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During the process of combat coordination of units of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus, an unusual device was noticed on one of the T-72B3 tanks involved in the exercises, put on a multi-channel sight of the gunner "Sosna-U".

Manned aircraft acts primarily as a means of striking targets detected by Sirius, the Kronstadt company noted

The latest Russian Sirius heavy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be able to work as part of reconnaissance and strike circuits together with manned aircraft. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Kronstadt company.

For the first time, the Military Training Center at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) received a cool simulator of the anti-aircraft missile and cannon complex "Pantsir-S".

The Soyuz-5 launch vehicle is being developed for the Russian-Kazakh Baiterek project

N. A. Semikhatov NPO of Automation plans in 2022 to test models of the control system, which is designed for the promising Soyuz-5 rocket. This was announced by the general director of the company Andrey Misyura.

The Ministry of Defense clarified that a stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft

The spacecraft, launched in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on Saturday, was taken over by ground-based VKS facilities. This was reported to journalists in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In the interests of the Russian military department, the spacecraft was launched into the calculated orbit by the Fregat upper stage, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

Launched on Saturday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome by the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1a" the spacecraft is included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System (SCCP) VKS of the Russian Federation, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told reporters.

Scientists have found out that SpaceX's Starlink satellites spoil 18% of the images taken by astronomers

Scientists said that SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which have filled a low Earth orbit, interfere with the study of dangerous objects such as asteroids and comets. The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The Economist: advanced military technologies did not save the US Armed Forces from defeat in Afghanistan

London, February 6. The United States spends huge amounts of money on the development of modern military technologies, but they did not save the American Armed Forces from defeat in Afghanistan.

The new American satellite of the missile attack Warning System (SPRN) SBIRS GEO 5 has begun to perform operational tasks after the completion of the testing period in orbit, the US Space Operations Command announced on Sunday.

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into various systems, including autonomous transport systems, raises the issue of cybersecurity.

A large-scale training on the destruction of radio communication lines in various ranges and the application of electronic strikes on the control points of a conditional enemy was carried out at the training grounds of the Western Military District (ZVO), said the commander of the district's troops, Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev.

The troops of the Eastern Military District (VVO) received a large batch of new communications equipment over the past year. Command and staff vehicles (KSHM) allow you to establish communication via closed Internet channels and carry out topographic mapping through various satellite systems.

The mechanism for blocking websites with the data of persons under state protection is presented in the draft government decree. The document was developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and published on the Federal Portal of Draft regulatory Legal Acts.

Draft Government Decree "On the introduction of mobile automated workplaces in State bodies, State and Municipal Institutions, functioning on the basis of the domestic mobile operating system "Aurora" published for public comment on Wednesday.

A total of seven OneWeb satellite launches are planned for 2022

The launch of the Russian Soyuz-ST-B carrier rocket with 34 OneWeb satellites from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana will take place on the evening of February 10. The corresponding information was published on Thursday by the space launch operator Arianespace.

MIC: the Russian AWACS A-100 "Premier" aircraft will be brought to mind

The Russian A-100 Premier long-range radar detection and control aircraft is qualitatively superior to its Western counterparts, but it is inferior to them quantitatively. The problems with the aircraft being created on the basis of the IL-76MD-90A are described by the Military-Industrial Courier (MIC).

Russian engineers will use an algorithm that will allow archiving information transmitted by spacecraft in orbit, significantly reducing the file size

The new data compression algorithm created by the Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) will allow 10 times to increase data transmission from satellites. This was reported on Wednesday in Roscosmos.

a Memorandum of cooperation with the "Glavkosmos" and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. will be valid until the end of 2026

"Glavkosmos" (part of Roscosmos) and Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd. signed a Memorandum of cooperation, which involves the creation of satellite remote sensing (RS) "Bangabandhu-2" in the interests of the Republic. This is stated in the company's message, distributed on Wednesday.

Dembinski expert: in Germany they know that the US power is waning

In Germany, they know that the power of the United States is waning, and China is the main threat to them, said Defence24 senior researcher and project manager of the Institute for Peace Research in Frankfurt Matthias Dembinsky.