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The authors show that, both in gyroscopic and aeroelastic systems, small nonlinear dissipative terms usually neglected in engineering investigations, due to their symmetry breaking effect may change the system behaviour qualitatively, which can be considered as new results in bifurcation analysis. In both cases the governing equations are four-dimensional systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. By a very clever analysis, the authors use the Hamiltonian structure of the system if the dissipative terms in the system are neglected. Extensive application of normal form theory allows them to give a fairly complete local and global bifurcation analysis. Among other interesting results the authors show that in certain parameter regions there exist such interesting phenomena as homoclinic foci, which may give rise to Silnikov phenomena and to the chaotic dynamics. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00076].