East European Bloc

Overview
After the USA incident and Chinese-Russian war. Tensions grew amongst EU. The EU desired to make it more unitary, but also wanted to force on them their liberal ideologies. Eastern Bloc, had just recently been secceeded from another ideological Union(Soviet) and so didn't want to be a part of another just yet, thus they decided to leave EU and found their own EU.v.2.0. It gained huge traction.

Developments
2020 - Started their own space program and launched a rocket 100% their own. The project advanced their knowledge of space engineering and now they have a dedicated space launch site.

2021 - Seeing that the potential draftable army is really small when compared to neibghouring states, they decided to develop a new brand of drones. Every squad will be granted at least one. Drone will be semi-independent, being able to do simpler tasks on its own, but requiring an operator to directly control it for more difficult tasks.