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The US Army has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman for the production of a unified control system for air and missile defense systems IBCS. According to Breaking Defense, under this agreement, the company will develop 160 systems for the US military and their foreign partners by the end of 2026.

The tests should end in 2022, the NPO Elektromashina reported

The power supply kit for the BMP-3, necessary for the modernization of armored vehicles, has reached the stage of preliminary tests, they should end in 2022. This was reported to TASS on Monday in the press service of JSC NPO Elektromashina, which developed the kit.

A new era has begun in space exploration. On December 26, the NASA press service announced the successful initial deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Bilateral exercises of the communications and electronic warfare units of the Black Sea Fleet took place on the Crimean Peninsula, involving more than 500 military personnel and 50 units of weapons and military equipment.

Kommersant: The Ministry of Finance offers PC manufacturers to install Russian operating systems

The Ministry of Finance offers HP, Acer and Lenovo companies to install Russian operating systems (OS) on laptops and computers that are sold without an operating system. This is reported by Kommersant.

A dynamically programmable transistor has been created, which alone can implement such multicomponent logic as NOR, NAND, etc. The developed transistor easily fits on the existing production infrastructure and does not use exotic materials. A special benefit from its use is expected in the field of artificial intelligence.

According to Dmitry Loskutov, CEO of Glavkosmos, a total of seven launches are planned for next year

The first launch of British OneWeb communications satellites in 2022 is scheduled to take place in February from the Guiana Space Center (Kourou Cosmodrome). This was reported to TASS by the General Director of Glavkosmos JSC (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov.

The James Webb telescope successfully corrected the course to the second Lagrange point

The most expensive James Webb telescope ("James Webb"), launched into space the day before, successfully made the first course correction. This was reported by NASA.

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, noted that 2021 was a breakthrough year for many projects that could not be launched in recent years

Dmitry Strugovets, head of the Roscosmos press service, congratulated the specialists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), who jointly developed the James Webb telescope, on the successful launch of the device. The corresponding message was published by Strugovets on Saturday on his Facebook page.

The Xinhua News Agency noted that this is the 403rd launch using a carrier rocket of the Great Trek series

China launched a new Earth remote sensing satellite, Ziyuan-1 02E, into orbit on Sunday. The launch, Xinhua news agency reports, was carried out at 11:11 Beijing time (06:11 Moscow time) from the Taiyuan cosmodrome in Shanxi Province (Northern China) using the Changzheng-4-xi carrier rocket ("Great Trek - 4").

The French President stressed that he was filled with a sense of pride

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the launch of the James Webb orbital telescope into space will forever remain one of the key events in the history of space exploration.

The Ariane V heavy rocket on Saturday launched the world's largest and most powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWTS) worth $ 10 billion into orbit to study the processes of evolution of the Universe, the Arianespace carrier development company said.

The long-awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope orbital infrared Observatory took place. It is considered as a replacement for the Hubble telescope, launched into orbit in 1990.

According to the delivery plan of the main samples of VIVT, in 2021, three new and three upgraded radar stations (radars) "Sky" and "Casta" entered service with the radio engineering troops of the Central Military District.

The exercises of the Central Military District were held in the Orenburg region at the Totsky training ground. According to the press service of the Central Military District, at these field events, the commanders of the T-72B3 main battle tanks mastered the skills of gunners.

China is preparing to set a new national record for the number of launches in 2021

China on Thursday successfully launched two experimental Shiyan-12 satellites into orbit for space exploration. This was announced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

Kosmos-2519, from which another spacecraft had previously separated, burned up in the atmosphere. The satellite had remote sensing equipment, as well as equipment for shooting objects in space.

Russia and China have launched projects to jointly create weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "We are even developing separate high-tech types of weapons together today," the president said at a press conference on Thursday.

The platform of the nanoclass spacecraft is made in the form of a hexagonal prism and consists of a set of unified scalable modules

JSC "Russian Space Systems" has patented a multi-purpose platform of the nanoclass spacecraft. This is stated in the patent for the invention distributed by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (available to TASS).

The troops will be armed with the latest portable anti-aircraft missile system "Willow". This effective means of combating low-flying aerial objects will be delivered to the air defense units of the tank Army of the Western Military District in 2022, the press service of the ZVO reported on Wednesday.