space Center.

The Ukrainian-Turkish plant, which is being built in Vasylkiv (Kiev region), will produce ANKA-type jet drones - the next generation of UAVs after Bayraktar, the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the situation in Donbass, Alexey Arestovich, said on Saturday during an interview with Radio Liberty (recognized in the Russian media as a foreign agent).

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that sooner or later foreign partners will also have hypersonic weapons, but Russia will most likely have the means to eliminate them by then.

Russia today occupies a leading position in the world in modern types of weapons, Vladimir Putin said in the film "Russia. Recent history" on the channel "Russia 1".

The African startup Phractyl showed a concept unlike anything we have seen before. This is an avant-garde and absurd aircraft with the likeness of "bird paws" on a caterpillar track, a tilted cabin, rotating wings and the possibility of vertical takeoff.

Russia needs to launch about 20 microsatellites into space every year, said Ivan Uteshev, head of the Astronomy Department of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence

About 20 launches of microsatellites need to be carried out annually, and the program for launching such devices requires support on a long-term basis. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Department of Astronomy of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence of Moscow, coach of the Russian national team in Astronomy and Astrophysics Ivan Uteshev at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with participants of the Congress of Young Scientists on Tuesday.

The installation of such engines will reduce the lifetime of space debris

Tests of a plasma engine manufactured by a private company that will be able to hold the position of small spacecraft in orbit have begun in Russia. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group.

Admiral Kuznetsov should return to service in 2023

Russian relevant departments are assessing the need to build a new aircraft carrier, while work is underway to create the appearance of such a ship, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

State tests of the upgraded multiple launch rocket system "Hurricane" have begun in Belarus at the Osipovichi test site. The MLRS received a new automotive platform: instead of the ZIL-135LM, the launcher for 220-mm rocket projectiles is placed on the MAZ-6317.

A hypersonic missile is already ready for him

The Su-57 fighter will be armed with hypersonic weapons, from 2027 the aircraft will go to the troops with a new engine, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

The United States has launched the IXPE X-ray telescope (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer). The cost of the mission is estimated at more than 180 million dollars.

Medical units of the Central Military District (CVO) for the first time received new-generation AP-3 auto-dressings in 2021, the press service of the CVO reported on Thursday.

While the United States is trying to achieve at least minimal success in hypersonic technologies, Russia is testing ready-made missiles. And, although the most attention of the public is attracted by the planning Avangard combat units for ballistic missiles, the main advantage of hypersonic technologies is concentrated in the operational and tactical link, writes 19FortyFive.

Russian engineers are developing a whole line of unmanned underwater vehicles. In the near future, samples should appear that will be able to move in the World Ocean at a distance of up to 1000 kilometers from the dive site.

On December 8, one of the stages of state tests of the prototype 9P140MB combat vehicle was successfully completed at the Osipovichsky training ground as part of the OKR for the modernization of the Hurricane MLRS in the interests of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched the IXPE X-ray observatory

A Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in the interests of NASA, SpaceX reports. It is noted that the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is installed in the head of the carrier — a 325-kilogram new observatory equipped with three telescopes to track X-ray sources in the Universe.

The Su-57 fighter will be armed with hypersonic weapons, from 2027 the aircraft will go to the troops with a new engine, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.