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Since the beginning of 2020, the number of attacks on the industry has been at a high level. In the third quarter, this industry was attacked by various hacker groups - including RTM and TinyScouts, as well as cryptographic operators - for example, Maze. It is reported by the company Positive Technologies. So, TinyScouts ' goal was to target energy companies.

In early 2017, the Petra Nova project was launched in Texas – the world's first installation to capture carbon dioxide from emissions as part of the "clean coal" concept (that is, the safe collection of CO2 that is generated when coal is burned).

The Brazilian company Embraer has started developing a light hybrid military transport aircraft. According to Flightglobal, in the army, it will have to replace the outdated emb-110 Bandeirante and EMB-120 Brasilia transporters. The transport project received the designation STOUT (Short Take Off Utility Transport, transport aircraft with a shortened takeoff).

The al Amal interplanetary station successfully completed the third and final trajectory correction maneuver on its way to Mars. This means that the device should arrive to the red planet in the estimated time, which is scheduled for the evening of February 9, 2021, according to the mission's Twitter.

Engineers from Australia have developed a biomimetic soft manipulator for robots that can grab objects by wrapping around them like the tentacles of an octopus or the trunk of an elephant. The manipulator is made of fabric and is driven by a hydraulic actuator.

The Russian company IVA Technologies has developed a modular underwater communication system IVA S/W, which has no analogues in the world. The complex was tested in the Arctic by Navy submariners at a depth of up to 26 m and a range of up to 2000 meters.

Russian peacekeepers are clearing the Lachin corridor linking Armenia and Karabakh, Deputy commander of the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Armed forces Alexey polyukhovich said.

The volleys of the last Karabakh war, which ended so abysmally for Armenia and so successfully for Azerbaijan, have died down. What military-technical lessons should Russia learn from what was demonstrated on the battlefield? Does our country have an opportunity to oppose something to the weapons that brought victory to Azerbaijan?

Six leading educational and scientific organizations in Russia with leading competencies in the field of hydrogen energy have signed an agreement to create a consortium for the development of hydrogen technologies.

The us company QinetiQ has delivered the first batch of four RCV-l light ground hybrid robots to the US Army. According to Breaking Defense, these vehicles will be used to test the system of interaction of robotic complexes with people during combat operations. Such tests are planned for 2022. Larger Textron RCV-m robots will also be used in the checks.

Moscow should treat its "allies" extremely pragmatically

The coincidence in time (at least partially) of the conflicts in Belarus, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Kyrgyzstan does not necessarily mean that they are United by a single external anti-Russian plan. Each case is different. Although, of course, you can trace many common features.

Only ground operations guarantee victory in modern conflicts

The center for analysis of strategies and technologies (cast) held for the third time a very productive and very informative conference "Ogarkov readings".

Dmitry Litovkin-whether the fear of a large-scale conflict is justified

First, the chief of the British defense Staff, Nick Carter, and then the Czech intelligence service, in their annual report, said that the world is on the verge of a global cataclysm.

Britain will take measures to protect the defense industry from foreign influence

The British government is determined to protect the country's defense industry from Chinese investors. The draft law prepared for this purpose largely repeats the measures already taken in other Western States. European countries and their allies fear that China will use the economic crisis caused by the pandemic to influence the geopolitical situation.

The Azerbaijani armed forces are ready to deploy in the Kelbajar region after the Armenian population leaves, head of the Department of international military cooperation of the defense Ministry Huseyn Makhmudov said.

The end of the second Karabakh war gave rise to many riddles and conspiracy theories. Indeed, some of the circumstances of this conflict are extremely mysterious, or at least paradoxical from the point of view of conventional military logic. Apparently, the Armenian leadership itself provoked a political catastrophe.

The war in Karabakh has shown that the tank is an easy target for attack drones. In just a few weeks of fighting, Yerevan lost more than 120 combat vehicles. What conclusions Russia should do at the end of this conflict and how now the Russian tanks are protected from the shock drones and loitering munitions of the enemy?

Another spy scandal has affected an employee of a leading Russian airline. An Aeroflot representative in the UK has been arrested on suspicion of high treason. How could this treason have been committed, what information did the accused allegedly have access to – and who should be held accountable along with him?

The US Senate appropriations Committee published a bill on the NASA budget for 2021. The Agency will be able to receive only a part of the requested amount for the implementation of the Artemis program to return people to the moon, but scientific programs and the development of new automatic devices and telescopes will be fully funded, according to the website SpaceNews.com.

How to protect yourself from any misfortunes? And who will manage measures to protect and eliminate from all sorts of troubles? The response prepared by the Russian Ministry of emergency situations to these questions can be reduced to one short formula: the same people should be responsible for eliminating all troubles at any time according to the same unified rules. In other words, the response system should be unified, whether it is wartime or peacetime.