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[b]The current launch was the 362nd for the Changzheng series launch vehicles.]

China on Friday successfully launched a modified Changzheng-7A launch vehicle (CZ-7A, Long March-7A) with an experimental environmental monitoring satellite. This was announced by the China Space Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

The US Air Force received the first F-15EX fighter. The machine, among other things, is distinguished by a large combat load. In the future, it can be used as a carrier for hypersonic weapons systems.

It is more than twice the mass of the previous heaviest object of space debris and is 2.9 tons

The mass of the platform with old batteries, "thrown" from the International Space Station (ISS), is more than twice the mass of the previous heaviest object of space debris and is 2.9 tons. This was reported on Friday by TASS in the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

A training battle in the Sea of Japan took place between the ships of the Pacific Fleet. In the waters of Peter the Great Bay, the small anti-submarine ship "Rime" and the missile boat "R-297"conducted exercises on the organization of air defense of a single ship and a sea battle with a ship of a simulated enemy.

The Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, will be launched on March 13. This was reported on Saturday in the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Roomy, high-speed, modern-in the shipbuilding industry, some characteristics of the universal landing ships of the project 23900 were revealed. Two pennants have already been laid on the slipways of the Kerch plant "Bay". Previously, ships of this class were not built in Russia. Thanks to them, the fleet will receive unique opportunities for expeditionary operations.

The shooting of the Grad MLRS in the harsh conditions of the Arctic was shown on video.

The Zvezda TV channel published a report from the exercises at the Shary training ground in the Murmansk region. They involved the calculations of the MLRS "Grad". Before conducting the shooting, a shot was fired from a special wind gun. Taking into account the flight of the bullet under the influence of the wind, the gunners were able to calculate the trajectory more accurately. It was also important to know the temperature of the air and the shells. Arctic frosts can affect the accuracy of shooting.

The TCG Anadolu ship can become a carrier of attack drones. March 12, portal defensenews.com He reported that Baykar is developing a new version of the Bayraktar TB2 drone with the possibility of being based on a failed aircraft carrier.

Official data on the deployment of top-secret US RQ-170 Sentinel drones has been leaked to the press. This is written by the publication The Drive.

The Ministry of Defense completes the formation of the Primorye air defense structure

In recent months, Russia has radically strengthened the grouping of air defense assets on the Far Eastern islands. In addition to the short-range anti-aircraft missile systems, units equipped with long-range S-400 and S-300V4 were deployed there. What threats should these defensive systems protect against and whether they are sufficient for the security of Primorye — military expert Anton Lavrov understood.

As reported by the American publication "The Drive", the Command of Naval Systems (Naval Sea Systems Command-NAVSEA) of the US Navy on March 10, 2021, published on the US federal public procurement website a contract request for the purchase of 120 sets of small Blackwing 10C unmanned aerial vehicles designed to be launched from submarines of the US Navy from the US company AeroVironment as the sole supplier for two years.

The launch of two European Galileo navigation satellites is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022. To do this, instead of the European Arian 6 rocket, the Russian Soyuz-ST launch vehicle will be used. This was announced on Sunday, March 14, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the rocket and space industry.

The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, launched on Sunday into orbit with 60 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic, the developer company SpaceX said.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the US Navy, based in Spain, have electronic warfare systems (EW) AN / SLQ-62 Portable Electronic Warfare Module-Speed To Fleet (TEWM-STF), capable of "killing" Russian anti-ship missiles P-800 "Onyx", writes The Drive.

Sakhalin has completed the formation of a new air defense system. It was based on the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as the Pantsir-S missile and cannon systems. The group covers not only the island itself, but also the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. In fact, the entire territory in the east of the country has turned into a missile bastion.

The icebreaker Ilya Muromets, which sailed into the Barents Sea a few days ago to solve a number of tasks of icebreaking and hydrographic support for the Northern Fleet (SF) forces, has begun to carry out research according to the plan of a complex expedition of the SF and RGS, held as part of the patriotic campaign "Remember the War".

Belarusian defense engineers are developing a mobile anti-aircraft missile system "TRIO" based on the ASILAK armored car.

According to the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the novelty is designed to counter various types of high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers performed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan and the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

"Fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35C aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The flight duration was more than nine hours. At certain stages of the route, Russian strategic missile carriers were accompanied by F-15 fighters of the Japanese Air Force, " the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Russian army is developing a new type of military equipment. On March 10, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on its official YouTube channel published a video of the first regular firing of combat vehicles supporting the Terminator tanks.

On March 10, 2021, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (part of the Rostec State Corporation) announced that it had handed over the first upgraded Tu-160M missile carrier with new NK-32 02 series engines for preliminary tests. The aircraft will continue to perform the test program at the flight testing and finishing base of PJSC Tupolev in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.