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Belarusian Yak-130 aircraft will test air-to-air rockets for the first time in the former air force exercise area Polessky in Gomel Oblast on 5 February, representatives of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told.

According to the source, Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense units continue mastering the combat and training aircraft Yak-130. “Today Belarusian pilots will launch guided air-to-air missiles using Yak-130 aircraft for the first time ever in the former exercise area Polessky. Such exercises allow preparing the flight crews for performing combat tasks as part of the air defense routine,” said representatives of the Defense Ministry.

Apart from that, small-range air defense missile systems such as Tor-M2 will fire live in Gomel Oblast to test the performance parameters specified by their manufacturers. Units of the 120th air defense missile brigade will take part in the live fire test. Air defense missile systems Tor-M2 are designed to launch rockets on the move. Apart from that, air defense missile systems Stilet will be tested. They are designed to protect ground units, industrial and military installations from all types of modern and prospective air assault systems that fly at extremely low, low, and medium altitudes.

"The range of AF and AD subdivisions have marched to the designated areas and within the prescribed time limits have gone on combat duty. Aviation has accomplished a mission on decentralization, crews of MiG-29 and Su-25 aircraft and Mi-8, Mi-24 helicopters have gone on combat duty. Radar field is enhanced by the actions of mobile low-altitude radar groups of radiotechnical formations", - informed in the Ministry of Defense.

Military units and subdivisions of the 6^th, 11^th and 120^th  separate mechanized brigades perform tactical training with combat firing on firing ranges.

Subdivisions of the 19^th separate mechanized and 103^rd guards separate mobile brigade perform march in the combined way. Having reached the designated regions, military personnel shall accomplish a number of tasks related to engineering equipment,  position camouflaging, field camp deployment.

At present time about one thousand of the enlisted men have been call out for military units regeneration.

Objects protection has been tighten on arms depot, armament and ammunition bases as well the necessary measures to ensure the safekeeping of armament, ammunition and other military equipment have been taken.

The Belarusian telecom satellite has been launched into orbit from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center, reports citing nasaspaceflight.com. The Belarusian satellite with a designed life of 15 years will provide a wide range of telecommunication services, including satellite TV, radio broadcasting and broadband Internet access.

The Belintersat-1 was built by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The car-sized satellite weighs more than 5.2 tonnes. The Belintersat-1 is equipped with a solar battery with 22-meter wings.

The project is commercial and designed for sales across many regions. Consumers will be also offered to use the satellite to develop their own corporate communications networks.

A comprehensive review of the Armed Forces has kicked off in Belarus following the corresponding decision of Defense Minister Andrei Ravkov.

The events will be supervised by head of the Armed Forces General Staff, First Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Belokonev.

Some military units and subdivisions have already been given a standby order.

The review will assess the readiness and capability of performing the corresponding tasks by both military units and subdivisions as well as all associated subsystems, including administrative and technical support services.

Major efforts will be focused on full and timely overall support of military units and subdivisions in permanent dispositions and areas of military training missions.

The review will be wrapped up with tactical exercises and field firing.

On the 1^st of December the Baranovichi61^st fighter air basereceived 10 overhauled MiG-29 aircraft.

Out of the 10 received MiG-29s eight aircraft are of combat type and two of them  areof combat-training type.

The mentioned MiGs were sent for overhaul to the JSC“558 ARP”, Baranovichi, in April 2014. During the overhaul serviceability of the aircraft equipment was recovered and its service life extended. The aircraft were equipped with the flight parameters video registering systems which heighten the accuracy of flight datarecording.

Being a guard of the Western borders of the Republic of Belarus the personnel of the air base has been mastering the MiG-29 aircraft since 1993. TheJSC “558 ARP” also carries out works on modernization of the mentioned aircraft. The modernized aircraft are assigned the name MiG-29BM. Piloting the modernized aircraft Belarusian pilots have set 15 world records on climb speed and on speed of closed-loop flight.