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Defense Advanced Development Agency (DARPA) The United States has announced its intention to evaluate the practical use of jetpacks and other compact individual vehicles. According to Flightglobal, in early March of this year, the agency announced a tender for the development of concepts and projects of jetpacks, thanks to which the military intends to determine how such devices could be used in the military.

The development and introduction of three-dimensional printing is called the industrial revolution. Printed parts are lighter and stronger, raw materials are used without waste, there is no need to modify the finished products with a"file". Additive technologies are used for the manufacture of elements of turbojet and helicopter engines, combustion chambers. The state, prospects and development of additive technologies were discussed at an open table organized by the D. I. Mendeleev Russian State Technical University.

The British company Rolls-Royce has completed ground tests of a prototype of the high-speed electric aircraft ionBird, being developed as part of the ACCEL research program. According to Flightglobal, the company's specialists are currently preparing the aircraft for the first flight, which should take place before the end of March 2021.

Murder, rape, theft, and fighting-the US Marines continue to terrorize the population of the island of Okinawa, which is home to the largest US military installations in Japan. Neither the courts nor their own command are able to calm the "elite troops".

Iran's Defense ministry has delivered dozens of planes, helicopters and jet engines to the Islamic Republic's Air Force in accordance with plans to increase the combat power of the country's forces, the Mehr news agency reports.

The Shvabe holding company of the Rostec State Corporation has delivered to the customer a pilot set of equipment for a fiber-optic system for transmitting and converting optical signals (SPOS). Signal transmission equipment for controlling the subsea infrastructure of offshore oil and gas production is planned to be installed at the Russian production complex at the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field on the shelf of Sakhalin Island. 

Soldiers machine-gun connection army corps of the Eastern military district (TSB) of the Ministry of defense of Russia is carried out on the Kuril Islands of exercises involving more than 1 million people involved aircraft. This was reported on the agency's website on Friday, February 26.

New capital construction projects are being put into operation in the Russian Armed Forces in 4-7 months, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the board of the military department.

Andrey Taranov noted that PR is not the main task of the armed forces, and the closure of some information allows you to achieve success in combat

Full openness of information about the armed forces, equipment and the order of their use can affect the country's defense capability and enable a potential enemy to prepare for any type of conflict, said Andrey Taranov, Deputy Head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for perpetuating the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland.

US President Joe Biden, in a letter to Congress, motivated the US Air Force strike on Syrian territory by the need to prevent new planned attacks by pro-Iranian groups on US and international coalition forces in Iraq.

On February 25, the United States launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria that, according to the Pentagon, may belong to the Iranian armed forces. In Syria and in Russia, Washington's aggressive actions were sharply condemned. The Iranian edition gives details.

Newspapers Hokkaido Shimbun, The Yomiuri Shimbun news portal Yahoo News Japan, TV channels Hokkaido UHB News and TBS reported on the beginning of the exercises on the islands of the South Kuril Ridge.

The United States is heavily dependent on other countries for high-tech products, and President Biden is looking to reduce this dependence. Referring to the LA Times, the source said that the president ordered a review of the supply chains of semiconductor products, "high-capacity" batteries and rare earth cells to ensure reliable access to them.

Singapore - based Kelley Aerospace has started developing a supersonic unmanned slave Arrow. According to Flightglobal, until now the company has been engaged in the conceptual design of the aircraft. The developers claim that they have already received pre-orders for the supply of one hundred new unmanned Arrow wingmen.

Politicians and social activists in Oslo are in an extremely anxious state. They do not understand how the Bergen turbine Plant fell into the hands of Russia, because this can negatively affect the security of the kingdom, reports the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

The leadership of Europe is lost between ignorance of recent events and long-standing stereotypes, writes Xavier Rofe in the French edition of Atlantico.

The State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MIDEI) of Moldova, George Leuke, called for the resumption of the process of withdrawal of Russian troops and the destruction of ammunition located in Transnistria.

During the ceremony of handing over five repaired T-72 tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the general director of the Ukroboronprom concern, Yuri Gusev, said that it is planned to create a military-industrial industrial park on the basis of the Kiev Armored Plant (KBTO).

The volume of military contracts concluded in 2020 between Russia and African countries amounted to more than $ 1.5 billion. Rosoboronexport's share of the local arms market has grown to a staggering 49 percent. Over the past two decades, Moscow has significantly pushed the main competitors in Africa for arms imports: Washington and Paris, writes The National Interest.

Russia is facing an aggressive policy aimed at curbing the country's development and placing it under external control, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.