Recent developments in the military-political sphere, apparently, will lead to an unprecedented boom in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, including in Russia. The Russian UAV development and production industry is already in a state of rapid recovery and is preparing for even more large-scale expansion of activities.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in Sergey Mashkin's material, "The pilots did not have enough seconds. Everyone and no one was to blame for the crash of the experimental aircraft," the commission of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, which investigated the causes of the crash of the Il-112B prototype military transport aircraft in Kubinka near Moscow [August 17, 2021], did not publish a report because they were never named.

A British Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft took to the sky to monitor Russian troops and flew over the Baltic Sea in the process of tracking. This was reported in the UK Defense Journal.

Dozens of Israeli fighter jets took part in maneuvers over the Mediterranean Sea last night, involving flights over long distances, refueling in the air and hitting long-range targets. So the Israeli Air Force conducted exercises to simulate strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Omsktransmash, one of the oldest machine–building enterprises in Russia, founded in 1897, is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Omsk Plant has witnessed many historical events: the First World War, the harsh years of the Great Patriotic War and the evacuation of enterprises, the post-war boom and crisis of the 1990s. Despite everything, Omsktransmash has always been revived, each time providing support to the country. About the history of the unique enterprise – in our material.

The modernization is aimed at increasing the effectiveness of tactical reconnaissance by expanding the technical characteristics and firepower of vehicles designed for reconnaissance on the battlefield. The equipment has passed all types of running and firing tests under the supervision of representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A contract has been signed with Ukraine for the supply of Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns (ZSU), and training has already begun for the Ukrainian military to manage them.

The Ministry of National Defense of Greece on May 31, 2022 reported that following the results of previous negotiations with Germany and following the meeting of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on May 31, an agreement was reached on the transfer by Greece of BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles received from the arsenals of the army of the former GDR in 1994 to Ukraine and simultaneous replacement There are an equal number of Marder infantry fighting vehicles transferred to Greece by Germany.

The Ukrainian army will soon receive Slovak self-propelled guns Zuzana, this was stated by the President of Slovakia Zuzana Chaputova, who visited Kiev and addressed the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.

The modern MG5 machine gun is designed as a medium-class machine gun for special applications. The weapon was adopted by the Bundeswehr as a successor to the MG3. The model can be used by infantry on foot or from a carriage mounted on military equipment. As a reaction to the numerous facts of unintentional firing of the MG3 machine gun, a safety requirement was developed, according to which the new weapon must provide reliable protection in all operating conditions.

Plunging into the details of Rosatom's project to create a lithium battery factory near Kaliningrad, Naked Science discovered a full-fledged detective story. There is also the receipt of grants from the US government, and annoying bankruptcies, and cunning takeovers of firms by each other. We talk about the impressive path of electric vehicle technologies to Russia.

A meeting of the Navy's Military Council was held at the Admiralty under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

The annual professional holiday of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has been celebrated since 1996, when the first of June was approved as the date for holding festive events by the Northern Fleet in honor of the creation of the Northern Military Flotilla on this day in 1933, which received the name of the Northern Fleet in 1937.

Russia confirmed the readiness of the carrier to use a promising rocket. The frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" has successfully completed a test cycle of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon". This was announced by the commander of the fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, RIA Novosti writes.

The commander of the SF, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, said that the construction of the Nagurskoye and Temp airfields will allow the reception of all types of long-range, transport and naval aviation aircraft.

Objects are being built in the cities of Gadzhievo and Severomorsk

At the arsenals of the Northern Fleet (SF) in Gadzhievo and Severomorsk, work has begun on the construction of workshops for the maintenance of marine underwater weapons. This was stated on Wednesday by the commander of the SF Admiral Alexander Moiseev.

More than 100 ships and submarines, 40 aircraft and 10 coastal missile systems were involved in the exercises.

Izvestia visited the contact line and talked with the LPR fighters

The troops of the Luhansk People's Republic with the fire support of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing the offensive, entered the residential quarters of Severodonetsk. The encirclement ring around the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration should close soon. Izvestia visited the LPR units operating on the contact line with the enemy. About what an intermediate sanitary post is, how the fighting is going on in the forests, how mortar strikes are being carried out, what the soldiers are fed and what the "fart dugout" saved them from — in the Izvestia report.

On May 31, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the combat work of calculations of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Grad" at night while performing firing tasks to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) during a special operation to protect Donbass.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that a mined van with the bodies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was found at Azovstal

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin said that several "lost" servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were found on the territory of the Azovstal plant. And the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that during the inspection of the underground of the metallurgical plant, a mined van with 152 bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was found.