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The Americans are expanding the program of converting transport aircraft into missile carriers. December 17, portal flightglobal.com He reported that the US Air Force had worked out the defeat of a surface target by cruise missiles dropped by pallet from a C-130 aircraft.

INTERFAX - The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Saturday successfully launched into orbit a batch of 52 mini-satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, launched on Saturday with 52 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX reported.

The Su-30SM fighters of the aviation regiment of the Western Military District at the exercises in the Kursk region have worked out training on the search and destruction of aircraft of a conditional enemy, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.

The latest Russian weapons, including the Zircon missiles, will allow the Russian Federation, in case of war, to strike at a group of the US Navy. This opinion was expressed on December 17 by journalist Mark Episkopos.

British Defense Ministry: Typhoon fighter jet shot down an air target in Syria for the first time

The British Typhoon fighter used weapons for the first time to defeat an aerial target in combat. The plane shot down a drone over Syria. This is reported by the UK Defense Journal with reference to the British Ministry of Defense.

Cosmonaut Kornienko called the Moon a transshipment base for the exploration of Mars and the Solar System

Cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Mikhail Kornienko said that the Moon can become a transit point for further exploration of Mars and the Solar System, reports URA.RU .

The American company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a Turkish communications satellite

The American company SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which will deliver the Turkish communications satellite Turksat 5A into orbit. This was reported on the company's Twitter account.

The complete elimination of the fire at the facility under construction in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg took more than a day, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the city reported on Sunday.

The upgraded Tiger-M armored vehicles were used in the tactical and special training of the commandos of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District.

A group of ships of the Chinese Navy, led by the first Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, is making the transition to the Pacific Ocean for subsequent exercises, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Sunday.

Roselectronics Holding of Rostec State Corporation set an absolute annual record for sales of reed switches on December 16, delivering 234 million 546 thousand devices to customers. More than 90% of the manufactured products are exported to 55 countries around the world. Reed switches are used as contact pairs of various relays, switches, buttons, sensors and indicators in household appliances, automotive, medical and telecommunications equipment, automation and security systems.

Russian servers turned out to be unusable: Russian companies, after tests, called domestic processors unusable.

Tests of the GPA with the upgraded AL-31ST engine produced by UEC-UMPO have begun

On December 15, at the Polyana compressor station in the Blagoveshchensk district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, complex operational tests of a gas pumping unit with an upgraded AL-31ST engine manufactured by PJSC UEC-UMPO (part of the Rostec United Engine Corporation) began.

The submarine will be placed in the Museum of Naval Glory in Kronstadt

The first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" will be delivered to the eternal parking place in the Museum of Naval Glory in Kronstadt by land, but for this its hull will be sawn into two parts. This was reported to TASS by two sources in the shipbuilding industry.

The capacity of the site in the Skolkovo Technopark is about 30 sets of spacecraft per year

The first site of serial assembly of satellite platforms of small spacecraft in the Russian Federation was launched by Sputnix in the Skolkovo Technopark. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group (part of AFK Sistema), which includes the company.

State tests of the Kub barrage ammunition have been successfully completed in Russia, a source close to the military department told RIA Novosti.

The firing range of the updated missile may be several tens of kilometers, the agency interlocutor clarified The

range of the guided cruise missile 91P1 of the newest anti-submarine complex "Answer" after its improvement will be at least doubled. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The first flight of the Ka-62 is scheduled for early 2024

Bench tests of the VK-1600V demonstrator engine for the Ka-62 helicopter should begin before the end of 2021. This was reported to journalists by Anton Kolosov, chief designer of the VK-1600 engine at the ODK-Klimov enterprise (part of the Rostec United Engine Corporation).

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) returned to the home base after the closure of the missile firing area with the newest anti-submarine complex "Response" for a training underwater target in the waters of the Sea of Japan. This was reported to "RG" by the head of the information support department of the press service of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3rd rank Ilya Kolesnikov.