Widespread usage of drones in the Ukraine War has shown they can be effective while causing minimum collateral damage, pushing the countrys defense ministry to invest $544 million in 2023 to produce them locally. Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian defense minister, told UNN in an interview that the sum will be spent on various types of drones: aerial, ground, surface, and underwater
Russia's state space agency Roscosmos is sending a backup Soyuz spacecraft to evacuate International Space Station (ISS) crew after their original capsule was damaged following meteorite hit last month. The Soyuz MS-23 launch will take place on February 20, 2023 in an unmanned mode
Japan started constructing a Self-Defense Forces base on uninhabited Mage Island in southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Thursday. According to an environmental assessment report made public earlier today, this four-year project in the 8 Sqkm Island will include building runways and ammunition storage facilities
South Koreas Defense Acquisition Program Administration has announced the first flight of the third prototype of the KF-21 Boramae fighter on Thursday. Prototypes 4 to 6 are expected to take to the skies in the first half of 2023
Airbus Defence and Space bagged the first export order for S950 VHR geospatial intelligence system with Poland. The deal includes development, manufacture, launch and delivery in orbit of two of the said high-performance optical Earth observation satellites
Russia has accused its own personnel of using mobile phones that allegedly led the Ukrainians right to them and strike the army barrack in Makiivka, Donetsk Peoples Republic. "It has already become obvious at present that the main cause of the occurrence was activation and large-scale use, contrary to the ban, of personal phones by personnel within the reach of enemys destruction means
Irans Navy demonstrated capabilities of its new homegrown torpedo Mian, and anti-drone system Talash during a large-scale war game underway in the area stretching from the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz to the northern tip of the Indian Ocean. On the third day of the Zolfaqar 1401 drill, the Navys Tareq submarine annihilated underwater target by firing Miad for the first time, Irans
Ukrainians have made use of Elon Musks Starlink satellite internet systems for communications as Russia continues to target mobile towers in what is touted to be the first major war of the internet age. Ukraine has some 30,000 mobile-phone towers, and the government is now trying to link them to generators so they can keep working when airstrikes damage the power grid
Russian air defense troops destroyed a Ukrainian drone on Dec.26 as it approached Engels air base in southern Saratov region
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