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The American Falcon 9 heavy rocket on Tuesday, Moscow time, launched into orbit with the Italian COSMO-SkyMed radar surveillance satellite (CSG-2), the carrier developer SpaceX announced.

The first reusable stage of the American Falcon 9 rocket, launched on Tuesday Moscow time with the Italian COSMO-SkyMed radar surveillance satellite (CSG-2), made a successful vertical landing at a site in Florida, the SpaceX carrier development company said.

Units of the Western Military District received new self-propelled artillery installations. According to the press service of the ZVO, 12 modernized self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM2" were handed over to the military. 

About 20 warships and support vessels of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) have entered planned naval exercises with firing in the combat training ranges of the Japanese and Okhotsk Seas, the press service of the fleet reports.

A batch of twelve new means of communication has arrived at the 201st military base of the Russian Federation stationed in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Tuesday.

The usual transfer of six amphibious ships of the Russian Navy from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea scared the West and forced the United States to change its plans in equipping the fleet. Moscow has demonstrated how to cause panic with the help of not very young and formidable vessels. Putin's gambit also showed how important landing ships are, writes Forbes.

About 20 ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) will conduct a planned naval exercise in the waters of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported on Tuesday.

It is a big mistake to stick to stereotypes about the Soviet and Russian armed forces during the World Wars, the Cold War or the 90s. Armies are constantly changing, based on historical experience and the material component.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pointed out that the development of the measurement uniformity system in the Armed Forces directly affects the introduction of breakthrough technologies, the re-equipment of troops with the latest high-precision and other types of weapons.

Next year, the airborne and amphibious assault divisions of the Russian Army will begin to receive mobile air defense systems "Birdman". This is reported in the material by I. Borovkov "Air defense for "winged infantry", published in the February issue of the magazine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Army Collection".

Buildings are being reconstructed at the plant site

The plant for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Dubna, built at Kronstadt's own expense, will reach full capacity in 2024. This was reported to TASS in the company's press service.

The deeply upgraded F-15 fighter launched the AIM-120 AMRAAM air—to-air missile. The car made its launch flight a year ago. Soon after, the first F-15EX was handed over to the US Air Force.

Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Manufacturing Plant "Sokol" - a branch of JSC "RSC "MiG" (part of PJSC "UAC" of Rostec State Corporation) celebrates the 90th anniversary of its formation on February 1.

After six months at sea, the F-35C fighters have somewhat changed their colors. January 31, portal thedrive.com I drew attention to the pictures of the stealth of the US Navy on board the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson with "rusty" spots.

Last Thursday, tests began on the first of three samples of the modernized Italian-made C1 Ariete AMV tank. It is reported that the combat vehicle received an updated IVECO V12 MTCA powerplant with a 1500 hp Common Rail fuel injection system.

The Command of the US Navy announced the ceremony of laying the keel of the high-speed expeditionary transport EPF (Expeditionary Fast Transport) of the "Sperhid" class, intended for the US Navy, held on January 26 at the Austal USA enterprise.

Survival training in the winter forest usually falls on the harshest month of the year - February.

"The temperature at night reached minus 25 degrees, but it was dry. We had the opportunity to sit by the campfire in the open air and not be afraid that it would rain," Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev shared his impressions a year ago.

On Tuesday, at a conference call in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the department Sergei Shoigu, they discussed the delivery of the Bars-M mapping and remote sensing satellites to the troops.

The US military has replaced all the unclassified servers of the first-generation ALIS system, which collects and processes data on every flying F-35 fighter in the world, with basic sets of the ODIN integrated operational data network. According to Breaking Defense, they are 75 percent smaller and process information 50 percent faster.

Europe's first quantum supercomputer with more than 5,000 qubits has been launched at the Julich Research Center in Germany. Representatives of the center said that this is an important milestone in the development of quantum computers in Europe.