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For the Russian Aerospace Forces, an air control point for strike drones will be created, the commander-in-chief of the VKS Sergey Surovikin reported to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu.

Modernization of the Unified Air Traffic Management System in Russia (EU ATM), within which several enlarged navigation centers were created, cost about 100 billion rubles. This was announced by the General Director of the Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz - Antey" Jan Novikov. According to him, as part of the modernization program, 12 enlarged centers of the unified air traffic management system and three special centers will be created and re-equipped by the end of 2022 - in Kaliningrad, Kamchatka and Crimea.

The Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) has created and is already using the technology of virtual tests of rocket and space technology using digital twins and machine learning algorithms, the press service of the holding reported.

Rostec State Corporation's Roselectronics Holding has developed the first fully Russian microdisplay based on organic electroluminescent LEDs (OLED). The device is designed for individual means of displaying information, such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) glasses, photo and video cameras, as well as head-mounted and helmet-mounted video modules, thermal imaging sights and thermal imagers.

As part of import substitution, the re-equipment of the enlarged center in Rostov-on-Don with a modern Russian-made ATM system is at the final stage

Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region will re-equip 12 enlarged centers of the Unified Air Traffic Management System (EU ATM) and three special centers in Kaliningrad, Kamchatka and Crimea in 2022. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the concern.

Two communication systems are planned to be launched as part of the Sphere program

Roscosmos plans to launch six Skif satellites until about 2027. This was announced on Thursday by Sergey Prokhorov, director of the Department of Advanced Programs and the Sphere project of the state corporation.

The Drive: The MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter was deployed aboard the ship for the first time

The US Navy has deployed a reconnaissance unmanned helicopter on board a ship for the first time. Northrop Grumman has announced the first deployment of the MQ-8C Fire Scout drone. This is reported by The Drive.

19FortyFive: the Russian Pantsir air defense system could "grow long claws"

The Russian air defense system "Pantsir" could "grow long claws", allowing it to defeat the attacking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), says the American publication 19FortyFive.

The US military has discovered defects in the software of the F-35 fighter jets of the Block 4 version. According to Bloomberg, they relate to the processes of using weapons, communication, navigation, cybersecurity and target setting. But despite this, Block 4 is installed on airplanes.

IXcellerate, a leading Russian operator of commercial data centers, has raised about $ 190 million from existing shareholders and new investors, including Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala, the UAE sovereign wealth fund), SberInvest and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, the sovereign Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation), the operator said on Tuesday.

The Center for Quantum Electronics has teamed up with educational institutions to work on the implementation of the state task in terms of training specialists for enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC).

The Krasnogorsk Zverev Plant (KMZ) and the Partner Center of Rostec State Corporation in Skolkovo have signed a cooperation agreement, Shvabe Holding said on Wednesday.

The Earth remote sensing system created on the basis of the BKA works steadily and fully fulfills its tasks, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov assured.

Roscosmos considers Cuba, Svalbard and Bellingshausen station in Antarctica as locations for tracking stations of the warning system about dangerous situations in orbit, follows from the data of the public procurement portal.

Defence24: the Russian ships "Buyan-M" to be helpless in the open sea

Small missile ships of project 21631 "Buyan-M", equipped with cruise missiles "Caliber", you do not have a powerful system of antiaircraft defense (air defense), so be defenseless in the open sea to strike a potential enemy, says the portal Defence24 Polish military commentator Maximilian Stupid.

The Changzheng-4C launch vehicle launched the L-SAR 01 remote sensing satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit, the Chinese Television Network (CCTV) reported on Wednesday.

One of the Moscow courts declared bankrupt JSC "Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Management Systems" (CNII EISU). This company is an IT contractor of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and is part of the Rostec association. 

JSC "Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Control Systems" (CNII EISU), which is a supplier of software for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, was declared bankrupt, Kommersant reports.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin clarified that the next launch of the Soyuz-5 will be in 2024 with an upper stage

The first payload of the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle will be the Stork satellite. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, now there are more than one and a half hundred Russian satellites in orbit together with the spacecraft of the Ministry of Defense, but "radar is needed"

The launch of the radar spacecraft "Obzor-R", previously scheduled for 2022, has been postponed to 2023. This was announced by the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Tuesday.